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Map from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair


caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-deny…




https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1936913191369343452

80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, 50% of the deaths children(, 0 solution has been seriously discussed), ... :

https://x.com/dn_osama_rabee/status/1933093727423095151
https://x.com/translatingpal/status/1936134624620540307
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1936555053768171996
...

17% would only comparable to the second Congo war(, 1998-2003, 3-5M out of ~30M, mostly civilians from starvation or diseases), or the Korean war(, 1950-1953, 1.5-2M out of 9M, mostly from US bombings), otherwise, a.f.a.i.k., the only relatively recent recorded historical events with a higher percentage are genocides(, that have even reached an unbelievable 90% in two cases).

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1926467525488889926

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'Alligator Alcatraz' Denounced as Epitome of GOP Dehumanization and Cruelty Toward Migrants


Rights advocates and Democratic officials are outraged by the Trump administration and Florida Republicans' plan to build "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades to detain migrants.
#USA



'You are not alone': Taiwan, US institutions rally behind Israel following Iran strikes


in reply to schizoidman

Lee emphasized the shared values between Taiwan and Israel: “Taiwan and Israel share the same values and a belief in defending a way of life under threat. Though both are small nations, no country is too small to deserve freedom or to stand on the right side of history.”


Sadly you are on the wrong side of history and a hypocrite.



Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say


Chinese and Hong Kong scientists succeed in animal trials, but potential problems include risk of devices being left in body and public suspicions


Archived version: archive.is/20250625171031/theg…


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.



What LLMs Know About Their Users


Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it all.


Another case of ICE disappearing an American citizen


The family members of a U.S. citizen who was taken into custody by federal agents in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday are demanding answers as she was detained while on her way to work.

Andrea Velez, a Cal Poly Pomona grad working in merchandising at a shoe company, had just been dropped off by her mother and sister for the workday when they saw her being taken into custody, adding they had barely even driven a block before the arrest began.

"They didn't have vests that said ICE or anything," said Velez's sister Estrella Rosas. "Their cars didn't have license plates."

She says that her mother was driving away when she looked in her rearview mirror at what was described by police as immigration enforcement.

"In the rear mirror she saw my sister was kinda, like, attacked from the back and she was already on the floor," Rosas said.

Video shows a growing crowd of onlookers yelling as officers surround the 32-year-old woman. Her family members were too scared to get out, as Rosas' mother has residency but not full U.S. citizenship.

They're also worried that Velez may have been holding pepper spray, which they say she always carries in her hand when walking downtown, when agents approached her.

Witnesses told CBS News Los Angeles that no one asked for her identification, but her family believes that it was nothing she actually did that led to her arrest, but rather the way she looks.

"Just because of the color of our skin, they think we're criminals," Rosas said. "My sister was there, so they were like, 'Oh, she looks Hispanic, so let's take her too.'"

As of Tuesday night, they have still not been able to find out where Velez is being held and are worried it could be days before they finally do.

CBS News Los Angeles has reached out to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement for information on Velez's arrest but has not yet heard back. An inquiry was also made asking how agents check a person's status when they first come into contact, and how they find the people they're targeting in enforcement operations.

Some of the video circulating online, showing Velez's arrest, also shows a group of Los Angeles police who appear to be aiding federal agents in the immigration operations.

Later Tuesday, officers told CBS News Los Angeles that they were called to the area after receiving a 911 call reporting a kidnapping at the location. When they arrived, they say that they saw that a federal immigration operation was underway and stayed to maintain peace because they were concerned by the growing crowd and the federal agents.



Faenza (Ra): Visite guidate della Pro Loco per i “Martedì d’Estate” (1-8-15-22 luglio 2025)


La Pro Loco Faenza organizza un ciclo di visite guidate serali nei “Martedì d’Estate”, alla scoperta di luoghi insoliti e storie affascinanti della città. Quattro appuntamenti curati da guide turistiche abilitate della Regione Emilia-Romagna, con inizio alle 20.45 e ritrovo presso la sede Pro Loco (Voltone Molinella).

Quota di partecipazione: 3 euro. Prenotazione obbligatoria, posti limitati. Consigliata la prenotazione dalla settimana precedente.

