Spie e Agenti della Serenissima. Il primo servizio segreto del mondo. L'articolo odierno di SnapHistory. https://app.snaphistory.io/articles/public/75b6c7201da198e5b9388dff262c5d60/1
app.snaphistory.io/articles/pu…
Top Republicans stand by president's poop video
Top Republicans stand by president's poop video
It's 2025 agitprop, as Trump views his critics under his shit-dumping rule.Mother Jones
100_kg_90_de_belin likes this.
Furgoni e bus elettrici sono già più convenienti di quelli diesel, i camion ancora no: ecco come il costo iniziale si ripaga e in quanti anni
Furgoni e bus elettrici sono già più convenienti di quelli diesel, i camion ancora no: ecco come il costo iniziale si ripaga e in quanti anni
Uno studio stima i vantaggi economici della transizione all'elettrico. Motus-E: «Serve una rete di ricarica più capillare per i mezzi pesanti»Gianluca Brambilla (Open)
Cosa significa per la Francia la condanna di Nicolas Sarkozy
Cosa significa per la Francia la condanna dell'ex presidente Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarkozy è stato condannato a cinque anni di carcere per associazione a delinquere nell'ambito di un complesso schema che avrebbe coinvolto l'ex regime libico di Muammar GheddafiSophia Khatsenkova (Euronews.com)
USA are a couple of presidents away to either fascism or back to regular life so "never" can't apply for the political reason I read here. I'd love to back, just not nowadays.
I traveled a bit and honestly there's no country I would not like to visit again. Some cities, maybe, but I can't say it about a whole country.
Nuggets' Braun reaches 5-year, $125M extension
Nuggets' Christian Braun reaches $125M extension, agent says - ESPN
Nuggets guard Christian Braun has agreed to a five-year, $125 million rookie contract extension, agent Bill Duffy told ESPN on Monday.Shams Charania (ESPN)
Ocean's 14, George Clooney conferma il nuovo capitolo: riprese al via nel 2026
Shifter videos are in Peertube
Shifter
Shifter: A channel about urban cycling, bike commuting and the ways we get around our cities with author, journalist and creator Tom Babin. Interested in working with me? Get more info here: https:...Canadian Civil
Counterpoint: I’m a twisty mofo and my adhd friend would often enough times respond to something he thought I was going to say instead of the thing I actually said (since I’m a twisty mofo) because he would be concentrating on not interrupting rather than listening.
I’m not placing blame, that’s adhd, just thought it was funny (except those times when it was just frustrating).
In edicola il numero di Storica National Geographic
Mary Anning, la cacciatrice di fossili giurassici
Questa cacciatrice di fossili non ottenne mai il riconoscimento che le spettava.
Giochi secolari, le celebrazioni del secolo a Roma
Ogni secolo a Roma si celebrava una grande festa per avere il favore degli dei.
Il libro dei morti, un manuale egizio dell'oltretomba
Gli Egizi credevano che, al momento della morte, i defunti dovessero affrontare un cammino pericoloso, costellato di prove e culminante nel giudizio divino, prima di poter raggiungere la vita eterna. Per avere successo in questo viaggio, si affidavano alle Formule per far uscire l’anima alla luce del giorno, una raccolta di testi più nota come Libro dei Morti: un vero e proprio manuale che conteneva i sortilegi da recitare durante il viaggio nell’aldilà.
Emporion, la Grecia in Iberia
All’inizio del VI secolo a.C., coloni greci fondarono nel golfo di Roses la prima colonia greca della penisola iberica. Per secoli Emporion fu un fiorente centro commerciale, cresciuto intorno a un porto che l’archeologia ci consente oggi di conoscere con sempre maggior precisione.
Pompeo Magno, il generale dimenticato
Le sue vittoriose campagne in tutto il Mediterraneo – inclusa quella che pose fine alla minaccia dei pirati cilici – resero Pompeo il grande eroe di Roma, ma l’ascesa di Giulio Cesare ne segnò il declino.
Kublai Khan, l’imperatore mongolo della Cina
Mezzo secolo dopo la morte di Gengis Khan, suo nipote Kublai completò la conquista della Cina e fondò una nuova dinastia, caratterizzata dalla fusione delle culture cinese e mongola.
Il cammino verso Santiago: pellegrini del Medioevo
Sebbene i pellegrini medievali diretti a Santiago non seguissero un itinerario rigidamente definito, esistevano grandi percorsi che corrispondono a quelli oggi ufficialmente riconosciuti.
La caccia alle streghe in Europa, un'ossessione collecttiva
Tra il XVI e il XVII secolo si tennero grandi processi contro presunti stregoni e streghe, accusati di aver stretto patti con il demonio. Molti di questi processi si conclusero con l’esecuzione di decine di persone, per lo più donne.
