Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Nov 26, 2025
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression
"He’s not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking," said the Latin American leader. "In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil."jon-queally (Common Dreams)
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Jon Queally
Nov 26, 2025
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Nov 26, 2025“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression
"He’s not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking," said the Latin American leader. "In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil."jon-queally (Common Dreams)
The regions Russia has invaded have large unexploited oil and more importantly gas reserves. Not only that, but some of the gas pipeline, which supply Russian gas to the EU run through that region. So if Ukraine holds them, it is fairly easy to them to replace Russian gas.
For the US the war is extremely usefull. Russia gave the EU a somewhat independent energy supply. But the war against Ukraine is just too dangerous. Especially with Russia threatening EU countries on a regular bases. So they turned to other suppliers and the biggest oil and gas exporter is currently the US. Due to the war a third of fossil gas used by the EU is from the US right now. That is a huge dependence.
As for oil, Ukraine is obviosuly very willing to attack Russian oil infrastructure. So the US is litterally taking out a competitor fairly long term here.
Something similar was happening with Iran. Israel actually attacked some oil and gas infrastructure in Iran as well. Obviously the entire region is always close to explode again.
This is also a good move against China. They import a lot of oil from Russia, Venezuela and Iran. So if the US can control Venezuela and take out Russia and Iran, then it is able to really punish China in a war. That is why China is going for EVs, renewables and coal. They can have those inside China. Something similar is happening inside the EU as well, but less strategic.
Also back to Ukraine. It is more complex then that. Ukraine is culturally close to Russia, so them removing a dictator might well be a bad example to the Russian people, from Putins point of view. It also acted as a buffer between Russia and EU/NATO, has a lot of farm land and due to Soviet legacy an economy, which integrates well into Russia, as well as a lot of Russian speakers. The war also helps Putin internally, as an excuse to strengthen the hold over the country and remove competition.
Republicans are saying the same thing.
“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.”“American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”
“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.”
They're just saying it out loud.
newsweek.com/gop-rep-says-us-m…
Republican Says US ‘About to Go In’ to Venezuela, With Oil a Key Reason
Rep. Maria Salazar, a Florida Republican, says that regime change in Venezuela would result in a "field day" for US oil companies.Simon Crerar (Newsweek)
You Can't Eat Moral High Ground
You Can't Eat Moral High Ground
Why Europe Has No Seat at the Table in the New Multipolar WorldDialectical Dispatches
Great write-up, love this part especially:
Western propaganda became so effective that it ultimately lobotomized its own creators as European leaders started mistaking their narrative dominance for actual material superiority.
It's always a treat to see the parasite that gave birth to the settler-colony get its just deserts even if it pales in comparison to what it ravaged..
Who was Jeffrey Epstein? The disgraced financier with powerful associates
I feel like when 'Zero Trust' first became a thing, the theme was 'you should have every endpoint under your control hardened so it need not feer untrusted peers being able to connect'. E.g. if you think you absolutely need VPN to a 'private network' for security, then you are failing to be hardened in a 'zero trust' way, because you implicitly fear that your systems would fall to untrusted peers.
I feel like it's evolved to 'don't let anything be able to connect to anything under your control unless you have admin privilege over it as well'. Which is particularly a nightmare when you try to collaborate between two companies, each balking at the other's hard requirement to have admin access to all network peers of interest.
- Corporations really, really love being admin on everybody elses devices. See kernel level anticheat.
- I feel like people have gotten zero trust (I don't need to trust anybody) confused with "I don't trust anybody".
- I was listening to a podcast by packet pushers and they were like "So you meet a vendor, and they are like, 'So what do you think zero trust means? We can work with that'".
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic
Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.Jarred Sumner (Bun)
I started using Claude Code myself. I got kind of obsessed with it.
Well that tells a lot...
Just in time to allow Deno to shine I guess.
Berlin shutdown of pro-Palestine conference was unlawful, court rules
Berlin shutdown of pro-Palestine conference was unlawful, court rules
Last April, police used a heavy hand to stop the Palestine Congress, pulling the plug soon after the forum started.Tom Wills (Al Jazeera)
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Japan scrambles jets after suspected Chinese drone spotted near Taiwan
In short:
A suspected Chinese drone has been spotted off a Japanese island near Taiwan.
Japan's army scrambled its aircraft in response.
The incident comes amid an ongoing diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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This is beyond dumb. This would be like Canada threatening the US.
Japan military budget: $51B
China military budget: $314B
Good luck with that.
Im concerned about two things when considering your argument.
- The US has been doing everything in its power to piss everyone else off lately.
