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The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi


Archive article: archive.is/tcwRX

On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition.
You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.”
And on Thursday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts released a video defending this person’s inclusion in polite-right politics: describing Fuentes not as a hate-monger to be banished from the decent right, but as a coalition member whose view of Jews-as-evil-traitors should be politely debated.



in reply to SilentCoderHere

Best is subjective and recommendations would depend on your use case. Iceraven is my primary.


Sources: Rozier, Billups won't be paid on leave


#nba
in reply to RandAlThor

Not my business but they should be considered innocent until proven guilty



Wemby leads Spurs to franchise's first 5-0 start


Kind of shocked they never did it in the Tim Duncan era.
#nba


My hypothesis on why Lemmy is rejecting valid activities


I have not been able to successfully post to a Lemmy instance either as a post or a comment. A cryptic error message is returned where the error is unknown and the message is a generic message: [code=json] {"error":"unknown","message":"data did not match

I have not been able to successfully post to a Lemmy instance either as a post or a comment. A cryptic error message is returned where the error is unknown and the message is a generic message:

{"error":"unknown","message":"data did not match any variant of untagged enum AnnouncableActivities"}

From my logs, it seems this is happening:
  1. I make a valid ActivityPub request with the audience of a community (or cc a user).
  2. Lemmy makes an ActivityPub request back at me at /.
  3. My web site does not handle ActivityPub at /, and responds with a text/plain error message. This is default behavior in Drupal.
  4. Lemmy rejects my request with a 400 response with the error message above.

I tested other instances by making the following get request to the root of each instance (thank you, Daniel Sternberg for maintaining curl):

curl -v -H "Accept: application/activity+json" -H "Content-Type: application/activity+json" <url>

  • With the following results
    • Lemmy returns an Application Actor.
    • Misskey returns a 200 response in text/html.
    • Mastodon returns a 406 response in application/json.
    • NodeBB returns text/html.
    • GoToSocial returns a 406 response in application/json.
    • Mitra returns a 200 response in text/html.
    • Pixelfed returns a 200 response in text/html.
    • Peertube returns an empty 406 response.


My hypothesis is that Lemmy is rejecting the request because I return [strong]text/plain[/strong] and/or it cannot handle a response with that content type.

To test that I am working on changing the default behavior. I will need to dynamically add a route based on system.site.page.front and return a 406 response in JSON. This is simple enough. If my hypothesis is correct, I can also make a merge request into drupal/activitypub module, which would have the same problem. If not, then I’ll need to go digging further.

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in reply to mradcliffe

If I do need to Announce


If I do need to wrap it an Announce, then I think I will need to do the following based on how it works on my end.

  1. Create my post as normal, but don’t address it to the community initially.
  2. Announce my own post making sure I address it to the community.

I guess that might show up as me boosting my own post on some instances (tooting my own horn? Horning my own toot?), which I would feel ashamed of.









Activity In The Pub in Montreal 2 Nov 2025


Just a quick note for those attending IETF 124 in Montreal next week: The Montreal ActivityPub community is hosting a special meetup ("Activity In The Pub") at the Vieux Dublin bar at 5pm on November 2nd. Everyone interested in ActivityPub is welcome. ht

Just a quick note for those attending IETF 124 in Montreal next week:

The Montreal ActivityPub community is hosting a special meetup (“Activity In The Pub”) at the Vieux Dublin bar at 5pm on November 2nd.

Everyone interested in ActivityPub is welcome.

mstdn.social/@fedihost/1154314…

The Vieux Dublin bar is at 636 rue Cathcart:

maps.app.goo.gl/CsnR2tmHeyXs3M…

Looking forward to seeing you there!


If you’re in #Montreal for the #IETF meeting @evan is running an #ActivityInThePub at Vieux Dublin on November the 2nd
@kini will be there from #FediHost fielding questions about devops and cheese if you’re lucky!

mobilisons.ch/events/bc5f8878-…





Green MP Tamatha Paul believed she would die young: 'You just want to lie in bed in the dark'


Archive link: Green MP Tamatha Paul on living with lupus and arthritis while serving in Parliament

Pretty inspiring that she’s achieved so much despite her chronic health conditions. It’s also refreshing to see honesty about needing to properly rest to avoid burnout. Too often we see gung-ho statements from people about pushing through and remaining busy.



