The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
#LikudLabour #Shameless #WarCrime
#LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#KidStarver #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #IDF
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Free Free Palestine! A space for activists and Palestinians to connect and amplify their efforts for the liberation of Palestine. Promote Palestinian solidarity events, or document and share here.Mastodon hosted on freefree.ps
US Senate permits arms sales to Qatar, UAE amidst controversy over jet gifted to Trump
Lawmakers alleged that the Pentagon’s acceptance of a $400m Qatari jet and an Emirati firm's recent investment in a Trump-affiliated cryptocurrency had compromised the integrity of the sales.
The resolutions sought to stymie a $1.9bn weapons sale to Qatar and a $1.3bn weapons sale to the UAE.
The Qatar sale consisted of eight MQ-9 Reaper drones, a model previously employed by the US in Gaza and Yemen, along with Hellfire II missiles and 227-kg bombs. The second resolution opposed the sale of six Chinook helicopters to the UAE.
Arms sales to the UAE have previously faced criticism over the UAE’s support for the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese faction accused by some, including the US State Department, of committing acts of genocide.
US Senate permits arms sales to Qatar, UAE amidst controversy over jet gifted to Trump
Arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been given the go-ahead after a Democratic Party-led effort to halt them failed in a US Senate vote on Wednesday. The resolutions failed 39-56, allowing the deal to proceed.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Lemmy,Mbin, piefed, what even are those?
First of all, how is called this category of programs, instance engine?
Second, why there are 3 different, basically inter-compatible projects out there, what are the benefits of each one over the others? and why does Lemmy prevail all of them.
*i will be using feddit as a umbrella term for all the reddit-like fediverse.
I don't have much of a technical Background to know how this things work under the hood, but I'm quite curious of where all of this is heading.
I see a lot of awesome features locked away in these other projects that would be just nice if it was standard to have them, like piefed's hashtag-like system that allows people to seek things by topic instead of going to a specific community hosted in a specific instance, it would instantly fix the fragmentation problem across feddit, lol.
How the future of feddit will be? will be all be using Lemmy or other specific project, or instances will use whatever project they like and they will be cross compatible enough that it won't be much of a deal what project is running underneath?
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Donald Trump doubles US steel and aluminium tariffs to 50%
Donald Trump doubles US steel and aluminium tariffs to 50%
Trump doubles down on his tariffs, while sparing the UK from the latest duties.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
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Damn.
I suppose the obvious question of why Amazon doesn't have an intuitive way of rate limiting those can be answered by the huge bills people rack up.
Amid Rising Heat, Hajj Becomes Test of Endurance for Pilgrims and Saudi Arabia
The hajj, one of the largest annual human gatherings in the world, begins on Wednesday in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Amid rising temperatures and logistical challenges, the pilgrimage has increasingly become a test of endurance both for pilgrims and the Saudi government.
Millions of Muslims from around the world travel to the city to take part; Saudi Arabia said 1,475,230 pilgrims from abroad have arrived since Sunday. Last year, the Saudi government said more than 1,300 pilgrims died, many from Egypt. Most of those who perished had been unregistered, Saudi officials said, meaning they had made the trip without the permits that gave them access to heat protections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-hajj-heat.html
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You might want to crack open a history book focusing on any of the attempts at socialism or communism in Asia. You will find many atheists persecuting theists.
There aren’t many theocratic states remaining.
Everything creates in groups and out groups, nothing does this better than leftism.
Considering that you are two comments in and you have already made a series of factual errors AND I have said Im an atheist I don’t think you are qualified to determine who is less intelligent than average.
You also need remedial English lessons because oof.
"Atheists" who make themselves, or the State, a swap-in replacement for God(s) are not much different from purely religious authorities who abuse their positions. It is apparently a common kind of power-seeking Dark Trait.
The Leviathan theory of the state -- the Motherland who is greater than us, who we would die for as cells die to preserve the body, and whose Exegeses come from the Great Leader/Supreme Council/President for Life.
It's exactly the same play on faith and credulity and servility that religions use.
Sure, but atheists don’t organize together to persecute theists for their beliefs,
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Estimates differ, but anywhere between 20,000 and 35,000 "enemies of the revolution" were executed, a figure representing three to five percent of Mongolia's total population at the time.[2] Victims included those accused of espousing Tibetan Buddhism, pan-Mongolist nationalism, and pro-Japanese sentiment. Buddhist clergy, aristocrats, intelligentsia, political dissidents, and ethnic Buryats were particularly impacted.