- Fighting a war in Taiwan or Japan is going to be a lot harder for the US than it will be for China. Taiwan is 100 miles from China but 6800 miles from California.
Japan doesn’t have to beat China, they just have to make it not worth it. And they’d have Taiwan and hopefully the US supporting them in that effort.
Hong Kong tower fire toll rises to 44, police arrest three
The cause of the blaze in the northern Tai Po district was not immediately known, but it was fanned by green construction mesh and bamboo scaffoldingHong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction.
A firefighter was among the 44 killed, with 45 people in hospital in critical condition
GitHub - DioCrafts/OxiCloud: ☁️ OxiCloud server, efficient and secure way to save all your data
GitHub - DioCrafts/OxiCloud: ☁️ OxiCloud server, efficient and secure way to save all your data
☁️ OxiCloud server, efficient and secure way to save all your data - DioCrafts/OxiCloudGitHub
The installation workflow begs for supply-chain exploits. Given this and its oob install, it probably breaks iso27002 as well.
I'll wait. NextCloud and OwnCloud both have 27002-compliant installs (the latter needs some review), so I need to stick with those.
Immich Is Now Stable!
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does immich have an option to automatically delete older, backed-up pics from devices in order to free up space and not worry about running out disk space on smartphone?
I tried to search the docs and it seems it's missing
I've not seen that option, but I use syncthing instead of the phone application to sync my photos to a specific folder on my NAS which is then an external library for Immich.
TBH, I don't want anything deleting anything automatically.
I'll often delete newer pictures of temporary stuff but keep older pictures of my frinds & family, so, that's not a feature I'd see any value in. It tends to just make me lazy and build up GBs of junk photos on my NAS (and backups...)
No but there is a semi work around.
When using the app if you select all images one of your options will be delete from device when you click on that it will say hey some of these might not be backed up and one of your option is to only delete the things that have been backed up. It's not automatic but it is a way you can kind of just Mass do it to everything
it's wip, they are iterating it
i think they added it as beta, then reverted, then now is being reworked
3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 36 dead and 279 reported missing
Police in Hong Kong arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter, several local news media reported, in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 36 people and left another 279 missing in the city’s deadliest fire in years.Hundreds of residents were evacuated as the fire which started on Wednesday afternoon, spread across seven of the eight high-rise apartment buildings in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories. At least 29 others remained hospitalized. Bright flames and smoke shot out of windows as night fell.
Authorities said earlier that investigators would be looking into factors including whether material on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings met fire resistance standards, as the rapid spread of the fire was unusual.
Officials said the fire started on the external scaffolding of one of the buildings, a 32-storey tower, and later spread to inside the building and then to nearby buildings, likely aided by windy conditions.
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-highrise-fire-tai-po-cf40065101b2b6f8ac7bc43d9f228022
from the article-
“We have reason to believe that those in charge of the construction company were grossly negligent,” said Eileen Chung, a senior superintendent of police.The three men arrested, aged 52 to 68, are the directors and an engineering consultant of the firm.
Oh that death toll is going to rise dramatically as 279 are reported missing.
Oh and just while writing it I saw another headline saying 44 dead 279 missing.
France will investigate Musk’s Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims
France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk ‘s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz, officials said.
Grok, built by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial.
The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange on X, saying that the response distorted historical fact and violated the platform’s rules.
https://apnews.com/article/france-ai-musk-grok-holocaust-e8c952c5d878226aa917d7a65836ed88
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I think you misunderstand.
They put substantial effort into grok to make sure it would deny the holocaust.
New Research Shows True Death Toll From Israeli Genocide in Gaza Could Be 126,000 or Even Higher
New Research Shows True Death Toll From Israeli Genocide in Gaza Could Be 126,000 or Even Higher
"All those responsible for this mass slaughter must face accountability," said one campaigner in response to the new figures, "starting with Netanyahu and other members of his openly racist, genocidal, and warmongering regime.”brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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100x the casualty count from Oct 7th.
It's way, way past eye for an eye. Stupid ingrains.
Russian invasion of Ukraine: One in 10 rescued Ukrainian children sexually abused in the occupied territories, NGO warns
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42547282
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Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the centre has rescued over 100,000 children from the frontlines and more than 1,000 from the occupied territories and Russia, through unofficial routes and brave, special operations. It estimates that one in 10 of these children has experienced sexual abuse. The victims, of all ages and sexes, include girls who have been raped and suffered forced pregnancy, “so they will give birth to future Russian soldiers,” said Alina Dmytrenko, government relations officer at the Save Ukraine Centre, an NGO that helps families escape Russian occupation, returns children abducted by Russia.
