It's been 1 year since the Baltimore bridge collapse. Where does the Key Bridge rebuild stand?
It's been 1 year since the Baltimore bridge collapse. Where does the Key Bridge rebuild stand?
Baltimore's iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by a ship and collapsed one year ago. Since then, state and federal leaders have collaborated to fund and reconstruct a brand-new bridge, which is expected to be finished by the fall of 2028.Adam Thompson (CBS Baltimore)
The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37118218
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct 5, 2025Also:
- I vowed never to flee Gaza City. But Israel’s assault has left me no choice
- The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct 5, 2025Also:
- I vowed never to flee Gaza City. But Israel’s assault has left me no choice
- The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187626
The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37118218
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct 5, 2025Also:
- I vowed never to flee Gaza City. But Israel’s assault has left me no choice
- The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct 5, 2025Also:
- I vowed never to flee Gaza City. But Israel’s assault has left me no choice
- The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187626
The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37118218
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct 5, 2025Also:
- I vowed never to flee Gaza City. But Israel’s assault has left me no choice
- The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct 5, 2025Also:
- I vowed never to flee Gaza City. But Israel’s assault has left me no choice
- The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187626
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Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania close airport for hours
Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania close airport for hours
Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday, forcing the shutdown of Vilnius AirportLIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press (ABC News)
Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally
Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally
: Aspiring Bond villain believes the best place to train our AI overlords is in orbitTobias Mann (The Register)
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Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
They are currently laying the foundation for the future where they can shift the balance from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Take a look at the amount of renewable energy they're producing. Not only is that growing fast, it's already a large quantity.
Some industries, like steel, will take longer to switch, so getting rid of fossil fuels entirely will probably take a very long time. Total energy consumption is also likely to increase in the future, so the existing emitters will likely continue to be in operation for decades. However, as the energy demand increases, more and more of that energy will be produced by renewable means. This means that, due to renewable energy production, the total emissions won't grow as fast as they otherwise would.
How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem
When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.
It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight talking liberal podcast ‘I’ve Had It’ that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”.
How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem
Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’Rachel Leingang (The Guardian)
RFK Jr. fires NIH vaccine whistleblower Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired a top official with the National Institutes of Health who blew the whistle on internal clashes over vaccine research in the early months of the Trump administration.
On Wednesday, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo received a letter from Kennedy — which CBS News reviewed — informing her that her role leading NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, had been terminated. He did not cite a cause beyond his constitutional authority to do so. Last month, in an exclusive interview with CBS News, Marrazzo said she had been silenced when she and her colleagues pushed back against NIH officials appointed by Trump who questioned the importance of childhood flu vaccines and canceled long-running clinical trials.
RFK Jr. fires NIH vaccine whistleblower Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo
RFK Jr. fired infectious disease specialist Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who told CBS News she was put on leave after questioning actions taken by Trump appointees.Michael Kaplan (CBS News)
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"Anti-ai arguments literally support eugenics"
Reminds me of this:
I think atproto is a good protocol, but god bluesky-the-company is dogshit.
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Why?
Why did you switch to Linux? I'd like to hear your story.
Btw I switched (from win11 to arch) because I got bored and wanted a challenge. Thx :3
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I woke up one day, and copilot had been installed on my PC overnight. I didn't like that lack of control. This was, coincidentally, a weekend that my wife, kid, and dog were all gone. Since I knew Win10 only had a year left, and I had the time, I figured it was as good a time as any.
I downloaded Fedora and Kubuntu. Spent a bit of time with each, and went with Kubuntu. For a few days. It had issues waking from sleep, and I had to do some kind of tweaking with every one of my games to get them to work.
I don't mind tinkering with stuff, but i just don't have the time to make my computer my hobby. So, I switched to Mint. Everything just works. So, I put it on everything else. I guess the one time I really had to dig into terminal stuff was getting a wifi driver for my living room PC off git. Other than that, super easy.
Now, I'm coming up on a year of Mint. Couldn't be happier.
Réunion d'accueil des nouvelles et nouveaux à Paris par XR Paris-Nord
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Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’
A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).Signal Messenger
Asking Lemmy for a concise write up about why Corporate Social Media can't work ?
What makes a social network “work”?
Typically, we say that a social networking service works when it achieves some of these:
- Community – gives users the ability to create communities they can feel a sense of belonging to.
- Freedom of expression – expands people's ability to speak their mind in a .. umm... meaningful way ? (looking at 4chan's /pol/).
- Rich expression – actually offers tools to express yourself (presence of features like markup, formatting, embeds).
- Constructive culture – becomes an environment where people learn and participate in constructive and fun activities — like university clubs. (Sorry for the example, but Reddit’s r/anime comes to mind.)
- Privacy & safety – respects users’ privacy and safety.
- Developer support – provides good developer tools.
- Example: In Numbers: The Best Anime of the Decade from MyAnimeList — a huge data-driven article made possible by open tools and APIs. (also a huge web page, might take forever to load all figures)
Feel free to add more points, or challenge the ones I’ve listed.
It seems like a general consensus here on Lemmy that — no matter how many times you try — Reddit will always slip from Aaron Swartz to u/spez.
Why do you think that is?
Disclaimer: I wrote the post by myself, but used AI to refine my bad English and markdown,
In Numbers: The Best Anime of the Decade
What's the #1 anime of the 2010s? Which year was the best? What studio had the most hits? We have the answers to all these questions and more!MyAnimeList.net
Public forums should be publicly owned. These are essential social tools that allow us to have discussions with each other and shape our views and opinions. These forums must be operated in an open and transparent manner in a way that’s accountable to the public.
Privately owned platforms are neither neutral or unbiased. The content on these sites is carefully curated. Views and opinions that are unpalatable to the owners of these platforms are often suppressed, and sometimes outright banned. When the content that a user produces does not fit with the interests of the platform it gets removed and communities end up being destroyed.