Il tesoro di Varna
Le tombe di una necropoli in Bulgaria, contenevano migliaia di oggetti d’oro. 114 STORIA VISUALE Vietnam, una guerra senza fine Per vent’anni, gli Stati Uniti furono impegnati in un conflitto di larga scala in Asia.
Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
🌘
Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them.
Scientists have tested out enteral ventilation—a possible method of administering oxygen with a liquid delivered through the rectum that is then absorbed into the intestines—in humans for the first time. The trial demonstrated that this method of ventilation is safe and “paves the way for future studies to see if this technique can help patients with respiratory failure,” according to a study published on Monday in the journal Med.
“Enteral ventilation is not meant to replace mechanical ventilators or ECMO, but rather to serve as a complementary oxygenation route,” said Takanori Takebe, an expert in organoid medicine with appointments at both Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Osaka, in an email to 404 Media. The technique proves a backdoor “to provide partial oxygen support while allowing the lungs to rest,” he added.
But while this method is safe for humans, it hasn’t been experimentally shown to work on patients experiencing respiratory distress yet. If future trials show that enteral ventilation is also effective, it could potentially help newborns and premature infants who are struggling to establish lung function after birth, aid patients with severe respiratory failure or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), or be applied in other situations in which temporary oxygen supplementation is needed.
“In such cases, intestinal oxygen delivery could serve as a ‘bridge’ therapy until normal respiration or full ventilatory support can be established,” Takebe said.
A figure outlining the first enteral ventilation trial in humans. Image: Fujii, Tasuku et al.
The team previously published a study in 2021 that showed enteral ventilation was effective in ameliorating respiratory failure in rats, mice, and pigs. This initial trial in humans involved 27 healthy male volunteers, who received a liquid called perfluorodecalin through their rectums in an enema-like process.Since the trial was only intended to determine the safety of the procedure, rather than probe its efficacy in humans, the perfluorodecalin was not oxygenated and none of the volunteers were experiencing any respiratory distress during the course of the study.
“The results aligned closely with what we had anticipated from our preclinical data,” Takebe said. “We found that intrarectal administration of perfluorodecalin up to 1,000 mL was safe and well tolerated, with only mild and transient gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating.”
“The next phase will involve testing ‘oxygenated’ perfluorodecalin (O₂-PFD) in patients with hypoxemia to evaluate actual oxygen transfer efficacy,” he added. “We are currently planning a Phase II trial in collaboration with clinical partners in Japan and the U.S.”
Takebe and his colleagues were inspired to develop this roundabout route by aquatic species, such as loaches, which absorb oxygen through their intestines to survive in low-oxygen environments. While the idea of rectally administering perfluorodecalin is relatively new, the use of oxygenated liquid for ventilation dates back decades. It even shows up in James Cameron’s 1989 thriller The Abyss, which includes a real scene of a rat breathing in a tank of liquid perfluorocarbon.
The technique may prove to be an effective means to alleviate respiratory distress in humans, but it’s also inspired its fair share of jokes because, well, it is about butt breath, after all.
In 2024, for instance, Takebe’s team received the Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical award that honors “achievements so surprising that they make people laugh, then think,” according to its website. Fellow Ig Nobel awardees include a team that levitated a frog in midair and another that investigated why pregnant women aren’t constantly tipping over.
“Receiving the Ig Nobel Prize was both humorous and humbling,” Takebe said. “It was a reminder that truly unconventional ideas often begin at the boundary between curiosity and skepticism.”
“While the prize is lighthearted in tone, I do believe it serves a serious purpose, encouraging the public to stay curious and to appreciate how even seemingly odd scientific questions can lead to meaningful innovations,” he concluded. “What began as a playful concept is now moving closer to a viable medical technology.”
🌘
Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.The Ig Nobel Prize: Levitating frogs, constipated scorpions, and other science that makes you laugh then think - American Chemical Society
The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates discoveries that are unusual and imaginative that might not make it into a more traditional research journal.American Chemical Society
The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible
also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it
this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol
edinbruh doesn't like this.
I like many of your points, but your comment is facetious.
You said it yourself, "it's good for someone trying to bang out scripts"... and that's it, that's the main point, that's the purpose of python. I will argue over my dead body that python is a trillion times better than sh/bash/zsh/fish/bat/powershell/whatever for writing scripts in all aspects except availability and if that's a concern, the only options are the old Unix shell and bat (even with powershell you never know if you are stuck ps 5 or can use ps 7).
I have a python script running 24/7 on a raspberry that listens on some mqtt topics and reacts accordingly asynchronously. It uses like 15kiB (literally less than 4 pages) of ram mostly for the interpreter, and it's plenty responsive. It uses about two minutes of CPU time a day. I could have written it in rust or go, I know enough of both to do it, it would have been faster and more efficient, but it would have taken three times the time to write, and it would have been a bitch to modify, I could have done it in C and it would have been even worse. For that little extra efficiency it makes no sense.