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Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union.[2] However, most religions were never officially outlawed.[1]The state established atheism as the only scientific truth.[14][15][16][17] Soviet authorities forbade the criticism of atheism and agnosticism until 1936 or of the state's anti-religious policies; such criticism could lead to forced retirement.[18][19][20]
The assertion that there is no God cannot be proven as you cannot prove a negative.
There assertion that there is a divine entity cannot be logically demonstrated in any valid way logically speaking.
The validity of either claim cannot be tested and thus have the same overall value and it is a matter of which you choose to accept.
Lacking a belief in God, asserting there is no God, and asserting there is a God are all equally impossible to prove provided that by “God” we mean an omnipotent omipresent being.
I dont know how to make that any clearer.
"I make no claim"
"You can't prove it!"
I mean, yeah, because no claim is being made. Do you genuinely not understand the difference between no claim and a negative claim? Even if you think they're the same thing, the burden of proof is still on the person making the positive claim.
The assertion that there is no God cannot be proven as you cannot prove a negative.
Correct, no one argued that.
There assertion that there is a divine entity cannot be logically demonstrated in any valid way logically speaking.
Correct again.
The validity of either claim cannot be tested and thus have the same overall value and it is a matter of which you choose to accept.
Do you really mean that?
If I were to accuse you of something terrible like being a child molester with absolutely zero evidence...
That's valid? You can deny it, but your denial is of equal value to my accusation right? So if everyone in this comment section chooses to believe you molester children from now on... do you have a problem with that?
The reason I'm an atheist is the same reason I don't believe you're a child molester yet. I think there is a burden of proof of evidence that would need to be met before the accusation needs to be taken seriously.
There is no evidence of me being a child molester AND if I were there would be proof that’s why your example is a false equivalence.
If the Christian God exists, for example, there would be no way of knowing for certain because that God would be omnipresent and thus would be everything. If God is everything what do you compare it to?
If you spend enough time focusing on the truth of this you will eventually conclude you cannot prove your belief like they cannot prove theirs so neither side has anything demonstrable.
Do you believe in atoms? If so, prove them!
And no, linking to Wikipedia articles or to books about physics is no proof. That is just scriptures.
Bingo.
I have way more respect for ravers at Burning Man who OD on Ecstasy while dancing naked and copulating for 14 hours straight.
At least they enjoyed their completely unproductive dalliance
And you get to decide what people should or shouldn't enjoy?
Different people can have different life goals and find fulfillment in different ways.
Most of those who perished had been unregistered, Saudi officials said, meaning they had made the trip without the permits that gave them access to heat protections.
Why aren't these protections available for all? In Islam Allah requires all that can to go on Hajj at least once in their life. Why would those who steward the project let any be harmed?
But if you have tens of thousands of people extra it's not that easy to protect them as well - when you already shelter millions.
Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of the KSA government (really) - but I do work in disaster preparedness/planning and that also includes crowd management.
And from that perspective the Hajj is pretty impressive. The conditions even outside the worst summer heat are extreme, the crowd has often only minimal education, there is a huge language barrier, people tend to be somewhat vacantly.
Read up on it, it's quite interesting.
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Google: Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change
Google says Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change impacting custom ROMs
With the launch of Android 16 earlier this week, Google did not release the Pixel hardware repos and device trees...Abner Li (9to5Google)
Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions during a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations.
Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many demanded yes or no answers and he tried to avoid direct responses about his actions as Pentagon chief.
In one back-and-forth, Hegseth did provide an eyebrow-raising answer. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., asked whether the Pentagon has plans to take Greenland or Panama by force if necessary.
Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appearing to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessaryLOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press (ABC News)
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Trump Gets Snippy Over 1 Embarrassing Claim About His History With Harvard
Trump Gets Snippy Over 1 Embarrassing Claim About His History With Harvard
Author Michael Wolff speculated about what's fueling Trump's "grudge" against the university on "The Daily Beast" podcast.Elyse Wanshel (HuffPost)
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I hate the Trumps as much as the next guy, but I specifically refrain from dumping on Barron Trump, and you should too: the kid hasn't yet said or done anything that indicates he's going to become a dirtbag like his father or his retarted siblings, and he might very well choose to decide to distance himself from his terrible family.
Same reason why I don't dump on the Musk kids: at least one of them is decent, and the others might become good people too and they deserve a chance.
Give Barron Trump a chance too.