Another problem is that user data constitutes a significant source of revenue for corporate social media platforms. The information collected about the users can reveal a lot more about the individual than most people realize. It’s possible for the owners of the platforms to identify users based on the address of the device they’re using, see their location, who they interact with, and so on. This creates a comprehensive profile of the person along with the network of individuals whom they interact with.
This information is shared with the affiliates of the platform as well as government entities. It’s clear that commercial platforms do not respect user privacy, nor are the users in control of their content. While it can be useful to participate on such platforms in order to agitate, educate, and recruit comrades, they should not be seen as open forums.
Open source platforms provide a viable alternative to corporate social media. These platforms are developed on a non-profit basis and are hosted by volunteers across the globe. A growing number of such platforms are available today and millions of people are using them already.
From that perspective I think that open and federated platforms. Instead of all users having accounts on the same server, federated platforms have many servers that all talk to each other to create the network. If you have the technical expertise, it’s even possible to run your own.
One important aspect of the Fediverse is that it’s much harder to censor and manipulate content than it is with centralized networks such as Reddit and BlueSky. There is no single company deciding what content can go on the network, and servers are hosted by regular people across many different countries and jurisdictions.
Open platforms explicitly avoid tracking users and collecting their data. It's also more difficult for third parties to collect data since it doesn't all conveniently live on the same server that some company owns. Not only are these platforms better at respecting user privacy, they also tend to provide a better user experience without annoying ads and tracker bloat.
Another interesting aspect of the Fediverse is that it promotes collaboration. Traditional commercial platforms like Facebook or Youtube have no incentive to allow users to move data between them. They directly compete for users in a zero sum game and go out of their way to make it difficult to share content across them. This is the reason we often see screenshots from one site being posted on another.
On the other hand, a federated network that’s developed in the open and largely hosted non-profit results in a positive-sum game environment. Users joining any of the platforms on the network help grow the entire network. More users joining Mastodon is a net positive for Lemmy because we get more content and more people to have discussions with.
Having many different sites hosted by individuals was the way the internet was intended to work in the first place, it’s actually quite impressive how corporations took the open network of the internet and managed to turn it into a series of walled gardens.
Marxist theory states that in order to be free, the workers must own the means of production. This idea is directly applicable in the context of social media. Only when we own the platforms that we use will we be free to post our thoughts and ideas without having to worry about them being censored by corporate interests.
No matter how great a commercial platform might be, sooner or later it’s going to either disappear or change in a way that doesn’t suit you because companies must constantly chase profit in order to survive. This is a bad situation to be in as a user since you have little control over the evolution of a platform.
On the other hand, open source has a very different dynamic. Projects can survive with little or no commercial incentive because they’re developed by people who themselves benefit from their work. Projects can also be easily forked and taken in different directions by different groups of users if there is a disagreement regarding the direction of the platform. Even when projects become abandoned, they can be picked up again by new teams as long as there is an interested community of users around them.
It’s time for us to get serious about owning our tools and start using communication platforms built by the people and for the people.
But after reading, Seems like your answer argues that open source federated alternatives are better than corporate social media. While I personally agree, the main subject of this thread is why the phenomena: "privately owned social media that seems to embrace us at first turns against us eventually", actually more like "stops working eventually". the subject is why this is inevitable, this paragraph is the main subject:
No matter how great a commercial platform might be, sooner or later it’s going to either disappear or change in a way that doesn’t suit you because companies must constantly chase profit in order to survive. This is a bad situation to be in as a user since you have little control over the evolution of a platform.
You mentioned Marxist theory. From what I understand, Marx or some other commie argued that the good capitalist who plays with the rules is left behind in the race ("If I don't lobby someone else lobbies") and the winners use all kinds of ways to create monopoly and destroy the ones slacking. Thus Capitalism leads to monopoly and kills competition and fairness inevitably.
I kinda get the impression that corporate social media turning against its' users is inevitable in the same fashion for some similar argument. That's what Lemmy seems to think like.
But, I don't see it happening when I'm using Telegram, or when observing Valve's behavior.
Enshittification
*** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet.Verso
Length of video you're willing to watch?
Let's say someone sends you a video to watch. How long can said video be before you decide it's too long to watch?
For the purpose of this question, let's assume you're trying to decide whether to watch it or not right when you receive it. Let's also assume that it's moderately interesting (5/10).
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WYR Eat the same mediocre meal or a random meal every day?
You have a chef prepare the meal for you. The mediocre meal is just like a very okay 5/10 whatever of your pick, but you have to eat the same thing every day.
For the random meals you must consume the 500 calorie meal in full each timenyou choose to have a meal. No skipping once a meal is there.
Inedible or rotten stuff is not included. Just food that might be alien to you. Like it could be balut one day and a schnitzel the next. Maybe haggis.
Nothing completely unreasonable.
Allergies will be compensated for ig. Choice based dietary preferences will not. If you're vegan you're fucked.
Nutrient needs will be met in both cases. No health issues will arise due to an unbalanced diet.
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Domenica In, Corinne Cléry e Kekko dei Modà tra gli ospiti. Nel talk su Ballando arrivano Rosa Chemical e Fialdini: anticipazioni del 5 ottobre 2025
Mara Venier torna domenica 5 ottobre 2025, alle 14.00 su Rai 1, con il terzo appuntamento stagionale di Domenica In. In scaletta interviste, musica, talk di attualità e un focus sul mondo di Ballando con le Stelle.
OSPITI E ANTICIPAZIONI: Domenica In, Corinne Cléry e Kekko dei Modà tra gli ospiti. Nel talk su Ballando arrivano Rosa Chemical e Fialdini: anticipazioni del 5 ottobre 2025
Domenica In, 5 ottobre 2025: ospiti e anticipazioni
Domenica In, anticipazioni del 5 ottobre su Rai 1: Corinne Cléry, Kekko dei Mod, Rosa Chemical e Francesca Fialdini. C’è anche Aldo Cazzullo.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
La Verità Scomoda: Dalla Scienza alla Sanità, Tutti Ci Vogliono Malati?