The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.


And for decades, the Environmental Protection Agency tracked those emissions not by monitoring the air but by relying on a kind of honor system. Companies were allowed to estimate their chemical pollution using methods that even the EPA conceded were often unreliable.

In 2023, the EPA received irrefutable proof that these estimates were highly flawed. The agency had required 20 industrial facilities to temporarily install air monitors around their perimeters — known as fence-line monitoring — to see how bad the pollution actually was.

The results, compiled now for the first time by ProPublica, were shocking.






Wrist-Cut Transformation Subculture ✡ Menhera-chan - Capitolo 5


In città è appena apparsa una nuova ragazza che si fa chiamare Wrist Cut Warrior, ma che ha un particolare insolito...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/10/wris…



FOSDEM 2026 – Social Web Devroom – Call For Participation


The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event. FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings togethe

The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.

FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of January 31 to February 1, 2026 and features discussion tracks (“devrooms”) for scores of different technology topics.

The Social Web Devroom will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, January 31.

Format


There will be three available talk formats:

  • 50 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 10 minutes of questions.
  • 25 minutes – for bigger projects, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
  • 8 minutes – micro-talks on smaller or newer projects, in groups of 3, followed by 6 minutes of combined questions for the group.


Topics


The Social Web Devroom is open to talks all about the Social Web AKA the Fediverse, including:

  • Implementations of the ActivityPub protocol or ActivityPub API
  • Clients for ActivityPub-enabled software like Mastodon
  • Supporting services for the Fediverse, like search or onboarding
  • ActivityPub-related libraries, toolkits, and frameworks
  • Tools, bots, platforms, and related topics
  • Advocacy, organization and social activity in deploying Open Source ActivityPub applications


Important dates


  • Submission open: 1 Nov 2025
  • Submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025
  • Acceptance notifications: 10 Dec 2025
  • Final schedule announcement: 15 Dec 2025
  • Devroom: 31 Jan 2026


Submissions


Submit talk proposals to pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…. Select “Social Web” from the “Track” dropdown, and include the length of your talk (8/25/50) in the submission notes. (Note that the “Lightning Talks” track is a separate event-wide track; if you’re proposing a Social Web micro-talk, please choose the “Social Web” track!)

Code of Conduct


All attendees and speakers must be familiar with and agree to the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.

Contact


Questions about topics, formats, or the Social Web in general should go to contact@socialwebfoundation.org.

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LLMs Will Always Hallucinate





Taiwan increases penalty for damaging undersea cables amid increased suspected sabotage attempts — offenders face up to 7 years in prison and $325,000 in fines


Taiwan's proposed new law would make damaging its undersea cables more expensive.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/tomshardware…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.







LLMs Will Always Hallucinate


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Rosa Predavalle, genovese, è stata la prima italiana a ottenere un brevetto. Era il 1861.


Si chiamava [strong]Rosa Predavalle[/strong], genovese, la prima italiana a ottenere un brevetto. Era il 1861 e l'[strong]Armonitone[/strong], un “pianoforte con sordina” pensato per suonare in modo più controllato, è l'invenzione che porta la sua firma.

Si chiamava Rosa Predavalle, genovese, la prima italiana a ottenere un brevetto. Era il 1861 e l'Armonitone, un “pianoforte con sordina” pensato per suonare in modo più controllato, è l'invenzione che porta la sua firma. La creatività femminile emerge da una ricerca di Marco Martinez, docente di Storia economica all'Università di Pisa, pubblicata sulla rivista internazionale Business History.
La ricerca di Marco Martinez, docente di Storia economica all'Università di Pisa, ha permesso di identificare questo e altri brevetti femminili tra il 1861 e il 1939, evidenziando un contributo significativo delle donne allo sviluppo tecnologico italiano

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Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas


I am haunted by a pregnant bill in Andrew Cuomo’s new AI-generated attack ad against Zohran Mamdani.

Cuomo posted the ad on his X account that riffed on the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song “I’m just a bill.” In Cuomo’s AI-generated cartoon nightmare, Zohran Mamdani lights money on fire while a phone bearing the ChatGPT logo explains, apparently, that Mamdani is not qualified.