Well, but I don't see your problem with a hoop. it's the fault of Lemmy to open the site in the same tab, which is easy to avoid with a middle click on the link, same as it ocurrs in other posts. eg. news or articles in Lemmy.
Live updates - Israel launches major strike on Iran's nuclear and military sites.
Live: Israel launches ‘major strike’ on Iran
Blasts heard in Iranian capital Tehran as Israel carries out large-scale attack on country.Ted Regencia (Al Jazeera)
PieFed has a mobile app
Well, actually, PieFed.social has enabled it's API which means that the app Interstellar can be used with it. Find out more about the app at interstellar.jwr.one/. iOS users can use the testing version at testflight.apple.com/join/JXRt…
feddit.online, another PF instance, has enabled the API too and I expect others will follow in good time.
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75 Democrats express "gratitude" to ICE in antisemitism vote amid LA riots
75 Democrats Express 'Gratitude' to ICE in Antisemitism Vote Amid LA Riots
Seventy-five House Democrats backed a resolution condemning antisemitism and expressing "gratitude" for ICE.Sonam Sheth (Newsweek)
When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments?
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All the images disappear, since they are just links on remote instances.
A copy of all the accounts, comms, posts and comments stay on any instance around to recive them, but they are not fetchable.
White House asks Congress to codify DOGE cuts to USAID and public broadcasting
The so-called rescissions package seeks to claw back $9.4 billion lawmakers had authorized the executive branch to spend, and it would require only GOP votes to pass.
The White House sent congressional leaders a request Tuesday to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, most of it for foreign aid.
The so-called rescissions package would slash funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development, NPR and PBS, and it would aim to codify cuts proposed by DOGE, the advisory entity that was helmed by Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk until he left his post last week.
The package would require simple majority support in the House and the Senate, meaning Republicans could bypass Democrats to pass it.
White House to ask Congress to codify DOGE cuts to USAID and public broadcasting
Congressional leaders are expecting the White House to send them a package as soon as Tuesday that would claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, most of it for foreign aid.Ryan Nobles (NBC News)
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China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture
China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture
QiMeng is a new open-source project for full-stack chip design.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
On my first day, the second official day of the mission, we were overrun; it was pure chaos. At the aid site’s entrance gates, we had people waiting in five lanes separated by metal fencing. One lane was strictly for women and children. The other four were all men, and they were letting people in, five, 10, 20 at a time – whatever we could handle. It was not organized, and people were getting smushed and trampled. Eventually, there were so many people in the lanes that the gates burst.
We fell back, letting people get the aid. They were never aggressive towards us. They were only trying to get aid – aid, by the way, that consisted of flour, rice, lentils, tea bags, and noodles; things that need water. They don’t have any water. And we’re not giving out water.
We soon had to fall back again, to a second perimeter. At that point, some personnel started firing warning shots in the air. I was later told that the Israeli military needed to clear those people out because they were going to come through. They soon showed up with tanks, as some sort of security presence, but we had pushed people out by then.
This idea that the Israeli military isn't involved is bullshit. They're very much involved. They have offices in our compounds. We share our radio communications with them. The higher-ups claim the Israeli military is not involved, but it feels like they’re the man behind the curtain. Sure, they’re not on-site with us, but their snipers and tanks are just hundreds of meters away. You can hear them shooting all day.ere.
People sometimes have to travel miles to get to the sites – and that means through Israeli-controlled areas. Any excuse the military can come up with to say someone is a threat, they’ll take. There’s not really any international media in these areas, and the West doesn’t really want to believe the Palestinian media, so you get to this point where the truth itself is murky. All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.
But never any fire from the opposite direction.
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific.Anonymous (Zeteo)
What is cia.world/politics? Is that a lemmy instance, a euphemism for reddit, or a euphemism lemmy.world?
EDIT: Nevermind. I found it.
You broke the community rules:
Is there a reason that you believe the rules shouldn't apply to you?
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Lol he specifically added that to his own post. It is not a blog it is a news website.
They previously adhered to the Zionist MBFC guidelines until even MBFC added Zeteo as a credible site. Then he added this arbitrary rule. It is nowhere to be found in their side bar rules.
Lemmy.world is famous for upholding whatever narrative is needed to be spread by the empire and disallowing news sources challenging it.
It is not a blog it is a news website.
Where does he say it's a blog as you claim?
They previously adhered to the Zionist MBFC guidelines until even MBFC added Zeteo as a credible site. Then he added this arbitrary rule. It is nowhere to be found in their side bar rules.