Il punto non è solo l'immunità dei produttori di vaccini o le ombre su figure come Anthony Fauci; il dramma è che ogni livello del sistema guadagna se restiamo malati. Le carriere degli scienziati sono legate alle aziende, le riviste sono diventate "contenitori di propaganda" e i bonus dei medici dipendono dai profitti.
Non è forse questa la vera pandemia? Quella di un sistema finanziario che, in nome del profitto, mette a rischio la nostra salute? Dobbiamo esercitare il nostro obbligo di cittadinanza: fare le nostre ricerche e resistere al pensiero unico imposto.
La Scienza, la Democrazia e gli Incentivi Perversi: Le Riflessioni di Kennedy JR che Fanno Tremare il Sistema
Oggi voglio parlarvi di un'intervista che mi ha profondamente colpito, quella a Robert F. Kennedy JR. È una voce che che non ha paura ...Giuliano (Blogger)
How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
Despite a recent surge in demand, the US is a laggard in EV sales compared to much of the rest of the world.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
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Talk about choosing "a community", not "a server"
It stroke me that saying things like "First, you have to choose a comunity to join the fediverse" might be a better way to ease onboarding nwecommers than "First, you have to choose a server".
Although the latter might be technically more accurate, the former is what people might
* understand better;
* ends up being what they're really doing;
* frighten them less;
* reinforce the "community" contribution aspect;
* lead them to better understand the federated aspect as they realize that communities are not isolated and can talk to eachother.
What do you think?
"Let me know in the comments bellow..." - just kidding!
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Except you don't have to interact with other users on your server, so why label them as "communities". Communities on Lemmy or subreddits are already more deserving of the term "community" because that's where you actually go to interact with other people.
Edit: Typo
Except you have to interact with other users on your server
Says who? I don't know the server of anyone I'm interacting with. I think "gateway" would be a better choice, but that isn't any less confusing.
Napoli, al via il bando per l’EcoVillaggio dell’Accoglienza: sei beni confiscati alla camorra tornano alla città
Napoli, al via il bando per l’EcoVillaggio dell’Accoglienza: sei beni confiscati alla camorra tornano alla città
I beni confiscati: quattro case di semi autonomia, un centro di accoglienza con HUB dei Servizi e delle Culture, un Giardino Solidale; Il C...Redazione Caserta24ore (Blogger)
think about the children
being bourgueois democrazycomplaining falsely about those evul commies gathering all your data
proceed to gather your data to get big profit from ads
have an important data breach
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
Recently Google decided that in the future for an app to be installable on an Android device, the developer of this app needs to be ID'd and registered at Google. They claim this is in order to "to better protect users". However, I think, this is a move to get more control over the Android ecosystem, and the data they can collect with it. If anyone who wants to develop an app for Android devices has to be registered with Google, this puts all the power of who to allow distributing an app to Google.
Furthermore F-Droid shows, that safe app stores can exist without registration, neither of users nor of developers. There is zero malware or spyware on the F-Droid store. What there is on F-Droid is thousands of beautiful, useful and, most importantly, safe apps. And this entire ecosystem is at risk, because Google wants to gain more control over its users and over the Android operating system.
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...f-droid.org
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about itCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Fucked my computer trying to upgrade processor, please help me unfuck it
Installed a Ryzen 7 5700G processor to a Gigabyte GA-AB350M-HD3 motherboard. Plugged computer back in, hit power button. Computer powered on but no video output. Double-checked cables, then started Googling. Apparently this is commonly a result of an out-of-date BIOS. Got the latest BIOS update on a flash drive with my roommate's assistance, then went to put the old processor (a Ryzen 5 1500X) back in so that I could run the system BIOS and flash the update, at which point I learned that I accidentally bent several of the pins when removing it. Tried to seat the processor out of a sense of wishful thinking, and sure enough, no number of attempts would get the computer to turn on with it inside.
So, in short: I have a new processor my motherboard doesn't recognize, an old processor it does recognize but is now broken, and a BIOS update that would presumably let it recognize the new processor but that I can't install without a working processor. I've read that some Gigabyte motherboards support loading BIOS updates from a flash drive without a processor, but as far as I can tell, the GA-AB350M-HD3 isn't one of them. Not sure what I'm supposed to do here. I could order another Ryzen 5 1500X, but 1) that costs money and 2) I'd have to wait for it to arrive.
Trump administration moves to relax rules on climate super pollutants
Trump administration moves to relax rules on climate super pollutants
The rule required some places to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
The Trump administration, everyone in it and everyone that supports it are never going to be a net positive or, arguably, ever do anything positive for anyone, anywhere, ever. They are self-proclaimed terrorists, racists, misogynists, pro-war, anti-life, pro-suffering, pro-pedophile.
This is where we are now and we either need to fight it or accept it. I would hope the former.
The instance chooser is filling up nicely
It took a few days for instances to be upgraded and admins to fill in their profiles but it's looking much healthier now!
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Which server do you want to join?
[Join us on chat.piefed.social!](https://piefed.social/post/970751)piefed.social
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Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump | As Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise says it needs to battle authoritarianism to protect the climate.
Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump
While Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise has decided that it can’t fight climate change without fighting authoritarianism.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
The prosecution’s case against dozens of Stop Cop City protesters collapsed last month when a judge dismissed most of the charges against them
Well that's great news
Rachel Corrie, The American Activist Who Was Crushed By An Israeli Bulldozer While Protesting In Gaza
On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie and several others were protesting against the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. The Israeli government claimed that militants were using the structures to fire on soldiers, but Corrie and her fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement wanted to protect the families who lived in Rafah. When a bulldozer started to approach the home of a family Corrie was staying with, she stepped in front of the machine and began shouting through a bullhorn so it would stop — but the driver continued forward, crushing Corrie to death.
