Countries are falling short on reducing emissions, but British data scientist Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees the world making real gains on climate change. In an interview, she talks about the unheralded progress she sees in the global shift to clean energy.

This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

^{Yale E360}

France’s political crisis has deepened after the new prime minister dramatically resigned within hours of appointing a government.

Sébastien Lecornu was the third French prime minister in a year, as the country continued to lurch from one political crisis to another. He quit hours before his first cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon. Macron accepted Lecornu’s resignation on Monday morning.

Lecornu then made what he called a “spontaneous” speech on the steps of the prime minister’s residence in Paris. He appeared to place the blame on opposition political parties in France, who he said had not wanted to compromise.

France’s PM resigns after less than a month amid widespread criticism of new cabinet

Sébastien Lecornu quits after Emmanuel Macron unveiled largely unchanged cabinet lineup

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

On an unrelated topic I found a comment in a YouTube video about Sonichu Medaillion being cursed. It peaked my interest. Truly cursed. Then I found a shop selling these and scrolled down, and it recommended me more curse.

I don't know what else to say, other than the recommendation was right.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-public-lands-sales-3239c138a851b157c340fe3f5d1fc600

a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin Newsom, announced he would sue the president over the planned deployment of his state’s troops.

Both states sought the temporary restraining order after the president sent guard members from California to Oregon earlier in the day. On Saturday, the same judge temporarily blocked the administration from deploying Oregon’s national guard troops to Portland.

The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut said there was no evidence that recent protests necessitated the presence of national guard troops, no matter where they came from.

Judge blocks Trump’s bid to deploy national guard to Oregon – US politics live

Ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut blocks any deployment to Portland for two weeks as legal wrangling continues

^{Tom Ambrose (The Guardian)}

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that a Cairo agreement for cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog “is no longer valid” after the imposition of snapback sanctions by Western countries, Anadolu reports.

“The three European countries thought they could achieve results through the snapback mechanism, but that tool was ineffective and only made diplomacy more complicated,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Araghchi as saying after meeting foreign ambassadors and diplomats accredited to Tehran.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251005-iran-says-cairo-agreement-for-cooperation-with-iaea-no-longer-valid-after-sanctions-reimposed/

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has issued an official statement firmly denying media reports, particularly by Al Arabiya Al Hadath, claiming that the movement had agreed to gradually hand over its weapons under international supervision. In its official statement, Hamas said: “The movement confirms that there is no truth to what was reported by Al Arabiya Al Hadath and some other media outlets, quoting a so-called source within the movement, regarding the course of ceasefire negotiations.”

The statement added: “The movement stresses that spreading such misleading news aims to distort facts and create confusion among the public.” Hamas described these reports as “baseless allegations” and strongly rejected them. The movement also called on media outlets to “adhere to professionalism and objectivity, and avoid relying on anonymous or unreliable sources,” stressing that “accurate and official statements are issued only through the movement’s official platforms.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251006-hamas-denies-reports-of-agreeing-to-weapons-surrender-under-international-supervision-warns-against-false-news/

There is no more honest way to describe the world we live in than this: Islamophobia has become the new global currency of power. It is traded in the speeches of politicians, exchanged in the deals of diplomats, printed in the pages of media, and laundered through the language of security and counterterrorism. It buys impunity for genocide, secures legitimacy for authoritarian leaders, and bankrolls new markets of surveillance and control. The Gaza genocide has torn away whatever illusions were left: the blood of Muslims is not just cheap; it is expendable capital in the economy of global powers.

The Gaza genocide is not an isolated catastrophe; it is the center of a global pattern. From the internment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang’s camps to the expulsion of the Rohingya from Myanmar, from the headscarves torn off French Muslim girls in the name of secularism to the US “Muslim ban” dressed in the language of national security, the same logic is at work. Islamophobia is the shared language of power between democracies and dictatorships, between so-called secular republics and openly ethno-nationalist states. It allows brutality to pass as order, apartheid to pass as security, and genocide to pass as policy.

Nowhere is this more visible outside Palestine than in India, where 200 million Muslims are being pushed to the edge of extermination by the RSS-BJP regime. Under Narendra Modi, Islamophobia has been weaponised not as fringe hate but as state ideology. Laws like the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens have created a framework where Muslims can be rendered stateless in their own homeland. Pogroms in Delhi, lynchings over beef, bulldozers demolishing Muslim homes, and open calls for genocide from Hindutva leaders are not accidents but steps in a carefully scripted project. This project is nourished by propaganda techniques borrowed directly from Zionism: Palestinians are framed as “terrorists” the way Indian Muslims are framed as “jihadis” or “Bangladeshi infiltrators”; Gaza’s resistance is criminalised the same way Indian Muslims’ protests are portrayed as sedition. Both Zionism and Hindutva work by criminalising Muslim existence itself — and both find eager allies in Western capitals that profit from these performances of “civilisational defence.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251006-islamophobia-is-the-new-global-currency-of-power/

An estimated 250,000 people took part in a massive protest in Amsterdam on Sunday, calling on the Dutch government to take a firmer stance against Israel and to help end the genocidal violence in Gaza.

Demonstrators, many wearing something red to illustrate the “red line” they say the Dutch government has crossed by its lack of action, packed into the Museumplein and its surrounding streets.

In Amsterdam, 250,000 call on government to get tough on Israel - DutchNews.nl

^{Robin Pascoe (DutchNews.nl)}

https://www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-is-the-new-open-source

Anyone has any ideas how to revive it? Whenever I try to run anything, I get

bwrap: Unable to open lock file /usr/.ref: No such file or directory
error: ldconfig failed, exit status 256

Google is surprisingly unhelpful on this one. I've tried both flatpak repair and apt install --reinstall flatpak to no success. AI suggests to straight up purge flatpak entirely and start anew, but I am wary of it also taking out the app caches, logins, configs, etc, which I'd rather preserve if possible.

Distro is pop 22, btw

La storia della famiglia Borghi raccontata in Buongiorno, mamma! nasce da una storia vera. Al centro ci sono Guido (Raoul Bova) e Anna (Maria Chiara Giannetta), una famiglia seguita nel tempo – tra passato e presente – mentre affronta la lunga malattia di lei e le sfide della crescita dei figli. Ma qual è l’ispirazione reale dietro la fiction?

LEGGI LA STORIA VERA: Buongiorno, mamma!, la storia vera che ha ispirato la fiction di Canale 5

Buongiorno, mamma!: la storia vera che ha ispirato la fiction di Canale 5

Buongiorno, mamma! è ispirata alla storia vera di Angela Moroni e del marito Nazzareno. Somiglianze e differenze tra realtà e fiction.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}