Its in the VERY TOP STICKIED post called "basic rules". Now, you can be surprised because its not in the sidebar, but when its pointed out that its in the "basic rules" stickied thread, you can't rationally complain about your article being rejected.
Lol he specifically added that to his own post.
He's the moderator of the Community. He's one that sets the rules. He can add anything he wants as Moderator. You don't have to like those rules, but neither you nor me gets a vote except by participating or not in the Community. Your post is certainly welcome elsewhere, like here, so whats the problem?
He is mod of all the big 'news' communities on .world
He even started shoving it down /news where he got added as mod recently. I do not have to guess who wrote the removal reason on the substack one. Notice what it is called in the reason.
The mod has already extensively lost debates about why substack is not a blog with the entire community but still decides to enforce this as his rule everywhere he moderates so he can ban dropsite and zeteo.
Pornhub is pulling out of France
Aylo, the company that owns porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, is planning to suspend service in France in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors. The deadline for porn sites to implement age verification is June 7 but Pornhub will block users starting Wednesday, June 4, according to France24.
Websites will be required to verify a user’s age using a credit card or a government-issued ID document. France’s law requires porn companies to provide an option for age verification that relies on a third party, hypothetically protecting the user’s privacy. But Aylo has argued that third-party verification puts private information at risk of hacks and leaks.
Pornhub Is Pulling Out of France
Between this and the public smoking ban, what vices are left in France?Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president - The Korea Herald
cross-posted from: piefed.jeena.net/post/179335
- Voter turnout reaches 79.4 percent, 4th highest since 1987
- Lee's projected victory expected to turn page on political crisis that shook the nation for past 6 months
South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president - The Korea Herald
Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea has clinched the presidency, turning the page on six months of relentless political upheaval and a leadership vacJi Da-gyum (The Korea Herald)
Global alarms rise as China's critical mineral export ban takes hold
German automakers became the latest to warn that China's export restrictions threaten to shut down production and rattle their local economies, following a similar complaint from an Indian EV maker last weekChina's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets has upended the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
Diplomats, automakers and other executives from India, Japan and Europe were urgently seeking meetings with Beijing officials to push for faster approval of rare earth magnet exports
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China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets has upended the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
We were working on this several years ago.
Extraction:
lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/…
In the Mojave Desert, the rebirth of the only American rare earth mineWith support from the US government, mine operator MP Materials is reviving the Mountain Pass site. The company is taking advantage of the global appetite for magnets for electric motors and wind turbines.
Those MP Materials guys also do processing.
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Attempts to establish commercial-scale rare earth separation and processing outside China are growing in number and progressing gradually with a view to ramping up output over the next two years.Mineral resources developers are scrambling to reassess and upgrade their estimates of mineable rare earth element (REE) content as western governments attempt to encourage producers to establish production closer to home. And new efforts to develop high-volume processing capacity outside China — which currently accounts for more than 80pc of global refining — are emerging.
Western countries are well behind China in advancing technical processes to refine REs from raw materials, as they seek alternatives to the highly polluting solvent extraction process. But with China banning the export of RE extraction and separation technologies in December 2023, as well as exports to the US of key electronic metals in December 2024, the impetus is growing to come up with viable Western production.
RE oxides are used in the manufacturing of permanent magnets for electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines and electronics, as well as batteries, lasers, metal alloys, medical devices and military equipment.
Given that latter application, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded more than $439mn in financing since 2020 to support a new domestic supply chain, from the separation and refining of materials mined in the US to downstream production of magnets. In a broader trend towards "friendshoring" of critical material supply, the DoD considers Canada, Australia and the UK as domestic suppliers.
Like the US, European countries are also targeting domestic production in a bid to secure their supply chains.
Projects include the expansion of Nd and NdPr processing capacity at UK-based Less Common Metals (LCM), the addition of NdPr production at Belgian chemical group Solvay at its plant in France in 2025 and French consultancy Carestar's plan to start production in 2026 of RE oxides from mining concentrates and, later, recycled magnets. REEtec in Norway plans to start a commercial NdPr plant in 2025 and Swedish state-owned LKAB plans to start an RE oxide demonstration plant by the end of 2026. These initiatives are in line with plans across Europe to increase EV manufacturing and renewable energy.
Rare earth mining projects in Africa and Australia are largely targeting supply deals or integrated production in Asia or North America. Miners in Brazil, such as Aclara, are also planning integrated production by developing separation plants close to demand in the US and Europe.