The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash: weird artifacting, strange voices that don’t sync with the mouths talking, and inconsistent animation. It feels both surreal and of the moment and completely ancient.




Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas


I am haunted by a pregnant bill in Andrew Cuomo’s new AI-generated attack ad against Zohran Mamdani.

Cuomo posted the ad on his X account that riffed on the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song “I’m just a bill.” In Cuomo’s AI-generated cartoon nightmare, Zohran Mamdani lights money on fire while a phone bearing the ChatGPT logo explains, apparently, that Mamdani is not qualified.

The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash: weird artifacting, strange voices that don’t sync with the mouths talking, and inconsistent animation. It feels both surreal and of the moment and completely ancient.

🎶“I’m Just A Shill” (FT. Zohran) pic.twitter.com/ga3JxnYO7B
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) October 30, 2025


And then there’s the pregnant bill.

The Schoolhouse Rock! Bill is an iconic cartoon character that has been parodied by everyone from The Simpsons to Saturday Night Live. There are thousands, perhaps millions, of pictures of the cartoon bill online, all available to be gobbled up by scrapers and turned into training data for AI.

For some reason, the bill in Cuomo’s ad has thick red lips (notably absent in the original) and appears to be pregnant. Adding to the discordant AI jank of the image, the pregnancy is only visible when the bill is standing up. Sometimes it’s leaning against the steps and in those shots it has the slim figure characteristic of its inspiration. But when the bill stands it looks positively inflated, almost as if the video generator used to make Cuomo’s ad was trained on MPREG fetish art of the bill and not the original cartoon itself. The thick and luscious red lips are present whether the bill is leaning or standing.

Towards the end of the ad, an anthropomorphic phone with a ChatGPT logo wanders into the scene. Standing next to the pregnant bill, I could not but help but think that the phone is the father of whatever child the bill carried.

My observation led to an argument in the 404 Media Slack channel and opinions were split. “It does not seem pregnant to me,” said Emanuel Maiberg.

Jason Koebler, however, came to my defense. He circled the pregnant belly of the cartoon bill and shared it. “Baby is stored in the circle area,” he said.

Perplexed by all this, I reached out to Cuomo’s campaign for an explanation. I wanted a response to the ad and to get his thoughts on AI-generated political content. More importantly, I needed to know their opinion on the pregnancy. “Does that bill look pregnant to you?” I asked. “I think it looks pregnant, but my editors are split. I would love for the Campaign to weigh in.” Out of journalist due diligence, I also reached out to Mamdani’s press office. Neither campaign has responded to my request for it to weigh in on the pregnancy of the AI-generated cartoon bill.

This is not the first time the Cuomo campaign has used AI. An ad in early October featured a deepfaked Cuomo working as a train operator, stock trader, and a stagehand. A week ago, the Cuomo campaign released a long, racist video depicting criminals endorsing Mamdani. Critics called the ad racist. The campaign deleted it shortly after it was posted and blamed the whole thing on a junior staffer.

It is worth noting that Cuomo's AI slop is being deployed most likely because the candidate has been utterly incapable of generating any authentic excitement about his campaign in New York City or on the internet, and he is facing a digitally native, younger candidate who just seems effortlessly Good At the Internet and Posting.

This is, unfortunately, how a lot of politics works in 2025. Desperate campaigns and desperate presidents are in a slop-fueled arms race to make the most ridiculous possible ads and social media content. It looks cheap, is cheap, and is the realm of politicians who are totally out of ideas, but increasingly it feels like slop is the dominant aesthetic of our time.




Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats


Google announced the end of support for early Nest Thermostats in a support document earlier this year that largely flew under the radar. As of October 25, first and second generation units released in 2011 and 2012, respectively, will be unpaired and removed from the Google Nest or Google Home app.

Users will no longer be able to control their thermostats remotely via their smartphone, receive notifications, or change settings from a mobile device. End-of-support also disables third-party assistants and other cloud-based features including multi-device Eco mode and Nest Protect connectivity.

https://www.techspot.com/news/110075-google-pulls-plug-first-second-gen-nest-thermostats.html

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in reply to spaghettiwestern

The biggest mistake I made in my home was installing $3k in Nest gear, right before they were purchased by Google and the forthcoming Homekit support was abandoned. I cannot wait to get my Ubiquiti camera drops wired so I can stop paying the whopping $20/mo for cloud storage that was $8/mo when I started.