You argue it has no place in mainstream software, but that's not really a matter of python, more a matter of bad software engineers. Ok, cool that you recognise the issue, but I'd rather you went after the million people shipping a full browser in every GUI application, than to the guys wasting 10 kiB of your ram to run python. And even in that case, it's not an issue of JavaScript, but an issue of bad practices.
P.S. "does one thing well" is a smokescreen to hide doing less stuff, you shouldn't base your whole design philosophy on a quote from the 70s. That is the kind of shit SystemD hater shout, while running a display server that also manages input, opengl, a widget toolkit, remote desktop, and the entire printer stack. The more a high profile tool does, the less your janky glue code scripts need to do.
Factual reality. I recently installed w11 on a virtual machine (I was trying to write a cross-platform thing) and to create a local account I literally had to open a terminal during the first boot process, type a couple commands quickly (yes, timing is apparently important), unplug the (virtual) ethernet cable, and reboot.
And people still have the gall to tell me windows is easy.
Durant, Rockets agree to 2-year, $90M extension
Kevin Durant gets $90M Rockets extension, $30M under max - ESPN
Rockets star Kevin Durant has signed a two-year, $90 million contract extension, taking about $30 million less than a potential maximum deal.Shams Charania (ESPN)
Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?
It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.
So, why is Unraid an exception ?
Thanks
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
Key chart:
Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* web.archive.org
A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdomAllison Parshall (Scientific American)
German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners
German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners
Violent crimes committed by foreigners are covered in the media far more frequently than is justified by their share in police crime statistics, a new study has found.Marcel Fürstenau (Deutsche Welle)
Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37519364
Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks
Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
White House’s Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Cheung say ‘Your mom’ when asked who suggested Hungary for Putin-Trump meeting
Trump said he will meet with the Kremlin leader in Budapest to discuss an end to the war in UkraineKatie Hawkinson (The Independent)
My mum picked a EU country ruled by a far right wing politician who haa been attacking civil rights and political freedom?
JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people - LGBTQ Nation
JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people - LGBTQ Nation
The suspect's alleged trans girlfriend is cooperating with investigators, but rightwingers are still using her identity to blame trans people.John Russell (LGBTQ Nation)
'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
In just over a week, nearly 42 million people in the U.S. who get federal food assistance are in danger of seeing their benefits disappear because of the ongoing federal shutdown.
About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. One of those people is Shari Jablonowski. The 66-year-old widow, who lives outside Pittsburgh, is bracing to lose the $291 in food aid her disabled nephew gets each month. She raised her now-adult nephew and two nieces as her own, and even without this looming crisis, her budget is a tightrope.
"This month, I could not afford to pay … anything, gas or electric," she says. Instead she paid her monthly car payment, since she needs to drive to doctors' appointments, visit her mother, and one niece uses the car to get to work.
copymyjalopy likes this.
Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
Report shows how little fossil fuel giants have helped the energy transition
A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.Rebecca Egan McCarthy (Grist)
like this
What? Corporate entities whose sole reason for existence is the exploitation of the natural world for profit lied through their teeth about how they are gonna stop exploiting the natural world for profit?
Gee! Color me surprised. (/s)
reshared this
Frustrated Arizonans have waited more than a month for their new congresswoman to be seated
More than a month later, the local congressional office in Tucson is shuttered and the phones ring unanswered. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Grijalva, a Democrat, while the government is shut down, leaving the residents of her sprawling southern Arizona district without a vote in Congress — or help back home.
“Here I am paying taxes to the federal government,” Wilson said from her Tucson office this week, “and not only is it closed but I don’t have a representative either.”
Grijalva spent much of the week in Washington unable to access government email and federal systems. While most congressional offices are buzzing with activity, her suite on the Hill remains mostly quiet and many desks sit empty. She doesn’t have the resources or authority, she said, to staff a district office or assist constituents who try to contact her. Without security privileges, she’s barred from bringing so much as a hammer into the Capitol for hanging pictures. It would be considered a weapon, she said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/politics/adelita-grijalva-arizona-mike-johnson-epstein
copymyjalopy likes this.
Rust implementation of DeepSeek-OCR with OpenAI-compatible server. & CLI No Python environment needed - just download and run.
GitHub - TimmyOVO/deepseek-ocr.rs: Rust implementation of DeepSeek-OCR with OpenAI-compatible server. & CLI No Python environment needed - just download and run.
Rust implementation of DeepSeek-OCR with OpenAI-compatible server. & CLI No Python environment needed - just download and run. - TimmyOVO/deepseek-ocr.rsGitHub
I'm nearly done! The Shavian transliteration of my full-length sci-fi novel is nearly ready to publish. Just finished the cover today. Questions and feedback welcome!