“We have these cases which are very sensitive,” she confirmed. “It is a system. It is part of Russia’s aim when it comes to children: to break Ukrainian identity and trust. To turn Ukrainians into Russians. All the children who come here are traumatised, afraid to talk, to express emotion. But with sexual abuse, all of this is much heavier.”
“Russia is specifically targeting children,” she added. “It is shocking. How can you abuse the most vulnerable?”
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ukraine-russia-child-abductions-abuse-kyiv/
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All the children who come here are traumatised, afraid to talk, to express emotion. But with sexual abuse, all of this is much heavier.”
Especially with forced pregnancy, to "raise future russian soldiers".
This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal
The company Dustin hired: Trajector Medical.
NPR spent months looking into Trajector, interviewing 11 former employees and hearing from 60 veterans who hired the company. The investigation revealed a company that started with a mission to help disabled vets, but that former workers say now is intent on aggressive debt collection and maximizing profits. NPR discovered a web of corporate entities that Trajector uses to contend that it stays within the bounds of a law to protect veterans. Despite repeated written warnings from the VA that it may be breaking that law, the company continues to operate.
NPR also found that the company's moneymaker is a computerized robo-dialer system named "CallBot" that bombards a VA phone hotline meant for vets. Trajector is not accredited by the VA and the VA won't give it any information about vets' disability pay. So it uses CallBot as a side-door to sleuth that out. Trajector regularly enters social security numbers and birthdates obtained from tens of thousands of its clients into the phone hotline, which reveals the amount of each veteran's monthly disability payment. When the company detects an increase, it automatically sends a bill, sometimes for as much as $20,000, and then starts calling to collect.
Trajector is not alone. In recent years, scores of large and small outfits have sprung up promising to help vets apply for disability benefits. Critics call them "claim sharks."
Looking for a PeerTube instance that actually accepts new users
I have been trying to find a PeerTube instance so I can upload music my son's band performs.
I signed up to 5 different PeerTube instances over the past two weeks. 4 of them have not accepted or rejected my application, despite all of their pages saying the accept within 24-48 hours. The fifth instance denied my application with, "read the coc and reapply". I had read it before applying, but I read it again and reapplied, it was again denied with the same reason given.
I would like to find an instance for music, preferably not hosted in the US.
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“Players are selfish”: Fallout 2’s Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today.
The Government Killed National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom
Why the DC-deployed Guardswoman shot last week may never see justice
Data War goes digital: Firefox’s card game is now online | The Mozilla Blog
Last month, Firefox turned 21, marking two decades of building a web that reflects creativity, independence and trust. At TwitchCon, we celebrated by launching billionaires into space and launching a new card game, Data War.
Data War goes digital: Firefox’s card game is now online
Billionaire Blast Off started with a simple premise: send billionaires into space and have fun doing it. With Data War, we created a fun and often chaotic game where you compete to win a one-way ticket to space for a data-hungry billionaire.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Make Amazon Pay For Its Abhorrent Labour Practices
This weekend’s actions drew attention to Amazon’s negative impact on workers the world over.
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Lemmy Development Update November 2025
We're still working hard on the 1.0 release, needing a few more major additions to lemmy-ui, and some less critical items for lemmy.
Then it will be a period of performance and bug testing, as well as giving time to allow app devs to update to the API changes.
The major changes during November were:
- Upgrade to latest Rust version 1.91 (after being stuck with 1.81 for over a year)
- Backwards compatibility with API v3
- Multi-community UI
- Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page
- Merged modlog tables
::: spoiler Full list of changes by user
flamingos-cant
dessalines
- Use rusts Url::parse with post_url_only
- Add test for backslashes in urls.
- Adding multi-community counts, and full querying to
list_multi_communities - Mark post or comment notif as read after liking.
- Upgrading pg_format to 5.8
- Adding multi_communities_created to PersonDetails, and multi_community_follows to MyUserInfo
- Adding a last_application_duration_seconds field to GetSite.
- Adding multi_community_name to list_posts.
- Fixing ModlogKind comment.
- Updating .rustfmt edition to 2024
- Use a jauderho/prettier docker image.
- Upgrade inferno to 9.0.5
- Adding post_url_only to search page.
- Fixing show-score logic
- Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page.
- Multi community support
- Open text post links in new tab (if setting exists).