The operators claimed they didn't see Corrie because she was concealed behind a pile of debris. However, others there said Corrie was wearing a neon orange jacket and was clearly visible. One man later recalled, "Her head and upper torso were above the bulldozer's blade, and the bulldozer operator and co-operator could clearly see her. Despite this, the operator continued forward, which caused her to fall back, and out of view of the driver… she tried to scoot back, but she was quickly pulled underneath the bulldozer." Israeli officials ultimately ruled Corrie's death an accident.
Go inside the untimely killing of an American peace activist by Israel: allthatsinteresting.com/rachel…
How American Activist Rachel Corrie Died While Protesting In Gaza
Rachel Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003, by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.Kaleena Fraga (All That's Interesting)
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Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
The world is entering an era where identity is no longer a matter of personal relationships, lived experience, or even paperwork. Increasingly, it is reduced...Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control — The Black Alliance for Peace
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
The concept of “crime” is not a fixed, objective reality but a fluid and politically potent construct which has been meticulously weaponized to serve the interests of power.BAP Communications (The Black Alliance for Peace)
Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
The Trump administration is selling out America’s national parks. Keeping them open during the shutdown makes them dangerous, filthy, and easier to seize.Whitney Curry Wimbish (The American Prospect)
America Is Overdue for a General Strike
America Is Overdue for a General Strike - Inequality.org
Workers have the power to bring the whole economy to a halt. Will they use it?Inequality.org
Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital | UN News
Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gaza’s makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly …UN News
Explanation Of New Approach On Security Patches
Our security preview releases provide early access to Android Security Bulletin patches prior to the official disclosure. Our current security preview releases provide the current revision of the November 2025 and December 2025 patches for the Android Open Source Project. We recommend enabling this.The only difference between our regular releases and security preview releases are the future Android Security Bulletin patches being applied with any conflicts resolved. The downside of security preview releases is we cannot provide the sources for the patches until the official disclosure date.
The delay for being able to publish the sources is why we're now going through the significant effort of building 2 variants of each release. Our most recent 3 releases have both a regular and security preview variant:
2025092500 and 20250925012025092700 and 20250927012025100300 and 2025100301
You can enable security preview releases via Settings > System > System update > Receive security preview releases.
Our plan is to keep it off-by-default with a new page added to the Setup Wizard which will have it toggled on as a recommendation. We'll prompt users on existing installs to choose.
We're maintaining the upcoming Android security patches in a private repository where we've resolved the conflicts. Each of our security preview releases is tagged in this private repository. Our plan is to publish what we used once the embargo ends, so it will still be open source, but delayed.
The new security update Android is using provides around 3 months of early access to OEMs with permission to make binary-only releases from the beginning. As far as we know, GrapheneOS is the first to take advantage of this and ship the patches early. Even the stock Pixel OS isn't doing this yet.
During the initial month, many patches are added or changed. By around the end of the month, the patches are finalized with nothing else being added or changed. Our 2025092500 release was made on the day the December 2025 patches were finalized, but we plan to ship the March 2026 patches earlier.
Previously, Android had monthly security patches with a 1 month embargo not permitting early releases. For GrapheneOS users enabling security preview releases, you'll get patches significantly earlier than before. We'd greatly prefer 3 day embargoes over 3 month embargoes but it's not our decision.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
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Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Officers start arresting activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisationRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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Career and privacy
I know this might come across as a very impractical expectation but I wanted to hear from people who have a fulfilling career and also a sense for privacy: How did you do it?
I've recently had trouble finding a new job in the tech sector. So far I've been doing alright without LinkedIn, just directly applying to companies, but it seems less successful now. So I thought what the hell, might have to do this after all. After I've made an account I got quickly banned for logging in once from a VPN connection. Only way to get unbanned is to give my government ID to them - but that really rubs me the wrong way (so many leaks of IDs recently and all).
I'm remaining banned for the moment, contemplating what impact this might have on my career. It gives me a fair bit of anxiety, considering that my sense of where my boundaries are seems to be deemed unacceptable by the monopoly of international job markets. Should I just give in and send my ID? Am I delusional?
As always, I appreciate the discourse of this wonderfully decentralized community we have here on lemmy! ☺️
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I have the rare ability to not attach my career to my self worth. This makes it much easier for me to be happy regardless of what I do to get paid.
Honestly it sounds like you might be making things more difficult then they need to be. Does your threat model actually require you to take the actions you are taking?
fair point. my hobbies aren't expensive either so i could live a modest life.
however I wouldn't consider my anxiety as relating to a threat model - it's more like this:
if i go to a career fair, i might need to show a ticket but often there's no need to show anything.
this is a career site so their request for data should be at the same level. however they request as much data as an airport, which has much higher requirements to achieve passenger safety. i really hate that internet users are just fine with these invasive data requirements these days
“China’s Low Energy Rat Girls – Who and What are They?” — “Le Ragazze-Ratto a Bassa Energia Cinesi – Chi e Cosa sono?”