Hi everyone, just wanted to share – I've finished the Shavian cover for my novel, Blue Are the Hills. The full Shavian transliteration is complete, and it's almost ready for release (now I'm just doing battle with Scrivener to compile it properly). There are almost no modern novels in Shavian, so I'm looking forward to sharing mine. It's a literary sci-fi novel about identity, hope, and transhumanism. Only a couple of things left to do and it will be ready. This has been a very fun project!
What's Shavian? I'm glad you asked! It's an alphabet created by John Kingsley Read in response to a challenge by George Bernard Shaw, intended to make a lexicon specifically designed for English, in order to make reading and writing English easier.
Here's more info, including many resources (lexicon, guidelines, fonts): shavian.info.
It's fun if you're into linguistics or cryptography at all.
Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands
Sora allows people to make 'fetish' content using other people's faces
Sora lets you make videos using other people's faces. Great! Except when your face is used in a "fetish" video, like one about feet or pregnancy.Katie Notopoulos (Business Insider)
like this
Palestinian factions start 'national dialogue', US appoints diplomat to monitor ceasefire
By MEE staff
Published date: 24 October 2025 20:45 BST
"We emphasise that the current phase requires a unified national position and a national political vision based on unity of voice and destiny, and the rejection of all forms of annexation and displacement in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem," the statement said.The factions urged an end to "all forms of torture and violations against prisoners in Israeli prisons", and "the need to take all necessary measures to maintain security and stability throughout the Gaza Strip".
There was no mention of disarmament - a thorny issue that is unlikely to come to fruition in its absolute form as the US and Israel have demanded.
Palestinian factions start 'national dialogue', US appoints diplomat to monitor ceasefire
Palestinian factions met in Cairo on Friday to lay out the beginnings of a "national dialogue" that will address Gaza's governance and future as part of a Palestinian state, a joint statement on Friday indicated.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Why Is Child Marriage Legal in So Many States?
Same reason the House is out of session to avoid releasing the Epstein files?
The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent cult leaders, later to be turned into a true crime documentary one laments over with their friends.But child marriage remains legal in the majority of U.S. states, and getting rid of it has proved supremely difficult.
Thirty-four U.S. states still permit a child under the age of 18 to marry — usually with the consent of their parents or a judge. Four states — California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma — establish no minimum age for a minor to enter into a binding legal and social contract. According to a new report from Unchained at Last, a nonprofit advocating for the end of underage marriage exceptions in the United States, and Equality Now, a gender equality nonprofit, over 314,000 marriages involving minors — most between the ages of 16 and 17 — were registered over the course of the last two decades.
Over 80 percent of those marriages involved a girl who was underage (some as young as 10), and most of those marriages were to adult men. The organization’s report found that in that same time frame, over 60,000 of those marriages involved a child that was not legally old enough to consent to sex with their spouse.
If you aren't irate yet, here are two explanations for opposition:
In New Hampshire, where an underage marriage ban was enacted in 2024, one Republican state representative argued that underage marriage was a “legitimizing option” for girls of “ripe, fertile age” who became pregnant before adulthood. In Missouri, a Republican-authored ban was opposed by members of the same party, with one member of the GOP arguing that eliminating child marriage would increase incentives for the pregnant child to seek an abortion.
Let's go back to "some as young as 10." There's no fucking defense for that. The argument is literally, "If you get a preteen pregnant, you should be able to marry her so she doesn't seek out an abortion."
I'm not a total prude here ... I get that there are edge cases like one high-schooler having just turned 18 while his girlfriend is still a sophomore, which to my mind is a morally grey area, but if that's about a pregnancy, that's a separate issue from marriage itself.
This said, knocking up someone one-third your age and needing the law to swoop to your rescue shows some extremely twisted thinking that probably mean being part of the general public is risky. It shouldn't be rewarded with a literal get-out-of-jail-free card.
Child Marriage Remains Legal in Majority of U.S. States. Why?