- Fixing fastlane changelog
Nutomic
- Restore Activitypub audience field
- Sidebar federation
- Support more api v3
- Pull in rate limiter logic
- Compile db view joins in parallel, add instance join
- Various API route changes
- Disable old Mastodon workaround for empty names
- Fixes for merge modlog migration
- Notify mod actions fixes
- Change
multi_community_usertosystem_account - Crate
lemmy_diesel_utils - Add helper methods for resolve
- Add missing attribute optional_fields for ModlogView
- Support api v3
- Upgrade to latest stable Rust (fixes #6006)
- Show list of active plugins in sidebar
- Fix bug which prevented setting registration to open
- Fix bug with comments pagination (fixes #3612)
- Dont alter crosspost body for own post (fixes #3603)
- Notify about mod actions (fixes #3488)
- In image upload form hide preview and delete button if none
- Enable blank issues
- Merge modlog tables
- Make instance page working again (fixes #3571)
:::
Or see the full list of changes at the links below:
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations.
To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
The official web app for lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to provide 25 million American children under 10 an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.
The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion, much less multiple billions. Announced on GivingTuesday, the Dells believe it’s the largest single private commitment made to U.S. children.
Its structure is also unusual. Essentially, it builds on the “ Trump Accounts " program, where the U.S. Department of the Treasury will deposit $1,000 into investment accounts set up by Treasury for American children born between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2028. The Dells’ gift will use the “Trump Accounts” infrastructure to give $250 to each qualified child under 10.
FSD: test di guida autonoma avviati in Italia
Quali altri brand?
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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Che tristezza stellantis, sti scemi alla Ferrari sono all'età della pietra ormai
media.stellantis.com/em-en/lea…
Leapmotor Launches Security and Safety Lab. New Standards in Intelligent Vehicle Protection
Leapmotor announces the opening of its Automotive Security and Safety Lab, marking a major breakthrough in intelligent safety a big step forward in making smart driving safer and more reliable for everyone.www.media.stellantis.com
FSD lite:
chat.qwen.ai/s/t_9dafc337-95e0…
Qwen Chat
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.chat.qwen.ai
Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/europe/italy-femicide-law-intl-hnk
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That's nice.
Can police start believeing women who tell them they feel they are in danger, and do something about it before someone kills them, now?
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For real.
The law in a lot of places does not allow police to do anything to help someone, before their life has already been risked.
Unfortunately the first attempt on someone's life can be just as lethal as a hypothetical second.
Wouldn't it be smarter to have a law that simply and generically adds penalties on a crime committed out of hate against a population group?
So instead of "just" femicide, it could also cover hate against e.g. members of religions, the handicapped, or, in a reverse case, maybe even cover a hate-murder on a man?
US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China
US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China | The Strategist
The United States should not kid itself. It will not recover its manufacturing position from China in any foreseeable future. According to World Bank data, in 2024 the US’s GDP of US$29.2 trillion was 60 ...Samir Tata (The Strategist)
China’s Spat With Japan Derails Bid to Join CPTPP Trade Bloc
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46275324
China’s aggressive trade stance against Japan appears to kill any chance it has of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership [CPTPP] trade bloc in the near future.Beijing’s confrontation with Japan over a remark about Taiwan has led to a series of retaliatory blows already hurting the Japanese economy.
But China’s sharp response to new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s frank admission that a Chinese attack on Taiwan might trigger a collective self-defence response could also rebound on the People’s Republic.
China has released its ‘wolf warriors’ and ramped up trade pressure on Japan dramatically, warning its citizens to stay away from Japan, while reimposing a ban on Japanese seafood.
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Japanese artists have had concerts in Beijing cancelled or postponed, [...] supposedly because of public dissatisfaction over Takaichi’s remark. Manufacturing giants such as Toyota and Sony also expect “direct blowback” from Beijing [...] Chinese airlines cancelled flights on at least a dozen routes to popular destinations such as Kyoto and Osaka last week, according to a report by the [Chinese state-controlled media outlet] South China Morning Post.
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But there are also signs that China will pay a price for its latest display of petulance.
Its acts of economic coercion are almost certain to derail – or add years – to its bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which Beijing applied for in 2021.
The problem for Beijing is the CPTPP requires a very different approach to the ‘trade wars’ that China has launched against trading partners, such as Australia, several years ago.
Members of the trade grouping must meet three criteria known as the ‘Auckland Principles’ – preparedness to meet the pact’s high standards, a record of compliance and adhering to trade commitments, and concensus, with all existing members agreeing to on new countries wishing to join.
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Nations must agree to non-discriminatory dialogue with other members and transparent decision-making, as noted by Australia’s ABC News, which said the latest flare-up has occurred as the 12 “CPTPP members were meeting in Melbourne to assess new membership bids.”
“On the eve of those discussions, one member state is being economically punished by the country seeking entry,” it said. “That creates a structural problem for China: CPTPP enlargement requires unanimity. And Japan holds a veto.”