South Africa's hunt for 'Tiger' - alleged illegal mining kingpin
Nobody in South Africa seems to know where Tiger is.
The 42-year-old from neighbouring Lesotho, whose real name is James Neo Tshoaeli, has evaded a police manhunt for the past four months.
Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa, where 78 corpses were discovered underground in January, Tiger escaped custody, police allege.
Four policemen, alleged to have aided his breakout, are out on bail and awaiting trial, but the authorities appear no closer to learning the fugitive's whereabouts.
South Africa illegal mining: The hunt for alleged Stilfontein kingpin Tiger
The BBC tracks down people close to the alleged crime kingpin who escaped custody while awaiting trial.Mayeni Jones (BBC News)
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night
Have they tried looking there...?
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The Tyger
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? What the hand, dare seize the fire? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame …The Poetry Foundation
Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming
Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief
A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.Cecilia Keating (Carbon Brief)
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Oh please oh please. These heatwaves are killing me.
Let there be a silver lining to the 1% destroying the planet.
Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE
Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE
The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.The Associated Press (Federal News Network)
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Elon wants more money to spend on his shitty companies
Well more than that, musk wants the nail in the coffin for all the government agencies that want to tell him things like, you can't work people to death, you can't tell people cars are self driving when they crash into stuff on their own, you can't commit massive frauds, you can't spew poison gas all over Memphis, etc...
Musk benefit's massively from a huge chunk of what he ordered DOGE to do, even if we only count the destruction of the departments he shut down, and don't factor in the possibility that the money may be re-alocated towards his own companies.
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming | After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north. - The Atlantic
The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”) Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds. But in the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture laid the groundwork for a continent-wide assault. Workers raised screwworms in factories, blasted them with radiation until they were sterile, and dropped the sterile adult screwworms by the millions—even hundreds of millions—weekly over the U.S., then farther south in Mexico, and eventually in the rest of North America.The sterile flies proceeded to, well, screw the continent’s wild populations into oblivion, and in 2006, an invisible barrier was established at the Darién Gap, the jungle that straddles the Panama-Colombia border, to cordon the screwworm-free north off from the south. The barrier, as I observed when I reported from Panama several years ago, consisted of planes releasing millions of sterile screwworms to rain down over the Darién Gap every week. This never-ending battle kept the threat of screwworms far from America.
But in 2022, the barrier was breached. Cases in Panama—mostly in cattle—skyrocketed from dozens a year to 1,000, despite ongoing drops of sterile flies. The parasite then began moving northward, at first slowly and then rapidly by 2024, which is when I began getting alarmed emails from those following the situation in Central America. As of this month, the parasite has advanced 1,600 miles through eight countries to reach Oaxaca and Veracruz in Mexico, with 700 miles left to go until the Texas border. The U.S. subsequently suspended live-cattle imports from Mexico.
Central America is shaped like a funnel with a long, bumpy tail that reaches its skinniest point in Panama. Back in the day, the USDA helped pay for screwworm eradication down to Panama out of not pure altruism but economic pragmatism: Establishing a 100-mile screwworm barrier there is cheaper than creating one at the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Even after screwworms began creeping up the tail of the funnel recently, the anti-screwworm campaign had one last good chance of stopping them at a narrow isthmus in southern Mexico—after which the funnel grows dramatically wider. It failed. The latest screwworm detections in Oaxaca and Veracruz are just beyond the isthmus.
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.Sarah Zhang (The Atlantic)
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A grim poll shows most Jewish Israelis support expelling Gazans. It's brutal - and true
Archive article: archive.ph/LJPiZ
A new survey showing that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the expulsion of Gazans was met with disbelief among those who stubbornly believe that the extremists are outliers. But these trends are as consistent as they are shocking
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YSK: db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com set up a AI image generator bot on the Threadiverse for anyone here to freely use
db0 set up an AI image generator bot both on the Threadverse and Mastodon some time back for anyone to use. All one needs to do is mention it in a comment followed by the text "draw for me" and then prompt text, and it'll respond with some generated images. For example:
@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me An engraving of a skunk.Caused it to reply back to me with:
Here are some images matching your requestPrompt: An engraving of a skunk.
Style: flux
The bot has apparently been active for some time and it looks like few people were aware that it existed or used it --- I certainly wasn't!
I don't know whether it will work in this community, as this community says that it prohibits most bots from operating here. However, I set up a test thread over here on !test@sh.itjust.works to try it out, where it definitely does work; I was exploring some of how it functions there, and if you're looking for a test place to try it out, that should work!