Despite a widespread and growing consensus that child marriage should be banned, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
inciampamento dell’octo di ieri quasi prevenuto per magia divina (stavo per inciampare sul marciapiede ma mi sono raddrizzata)
Oggi è sabato sera, e quindi, come è ormai tradizione, ho fin troppo da programmare, ma non ho nulla da dire… Tuttavia, considerato che stasera il famoso terremoto l’ho sentito pure io, e dunque i tempi sembrano pericolosamente maturi perché la mia esistenza possa purtroppo terminare a breve, nella malaugurata ipotesi in cui la situazione […]
octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…
inciampamento dell’octo di ieri quasi prevenuto per magia divina (stavo per inciampare sul marciapiede ma mi sono raddrizzata)
Oggi è sabato sera, e quindi, come è ormai tradizione, ho fin troppo da programmare, ma non ho nulla da dire… Tuttavia, considerato che stasera il famoso terremoto l’ho sentito pure io, e dunque i tempi sembrano pericolosamente maturi perché la mia esistenza possa purtroppo terminare a breve, nella malaugurata ipotesi in cui la situazione dovesse peggiorare come ha già fatto in passato in queste terre… Racconterò come stavo non per morire, ma comunque per farmi non proprio bene, ieri mattina, cosa per fortuna non avvenuta… è bene che io mi prenda un minimo di tempo per raccontare le storielle divertenti prima di dimenticarmele ma, soprattutto, prima che muoio. 😳Ieri mattina ero circa in ritardo per prendere l’autobus, e quindi, pur non dovendo correre, ho ovviamente dovuto tenere un passo veloce e sostenuto per non rischiare di raggiungere la fermata troppo tardi… che non è inusuale per me, quindi è strano che sia successo proprio quello che è successo. Praticamente, ad un certo punto del marciapiede su cui stavo, proprio in mezzo davanti a me, c’era un vecchio, che si muoveva fin troppo lentamente… quindi, per non dover uccidere il ritmo, ho dovuto in un attimo spostarmi verso il bordo esterno del marciapiede. Peccato che, forse perché ero ancora mezza fatta di sonno, o forse perché lo spazio di manovra era poco, perché proprio in quel punto c’era anche un palo, sono inciampata nel classico modo alla Taiga Aisaka o alla Usagi Tsukino. 😭
Non mi ricordo (perché sul momento ovviamente non ho processato la cosa, e a ripensarci pochi istanti o minuti dopo non ci ho capito niente) nemmeno come sia possibile che, inciampando nel bordo sinistro del marciapiede (relativamente alla mia direzione, il marciapiede era sulla destra della strada), io sia finita verso destra, quindi di nuovo dentro il marciapiede… ma ci stavo per finire di faccia, che non è proprio un ottimo modo di iniziare la giornata, direi; e, se non di faccia, certamente con le mani, quindi con buona probabilità di spaccare pure il telefono, che avevo in mano. Il bello però è che, in qualche modo, in realtà, non sono caduta… sono riuscita a ribilanciarmi in alto, e continuare a camminare senza nemmeno fermarmi… anche se mi pare di aver fatto molto rumore nella cosa, quindi ancora mi chiedo se il vecchio ha notato che stavo per scapezzarmi qualche metro avanti a lui… 😦
La cosa in realtà non dovrebbe essere tanto strana… suppongo che, nella realtà, fuori dai manga, per gente fisicamente giovane (pure se magari tremendamente vecchia dentro come me), riuscire a non cascare per terra di faccia camminando per strada sia la normalità, e non una roba stupefacente… eppure, a pensarci, quello che mi è successo mi sembra semplicemente rara fortuna; una gentile concessione da parte degli spiriti che, seppur hanno questo terribile vizio di farmi di continuo scherzi di pessimo gusto, non vogliono veramente farmi del male… Perché, a parte che se ero abbastanza addormentata da inciampare, non capisco come io abbia fatto allora a salvarmi dal cadere… ma avevo lo zaino mezzo pesante addosso, ovviamente (con dentro il PC che fa gran parte della massa e dell’area, e oggetti misti). 🙀
Questo è in effetti un bel problema di fisica, che non ho idea di come trasformare in dati formali, e quindi certamente non posso risolvere, ma lascerò l’esercizio ai lettori, come si suol dire per chi non ha voglia di ragionare quando scrive (io, e gli autori dei libri di matematica)… Sono stata capace di raddrizzarmi durante la caduta nonostante lo zaino, o magari, di contro, proprio grazie allo zaino? E, inoltre, sono inciampata anche per colpa dello zaino, o questo non ha fatto praticamente differenza nel momento di terrore? Non è ovviamente la prima volta che rischio di capitombolare malamente su semplici marciapiedi e con indosso scarpe normali, comode, ma ora non ricordo tutte le variabili delle altre volte. L’importante è che, alla fine, il bus che ho preso è stato quello per l’università, come da piani, e non ho dovuto piuttosto aspettare quello per l’ospedale… 🥴
…Ma inoltre, posando questa roba e parlando invece di quelle leggi naturali non scritte… è per caso possibile che questo evento sia da imputare ad un potenziale karma negativo che ho accumulato youthmaxxando e agilitymoggando praticamente ogni giorno vecchi per strada, semplicemente superandoli in continuazione camminando? Per favore, astenersi moralisti da questa domanda in particolare, che il dubbio è serio… Cioè, io mica lo faccio apposta ad essere più veloce di loro, è che ho la mia vita e i miei tempi e sono sempre di fretta e quindi volente o nolente devo fare un po’ di gaming con le gambe… sotto sotto dispiace anche a me di sottoporre i poveri anziani a queste umiliazioni, ma non ho deciso io di avere 21 anni. 💔
#camminare #fretta #inciampare #marciapiede
US-Israeli startup plan to block sun with airborne chemicals
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/4087
A US-Israeli geoengineering startup has raised $60m as part of its plan to test ‘sun-reflecting technology’. Critics are warning the new tech could have unexpected negative impacts on global weather and drive “geopolitical conflict”. Supporters, meanwhile, have pointed out it might not do that. 🚨Big News in Solar Geoengineering Stardust Solutions, an Israeli-U.S. startup developing […]By Willem Moore
If you’re unfamiliar with solar ‘geoengineering’, it’s essentially climate change in reverse. Much like how we’ve caused global warming and other changes by releasing carbon, methane, and other gases, scientists believe we can reverse the problem by releasing particles which reflect sunlight back into space.