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The idea of Japan permitting China to join the CPTPP now is “almost unthinkable,” the ABC report said, not only because of its coercive trade actions, but other factors, such as its behaviour in the East China Sea.
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China's Spat With Japan Derails Bid to Join CPTPP Trade Bloc
China's aggressive trade stance against Japan appears to kill any chance it has of joining the CPTPP trade bloc in the near futureAsia Financial
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the hom…Jayden Milne (Jayden’s Blog)
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I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.
You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.
I assume this is just to hide the fact that there's precious little worth watching on it.
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.substack.com
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So uh AI works then and will fix all our problems that it caused in the first place 👍
Roflmao
I like how there are all these terms with increasingly loose definitions, to which we attach different levels of evilness:
- algorithm - older, reliable, deterministic except when it's "The Algorithm" in capital letters like "The Social Media Algorithm"; then it becomes evil
- machine learning - been out for decades, hasn't destroyed the world, mostly does its job undetected. Used mainly by technical people
- machine intelligence - The machine is starting to become conscious but it is still generally helpful. "Machine intelligence" performs brain surgery, detects tumors, folds and unfolds proteins, whatever that means (but it sounds like a good thing, so we'll give it a pass)
- artificial intelligence - machine intelligence's evil twin. Takes credit for everything good that comes from the other ones and we tend to believe it, because it's the only one we can actually speak to and can lie to us very convincingly. On its own it can draw pretty pictures and animate them, write code that occasionally works, pretend to love us and teach us the most effective way to slash our own wrists
What indexers do you use in Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/41364587
I'm getting errors and I want to pick better indexers.
What indexers do you use in Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr
I'm getting errors and I want to pick better indexers.
github.com/PCJones/MediathekAr…
GitHub - PCJones/MediathekArr: Integrate ARD&ZDF Mediathek in Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr
Integrate ARD&ZDF Mediathek in Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr - PCJones/MediathekArrGitHub
Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
The man is alleged to have stolen coins from parking meters in the German town of Kempten, police said.Ottilie Mitchell (BBC News)
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That truly depends on what you mean by "comfortably". You can very easily survive the rest of your life "comfortably" on $1 million. Unless your definition of "comfort" includes a bunch of bullshit that you don't actually need and arguably makes your life worse for you and shorter just because you've grown accustomed to it.
$1M is plenty.
a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc
See, that's your problem right there.
Need some help with remote access please.
Hi all 😀
I've got a media server set up running Navidrome, Calibre-Web, and Immich along with some other services, and want to get access to them from outside the house now. I've read that Caddy is good for securing things by making it easier to set up encryption, but I'm not sure I understand that side of things.
I've set up a Cloudflare tunnel for a Minecraft server, and I've got Tailscale installed but not set up with an exit server yet, but understand that Caddy would be better. I ideally want to set up apps on my wife's phone so that she can access the libraries too.
Is it just a case of installing Caddy and setting up the services I want to share through it? That seems too easy, like I've missed something.
If it makes any difference, I've got a standard UK ISP router with a few ports forwarded, and I'm going to add an access point and then a LevelOne GEP-5070 managed switch to learn about things like VLANs. The link to the switch is here:
mayflex.com/shop/product/GEP-5…
I feel like I'm missing something, but can't think what, so I'd be grateful for any help 😀
GEP-5070 - 48-GE PoE+ 2GE SFP LS MANAGED SWITCH
The LevelOne GEP-5070 is an intelligent L2 Managed Switch with 48 x 1000Base-T PoE-Plus ports and 2 x 100/1000BASE-X SFP (Small Form Factor Pluggable) slots. This switch is IEEE...mayflex.com
Ukraine-Russia war: Ukraine says 'understanding' reached with US on peace plan, as Trump says his envoy will meet Putin in Moscow
Donald Trump's envoy to hold Ukraine peace plan talks at Kremlin
Russia confirms the US president's close aide will travel to Russia, hours after Trump tasked him with meeting Putin.Laura Gozzi (BBC News)
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It'll fall apart for sure, but will the Trump-Wiktoff relationship fall apart first?
Wiktoff might be his Billionaire buddy, but he'a made Trump look bad a few times now and that's anathema for a narcissist.
Facing a lack of Russian recruits, Moscow turns to deception, blackmail and bribery to sign up foreigners for its war in Ukraine | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/europe/russia-recruits-foreign-fighters-ukraine-intl-cmd
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U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine
Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston.Caroline Radnofsky (NBC News)
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
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Honestly I don't know why the state is still in the business of giving out marriages. Who gives a shit what other people want to call marriage. The state should not even have the authority to perform marriages at all. It should be left as a cultural or religious institution. It has no right to legislate what is and is not marriage. The only thing that should be available is civil unions, being defined as a financial and legal union of two or more consenting adults.