It farms out the compute work to various people who are donating time on their GPUs via AI Horde.
The FAQ for the bot is here. For those familiar with local image generation, it supports a number of different models.
The default model is Flux, which is, I think, a good choice --- that takes English-like sentences describing a picture, and is pretty easy to use without a lot of time reading documentation.
A few notes:
- The bot disallows NSFW image generation, and if it detects one, it'll impose a one-day tempban on its use to try to make it harder for people searching for loopholes to generate them.
- There appears to me in my brief testing to be some kind of per-user rate limit. db0 says that he does have a rate limit on Mastodon, but wasn't sure whether he put one on Lemmy, so if you might only be able to generate so many images so quickly.
- The way one chooses a model is to change the "style" by ending the prompt text with "style: stylename". Some of these styles entail use of a different model; among other things, it's got models specializing in furry images; there's a substantial furry fandom crowd here. There's a list of supported styles here with sample images.
db0 has encouraged people to use it in that test post and in another thread where we were discussing this, says have fun. I wanted to post here to give it some visibility, since I think that a lot of people, like me, have been unaware that has been available. Especially for people on phones or older computers, doing local AI image generation on GPUs really isn't an option, and this lets folks who do have GPUs share them with those folks.
AI-Horde-Styles-Previews/previews.md at main · amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-Previews
Automatically generated preview images for AI Horde styles - amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-PreviewsGitHub
Meo: AI Girlfriend Sparks Debate Over Digital Intimacy and Emotional Ethics
Meo: AI Girlfriend Sparks Debate Over Digital Intimacy and Emotional Ethics - Find My Store
A new artificial intelligence companion named Meo has taken center stage at London Tech Week, stirring both fascination and concern.…erandamx (Find My Store)
Gaza: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla Coalition - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights)
GENEVA – UN experts today called for safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to Gaza which departed from Italy on 1 June 2025.
“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it. Israel should remember that the world is watching closely and refrain from any act of hostility against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its passengers,” the experts said.
“The people of Gaza have the right to receive aid through their own territorial waters even under occupation, and the Coalition ship has the right to free passage in international waters to reach the people of Gaza,” they said. “Israel must not interfere with its freedom of navigation, long recognised under international law.”
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Right wing conspiracy theorists: "YOU'LL SEE! IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST JEWISH MUSLIM SATANISTS ACTIVATE THEIR SPACE LASERS TO TURN THE EARTH INTO A SPHERE AND USE VACCINES TO RAISE CTHULHU FROM THE DEAD AND SNAP THE INFINITY GAUNTLET AND"
Left wing conspiracy theorists: "Ah shit we got proven right again."
There are three types of conspiracy theories:
- Lizard people live in the hollow earth and mind control world leaders
- The CIA admitted it on the Congressional record 40 years ago
- The Enemy of the State zone, where it's plausible but unconfirmed
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.Mother Jones
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Stop using it immediately.
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Anker is warning consumers to stop using its PowerCore 10000 batteries immediatelyAndrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Musk calls Trump budget bill a 'disgusting abomination'
Musk calls Trump spending bill a 'disgusting abomination'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously led DOGE for the Trump administration, but bemoans the effect on the deficit from the 'big, beautiful bill."Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
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It is a disgusting abomination. I support DOGE because I wanted cuts. So what do they do? They save a little money cracking down on social security fraud, and then pass this disgusting behemoth 3.8 trillion dollar budget.
It's like biden never left office. There's no fucking way they meet the 2% inflation target after flooding the economy with another 3.8 trillion dollars. We're right back on track for hyperinflation. The same way that every other failed republic died. You can't spend your way out of currency debasement. It just accelerates the process.
What they need to do is spend less. Get that budget deal under 1 trillion dollars. They need to cut 3 trillion in spending. They won't do that because it would mean stuffing less pork into their barrels and pockets. All our representatives are corrupt and they all have friends and pet projects and hands in the cookie jar. So we're on a train with no brakes, going headfirst into hyperinflation. History repeats.
Irish government rejects motion to stop sale of Israeli bonds
The decision to reject the bill comes after a similar, unsuccessful motion was put forward by the Sinn Féin party last month.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/euronews.com…
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.
US | Judge declares mistrial on Harvey Weinstein rape charge after jury dispute
A judge declared a mistrial in the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial on Thursday after a dispute between members of the jury on the outstanding rape charge against the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge that Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, and a retrial on that count will follow at a later date.