Programma:

1° luglio – “Farmacie d’arte”
Tour in tre farmacie storiche (Sansoni, Zanotti, Duomo), tra arredi antichi, architetture e arte. Percorso accessibile, tranne un primo piano non adatto a persone con mobilità ridotta.

8 luglio – “I 120 anni del Sarti”
Dalla sua nascita a teatro a cinema, un viaggio dietro le quinte e nelle trasformazioni del Teatro Sarti.

15 luglio – “Il Ridotto del Masini e la Galleria dei Cento Pacifici”
Un’immersione nell’eleganza neoclassica tra architetture, sculture e affreschi del Ridotto del Teatro Masini e della Galleria dei Cento Pacifici.

22 luglio – “Storie di uomini e paesi”
Passeggiata all’interno del Museo di Palazzo Laderchi per scoprire la Faenza tra XIX e XX secolo attraverso volti, memorie e trasformazioni della città.

Info e prenotazioni:
Pro Loco Iat Faenza – Voltone Molinella 2
📞 0546 25231 ✉️ info@prolocofaenza.it
🌐 www.prolocofaenza.it

Orari ufficio (maggio-settembre):
Lun–Sab: 9.30-12.30 / 15.30-18.30 | Dom e festivi: 9.30-12.30



Zohran Mamdani Delivers Progressive Win Over Democratic Establishment | Common Dreams


from Common Dreams [reprinted from Pressenza]
David Andersson
Jun 25, 2025

"But the establishment’s machine was no match for the momentum behind Mamdani, who worked closely with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Their progressive political movement, deeply rooted in democratic socialism, has been steadily gaining ground—election after election, neighborhood by neighborhood—through tireless grassroots organizing, door-to-door campaigning, and small-dollar donations.

“This is a victory for every New Yorker who has been told they don’t have a voice,” Mamdani said in his victory speech. “It’s proof that organized people can beat organized money.”"

#USA


Zohran Mamdani Delivers Progressive Win Over Democratic Establishment | Common Dreams


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32265146

from Common Dreams [reprinted from Pressenza]
David Andersson
Jun 25, 2025

"But the establishment’s machine was no match for the momentum behind Mamdani, who worked closely with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Their progressive political movement, deeply rooted in democratic socialism, has been steadily gaining ground—election after election, neighborhood by neighborhood—through tireless grassroots organizing, door-to-door campaigning, and small-dollar donations.

“This is a victory for every New Yorker who has been told they don’t have a voice,” Mamdani said in his victory speech. “It’s proof that organized people can beat organized money.”"



Zohran Mamdani Delivers Progressive Win Over Democratic Establishment | Common Dreams


from Common Dreams [reprinted from Pressenza]
David Andersson
Jun 25, 2025

"But the establishment’s machine was no match for the momentum behind Mamdani, who worked closely with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Their progressive political movement, deeply rooted in democratic socialism, has been steadily gaining ground—election after election, neighborhood by neighborhood—through tireless grassroots organizing, door-to-door campaigning, and small-dollar donations.

“This is a victory for every New Yorker who has been told they don’t have a voice,” Mamdani said in his victory speech. “It’s proof that organized people can beat organized money.”"






Mistaya Canyon, Banff NP, Alberta


Easy 1.5 mile Loop
300 ft elevation gain
Hiked May 23, 2025

An extremely popular hike due to its ease and location north of Lake Louise on the Icefields Parkway, this hike puts you right on top of the falls where you may wander along the top of the canyon and see the various water chutes. A short loop uses part of the Mt Sarbach trail to get a higher view. Both parking and the people can be a mess here, so plan accordingly.

Where the river meets the canyon creating a short but turbocharged waterfall.

Mistaya canyon unfolds towards Mount Sarbach in the distance.

Mount Sarbach in the distance with Mistaya river and a forest extending downstream.



La Hongrie met en garde ses partenaires de l'UE qui voudraient participer à la Pride




Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back.


It started to become clear the previous April, when a man who had been pursuing me canceled a dinner at the last minute. There was a scheduling mix-up with his son’s game. I understood. I’m a hockey mom; I get it. Still, I went. I wore what I would have worn anyway. I took the table. I ordered well. And I watched the room.

Only two tables nearby seemed to hold actual dates. The rest were groups of women, or women alone, each one occupying her space with quiet confidence. No shrinking. No waiting. No apologizing.