That way, anyone can "get married" at their local church, at a secular ceremony, or piss-drunk in a pub by a barmaid. It would be legally vacuous and has only the meaning that the parties ascribe to it, or that is given to it by the religious authority they choose to follow. But if they want to be legally joined together then they would go register a civil union at the local registrar's office.
If you're a bigot and don't consider two men in civil union to be married, cool, whatever, the law should not care about your opinion. You can privately think "those two are not married" all day, and be right in your mind. The only people whose opinions matter are those who want to call themselves married. There is no institution of "marriage" to defend, because you've already won. You can consider marriage to be anything you want and be right. Now you can leave other people alone.
The state cares insofar as your partner gets certain rights and will be included as family in many things.
For instance, deciding for you in medical cases, being informed if something happens, getting money from your life insurance whatever.
No marriage would mean the two are not connected at all in the states eye and thus not family.
You could say, ok lets just enable putting that into some record without marriage, but the state wants to safeguard itself as you can get things like citizenship and such
And in most states that is what you define as civil unions (there is no marriage as such often).
I don't think this is at all a valid counter-argument as all of these powers can equally be given to civil unions, if they aren't already. In my eyes, if you propose to someone and "get married" and want to give your spouse the legal powers associated with what was previously marriage, you would register a civil union.
No civil marriage doesn't mean that people can't connect themselves legally; it just means that you have to register a civil union to do so. All of the points you raise are easily defeated by just defining civil unions to replace marriage in all respects. The system is already very close to how I describe. You can "get married" at a church or wherever else and in most countries that does not mean anything until you have registered it with a local registrar. I'm just saying that the thing that happens in a church is "marriage", and the thing that happens with the legal paperwork at the registrar's office is called "civil union" regardless of the genders or sexualities of the parties involved.
Sorry, I think we are talking of the same thing. In Germany that is the way it is. Civil union and marriage is equivalent, you dont have to get married at a church, the only important thing is to go to the state for a few minutes and tell them basically.
I thought that the problem was that the state still has to accept things such as (whatever you call it lets say) unions of things such as same sex partner and so.
Problem is the civil union is mostly historically influenced often (tends to be less these days)
how far we´ve come. 40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it. homosexual people were not harassed by the state and gay bars were a thing even in 70´s socialist poland.
it really depends on the generation. i have yet to meet a homophobic pole that was born in the post-war period, they generally have a quite egalitarian stance on it with (expected) slight prejudice but no outright hate.
late baby boomers and gen x-ers though... OH BOY. most of these fucks need reeducation by a proper beating or something. i have yet to meet a gen x-er pole that´s not a complete piece of shit regarding their views on homosexuality and women.
40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.
Damn, that's wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?
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Omg, you're a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
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The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.
Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland - Polish History
After the introduction of martial law, the CIA launched a program to support the underground movement “Solidarity” with a budget of approximately $20 million. Throughout 1983-1990, money and specialized equipment flowed into Poland.admin (Polish History)
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
Brazil’s Supreme Court court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term for conspiring to remain in power after losing the last election.
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onomastico octiaco e regalini apprezzabili, per una buona volta di distrazione meno cagosa
L‘altro ieri, domenica 30, giorno crazy a pensarci, perché era il mio onomastico… che è figo, dai: un po’ di magia calendaristica ogni tanto tocca anche a me… ed ha in certo senso un gran valore cosmico, perché, nonostante il resto della mia persona, questa data non è mai cambiata… ma questo è tutto un […]
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onomastico octiaco e regalini apprezzabili, per una buona volta di distrazione meno cagosa