Tl;dr: Fuck Google

in reply to BanMe

Buy something based on open standards and you won't need to worry about this.
in reply to realitista

Problem is, 99% of people don't even know what open standards are.
in reply to Scrollone

It’s me. I have no fucking idea and the time to research it makes me quit before I start.

Couple that with the fact that asking questions from ignorance will most likely get two responses, both of which suck.

First, I’d probably get an info dump of terminology I don’t recognize and have to research each one before understanding what’s being said. That would take me back to my original stance of quitting before I started.

Secondly, I’d encounter loads of derisive assholes that scoff at my lack of knowledge.

EDIT: im one of the unlucky bastards targeted by this google fuckery. Obligatory link because fuck google. www.killedbygoogle.com

Someone should publish a guide or something similar.

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in reply to Jumbie

Unfortunately, with smart home stuff, you need to choose between ease of use and control. Google provides ease of use because their stuff all works together out of the box, but there's also a whole ecosystem of stuff that works together that takes a bit more effort to connect.

The barrier to actually controlling your smart home isn't super high, but there are some things you need to learn about to pick devices. Another user mentioned a few things to research, but I'll point you another direction that's a bit like throwing you in the deep end.

HomeAssistant is a self-hostable hub for various smart things. Basically, you'll install it on your computer and figure out which of your current devices work with it. Your setup will only be available at home until you get a way to access it from outside your home, but don't worry about that to start, there are services you can use to simplify that later (or ask on !selfhosted@lemmy.world). Once it's setup, you need to decide what things you can't connect that you'd like to replace and look at your options (most likely you'll pick ZigBee or ZWave devices, maybe Matter). HomeAssistant's website has a bunch of documentation about various devices, like which will work, so you can use that to help shop too.

If you can manage that, you'll get a lot more control over your smart home and eliminate whatever monthly fee you pay. Some devices won't be available, but the ones you pick will continue to work as long as the hardware isn't broken (even if the manufacturer discontinues support).

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in reply to sugar_in_your_tea

I'd like to add that accessing your things from outside the home is relatively simple if you have a static IP and you setup a VPN to your home with Wireguard.

Some advanced routers even have native support for Wireguard, like the Freebox in France or the Iliadbox in Italy.

in reply to spaghettiwestern

This is exactly why I didn't buy one of these or the Amazon version. I didn't trust that the devices would work as long as they could function and was correct.


Local VibeCoding (for hobby! 😀


Hello everyone,

I'm trying to setup a local "vibe coding" environment and use it on some projects I abandoned years ago.
So far I'm using KoboldCPP to run the models, VSStudio as editor with various extensions and models with limited to no luck.

Models are working properly (tested with KoboldCPP web UI and curl) but in VSCode they do not generate files. edit existing files etc. (it seems that the tool calling part is not working) and they usually go in a loop

I tried the following extensions:
- RooCode
- Cline

Models: (mostly from Unsloth)
- Deepseek-coder:6.7
- Phi4
- Qwen3-Coder 30
- Granite4 Small

Does anyone have any idea why it's not working or have a working setup that can share? (I'm open to change any of the tools/models)

I have 16GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM as a reference

Many thanks in advance for your help!

in reply to knF

I don't have direct experience with RooCode and Cline, but I would be mighty surprised if they work with lesser models of even the old Qwen2-Coder 32B - and even that was mostly misses. I never tried the Qwen3 coder but I assume it is not drastically different.

Those small models are at most useful for some kind of smarter autocomplete, not to run a full tools framework.