That night marked something. Not a heartbreak, but an unveiling. A sense that what I’d been experiencing wasn’t just personal misalignment. It was something broader. Cultural. A slow vanishing of presence.


I’m 54. I’ve been dating since the mid-80s, been married, been a mother, gotten divorced, had many relationships long and short. I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involved showing up with a woman to signal something — status, success, desirability. Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. It wasn’t always healthy, but it meant that men had to show up and put in some effort.

That dynamic has quietly collapsed. We have moved into an era where many men no longer seek women to impress other men or to connect across difference. They perform elsewhere. Alone. They’ve filtered us out.

I recently experienced a flicker of possibility. With James. We met on Raya, the dating app. There was something mutual from the start — wordplay, emotional precision, a tone that felt attuned. It was brief, but it caught light. I remember saying to him, “Even fleeting connections matter, when they’re mutual and lit from the inside.” I meant it.

There was just enough spark to wonder what might unfold. Enough curiosity to imagine a doorway. But he didn’t step through it. Not with a plan. Not with presence. He hovered — flirting, retreating, offering warmth but no direction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/style/modern-love-men-where-have-you-gone-please-come-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.XGxM.Vjn2tQ-ezAmR



I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aid


Some excerpts:
A survivor of the Tuesday massacre at the GHF distribution point in Rafah told me that shortly after the appointed distribution time, Israeli soldiers were near the road to the site, “hunting people as if they were ducks”.

The aid seeker from southern Gaza told me he saw gangs of Palestinian thieves inside the point, apparently “working side by side with the GHF workers” to create a buffer between the pushing crowds and US staff.

The GHF workers, described as “seasoned crisis operators,” have troubling backgrounds. Phil Reilly, CEO of Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), which assists the GHF, was a senior vice president at a US company that committed a massacre in Iraq in 2007.

The foundation is also assisted by another company, publicly known as UG Solutions. During the January ceasefire, UG hired US mercenaries at daily rates starting at $1,100 to inspect vehicles at the Netzarim checkpoint.



I’m in northern Gaza. I would rather starve than take GHF aid


Some excerpts:

A survivor of the Tuesday massacre at the GHF distribution point in Rafah told me that shortly after the appointed distribution time, Israeli soldiers were near the road to the site, “hunting people as if they were ducks”.

The aid seeker from southern Gaza told me he saw gangs of Palestinian thieves inside the point, apparently “working side by side with the GHF workers” to create a buffer between the pushing crowds and US staff.

The GHF workers, described as “seasoned crisis operators,” have troubling backgrounds. Phil Reilly, CEO of Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), which assists the GHF, was a senior vice president at a US company that committed a massacre in Iraq in 2007.

The foundation is also assisted by another company, publicly known as UG Solutions. During the January ceasefire, UG hired US mercenaries at daily rates starting at $1,100 to inspect vehicles at the Netzarim checkpoint.



The US establishment fears the emergence of China






Bezos' Venice wedding party venue moved following protests – DW – 06/25/2025




Invader Zim Season 1 ep 1 upscale sample


Curious what you guys think, if you can find a better version, if I should keep working on this, etc.
in reply to MothmanLives

Awesome! I'd watch the whole show for sure. What program did you use?
in reply to Venus_Ziegenfalle

output frames in Shotcut, Real-ESRGAN 4x using realesr-animevideov3-x4 then "mogrifried" using image magick and put them back in using Shotcut, takes about 2-3 days, could definitely be optimized a bit though
in reply to MothmanLives

Sick. Yeah I've done a similar project before. I upscaled the videos, then fine-tuned them in shotcut (I layered the upscaled and original video to preserve more details, adjusted the colors and so on) and then doubled the framerate with flowframes. You can check out an episode of Filmore in German here 😄 It took a long time for me too btw. And I think I fried my GPU a little.
in reply to MothmanLives

Definitely looks upscaled, but looks damn good nonetheless! Thanks for this. Hands down, one of the best shows to have ever existed. Now I want to find my DVDs from way back when.



LeechBlock NG




Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC | Common Dreams


Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"Affordability was a key focus of Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."

#USA


Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC | Common Dreams


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32262380

Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"Affordability was a key focus of Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."



Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC | Common Dreams


Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"Affordability was a key focus of Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."





Hackers show how they can fully control your 2020 Nissan Leaf remotely






Will NATO survive the day?




PNG is back!


in reply to cm0002

Even with the new spec PNG is far behind new standards like AVIF or JPEG XL.
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in reply to BrikoX

And yet, PNG has more support. If they start supporting the new spec, seems like an improvement to me.
in reply to Alexstarfire

AVIF is pretty universally supported at this point.
JPEG XL just lacks browser support because Google, prefers to push their own .webp and Mozilla is not interested in supporting any non AI focused standards these days.

Exactly why monopoly power is killer of innovation.

in reply to BrikoX

Wasn't JPEG XL sabotaged by patents or something?

Edit: maybe I'm thinking of JPEG 2000, IDK.

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in reply to grue

Indeed. Google decided to fuck everyone over like always against the wishes of the main developer.



Trump's Corrupt Plan to Steal Rural America's Broadband Future


The old saying “timing is everything” apparently also applies to corruption.

On June 6, mere hours after Elon Musk started his tweet war with the president, Trump’s Commerce Department released its long-awaited revisions to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”) program.

This $42 billion broadband-deployment plan was part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) that Congress passed in November 2021. As expected, the Trump administration’s revisions radically overhauled what had been a rural broadband-deployment plan focused on building fiber networks — and turned it into a free money dispenser for Elon Musk’s satellite-broadband company, Starlink.

Had this billionaire bromance fallen apart a few weeks earlier, we might have seen a less sweeping revision of this once-in-a-lifetime infrastructure program. But now that this revised plan is out there, analysts everywhere — operating on the premise that Trump-administration corruption is a given — are trying to predict how and to what degree the Trump team will enforce these changes designed to unjustly enrich Musk … a man the president reportedly called “a big time drug addict” as the two traded barbs.

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Trump's Corrupt Plan to Steal Rural America's Broadband Future


The old saying “timing is everything” apparently also applies to corruption.

On June 6, mere hours after Elon Musk started his tweet war with the president, Trump’s Commerce Department released its long-awaited revisions to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”) program.

This $42 billion broadband-deployment plan was part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) that Congress passed in November 2021. As expected, the Trump administration’s revisions radically overhauled what had been a rural broadband-deployment plan focused on building fiber networks — and turned it into a free money dispenser for Elon Musk’s satellite-broadband company, Starlink.

Had this billionaire bromance fallen apart a few weeks earlier, we might have seen a less sweeping revision of this once-in-a-lifetime infrastructure program. But now that this revised plan is out there, analysts everywhere — operating on the premise that Trump-administration corruption is a given — are trying to predict how and to what degree the Trump team will enforce these changes designed to unjustly enrich Musk … a man the president reportedly called “a big time drug addict” as the two traded barbs.

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in reply to sabreW4K3

There needs to be the Music app for Video app and maybe it's closer to the Postcast app but it's all there.

Any anyone that's missing, we have to assume you're in it for the exposure and we're doing you the favor by spreading your expression of free speech while you deal with how you want to fund it.

I didn't commission it so it's not my responsibility to make you whole on this endeavor. Stop pretending we owe you a specific amount of money.

No service was rendered. No service fee should be charged. If you want your content to remain a secret then why did you release it to not a form that can be copied at no cost to you.

I strongly argue that much of what we do around copyright is a violation of the first amendment in a thousand ways.

The fact that you can calculate damages against us is silly. Did I libel you? I recorded some knowledge I was given that was relayed to someone else.

The fact that you've provided something that can be copied perfectly is on you. Doesn't make you a fucking word god. How faulty does our memory need to be before this game of telephone because legal in the eyes of copyright?

Using a magical language doesn't override out right to use our free will to study our encountered world.

It is unjust to restrict us from sharing our findings. This is our free expression. These are chains that no corporate or other person or persons can be trusted to possess as empherial as they may.

Any legal framework that forces us to silence ourselves is crime against our humanity.

The longer you refuse the faster we build a video app that mathematically routes around any that may be constructed. Your imagination may be limited but the laws of mathematics finds a way.

How can you punish our innate desire to communicate in clarity.

in reply to sabreW4K3

they should just say they're just training ai's