È davvero lollissimo stasera, che ho scoperto che persino il girlrotting è sfuggito così tanto di mano che in Cina sarebbe diventato una moda… Ma non nel senso solito per cui è bello e divertente e fa figo e allora se ne parla e si ride come faccio io, bensì proprio all’ennesima potenza per cui […]
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“China’s Low Energy Rat Girls – Who and What are They?” — “Le Ragazze-Ratto a Bassa Energia Cinesi – Chi e Cosa sono?”
youtube.com/watch?v=pLLG9OGg3U…È davvero lollissimo stasera, che ho scoperto che persino il girlrotting è sfuggito così tanto di mano che in Cina sarebbe diventato una moda… Ma non nel senso solito per cui è bello e divertente e fa figo e allora se ne parla e si ride come faccio io, bensì proprio all’ennesima potenza per cui delle cosiddette ragazze-ratto (non ragazze-gatto eh, e già qui capiamo il tenore della cosa…) fanno di ciò il proprio stile di vita assoluto, assicurandosi e certificando che i soli momenti posseduti e vissuti nelle proprie giornate siano esattamente quelli di marcitura… Pubblicando video delle proprie giornate in cui non fanno niente, con a schermo gli orari, o in certi casi, a quanto dice il tizio, pure facendo dirette streaming… 🤩
Sarebbe qualcosa che, per quanto mi riguarda, approverei istantaneamente, ma… dove pare esserci il bello, c’è in realtà sempre la puzza, e questa scoperta non fa eccezione. Posso infatti abbattere tutte le belle vibe costruite col paragrafo precedente semplicemente dicendo che, come suggerisce il tizio del canale… molti video sono probabilmente falsi — con alcuni in cui la luce non risulta nemmeno ben coincidente con gli orari mostrati, che può essere un buon indicatore di menzogna — e le dirette, per quanto invece probabilmente legittime, lo sono solo per un motivo: questi ratti hanno i soldi. 💔
Ehh, purtroppo con le cose che si imparano su Internet non si può mai davvero godere, e dispiace in primis a me. Più precisamente, da un lato queste ratte si possono evidentemente permettere di avere davvero un simile stile di vita solo perché hanno i soldi, quindi non devono andare a lavorare (…o, forse, sono semplicemente parcheggiate all’università come me, però io durante le mie giornate non è che marcisco così pesantemente…), oppure, cosa che direi ancora peggiore, avranno ottenuto i soldi proprio creando questo tipo di contenuti (con le piattaforme ma temo anche donazioni)… che, oggettivamente, a parte il gran ridere, sono l’assoluto nulla — quasi peggio dei post che scrivo io quando rotto. E non so a questo punto cosa dire… ma il girlrotting che diventa business è praticamente un controsenso, quindi non mi pare bellissimo; marcite tutti, se lo volete, ma fatelo dal profondo del cuore!!! 👅
#china #Cina #girlrotting #LayingFlat #RatGirls
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Indigenous resistance in Paraguay forces Peña’s government to back down
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6333975
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72891
For several days, various Indigenous communities have been mobilizing and protesting in Paraguay against recent decisions of the right-wing government of Santiago Peña. Peña hails from the Colorado Party, one of the oldest parties in Latin America, which, incidentally, was the political base of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989), one of the longest-serving dictators in 20th-century history.The protesters are demanding the resignation of the president of Paraguayan Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INDI) and the restoration of the institution’s headquarters.
On October 3, it was announced that this Indigenous struggle in Paraguay had been successful. The leaders of the protests said, “Our heroic resistance has paid off. Today, the first point of our demand was achieved: the dismissal of Ramón Benegas from the presidency of the INDI. Following this measure, we held a meeting with the new president of the INDI, Mr. Hugo Samaniego, to whom we reiterated our demands. The new president agreed to return INDI’s headquarters to Asunción, which will allow for the full reactivation of services to our brothers and sisters.”
In addition, the Indigenous organizations stated: “In light of this situation, we have decided to return to our communities and remain in permanent assembly, ready to take to the streets again if the commitment to reopen the INDI headquarters in Asunción, with all its services fully guaranteed, is not fulfilled. Once again, we have demonstrated the strength of our resistance and our struggle. Long live indigenous resistance! We continue to fight for life and dignity.”
However, the news has been silenced by the dominant national and international media, which have instead attempted to portray Paraguay as a country without significant social conflicts, even amid growing protests against the corruption of the Colorado Party. To better understand this moment of struggle, Peoples Dispatch spoke with Amado Arrieta, a Paraguayan journalist and member of the Popular Party.
Peoples Dispatch: What was the political context of the Indigenous communities’ protest?
Amado Arrieta: The political situation in Paraguay is quite worrying. We are in a state of regression. In Paraguay, narco-politics has taken over the powers of the state. In the last elections, phenomenal fraud was reported, but the institution responsible for the elections did not allow the voting machines and the envelopes where the records were kept to be audited. There were many complaints. In this context, the conditions were created for the Colorado Party movement, called Honor Colorado and led by Horacio Cartes, to have an absolute majority in Parliament. The United States canceled Cartes’ visa and declared him corrupt, among other things, and he is now unable to leave the country. He is practically the president in the shadows. Santiago Peña worked with the company linked to the Cartes family and obviously follows Cartes’ orders to the letter. And the other factor is that the United States evidently reached an agreement with that political movement, and Santiago Peña obeys everything the United States orders him to do.
PD: And what hold does the Cartes group have on Paraguay?
AA: There is a monopoly of all businesses by this political group [Cartes]. They own practically all the gas stations. The large chains, supermarkets, and the most important media chains were acquired by Horacio Cartes. So there is no critical journalism. There are very few alternative media outlets that try to highlight the other Paraguay that is not seen in the mainstream media. In line with this, our organization, the Popular Party, has a citizen media outlet that is about to celebrate its 14th anniversary and is the only left-wing media outlet in the entire country: Radio TV Paraguay. There is a feeling of weariness and hardship among the people, among many people. And within this hardship and mistreatment, Indigenous communities suffer the most.
PD: Why did the Indigenous people protest on this occasion?
AA: INDI, the Paraguayan Institute for Indigenous Affairs, is the government agency responsible for addressing and trying to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples. One day, Santiago Peña decided to close its headquarters in Asunción and supposedly open departmental offices with the excuse that this would facilitate administrative procedures. What the government really wants to avoid is Indigenous people coming to Asunción [the capital of Paraguay], because they often come and stage protests and camp around the INDI headquarters for months. That is why it closed the office. In fact, the government changed the INDI headquarters: it abandoned the historic building where the office had always been located and moved it to a military barracks to prevent Indigenous people from camping there. But it didn’t work, because the Indigenous people closed all the roads around it.