Canadian forest fires trigger unhealthy air warnings in Switzerland
Canadian forest fires trigger unhealthy air warnings in Switzerland
The smoke from Canada is causing poor air quality in Switzerland. Some measuring stations recorded values on Wednesday that are considered unhealthy.Swissinfo API (SWI swissinfo.ch)
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Enjoy the fresh air today because it's the cleanest it will ever be.
Climate change has barely even started. Anyone who thinks this is bad is in for a surprise.
LA man faces 8 years in prison for ‘spitting at an ICE agent’ after being charged with assaulting a federal employee
Omar Pulido Bastida was charged with assaulting a federal employee after spitting in an ICE agents face.
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •I don't have the time for a detailed response right now, but to keep things short: you've probably heard of the fediverse. The concept that lemmmy can talk to for example mastadon. That is done via ActivityPub. To allow seemless integration lemmy instances communicate with each other via ActivityPub. Now what would happen if someone designed a software that worked like lemmy and is capable of reading its ActivityPub communication. That is what Mbin and Piefed are. Of course, since their communication is designed to speak lemmys language, lemmy can understand them to.
As for uniqe features, just because most things are the sane doesn't mean all things. Everything is still comunicated via ActivityPub, and lemmy could, if they so desired implement them. The Beauty of the fediverse is that compatanility can be inmplemented one sided.
And finally, the reason lemmy is prevelent is because its the oldest. They are years older than the others. The downsides of lemmy are the slow development Speed and the political opinions of the devs. The upsides are that it is stable, and development, while slow, is consistent. Long term, it might end up getting dethroned by Piefed, but it is Impossible to tell now
EDIT: I so.ehow mest up the spelling of ActivityPub once, and my phones auto completion just made me repeat the mistake every single tine. Fixed it now
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •We call them threadiverse or forumverse.
They are very different.
Currently Lemmy lacks lot features compared to PieFed and Mbin.
- Mbin support mastodon, tag, change link to link's title, customization...sorry i don't know well Mbin but it is a good software 😀
- Piefed support tag, flair, multicommunity, temporary filters, i read the article, block downvote from people who aren't subcribed to community...
- Lemmy was there before PieFed. So it was my first software they have lot apps, lot UI.
Anyway, i recommend you testing them so you can get a better understanding on their pro and cons 😀
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in reply to Snoopy • • •Development wise, how do you see piefed develop into the future?
any chances of it just dying?
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there's an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.
Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he's alright.
Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you'll see I'm still on a site called "kbin.earth" rather than mbin - this is why.
PieFed's developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you'll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.
If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there's an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.
So it should be pretty robust, all in all.
As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.
Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It's fun to follow. 😀
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in reply to rglullis • • •I don't think this is accurate for either of the two projects to be honest.
PieFed made sure to make their API as close to Lemmy's as possible, and they created feeds so that it would be as easy as possible for Lemmy to integrate in the future.
Vibes between the developers of the two platforms seems good enough.
No need to make up drama where there is none.
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in reply to aasatru • • •Flagactivity, etc.I am not saying they have bad intentions. I am just saying that they prefer to develop things that work for them first and for the rest of the Fediverse second.
r00ty
in reply to rglullis • • •There have been discussions about how to implement this before. But it has to be done in a way that is agreed by other threadiverse software. Unless they actually provide profiles for these fake actors there will be problems since some software will look up the profile info to cache it, even for likes..
Personally I'm of the opinion of a standard header to mark a favourite message as a private one and use a random ID that the originating instance can use to validate the message as genuine. But, this needs to be adopted properly by all.
rglullis
in reply to r00ty • • •I think we should move away from "threadiverse software" and embrace a transparent social web.
If we want to be transparent, we need to stop creating these leaky abstractions. Votes are not private. A vote on Lemmy is just a
Like, a downvote is just adislike. Instead of pretending this information should be private, we should make it clear to the users that they should only react in anyway if they feel comfortable in sharing their opinion in public.vocata
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in reply to rglullis • • •That depend, what your are trying to achieve.
Your point is valid. PieFed point of view is also valid. There are circumtance where voting is better private than transparency. As for myself, i would completly remove the voting system because it is useless.
Why are you voting ? Do you like the cat picture ? The article ? The title ? We will never know. So what's the point of voting since we don't know its reasons ?