L‘altro ieri, domenica 30, giorno crazy a pensarci, perché era il mio onomastico… che è figo, dai: un po’ di magia calendaristica ogni tanto tocca anche a me… ed ha in certo senso un gran valore cosmico, perché, nonostante il resto della mia persona, questa data non è mai cambiata… ma questo è tutto un altro discorso. Ovviamente, questo fatto lo racconto appena ora perché sono una frana, e perché domenica avevo già frittomistato… dobbiamo avere molta pazienza con me stessa… (Avrei voluto scrivere in realtà ieri, ma poi mi sono seccata, e vabbè dai, che lo dico a fare…) 😪…Non c’è in realtà granché da raccontare, perché, come sempre, io non festeggio… cioè, che cazzo devo fare regà, insomma… Però, incredibilmente, mi sono toccati ben due regalini: epico!!! Da parte dei miei genitori, giustamente, perché poi, nella mia vita, tolti i parenti, non rimane praticamente nessuno… ma ormai me ne sono fatta una ragione. Still, comunque, in ogni caso, i regali sono spesso sfiziosi e, quando come in questo caso sono gradevoli, assolutamente anche goduriosi, non c’è che dire. 👌
- Un pigiama assolutamente ROSA (un rosa un po’ chiaro, che in foto non si nota benissimo… ma un po’ ho apparato mettendo un filtro), che wow… È intrigante, con questo stile mezzo minimale della maglietta quasi tutta chiara, e mezzo non del pantalone che ha queste illustrazioni strane che non si capiscono bene… Ma, soprattutto, è irrealisticamente morbido!!! Potrebbe rendere l’inverno di notte lievemente meno terrificante… è così appropriato alla mia persona. 🥰
- Un set di 3 acque profumate, che non ho ancora avuto modo di provare del tutto con calma, ma da quel poco che ho visto sembrano interessanti. Due sono abbastanza floreali, mentre l’altra è più di un fresco non specificato, però ci stanno bene tutte, molto toppi! Saranno indubbiamente utili per potenziare la mia aura fisica fuori casa, che certe volte è forse troppo debole e poco magica, e con queste sarà migliorata… 😺
Insomma, grazie infinite a mamy e al papi per supportare la mia magia con piccoli ma importanti pensieri… Ma, dato il riconoscere questo fatto di ora, così come il prevedere qualcosa delle prossime settimane, perché purtroppo, ahinoi, il Natale si sta avvicinando prepotentissimamente, ora sono in terribile ansia e a breve disperazione… perché io non so mai come straminchia ricambiare i regalini. Arriverò, temo, come sempre a pochi giorni prima, per prendere regali magari apprezzati ma mai epicissimi per chi li riceve, e di ciò mi sento sempre incredibilmente in colpa, anche se ho paura che la cosa nemmeno traspaia mai, e quindi boh… non so che fare. Da un lato, sarebbe quasi meglio non avere proprio regali, così non ci sarebbe lo stress personalmente indotto di ricambiare, perché a me sinceramente dispiace essere davvero così terribile… 💔
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence
Juniors are getting clobbered.
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence — Stanford Digital Economy Lab
This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States.Stanford Digital Economy Lab
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I'd like to extend that graph a couple of years to the left. The analyses I've seen clearly demonstrate that this is a regression to mean after a post-Covid hiring spike. By looking at such a narrow window over such a fraught time, it looks like it could be saying anything here.
Are these workers? This is showing a real problem. Job openings? Not nearly as concerning. Without showing this in historical context, this is really dubious journalism.
This study controls for the post-COVID hiring spike in three ways: the researchers generated results without including the tech sector, they separated out remote work, and compared trends from 2018-2022 to those after. The hypothesis holds in all cases. The primary regression analysis also included a standard set of controls for hiring trends (such as interest rate fluctuation).
There's enough here to find a negative correlation between generative AI and entry-level employment.
Slightly different? Comparing a dead simple plot of employment vs. the performance of the S&P to a DID Poisson regression event study is the coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb meme.
This Stanford study is just one in a very active field of economic research, so it's reasonable to be skeptical, but I really hope you don't think people make decisions based on the kind of thing in that Tiktok video.
It's openings, not employment. Which is why I asked whether the charts pasted here are showing employment or openings. And why I complained that the chart cuts off everything pre-Covid. If employment is going down, that's a problem. If job openings are going down, it isn't AI but a regression to mean. This video is the same jobs trend looked at through a different lens. It's pretty clear and logical that the demand for more seasoned professionals is more static that for juniors.
This is numbers taken from public data and put into context, and I don't think the fact that it's posted on TikTok is relevant to the math. TikTok just has a better algorithm for discovery for me and that's where I saw this guy's work and started following him, and the length of short form video helps the content not exceed attention span.
That all being said, if employment of juniors is trending down and not just reverting to mean, then I agree with the consolation this is a doomsday scenario cooking over the next 40 years. I have been saying for a couple of years that's a concern to watch out for. But so far I haven't seen numbers that concern me. I'll be continuing to watch this space closely because it's directly related to my interests.
Rustdesk's lesser known features
Rustdesk started as an open-source alternative to TeamViewer. Now, it offers more than just remote desktop access, making it handy for casual self-hosting.
With no need for (dyn)DNS, port forwarding, or a VPN, you can get:
- Remote terminal
- File transfer
- Tunneling (similar to SSH port forwarding)
- Remote desktop
I think it’s a solid choice if you have a simple one-server setup.
