Mittelland AD, an updated version of the 1996 game Die Fugger 2, where you found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, set in Germany in 1600s, released on Steam.
Mittelland AD on Steam
Achieve wealth and fame in the Principality of Mittelland! Found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, and immortalize yourself in the history books! The classic political and economic simulation starting from the…store.steampowered.com
These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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EU AI Act Demands Informed, Disclosure-Aware Patent Strategies
The requirements for governance, model transparency/notification, began in August 2025. General applicability of most of the AI Act including obligations for “high-risk” AI systems begin in August 2026. Obligations for high-risk AI systems that are part of safety components in regulated products become applicable in August 2027.
By introducing a tiered, risk-based regime, the law bans certain AI practices outright, layers strict obligations on high-risk systems, and establishes unprecedented oversight for general-purpose AI and foundation models, especially those with systemic impact. Its reach is global—any company placing AI into the EU market must comply and its penalties are steep.
For businesses and their counsel, compliance isn’t optional. It’s now the price of entry into one of the world’s largest markets, and it will influence how innovation is documented, safeguarded, and patented.
It’s important to understand the AI Act’s most consequential provisions for patent strategy, particularly how regulatory documentation duties intersect with data provenance, inventorship disputes, trade secret versus patent trade-offs, claim drafting under new compliance constraints, and geo-strategic filing decisions.
The AI Act distinguishes between four key categories of AI systems:
Minimal-risk systems (AI-enabled video games, spam filters)
Limited-risk systems (chatbots interacting with users)
High-risk systems (AI in health care, education, employment, infrastructure, biometric identification)
General purpose and foundation models
While minimal and limited risk systems carry only modest obligations, the regulation of high-risk and general-purpose/foundation models forms the core of the AI Act and presents the most significant patent implications.
Before entering the market, high-risk systems must clear a conformity assessment and provide detailed technical documentation that includes:
System description and intended purpose
System architecture, algorithms, and datasets used
Risk management, testing, and validation protocols
Transparency and human oversight measures
Properly managed, these records can help distinguish human inventive contributions from AI-assisted outputs, providing valuable support for defending inventorship and reinforcing patent validity in a contested landscape.
Documentation and dataset summaries may further reduce the viability of trade secret protection. Both the EU Trade Secrets Directive and US law require that information be kept confidential through reasonable protective measures.
By mandating disclosures, the AI Act can erode this confidentiality, making secrecy harder to sustain in practice. This shift alters the calculus for IP strategy. In some cases, patenting may become the safer path, as certain technologies no longer can be reliably safeguarded as trade secrets.
EU AI Act Demands Informed, Disclosure-Aware Patent Strategies
US companies whose patent portfolios are exposed to the EU market face unique risks under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act.Lestin Kenton Jr. (news.bloomberglaw.com)
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l linguaggio di un musicista sono i suoi ascolti, anche quando un gruppo, o un solista, intende superarli o lasciarseli alle spalle. È proprio questa semplice verità, ancora oggi invisa a qualche purista dell'illuminazione improvvisa, il segreto della grandezza dei Phish, creatura nata presso l'Università del Vermont, nel... Leggi e ascolta... 
Everyone who joins the military ends up with like 6 sets they don't need, and they end up donating them. Usually you find stuff used, but there's a decent amount of stuff that ends up sitting on storeroom shelves for a decade before being sold to the civilian population.
Here's a decent place to buy in the US.
And here's a spot in the EU.
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That's super cool! Honestly would be really good to find work gear, but also everyday gear, since 99% of pants I wear are cargo pants lmao!
Thanks!
Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending
Poland signed two separate deals with Palantir Technologies Inc. and Anduril Industries Inc. on Monday as the country steps up to upgrade its army amid record military spending.
Poland’s Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and Palantir Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp signed a letter of intent on data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in Warsaw. At the same time, state-owned PGZ SA agreed with Anduril to cooperate on making Barracuda-500M cruise missiles, without saying when production would start or how much the deal was worth.