In a report titled The Risks of Geoengineering, the Center for International Environmental Law summarised:
Geoengineering technologies, if deployed at scale, could have profound, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible effects on biodiversity, both through their direct impacts and as a result of compounding and exacerbating existing planetary crises caused by pollution, climate change, and unsustainable land use.As reported by Politico, this latest geoengineering plan is being led by US-Israeli startup Stardust Solutions. Their technology involves custom particles which the company claims are ‘inert’. They also believe these particles will not accumulate in humans or ecosystems, will not harm the ozone layer, and will not create acid rain.
Stardust Solutions’ founders are nuclear physicists who worked for the Israeli government. Although they insist their new project is unaffiliated with the state of Israel, they are headquartered outside Tel Aviv. This could cause problems for them worldwide given the boycott of Israel which began during Israel’s apartheid era and continued throughout the genocide.
From Canary via This RSS Feed.
🌸La méditation guidée de 15 à 20 mn sera suivie d'un cercle de parole, pour faire une pause et se reconnecter à soi et aux autres.
Le thème proposé pour le cercle de parole est : "L'espoir est une discipline. Nous devons le pratiquer quotidiennement" (Mariame Kaba, En attendant qu'on se libère). Et chacun est libre de s'exprimer sur ce qu'iel souhaite 🌸
📅 Dimanche 2 novembre de 9:00 à 10:00
Pour calculer votre heure locale, cliquez sur ce lien : xrb.link/E74VPL1A93J
➡ Pour participer : il suffit de se connecter sur ce lien : xrb.link/v6oCB4dM le moment venu. Tout le monde est bienvenu·e, quelle que soit sa pratique ! Les arrivées ne seront pas acceptées après les 20 premières minutes.
🧘♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏾♀️ Parce que l'activisme est un engagement externe ET une transformation intérieure, c’est dans un esprit de compassion et d’approfondissement de la connaissance de soi que nous prétendons évoluer et communiquer les un‧es avec les autres.
The US Is Criminalizing Homelessness and Expanding Incarceration. Who Profits?
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/4116
From private prisons to health care scams, the attack on unhoused people is about exploitation, not safety.From the Trump administration to Democrats in California, responses to the homeless crisis in the U.S. continue to ignore the main drivers of the problem and aim to make the unhoused magically disappear. Like so many of the faux social policies in the U.S., this one increasingly looks designed for big private players to profit off the disappearing.
Let’s first look at the main tenets of the U.S. response at both the state and federal level before examining how such ruthless policy offers opportunities for economic elites to cash in on the added layers of cruelty.
Trump’s July executive order frames the country’s homelessness crisis as the sole product of mental illness and drug addiction and helps make it easier to arrest and involuntarily commit the homeless. This is a continuation of a years-long effort by American elites to redirect attention away from the root causes of homelessness. According to a study from UCSF’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative last year (one of the deepest dives into California’s crisis in decades), the number one problem that is fueling the homelessness crisis is the increasing precariousness of the working poor.
From Truthout via This RSS Feed.
Israel relies on the EU's two main financial centers, Ireland and Luxembourg, to finance the war in Gaza
- The Irish Central Bank transfers an Israeli bond issue to the Grand Duchy, which raised 2.41 billion in 2024 and finances the Zionist State Budget.
- Legal experts at Law for Palestine warn that accepting this debt prospectus makes Luxembourg "complicit" in illicit international acts.
Israel relies on the EU's two main financial centers, Ireland and Luxembourg, to finance the war in Gaza and, therefore, the crimes against the Palestinian population that have earned it international condemnation. To do so, it uses so-called diaspora bonds , which Israel has been issuing since 1951 and whose volume increases each time it needs to fund its war campaigns, appealing to Jewish communities around the world for contributions. These are small-value bonds , priced at less than €1,000, but they are very successful: they raised €2.41 billion in 2024, according to the annual report of the Public Debt Unit of the Israeli Ministry of Finance.
To sell these bonds in the European Union, Israel needs a member state to become the country of origin of the issue . Until Brexit , this was the United Kingdom . Since 2021, that role has been played by Ireland . Until Israel asked the Irish Central Bank to transfer the authority to approve the prospectus for its bonds to Luxembourg . On September 1, the Grand Duchy's Financial Sector Supervisory Commission (CSSF) authorized this. The numerous protests outside the headquarters of the Central Bank of Ireland for serving as a financial tool for Israel then moved to Luxembourg, both in the streets and in Parliament. Opposition parties accuse the financial supervisor and the government of "supporting, as a financial center," a policy that the country was at the same time "verbally condemning." Luxembourg recognized the State of Palestine on September 22 .