GitHub - rustdesk/rustdesk: An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. - rustdesk/rustdeskGitHub
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I use Rustdesk to access PCs and embedded devices from other PCs and embedded devices. Mostly doing remote support to avoid driving.
It's easy to set up with a container-based server.
I don't have to care about licenses and crap like that. It just works.
At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs
IBM CEO has doubts that Big Tech's AI spending spree will pay off
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.Henry Chandonnet (Business Insider)
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The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
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Misleading headline making it sounds like all battery recycling poisons people. Half assed battery recycling is half assed.
Also sodium ion or some other lead-free formulation will likely replace lead acid 12v batteries over the next few years.
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The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn't that high, IIRC.
There have been lithium batteries used for the purpose. The original Miata used one because standard lead acid cells caused corrosion issues in the chassis. But lithium has its own supply chain issues.
Ultimately, this goes away because ICE cars go away.
Well, there is still the temperature constraints of Lipo and LiFePo batteries (the latter being much better at cold and hot charging).
But the point is that lithium batteries operate under a pretty big compromise of needing heating and cooling when temps are too cold and too hot, respectively. That is where lead acid has a pretty significant advantage.
Edit: I had a 1991 miata, and I don't recall having a lithium battery. It was rear-mounted, though.
I lol'd because growing up in cold climate. You had to put a block heater to keep your engines warm enough to start. That ran off electricity. So..... You know, batteries keeping themselves warm isn't really different.
Right this very minute I've got two battery tenders keeping the lead acid batteries trickle charged on some motorcycles in my garage.
None of this shit is different in any meaningful way.
I lol'd because growing up in cold climate. You had to put a block heater to keep your engines warm enough to start.
I'm from Winnipeg, I know.
None of this shit is different in any meaningful way.
It is functionally very different. We heat our blocks, but rare is the person with a battery blanket.
Teslas need warming and cooling for their batteries, and even at that, they lose huge range in super cold winters. But that isn't the real problem, which is that recharge cycles are fewer and fewer every time you charge a cold li-ion.
The newer EVs are switching to heat pumps for managing battery temperature. It's more efficient than resistive heat, and can use the same system for cooling. This helps maintain range both by keeping batteries the right temperature and by doing it more efficiently.
And who in Winnipeg hasn't heard of what happens if you let your gas tank get too empty in extreme cold?
What Happens When Your Fuel Line Freezes: A Comprehensive Guide - CookedByTaste
The relentless grip of winter can bring a plethora of automotive woes. One of the most frustrating and potentially damaging is a frozen fuel line.Richard Wilson (CookedByTaste)
Look man, I own one. I ski. None of the stuff you're saying is actually happening. These things are edge cases at best.
The reality is the differences aren't important in any meaningful way. I've got to do maintenance on my engines to keep them running. I've got to keep the EV plugged in, to keep it running. Literally the same.
The C output rate on sodium ion isn't that high, IIRC.
You can buy sodium ion in 12 volt car battery form factor today. My understanding the only limitation is charging may not work right due the voltage regulators and the different needs on charging. (Which could be overcome with adapters.). Sodium ion will likely replace the lead acid use case by the end of the decade.
The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn't that high, IIRC.
Add a capacitor, now it is.
Headline clearly leads "Auto industry warned" implying this is an industrial issue specific to them. And it is. This is not misleading.
The issue is that they are offshoring the lead recycling to very poor nations that have no environmental protection laws. Why? Cos cheaper.
Same issue with almost every industrial problem - the dangers are off-shored. Out of sight, out of mind. The US auto industry was warned about this exact prpblem and pleaded with to set up monitoring and a clean battery sourcing program - and of course they did nothing, because the only way corporations listen is with law and effective enforcement of those laws.
Tehran shrouded in thick smog as Iran burns dirty fuel amid energy crisis
Tehran shrouded in thick smog as Iran burns dirty fuel amid energy crisis
Nearly 59,000 Iranians die prematurely due to air pollution in year to March, according to officials.Maziar Motamedi (Al Jazeera)
Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
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"No Way To Prevent This" Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens*
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This is a joke about gun violence.
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly conclude…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
That is pretty evil.
Without signing attestation (both developer and code) there will be no way to find out who was responsible and stop the propagation. This will happen again.
Edit: there have been attempts like docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publish… but that hasn't fixed the problem.
Trusted publishing for npm packages | npm Docs
Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interfacedocs.npmjs.com
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in reply to Peter Link • • •Republicans are saying the same thing.
They're just saying it out loud.
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Republican Says US ‘About to Go In’ to Venezuela, With Oil a Key Reason
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Also, did you know that Greenland has ridiculously vast natural resources on top of being a choke point for the northwest passage?