The Palantir deal is an early stage agreement and neither the government nor the company said how much the deal was worth. Poland is interested in several systems the company offers, including for battlefield management and logistics, Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
The minister said the Palantir CEO told him the company planned to invest in Poland, tapping into the potential of the local defense industry and engaging Polish engineers, without giving details. The country expects to sign deals with Palantir for specific systems in the next two or three months.
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Mittelland AD, an updated version of the 1996 game Die Fugger 2, where you found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, set in Germany in 1600s, released on Steam.
Mittelland AD on Steam
Achieve wealth and fame in the Principality of Mittelland! Found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, and immortalize yourself in the history books! The classic political and economic simulation starting from the…store.steampowered.com
Studprogramo de EU instruos pri Esperanto
Esperanto kiel interfaka kampo por transnacia novigado estas la temo de nova universitata programo, okazonta kadre de Erasmus+. Ok universitatoj en ok landoj kunlaboras pri la programo.
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Which is the best Mastodon server for me? I like gaming, especially Roblox, and I also like technology.
Lode a Thule, ombra di un antico albero, cipresso colonnare che sorregge il mondo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Lode a Thule, ombra di un antico albero, cipresso colonnare che sorregge il mondo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Emblematica nella letteratura fantastica è la città costruita sotto i rami protettivi di un abnorme arbusto, capace di proteggere coloro che vi abitano dalle influenze negative di creature dedite alla perpetuazione di un antico male.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
: 'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37968628
Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence.I'm sure the tRump slump has nothing to do with it
Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring
Figure represents nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employeesCallum Jones (The Guardian)
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Ten degrees C on top of the hill overlooking the city. Camera set for a thirty-second exposure. Fingies very frozen. I'll get it right this time.
The big things I wanted was all of Burnside in the pic, the three big skyscrapers in a row, the garish orange Hilton sign excluded, and lovely trees down in front for offset.
Thanks for seeing my work!
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch
OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how its addressing them.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
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Compare, as in equal? No. You can’t “game” a person (usually) like you can game an AI.
Now, answer my question
There is no conversation to be had here, because you have no point.
A text generator is not someone you talk to, it's a thing that takes your input and then outputs the text that is most likely relevant to said input.
No reasoning. No knowledge.
Taking the example made in one of the other comments here, you could paint a face to a ball and keep yourself mentally stable on a desert island, but the ball isn't doing anything, there's only you on the island.
Apply that to getting mental help from an LLM and you'll see how creepy it is.
It’s pretty difficult to prove my point when you refuse to have a conversation. What you want is to just get your dopamine by criticizing others instead of allowing them to argue their point.
So you are right, there is no conversation to be had here because you are not willing to engage in a conversation.
I wish you the best in your therapy.
Totally another thing, since we are talking about language here.
But feel free to join the other guy in talking to your screen.
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51856491
Here’s how to opt out.Archived version: archive.is/20251027141201/thev…
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Only idiots pay for appliances/services that include ads.
‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51866711
Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
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Hurricane Melissa’s strength grew out of warmer-than-usual Caribbean waters
Hot sea surface temperatures are a symptom of the planet’s warming atmosphere, which is increasingly trapping heat as humans emit greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels.
Step by Step, How China Seized Control of Critical Minerals
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51884794
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China is the sole producer, for example, of samarium, a rare earth metal used in many military applications. China is also the only country to master the difficult art of refining ultrapure dysprosium: The entire world’s supply, needed for superfast chips, comes from a single factory near Shanghai.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/business/china-rare-earth-export-controls.html
Seized? That's a joke.
West allowed and even encouraged this by failing to build their own industry and relying on China's cheaper labour. Why pay unioned workers a fair pay when you can exploit foreign work force instead for maximum shareholder value.
See national security is irrelevant when it comes at a cost of corporate overlords profit margins.