Why it is at the top of my timeline ? And what about minorities ? Let's imagine 10 deafs people 1000 hearing people. If ya 1000 hearing people downvote a post because you don't want to see a post with sign language...
rglullis
in reply to Snoopy • • •Don't overcomplicate this. Voting is a way to collectively curate content. If it is relevant to the community and you feel the content is a positive addition to the community, you vote up. If you think it's a negative addition, you vote it down. That's all that there is to it.
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in reply to rglullis • • •Voting like this is a bit of a dark pattern, though. Especially downvotes. They come from places where the platform owners want to download the responsibility of community management to the community itself. This has a nasty tendency to silence valid criticism while simultaniously supporting brigading behaviour.
At the very least, we should be having serious, design-focused discussions about eliminating or highly restricting downvotes.
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in reply to rglullis • • •Your points seem phrased unnecessarily adversarially. Flairs are a brand-new feature, but if it helps, polls were added a year ago and those federate - not to Lemmy of course that lacks them entirely despite repeated requests to add them for many years, but to other federated platforms that have them e.g. Mastodon.
I've always disliked the spirit of "anonymous voting", and am glad that they discontinued that.
I do not see how what you are saying is all that different from Lemmy.
It is easy to criticize from afar - it is hard to actually build something. But PieFed is managing!
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in reply to rglullis • • •Hrm, interesting. This seems a strongly minority opinion though: people enjoy talking, whether it be focused on non-anonymous user-centric short-form content like Mastodon or Friendica, or topic-focused threaded forums like Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed + nodebb + flarum.
But if you mean only the implementation, you could very well be correct, knowing so much more than I about such. "Most people" simply want stuff delivered to them for free, not really thinking about how it gets done. I appreciate that you actually take the time to care:-).
I will add that I for one have no desire to visit a non-closed social network, such as 4chan, bc the amount of spam and trash seems likely to be insurmountable. That said, we need not be limited by what Reddit would do, and that is actually one of the chief things that I appreciate about PieFed - that it is moving beyond what Reddit offered, and is desiring to continue much further along those lines, rather than convert into purely profit making.
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •Lemmy, piefed, and mbin are all similar pieces of software that run on a server.
They are each capable of hosting a small social network website with a similar reddit-like format. They all also support the activitypub standard, which means that they can be linked together, so that when you go to one of those social media sites (lemmy.world for example) you can see any other site that they're "federated" with, even if that social media site is powered by a different software that supports activitypub (I'm on lemmy.world but I can see communities and posts from piefed.social)
I generally call lemmy, mbin and piefed "fediverse platforms" because they're each a platform that you can make a fediverse account on, but that usage is a bit imperfect, since each individual site could also be described as a platform, and is where your account is actually hosted. You could be more specific and call them "fediverse/federated link aggregators" if you wanted to specifically refer to the ones with a similar format to reddit.
These pieces of software are different because they're built in different ways (different languages and underlying structure), have different priorities, and as software projects are run in different ways with different leadership, all of which is how you get differences in features and implementation. Lemmy is the oldest of these similar platforms, and as such is the most established. In the open source world it's very easy and common to end up with a lot of fragmented similar projects. Its both a blessing and a curse.
There isn't perfect language for all these things because in the grand scheme of things, it's a rather new way for social media platforms to work, so the language around how to describe or refer to these things hasn't really "settled"
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •I don't know what it will be, but I hope that it becomes less about "instances" and servers and it becomes more a proper web of independent applications that share the social graph.
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •The whole point of federation and open protocols is that you aren't tied to any specific piece of software, or any single provider, or any single set of features. People can experiment and innovate and collaborate and expand to build new things on top without losing access or interfering with people who prefer the old methods. People or software that abuses the system on the other hand, can be blocked or defederated.
A healthy software ecosystem should have many different pieces of software all written by different people with different goals, but all implementing most of the same things. Some will be more popular than others, and the popular ones might not agree with your own personal tastes, but that's just life. The point is that we (and software developers) all have the freedom to choose how we interact with this system without any formal rules or maintainer group deciding what is allowed and what isn't (except within their own software and/or instance).
They are already cross-compatible enough, they are as cross-compatible as they need to be. It's not clear what more you could ask for. If you want them to all look and work exactly the same then what's the point of having different software at all? You're acting like the different features and choices are a downside when it is in fact a benefit. Pick the one you like the most and use it. If you like Piefed's hashtags, then use Piefed, it's great! There's nothing "locked away" in Piefed, everything in it is available to everybody, as it should be!
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