PD: So they requested the reopening of their headquarters…
AA: The Indigenous mobilization began with the demand that the headquarters in Asunción be reopened, basically because all the institutions that can help meet the needs of the Indigenous peoples are in Asunción, not in the departmental capitals. So it makes no sense to open several departmental offices with the excuse that this will facilitate the process, because it is not true. After all, ultimately everything is resolved in Asunción. [The Indigenous people] met, I don’t know how many times, with the president and other government authorities to try to negotiate the reopening, but it was impossible. So the Indigenous mobilization hardened, and what they asked for in the first place was the reopening of the headquarters. [And now] they are calling for the removal of the current president. They are asking for more budget for land acquisition and an end to the evictions and violent abuses suffered by the communities.
The mobilizations lasted 11 days and closed roads in the departmental capitals. [At the protest sites] riot police, prosecutors, and governors appeared, trying to engage in dialogue and threatening to evict them from the roads to allow free transit, which is a constitutional guarantee, but so is mobilization and protest.
PD: Which Indigenous peoples protested?
AA: Basically, they are all Indigenous peoples from the western region, or Paraguayan Chaco, and the eastern region.
PD: What were the Indigenous peoples’ means of protest?
AA: They blocked roads. In some places, it was intermittent, meaning they would close the road for an hour and then open it for 30 minutes. But in other places, they closed the roads for four or five hours. It depends on where the Indigenous people are most numerous, so in those places the measures are also stronger. Some roadblocks last four or five hours and cause traffic jams stretching for miles. Consequently, there were protests against the roadblocks. Only after several days of protests did the media begin to talk about the mobilization, but they said that the Indigenous people were breaking the law and preventing free transit, always criminalizing the measures and never talking about the underlying problem, what the Indigenous people are asking for and demanding.
PD: What was the response of the Peña government?
For several days, the government’s response was absolutely nothing. We have an almost dictatorial government that finds it difficult to engage in dialogue. Suffice it to say that Santiago Peña is currently in Brazil, where he went for two days. He cares little or nothing about what is happening. But the inconvenience caused by the protests, the hellish traffic jams, and the loss of time throughout practically the entire country forced him to engage in dialogue.
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As Israeli Forces Seize Final Sumud Boat, Another Flotilla Sails Toward Gaza
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6333976
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72888
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, October 4, 2025
As Israeli forces on Friday captured the last remaining vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla that aimed to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, another group of boats was headed for the Palestinian territory.
The 11 vessels, most of which started sailing last week, are “carrying over 150 healthcare workers, journalists, and activists,” according to organizers, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and Thousand Madleens to Gaza.
“As journalists and medical professionals, we carry the responsibility to speak truth and preserve life,” said Dr. Ricardo Corradini, a general surgeon from Italy, in a statement. “This mission is an appeal to our colleagues—and to the institutions that represent us globally—to break their silence, uphold their ethics, and stand on the right side of history.”
FFC highlighted earlier this week that the ship ”Conscience, bombed by Israel off the coast of Malta in May 2025, has returned to serve as a vehicle for medics and media determined to reach their colleagues in besieged Gaza.”
Huwaida Arraf, an FFC steering committee member aboard Conscience, said that it “is the latest and largest boat in this historic flotilla—and its name represents not only steadfast resistance to Israel’s illegal blockade, but a call to awaken the conscience of the world.”
Since Israeli forces began intercepting Global Sumud Flotilla vessels late Wednesday, a fresh wave of global protests has occurred. People around the world have repeatedly taken to the streets over the past two years, as Israel has responded to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack by devastating infrastructure across Gaza, including healthcare facilities, wounding at least 169,165 Palestinians, and slaughtering at least 66,288.
Experts warn the true death toll in Gaza is likely much higher. Among the dead are many doctors and nurses—one count, from Healthcare Workers Watch, said at least 1,200 as of February. Israel’s killing of Gaza’s healthcare professionals continued this week with the death of Omar Hayek from Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The Israeli attack that killed Hayek and wounded four others “took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers,” the group said Thursday. “We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir al-Balah.”
Also among the dead are over 200 journalists, with recent tallies ranging from 223 to 270. The Israeli government has prevented international reporters from entering Gaza—and has been widely accused of intentionally killing Palestinian journalists who have reported on the genocide while trying to survive it.
Global press freedom groups have frequently spoken out against Irsael’s treatment of journalists, including this week, when Israeli forces took members of the media into custody while blocking the Global Sumud Flotilla from reaching Gaza.
“Arresting journalists and preventing them from doing their work is a serious violation of the right to inform and be informed,” said Martin Roux, head of the Crisis Desk at Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), in a Thursday statement.
“RSF condemns the illegal arrest of the news professionals who were on board these ships to cover a humanitarian operation of unprecedented scale,” Roux continued. “The Israeli army, which has killed over 210 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, is continuing its media blockade of the Gaza Strip with these illegal arrests at sea, with the obvious goal of covering up the crimes it is committing against the Palestinian population. RSF urges Israel to respect the status of journalists, protect them, and guarantee their safety in accordance with international law.”
Early Friday, the flotilla announced on Instagram that ”Marinette, the last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted at 10:29 am local time, approximately 42.5 nautical miles from Gaza.”
According to the flotilla, whose more than 450 members included politicians, actors, and activists from dozens of countries:
Over 38 hours, Israeli occupation naval forces illegally intercepted all 42 of our vessels—each carrying humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the determination to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza.Marinette sailed forward with the spirit of sumud—steadfastness—even after seeing the fate of 41 boats before her.
But this is not the end of our mission. Our determination to confront Israel’s atrocities and stand with the Palestinian people remains unshaken.
As people rise up in cities worldwide to demand an end to these horrors and to take a stand for humanity, we rise together with one voice.
We will not stop until the genocide ends. We will not stop until Palestine is free.