Trump hosting talks at Mar-a-Lago to integrate Canada into United States: report
Trump hosting talks at Mar-a-Lago to integrate Canada into United States: report
Businessman and "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary confirmed that President-elect Donald Trump is hosting discussions at Mar-a-Lago about integrating Canada into the United States.David Edwards (Raw Story)
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.Blair Fix (Economics from the Top Down)
Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism? | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/35849167
An estimated 7 million peaceful protesters took to the streets on October 18, in the second-largest demonstration in US history (after the first Earth Day in 1970), demanding accountability and a return to democracy and the rule of law. In a system of government where citizens can only use the ballot box every two to six years to show how they feel about their electeds, that’s something you’d think would warrant journalistic attention.Yet at the nation’s paper of record—whose headquarters sat literally a stone’s throw away from the New York City No Kings march route—the protest was deemed not important enough for a front-page story. Two small below-the-fold photos were offered instead (10/19/25), with the accompanying article buried on page 23.
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Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism? | Common Dreams
Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism?
The nation's paper of record downplayed the 'No Kings" protests while urging Democrats to move toward the center to defeat Trump, all the while ignoring the GOP's attempt to undermine election integrity.julie-hollar (Common Dreams)
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Blanca 3, anticipazioni ultima puntata di lunedì 3 novembre 2025: tutta la verità sul bambino scomparso e sulle bugie di Domenico
La resa dei conti è arrivata. Lunedì 3 novembre 2025, su Rai 1, va in onda la sesta ed ultima puntata di Blanca 3, con Maria Chiara Giannetta nei panni dell’investigatrice non vedente che ha conquistato il pubblico. L’episodio, dal titolo “Il bambino”, porta al culmine l’indagine iniziata in apertura di stagione: la scomparsa del figlio di Domenico (Domenico Diele) e la morte della madre del piccolo. Sul piano personale, Blanca dovrà guardare in faccia la verità sulle bugie di Domenico e decidere se coinvolgerlo nella sua gravidanza, mentre Liguori (Giuseppe Zeno) le resta accanto in un momento cruciale.
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Blanca 3, finale del 3 novembre 2025: anticipazioni dell’ultima puntata “Il bambino”
Blanca 3, ultima puntata il 3 novembre 2025: anticipazioni dell’episodio “Il bambino”, verità sul caso e sulle bugie di Domenico.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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tidal subscription and streaamrip into navidrome
Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts
Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts - Inside Climate News
Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change.Inside Climate News
Liability is inevitable, so when they seemingly try to "shut it down," remember that the real goal is not only to delay it, but secretly also to shift it.
They offer people money to shield them from accountability, but later, when there is accountability, they will blackmail those same people and throw them under the bus.
If someone lets the authorities bribe them to sell out the safety of future generations, there's nothing they can say to defend themselves when the authorities later say "oh look, we found the guy that sold out the safety of future generations, what shall the punishment be?"
Be ready to help low-ranking criminals betray higher-ranking criminals, not just blindly attack whatever target is put in front of you.
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
: Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing lineBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
When Rejection Feels Personal
I’ve always believed that if you put your heart into something — really try — eventually, it will be seen.
But lately, I’m not so sure.
For months, I’ve been trying to get my websites approved for AdSense. Three sites, three different focuses, one consistent effort: to share my work, my voice, my perspective. And every time, I get rejected. Every time, the same message: “Low-quality content.”
No explanation. No guidance. No human response. Just those cold words, repeated, over and over.
It’s not the money that stings. It’s the feeling of being invisible. Of having your effort, your care, your heart poured into something — only to be told, vaguely, that it doesn’t matter.
And sometimes, you can’t help but wonder if it’s about more than the content. If there’s something about who you are, or what your name sounds like, or the perspective you bring — and yes, my name is Hispanic — that quietly works against you.
I want to believe it’s not true. I want to believe that a system that powers the world’s largest advertising platform treats everyone fairly. But when silence replaces answers, and automation replaces understanding, it’s hard not to feel like something deeper is at play.
I wrote to Google. I asked for clarity, for feedback, for a human to look at my work. I explained how it felt to be repeatedly dismissed without explanation.
No response.
It’s not just a rejection. It’s a dismissal. And when your name or your identity might be part of the invisible reason, it cuts deeper than any automated message could.
And yet, despite all that, I keep going.
I write because I have to. I create because I have to. Not for validation, not for approval, but because this is who I am. My work — my words, my ideas, my perspectives — matter to me. And I hope they matter to others too.
Maybe one day Google will see that. Maybe one day a human reviewer will look at my sites and recognize the care, the effort, and the heart behind them.