Following the criticism, the CSSF sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting its opinion on Israeli bonds. It also asked the Ministry to inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of any changes in the official policy stance toward Israel, as, in such cases, it could review its decision. When the controversy erupted, the financial supervisor argued its independence : "The CSSF assumes no commitment regarding the economic or financial opportunity of the transaction or the quality and solvency of the issuer." The Luxembourg government did the same: it could not intervene in a supervisory body's decision. The CSSF can only reject a bond issue prospectus if it does not meet formal requirements, if the EU has sanctioned the issuer, or if restrictive national measures have been applied to it. "It is limited to determining whether the information contained in the prospectus is complete, consistent, and understandable ," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled in the statement announcing the CSSF's letter.
Not sold in Spain
However, Luxembourg's Foreign Minister, Xavier Bettel, acknowledged that the approval of the bonds could "indirectly" contribute to financing Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. However, a motion by the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) urging the government to classify Israel's actions in Gaza as war crimes and crimes against humanity, so that the CSSF could revoke the approval of the bond prospectus, was rejected in Parliament by 40 votes out of 60.
In response to the uproar, Israel's Finance Ministry simply explained that Ireland's transfer to Luxembourg was a "natural step" since it was already collaborating with the Grand Duchy on its tradable sovereign debt program. "This measure will ensure that Israel maintains continued access to investors around the world," according to a statement published by Reuters. Diaspora bonds issued in euros are sold in Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Neither in Ireland nor in Spain . In any case, the transfer to the Grand Duchy is only temporary. Ireland has delegated the approval of the prospectus for these bonds to Luxembourg for one year, until September 2026. At that time, unless Israel requests otherwise, the issuance will return to Ireland. If it wishes to issue bonds for a value greater than the current €1,000, it may choose another Member State to place its prospectus.
Ireland recognized the State of Palestine in May 2024 , and did so in coordination with Norway and Spain . The controversy over financial support for Israel forced the Central Bank of Ireland to explain why it had transferred jurisdiction over the prospectus to Luxembourg. According to its governor, Gabriel Makhlouf, the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice , which in July 2024 determined that the occupation of the Palestinian territories "is not a law ," and therefore does not "bind" the Central Bank. "There was no reasonable and proportionate argument that justified us rejecting the transfer," he explained before the Finance Committee of the Irish Parliament last Wednesday.
Luxembourg signed the Genocide Convention
The academics who prepared a legal opinion on the acceptance of Israeli bonds in the EU for Law for Palestine , a human rights nonprofit registered in the UK and Sweden and accredited by the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, disagree. Approving the prospectus, knowing that it will allow Israel access to European capital markets to fund its budget, would not only "trigger Luxembourg's international liability" but also make it "complicit" in "international wrongful acts ." They argue that the bond issuance constitutes "prohibited aid or assistance" under international law . Luxembourg is a signatory to the Genocide Convention —it also endorsed the International Court of Justice's July 2024 advisory opinion —and therefore has a duty to "employ all reasonable means at its disposal to prevent it." And denying the bond issue would be a "clear, available, and powerful means of economic pressure ," they conclude.
They also emphasize that "no other State interest," not even compliance with domestic legislation or other international commitments, can justify acts that contribute to or assist the commission of serious international crimes.
In their view, Luxembourg will incur a "manifest lack of due diligence" if the activities financed with these bonds include actions that could be considered genocide. Furthermore, the CSSF may have even breached its obligation to protect the companies and individuals who purchase them from "potential future liability as facilitators of Israeli violations of international law ," the legal experts at Law for Palestine conclude.
Israel se apoya en los dos principales centros financieros de la UE, Irlanda y Luxemburgo, para financiar la guerra en Gaza
El Banco Central irlandés transfiere al Gran Ducado una emisión de bonos israelíes que recaudó 2.410 millones en 2024 y financia el Presupuesto del Estado hebreo.Begoña P. Ramírez (Diario Público)
like this
Posting from Pixelfed to PieFed - a lost cause?
I think I understand how to post from mastodon but pixelfed just brought in all the text as one huge, run-on title, including hashtags, etc.
Pixelfed mostly cooperates with mastodon and the fediverse but the text, titles, and captioning not working, formatting breaking is pretty signature pixelfed in any of those exchanges.
like this
Yes, I've been somewhat frustrated with the text handling in the past with Pixelfed. Short snippets and replies from within Pixelfed itself are mostly okay I've found, but I've had some issues here and there with PeerTube and Funkwhale too.