BTW you could check out Aider too for a different approach, and they have a lot of benchmarks that can help you get an idea about what's needed.



faccia stramorta senza sonno per festeggiare il venerdì di aulin (make-up improvvisato con occhiaie finte di grafite per essere zombi all’università)


Per oggi, che è Halloween, ieri sera mi è salita un’idea fin troppo potente, quasi pericolosa, per divertirmi nonostante la mia perpetua condanna al rotting, che vige ovviamente anche l’ultimo giorno del terzultimo mese dell’anno… un make-up particolare, per così dire. Oh, ho la capacità di distrarmi con relativamente poco, ci manca solo che non […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…


faccia stramorta senza sonno per festeggiare il venerdì di aulin (make-up improvvisato con occhiaie finte di grafite per essere zombi all’università)


Per oggi, che è Halloween, ieri sera mi è salita un’idea fin troppo potente, quasi pericolosa, per divertirmi nonostante la mia perpetua condanna al rotting, che vige ovviamente anche l’ultimo giorno del terzultimo mese dell’anno… un make-up particolare, per così dire. Oh, ho la capacità di distrarmi con relativamente poco, ci manca solo che non la sfrutto quando posso; e, in questo caso, è qualcosa che chiunque può fare con roba che si trova già in casa, seppur l’idea non è di facile reperibilità, quindi voglio farvi questo regalo stavolta. 💣

Purtroppo, sono appunto socialmente esclusa da qualsiasi evento che non sia l’assoluta mortale normalità, come andare all’università… niente feste o minchiate varie stasera, che, pure se volessi, nessuno mi ha detto niente; e, per strada dopo il tramonto non scendo, che stanno quasi solo maranza, oltre al fatto che comunque non c’è niente di buono da fare. Quindi, niente cosplay o robe pazze oggi, ma… questo non significa che non si possa comunque accogliere lo spirito di morte e spavento di Halloween in maniera quasi sobria, assimilandolo dentro di sé ad un livello meno estremo ed adatto a qualsiasi situazione, anche formale… assumendo l’aspetto di esseri in decomposizione, ma rimanendo i soliti individui schiavi delle cose da fare… 🙀

È così che mi è venuta l’idea: per Halloween stamattina volevo sembrare ancora più morta del solito e, nel doverlo fare all’interno di un contesto normale — non dico formale, ma comunque possiamo dire business casual… purtroppo l’università non è il posto figo che sembra nei film americani — mi è venuta un’idea precisa: avere delle occhiaie a dir poco tremende, come se non dormissi da 2 giorni o qualcosa del genere. Incarna perfettamente lo spirito della festa, in quanto è comunque una caratteristica un po’ da zombi, ma non è necessariamente inappropriata, perché le occhiaie sono una cosa che si può avere normalmente. Il trucco, a questo punto, stava nel trucco, letteralmente… 🤗

Sul web non trovo esattamente quello che cercavo ma, per fortuna, ChatGPT mi ha inventato di sana pianta un tutorial che tutto sommato era proprio quello che volevo per farmi delle occhiaie finte, per giunta senza aver bisogno di particolari materiali da trucco. Basta della grafite — quindi, una normale matita da disegno — e un po’ di pazienza… e l’effetto che esce fuori è proprio strabiliante; non perfetto, ma comunque bellissimo. Non volendo fare questo post troppo lungo e confuso, però, e volendo magari poter aggiungere dettagli utili in seguito, vedrò di scrivere più tardi un tutorial dedicato solo al trucco in sé, sul blog della stufa, e aggiungerò qui il link poi… per ora pensiamo al risultato.
Foto con il trucco fatta stamattina all'apertoFoto fatta in interna oggi pomeriggio con il trucco, Nintendo 3DS
Che dire. Un aspetto da vera femcel, questa voltase non fosse per il contrasto con i miei vestiti, che sono fin troppo in buone condizioni (ma, tolta la felpa, forse la maglia di questo bianco giallino dà idea di marcio), e i miei movimenti corporei, che sono a mio parere troppo eleganti e da girlboss, ma assolutamente il venerdì non sono da zombi, e anche lo smalto rosa… però, questo contrasto sotto sotto mi piace, e rientra bene nell’idea iniziale di Halloween minimale ma concretizzato, portato al di fuori del regno della fantasia dove tutto è esagerato. A completare il look, ci sono i miei capelli che si rifiutano di stare ordinati… e nient’altro, ma va bene così. 🤯