Until the interception, the flotilla faced repeated attacks widely believed to be from Israel, whose Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday continued to smear the peaceful humanitarian mission as the “Hamas-Sumud provocation” and a “sham.”
“Already four Italian citizens have been deported. The rest are in the process of being deported. Israel is keen to end this procedure as quickly as possible,” the ministry said on social media. “All are safe and in good health.”
In a Friday statement about the Global Sumud Flotilla, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights group in the United States, said that “the detention of these humanitarian volunteers, including American citizens, is deeply troubling and completely unacceptable.”
“These are civilians engaged in delivering essential aid to people in desperate need in Gaza,” he continued. “Denying them legal counsel, holding them incommunicado, and putting them at risk for simply performing humanitarian work is a flagrant violation of human rights and the principles the United States stands for. We urge the US government to act immediately to secure their safe release and make clear that targeting Americans performing humanitarian missions will not be tolerated.”
Under President Donald Trump and his Democratic predecessor, the United States has provided Israel with diplomatic support on the global stage and billions of dollars in military aid. Joined at the White House on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court—Trump unveiled a proposed peace plan for Gaza.
In a long post on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, Trump railed against Hamas and gave the group that has governed Gaza for the past two decades until Sunday at 6:00 pm Eastern Time to agree to his proposal. Trump wrote, “If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.”
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Trump-Netanyahu Joint Remarks Ripped as 'Litany of Lies... Not a Promising Foundation for Peace'
One critic noted Trump's plan for Gaza "contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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in reply to myfunnyaccountname • • •brucethemoose
in reply to vegeta • • •Billionaire seem to have a... unscientific view of a sci fi future. Especially Musk, since he thinks he's so transcendental, but apparently Bezos can't help himself now either.
It doesn't look like Star Trek.
It doesn't look like a Cyberpunk movie.
I'd recommend diving into this for a more scientifically 'thought out' and optimistic extrapolation: orionsarm.com/
Interestingly, this is a neat idea waaay down the line, in the way a Dyson Swarm is interesting. But not anytime in the near future, not until humanity is very, very different (assuming we survive that long).
Welcome to the Orion's Arm Universe Project
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in reply to brucethemoose • • •The real world looks surprisingly like a cyberpunk movie already.
vacuumflower
in reply to brucethemoose • • •That's cause due to network effects people who are making such projects are equivalent to grocers in qualification. Just were in the right place at the right time. They are not engineers, not philosophers. But since they've read and seen in sci-fi that they have to show something engineer-philosopher-like, they are doing all this bullshit.
Our world's problem is in these monopolies which should be busted. After they are busted, we'll see a lot of goodness through the usual normal competition.
And also I don't think the sequence of events that led to the current state of things should be treated as some proof of "capitalism not working" or "computer-driven futurism being a dead end" or even "space travel not ever happening" or anything as radical. Every time is different. It's like living all your life alone after one bad relationship.
We should dream, and we should make, and we should try, and we should tell those who think it's their "vision" or none to go kick rocks.
very_well_lost
in reply to brucethemoose • • •Man... if the Technopocolpyse is what you consider optimistic, I'd hate to find out what you consider pessimism!
Welcome to the Orion's Arm Universe Project
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in reply to very_well_lost • • •Humanity survived though. Even with 'humans' dying out, I'd like some form of life to expand and go on.
My biggest fear is Earth 'fizzling' and never expanding before the Sun eats it, and the odds of that happening are pretty high.
Cocodapuf
in reply to brucethemoose • • •Well, I'm not sure you've considered the time-frames involved in that concern. We have a whole lot of time before the sun goes out on us. It took Earth about 2 billion years to develop multicellular life. It then took another 2.5 b before we got vertebrates. That was the hard part though and it's done, I don't think there's any undoing it. There aren't many things that could wipe out all forms of vertebrates on earth, so I'm confident that would be as far back as the planet could reasonably be set back by any disaster.
Just 60 million years ago, mammals were not at all a dominant form of life, yet that's all it took for early rodent-like mammals to evolve into human beings (as well as all the other mammals we know today). So based on that timeline, if all human life on the planet were wiped out tomorrow, I'd estimate (pessimistically) it would take less than another 200 million years before another species gained a similar level of intelligence and began a new era of civilization (and perhaps as little as 10 m years, as some species are already quite intelligent). In fact, if the next species screws up, and gets themselves killed, I expect earth will get another go at it in another 10--200 million years, over and over again.
On the other side of the equation, the sun will expand into a red giant and consume the earth in about 5 billion years. That gives us a whole lot of tries to get it right.
brucethemoose
in reply to Cocodapuf • • •I have, but I’m also concerned that humanity got “lucky” so far and that this won’t happen again. There are theories positing that there are several blocking “gates” to civilization, and humanity passed an exceptional number of them already.
It’s reasonable to assert that’s a misleading, human centric perspective; but I’d also point out that the Fermi Paradox supports it. Either:
Another suspicious coincidence I’d point out is that we are, seemingly, the only advanced civilization from Earth so far. If we died out soon, other vertebrates that rise would find evidence of us by this point, wouldn’t they? Hence odds are we wouldnt be the first and we would have found precursors if ‘vertebrates rising and then killing themselves off’ was a likely scenario.
TL;DR: I suspect vertebrates -> our tech level is a difficult jump.
Cocodapuf
in reply to brucethemoose • • •Well that's all true, we don't actually know what the real filters are, are we already past them, or are they still ahead of us? Certainly people have speculated about this for a long time, and I won't pretend to have any more real answers than anyone else. But honestly, I'd have a hard time believing that the really rare event, that the great filter lays somewhere between the development of the brain and the development of the kind of intelligence humans have. It just seems like a relatively small jump (relative to all the other hurdles) between many of the smarter animals on earth and human beings. For example, many species use tools a whole lot actually. Only a few other species actually make tools or alter them to a large degree, but you know, give it 10 million years and see if that changes. Likewise, many species have languages, some species even give themselves names, so they can intentionally address other individuals in their social group.