Some of the issues are just in the differences that things are handled, and others seem to be either a disregard for the importance of cross-platform communications in the Fediverse or just antipathy towards other platforms in general - it just depends.
Little by little however, things generally seem to coalesce as such interactions between users across platforms becomes more common (it's not a good look when it's obvious to others seeing what you're describing - especially on prominent platforms).
The best advice I can offer, taking into account that many or even most devs are hard at work elsewhere putting food on the table for their families, is to be patient, but consistent, following up every now and again with questions on progress, being careful to respect the work they do that pays most often nothing at all, thanking them for doing their best, and perhaps most importantly, taking the time to actually address such matters in their trouble ticket / issue tracker systems in their home Git repos where all of this can be tracked.
Not every platform matures and advances as quickly and with the UX in mind that PieFed does 😀 But yeah, handling and displaying of text within Pixelfed seems to remain an afterthought while other projects that Dansup is working on seemingly get the priority attention. Filing issues at the Git repos I think is very important, because others can chime in as well, nudging the dev to address issues that are obviously perturbing other users as well.
My Quest to Find the East Wing Rubble
When the president of the United States decides to demolish the East Wing of the White House to construct a ballroom, all that stucco and molding and wood has to go somewhere. So I tried to find it.I’d heard that the dirt from the East Wing demolition was being deposited three miles away, on a tree-lined island next to the Jefferson Memorial called East Potomac Park. So yesterday I drove around until I saw trucks and men in construction gear. They were congregating at an entrance to the public East Potomac Golf Links, where rounds of golf carried on as usual, except every few minutes, dump trucks entered the green.
The trucks would cut across the course to a cordoned-off site in the middle, where the grass had been torn away and replaced with piles of dirt. It did not look like much, but several employees at the site confirmed: This was not just any dirt. This was White House dirt.
My Quest to Find the East Wing Rubble
An entire part of the White House can’t just disappear.Nancy Walecki (The Atlantic)
China Breaks a 100-Year Barrier: Peking University Unveils World’s Most Precise Analog Computing Chip
China Breaks a 100-Year Barrier: Peking University Unveils World’s Most Precise Analog Computing Chip - techovedas
Peking University scientists develop a high-precision RRAM analog chip, breaking a century-old computing barrier .Kumar Priyadarshi (techovedas)
‘Polka Dot Dress Woman’ Goes Viral for Fighting Off ICE Agents in NYC (Fighting back with words and gestures)
Bluesky link to video of woman. Make sure to watch the Wheeling, IL video in the comments:
bsky.app/profile/youranoncentr…
A New Yorker dubbed “polka dot dress woman” by the internet has gone viral after footage captured her flipping double birds at a law enforcement Humvee and tussling with agents Tuesday when an ICE sweep triggered protests on Manhattan’s Canal Street.
The raid unfolded late Tuesday when agents began questioning street vendors along the busy stretch of Canal Street. Within minutes, dozens of New Yorkers surrounded the agents, shouting and blocking vehicles as tensions flared.
Video from the scene showed agents shoving protesters to the ground and threatening them with stun guns and pepper spray.
‘Polka Dot Dress Woman’ Goes Viral for Fighting Off ICE Agents in NYC
The woman, dressed in a spotted dress and wearing a leather jacket, can be seen standing in front of the ICE vehicle and later pushing one agent.David Gilmour (Mediaite)
copymyjalopy likes this.
Rattled Miller Puts Up Hysterical Defense of White House Teardown
Miller: “The tragedy is a political party and a movement that has ripped down our statues, our monuments, our holidays, our heroes, our heritage,” Miller continued, ignoring the fact that the Trump administration has itself called for the removal of statues that do not align with its version of history.
“The Republican Party under President Trump celebrates beauty again and beautification again, and just as President Trump has beautified Washington D.C., now he’s repairing, finally, an area of the White House that has been left in disrepair for decades.”
Rattled Miller Puts Up Hysterical Defense of White House Teardown
Trump’s deputy is outraged that anyone would be unimpressed by the president’s changes to the White House.Catherine Bouris (The Daily Beast)
Stephen Miller Threatens to Arrest Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/91485
Just over nine months after President Donald Trump returned to office and pardoned his supporters who stormed the US Capitol, one of the Republican’s top aides suggested that federal law enforcement may arrest Democrats standing up to the White House’s anti-migrant agenda, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Asked about the administration’s willingness and federal authority to arrest the…From Truthout via this RSS feed
Stephen Miller Threatens to Arrest Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
Miller told Fox News the threat “applies to any state official, any local official” who impedes ICE’s assaults.Jessica Corbett (Truthout)
100_kg_90_de_belin
in reply to return2ozma • • •If only that were satire
captainlezbian
in reply to 100_kg_90_de_belin • • •100_kg_90_de_belin
in reply to captainlezbian • • •moondoggie
in reply to 100_kg_90_de_belin • • •100_kg_90_de_belin
in reply to moondoggie • • •