Non sapendo a cosa andavo incontro — perché lo sappiamo che con i tutorial inventati dall’IA il rischio di far esplodere la casa è alto… e quello di banalmente fallire in modo patetico è altissimo — in verità ho provato velocemente l’idea ieri sera e, pur avendo volutamente arronzato — perché non è che potevo dormire con la grafite sotto agli occhi, quindi comunque avrei dovuto levare tutto subito — la cosa sembrava promettere bene, e allora è stato deciso che stamattina l’avrei fatto per davvero. Ci ho messo circa 10 minuti, e forse avrei voluto averne 5 in più da parte per perfezionare, ma a quest’ora della mattina il tempo scappa più di quanto le persone ignare non sono ahimè scappate alla mia vista, quindi ok… ☠️

Non so bene in foto quanto renda; in quella dal telefono c’è qualcosa che non riesco ad afferrare che non mi convince… ma, di persona, credo faccia il suo greve effetto. In giro nessuno mi ha detto nulla, perché oggi non ho incontrato nessuno che conoscessi, ma diverse persone mi hanno dato occhiate particolari, forse di spavento misto a confusione… che, se è effettivamente così, era proprio il tipo di sensazione che pensavo di suscitare. Tornata a casa, a mia madre ho fatto spavento, perché non ha capito subito se mi fosse venuta la rogna o che cosa avessi; però, dopo aver detto che è per via della notte dei morti viventi, mi ha riconosciuto che l’effetto non è male… e invece, mio padre non ci ha fatto praticamente caso, forse perché al suo istituto ne avrà già viste abbastanza di cose strane oggi. 🤕

Tutto sommato, sono contenta; la mattina è stata un esperimento di arte performativa completamente passiva, come in genere mai mi capita. L’unica cosa contro cui devo spezzare una lancia è, chi mai lo avrebbe detto, l’università… o meglio, il suo ambiente vissuto, che è un fottuto cimitero… e non nel senso di Halloween, ma nel senso di animi grigi e palle gonfie. Girando tra il mio polo (informatico-scientifico), e alla fermata dell’autobus, non ho visto neanche per sbaglio qualcuno con qualcosa di strano riconducibile alla giornata odierna… ma com’è possibile??? Va benissimo che all’università non si va in cosplay, e magari ci sta che non si mettono nemmeno le orecchie da gatto — o da diavolo, in questa giornata — ma… nemmeno un minimo di trucco minimale per infuocare lo spirito?!?!?! 😶

I pazzi che a fine ottobre ancora vanno in giro a maniche corte avrebbero potuto sfoggiare finte bende insanguinate sulle braccia, o… boh, non mi vengono troppe idee, ma mi pare impossibile che a migliaia di persone insieme non venga in mente nulla. Vabbè, ciò semplicemente riconferma quello che vorrei non fosse un fatto, ma che purtroppo lo è: tutta gente noiosa, da queste parti. (Gente noiosa che, probabilmente, stasera andrà a sfondarsi di alcol a qualche festa priva di sostanza, ritenendo che il divertimento sia la droga, anziché vivere nel presente facendo qualcosa di magari certamente anche stupido, ma non banale.) 🙊


Edit: È finalmente qui. (Il tutorial. Peccato che ormai Halloween è finito, ma ehi, chi vieta di usare questo trucco anche l’1 e 2 novembre?) stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/10/make…

#31ottobre #Halloween #lifehack #makeup #occhiaie #trucco #zombi





in reply to RmDebArc_5

Whale sharks are primarily filter feeders, so if anything, he's just slurping a layer of nutritious plankton off of the net that has negative value to the human fishers anyway.

They're actually kinda helping each other out.



Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israeli military service


Jerusalem (AFP) – Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, dressed in black, rallied in Jerusalem on Thursday to protest against military conscription, an issue that has caused major strain in Israel's right-wing ruling coalition.

The vast crowd were protesting against the absence of a law guaranteeing their right to avoid Israel's mandatory military service -- a pledge long promised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Crowds of men, many wearing black hats, set fire to pieces of tarpaulin as hundreds of police officers cordoned off several roads across the city, AFP correspondents reported.

Carrying placards denouncing conscription, demonstrators marched along main roads leading into Jerusalem.

The mass demonstration follows a recent crackdown on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, with thousands of call-up notices sent in recent months and several deserters imprisoned.