If you don't mind a bit of total speculation on my part, in my opinion, the explanation to the Fermi paradox is actually pretty simple, there really is no paradox. Intelligent life is probably relatively common in the universe, the reason we don't see aliens all over the place is that intelligent life thrives too well for that. Once a species is capable of traveling other stars, it's just a matter of time before they settle most of their galaxy, like within a million years (which is very quick on evolutionary scales). We're just the first intelligent life in this galaxy, we can assume this because if there were others, they'd already have colonies right here on earth, because it's a great planet.
To double back on the great filter though, my best guess about which events might be truly rare, my money is on Eukaryotic life and mitochondria. That feels like a real freak accident, as well as an absolutely vital requirement for complex life.
brucethemoose
in reply to Cocodapuf • • •Yeah, I buy the filter (or at least a big filter) being early. That does seem like a freak accident, even with all that time for it.
But on the spread of civilization, this is why I love Orion's arm: it posits that if a civilization like ours makes it another few thousand years, it'll expanded in a bubble at a significant fraction of the speed of light and be extremely difficult to extinguish at that point, meaning civilization should have spread across galaxies by now:
orionsarm.com/eg-article/49333…
That makes a lot of sense to me.
And the fiction, even as wild as it is, gives the still somewhat unsolved Fermi Paradox a lot of thought:
orionsarm.com/eg-article/464d0…
I particularly like the 'Ginnungagap Theory' that, perhaps, there's some unknown barrier to expansion.
orionsarm.com/eg-article/464e9…
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Orion's Arm - Encyclopedia Galacticasimulacra_procession
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in reply to simulacra_procession • • •With the caveat that I only read the transcripts, I don't find that compelling at all.
The initial sentiment is correct; folks like Sam Altman responding to existential problems like “oh we can just build a Dyson Sphere in 30 years” should be in freaking jail instead of power.
But the only other justification I see is “well, this is stupidly impractical in the context of current humans.” Things like:
She’s fallen into the same trap of “existing sci fi” she accuses other of falling into.
We’re not talking about a bunch of people in space looking to expand a habit. At this point, we’re talking about some AI that’s already converted an entire moons worth of mass into computronium, can upload folks to VR and simulate realities, that can reconfigure atomic nuclei into ultradense strings of matter or construct and control tiny black holes to generate energy and elements.
It’s left the solar system loooong ago.
Its capabilities, needs, and goals are completely umhuman, and at that point pondering how to efficiently capture the output of all this stellar mass sustainably is absolutely practical to plan. A Dyson Sphere (or more practically a swarm) isn’t the only way, but it’s not the worst idea for a “young” intelligence. And in OA, at a certain point, the Sephrotics seem to construct “sci fi” dyson spheres as habitats for aesthetic reasons, whereas their actual industrial/computational bases are more utilitarian arrangements of masses.
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in reply to brucethemoose • • •brucethemoose
in reply to simulacra_procession • • •No, I just skimmed the transcript because it’s an hour long, heh.
I did get that bit about SETI and the original paper, which is interesting, and also agree that astronomers looking for them over the paper is hilarious and stupid.
Badabinski
in reply to vegeta • • •We've had the template for this for decades. Put the solar panels in space where the thick soupy gunky spunky atmosphere doesn't stop the little energy things from the sun. Collect the power in orbit. You just do that up there up in orbit okay? And then you fucking beam the power down to the surface you numpty fucks. Use a maser to send the power down to the surface and you can pick a frequency that isn't affected by the gunky spunky and then the receivers on the ground can pick it up and they send the power through these things called wires to a building that uses the power and the building can use this neat little thing called CONVECTION to more efficiently remove the heat from the things using the electricity wow.
Or just, y'know, use less power and make use of ground based solar. We don't need fucking AI data centers in space. Don't get me wrong, I think it might be useful to, say, have some compute up in geostationary orbit that other satellites could punt some data to for computation. You could have an evenly spaced ring of the fuckers so the users up there can get some data crunching done with a RTT of like 50ms instead of 700ms. That seems like a hard sell, but it at least seems a bit tenable if you needed to reduce the data you're sending back to the earth down to a more manageable amount with some preprocessing. That is still not fuckass gigawatt AI data centers. Fuck
brucethemoose
in reply to Badabinski • • •That's a more interesting idea but still quite questionable, given how expensive sending anything to space is, and then maintaining it.
It made more sense with solar was expensive per square mm, but that is no longer the case.
Also, transmission is a huge problem. It's easy to say 'make a maser,' but making giant one and aiming it reliably (lest one fries nearby terrain as the satellite moves to track the sun), and making a receiver big enough from how much the laser spreads out from geosync orbit is a tall order. Geosync is super far away.
There's plenty of space on the ground, for now.
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in reply to vegeta • • •HiTekRedNek
in reply to OctopusNemeses • • •That sounds like privacy, not evil.
Because history, as well as current events, tell us that governments will absolutely make privacy illegal, so if you can do an end run of them by not being beholden to ANY government, then that is absolutely a good thing.
Buffalox
in reply to HiTekRedNek • • •Oh boy you are naive if you think that's the result of no regulation.
The real result will be monetization, using and selling the info to everyone who wants to buy including governments.
If you care about your data, keep it on servers in EU or Switzerland, it may not be perfect, but the protection is more crucial than the risks under their protective laws.
USA is a cesspool, and the worst of both. The only difference from space being that the government can take the info without paying.
HiTekRedNek
in reply to Buffalox • • •Naive? No. What's naive is thinking that if you give power to anyone over your own data , even your government, that it will.protect it.
You think the EU cares about your privacy? I know my own government is doing it's level best to destroy mine, but at least I'm aware of it.
You, however, have the naivete of Pollyanna and think your vaunted EU is better.
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