But until then, I’ll keep sharing, keep writing, keep creating. Because no rejection, no algorithm, no automated judgment can erase what I put into the world.
And even if it sometimes feels like the system is blind, or worse — biased — I refuse to let that stop me.
Because heart and honesty can’t be rejected. They can only be ignored. And I refuse to be silent.
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Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture
A six-month pilot project completed earlier this year showcased the potential of zero-emission, last-mile delivery in a 16-block area of downtown Portland, Oregon.
Portland brings zero-emission delivery to its downtown
A six-month pilot project completed earlier this year showcased the potential of zero-emission, last-mile delivery in a 16-block area of downtown Portland, Oregon.Justin Gerdes (Quitting Carbon)
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Fornitore italiano di spyware collegato agli attacchi zero-day su Chrome
Una vulnerabilità zero-day in Google Chrome, sfruttata nell'operazione ForumTroll all'inizio di quest'anno, ha diffuso malware collegato al fornitore italiano di spyware Memento Labs, nato dopo che IntheCyber Group ha acquisito la famigerata Hacking Team.
L'operazione ForumTroll è stata scoperta da Kaspersky a marzo. La campagna ha preso di mira organizzazioni russe - media, università, centri di ricerca, organizzazioni governative e istituzioni finanziarie - con inviti ben congegnati al forum Primakov Readings che contenevano un link dannoso.
Era sufficiente caricare il link in qualsiasi browser web basato su Chromium per infettare il sistema informatico. I ricercatori di Kaspersky hanno affermato che la distribuzione del malware è stata effettuata sfruttando CVE-2025-2783, una vulnerabilità zero-day di tipo sandbox escape nel browser Chrome.
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Academic boycotts against Israel have tripled in one-year span: Report
The Association of University Heads in Israel has recorded over 1,000 incidents of academic boycotts over the last two years, three times the total as of a year ago.
Israel's Haaretz daily reported on Monday that the incidents included Israeli researchers who encountered refusals to cooperate with them or invite them to conferences, refusals by overseas researchers to come to the occupied territories, the cessation of student exchange programs, refusals to conduct peer reviews, and delays in the publication of articles.
The report came at a time when a growing number of universities, academic institutions, and scholarly bodies across the world are cutting links with Israeli academia due to the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
It quoted senior Israeli academics as saying that their universities are looking into forging alternative ties with institutions in Eastern Europe and Asia if Israeli-led research is pushed out of Western Europe.
It also echoed fears that Israeli researchers may be forced to leave the occupied lands to avoid harm to their work.
"Research in Israel … is in danger of collapsing," one academic warned.
Professor Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University, said, "We're in the worst situation, from the standpoint of the academic boycott, that we have been in at any time over the last two years.”
Meanwhile, Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv University's deputy president for international affairs, said there was a rise in the number of academic boycotts against Israel even during Gaza ceasefire negotiations, and even after the genocide ended.
"In the United States, there are a lot of faculty members who still refuse to maintain working relations with Israeli researchers,” she added.
"And in Europe, the situation is even worse. There, the boycott is expanding fast. The main victims are younger researchers. This is long-term damage."
The report said that the hidden boycott of Israel is much broader than overt statements or actions against Israeli academics.
It further said Israeli academics criticize the Tel Aviv regime for doing nothing about the academic boycott.
"We've heard from cabinet representatives that they deliberately won't help us, because we're leftists,” an academic said.
Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Israel accepted a Gaza ceasefire deal after it failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all captives, despite killing 68,527 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 170,395 others, according to the health ministry of Gaza.
Over the past two years, nearly 40 overseas universities have announced that they are ending cooperation with Israeli institutions either completely or partially.
Stephanie Adam of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said Israeli academic institutions are complicit in the regime’s “decades-long regime of military occupation, settler colonial apartheid and now genocide,” adding there is “a moral and legal obligation for universities to end ties with complicit Israeli universities”.
Academic boycotts against Israel have tripled in one-year span: Report
The Association of University Heads in Israel has reportedly recorded over 1,000 incidents of academic boycotts over the last two years, three times the total as of a year ago.PressTV
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