Under a ruling established at the time of Israel's creation in 1948, when the ultra-Orthodox were a very small community, men who devote themselves full-time to the study of sacred Jewish texts are given a de facto pass.

This exemption has come under mounting pressure since war erupted in Gaza in October 2023, as the military struggles to fill its ranks.

Whether the exemption should be scrapped has been a long-running point of contention in Israeli society, with Netanyahu pledging that his government would pass a law enshrining the waiver.

But he has so far failed to deliver.

Responding to the call of two ultra-Orthodox parties -- one of which forms a key part of the ruling coalition -- men travelled from all over Israel on Thursday to demand the continuation of their exemptions.

The police closed roads to Jerusalem and announced the mobilisation of 2,000 officers in the city.

In June 2024, the supreme court ruled that the state must draft ultra-Orthodox men, declaring their exemption had expired.


A parliamentary committee is now discussing a bill expected to end the exemptions and encourage young ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying full-time to enlist.

The issue has placed Netanyahu's coalition -- one of the most right-wing in the country's history -- under severe strain.

In July, ministers from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party resigned from the cabinet over the issue, though the party has not formally left the coalition.

The other ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism, has already quit both the government and the coalition.

The Sephardic Shas, which holds 11 seats in the 120-member Knesset, has warned that it will withdraw support unless military service exemptions are anchored in law —-- move that could topple Netanyahu's fragile coalition, now down to 60 seats.

Some ultra-Orthodox rabbis fear that conscription will make young people less religious, but others accept that those who do not study holy texts full-time can enlist.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 14 percent of Israel's Jewish population, or about 1.3 million people, and roughly 66,000 men of military age currently benefit from the exemption.

According to an army report presented to parliament in September, there has been a sharp increase in the number of ultra-Orthodox Jews enlisting despite opposition from their leaders, but the numbers still remain low, at a few hundred over the past two years.

in reply to xiao yun

So they don't want to die for their genocidal beliefs? How weird.
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in reply to schnurrito

This was a huge loss for Nintendo, thankfully.

They identified a single person and wanted to get permanent injuction not only against him but many unnamed parties and to make basic software illegal just because it was used by this person.

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Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War


A decade before President Donald Trump boasted of “hunting” alleged “narcoterrorists” on boats off the coast of Venezuela, the Defense Department was looking for new ways to get involved in the war on drugs.

In a major report quietly issued by the federally funded Institute for Defense Analyses, researchers working for the Pentagon presented their findings, based on interviews with dozens of top drug traffickers incarcerated in the United States, on how to better disrupt transnational organized crime.

One top-line prescription: More “direct military action.”

The report, which was obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request and has never previously been made public, provides a window into the inner workings of major drug-trafficking networks.

An attorney whose client was interviewed by researchers working for the Pentagon told The Intercept that the report proves that the recent sidelining of counternarcotics police in favor of bloodshed at sea is what military insiders have wanted for years.

in reply to cm0002

"War on drugs" campaign is one of the biggest failures of the modern US government. I'm sure 2.0 version will go better...




I've become minorly obsessed with conditioning wood


I had a cutting board made from some nice wood, but which was starting to lose its bright appearance.

A bit of research later, and I get some food-safe mineral oil and wax to restore the surface. Long story short, I was so impressed by how my cutting board came back to life, now I'm looking for any excuse to touch up all the wood in our house. I don't even mind if I clean the cutting board and wash off some of the wax, because then I have an excuse to apply another layer. There's something fun about buffing and polishing a surface.

I'm thinking of getting into woodworking just so I can do this more. I don't even really want to make anything, just apply a bunch of tung oil to a random plank and then wax it to a shine.

in reply to CrackedLinuxISO

See if there is a woodworker you can team up with. Sanding and finishing is loathed and dreaded by us, at least in my carpentry circle. We want the cutting and glueing and clamping jobs.


in reply to Lady Butterfly she/her

According to experts, the object was likely the debris of an Elon Musk SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which was launched from Florida on Wednesday.

It was said to be caused by the process of excess rocket fuel being ejected and freezing, then reflecting light back to earth.

The rocket's path matches the reported sightings, experts have said.


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