Family Demands US Probe Into Israeli Settlers' 'Lynching' of American Citizen
Israeli settlers brutally beat 20-year-old Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet to death in the West Bank, while U.S. officials remain silent. His family demands justice for the senseless killing. Why do Americans continue to be murdered by Israelis with no consequences? #JusticeForSayf
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Family Demands US Probe Into Israeli Settlers' 'Lynching' of American Citizen
The family of Sayfollah Musallet called his killing by Israeli settlers "an unimaginable nightmare and an injustice that no family should ever have to face."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Kamal Adwan Hospital Chief ‘Starved, Tortured, Isolated’ in Israeli Jail
Kamal Adwan Hospital chief ‘starved, tortured, isolated’ in Israeli jail
Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s condition has worsened since he was abducted and jailed by Israel in December last yearthecradle.co
Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform
Google will merge ChromeOS and Android into a unified platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. "We're going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they're getting done," Samat said during a recent interview.
In Act of 'Brutal Sadism,' Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death
"This is not about security," said the head of Gaza's fishers' union. "It's economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation."
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In Act of 'Brutal Sadism,' Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death
"This is not about security," said the head of Gaza's fishers' union. "It's economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
After Passage of GOP Medicaid Cuts, Congress Debates Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget
In a closed-door session last week, senators advanced legislation that would authorize $925 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year.
Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid
Agents tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect farmworkers from arrest.
Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts
In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.
Churches can now endorse candidates and Trump couldn't be happier
"He is our greatest champion of faith, of any president, that the United States of America has ever had."
Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake
Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake
Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”…Chris Walker (Truthout)
US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department.
xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. But the timing of the announcement is striking given Grok’s recent high-profile spiral, which drew congressional ire and public pushback. The use of technology, and especially AI, in the defense space has long been a controversial topic even within the tech industry, and Musk’s prior involvement in slashing federal government contracts through his work at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) still raises questions about potential conflicts — though his relationship with President Donald Trump has more recently soured, and Trump’s administration has claimed Musk would step back from any potential conflicts while at DOGE.
US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
The US Defense Department is awarding Elon Musk’s xAI a contract to help “develop agentic AI workflows” following an ill-fated Grok update.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
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[Patch Notes] 3.26.0d Hotfix 4
3.26.0d Hotfix 4
- Increased the memory limit of the DirectX12 renderer. This can help cases where assets keep reloading in performance-heavy situations, such as in Blight-ravaged maps.
- Impenetrable Bastion's immunity Buff is now unaffected by things that modify the expiry rate of Buffs, such as Temporal Chains.
- Impenetrable Bastion's immunity Buff now has a global cooldown of 20 seconds.
You will need to restart your client to patch the client-side changes of this hotfix.
Patch Notes - 3.26.0d Hotfix 4 - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33162300
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33162300
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025
Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
Hamas Says
Always telling when they refuse to point to the leadership they are ostensibly dealing with in between rounds of mass extermination.
Netanyahu has made it a national policy of targeting all former members of the Palestinian government, both in Gaza and the West Bank. His IDF kills militants and diplomats alike. They find family members and murder them, too. They gun down whole neighborhoods on the suspicion a Hamas insurgent might be inside. They fill their prisons with suspects and torture Gazans to death, extracting a few confessions out along the way. Then they kick off wars with neighboring Lebanon and Syria, they bomb their ostensible allies in Jordan and Egypt, and they even send bombers deep into Iran.
Hell, they are shooting their own Oct 7th hostages. Who is left to sign a "surrender" agreement on these terms? Anyone waving a white flag is bombed into the pavement.
Might as well ask for Anne Frank's surrender as anyone in Gaza.
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.Patrick Maguire (CBS News)
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x264 AV1 file, vlc and mpv on debian 12.11, problems to play it, what to do?
the x264 av1 file plays only audio on vlc but works with flaws on mpv: on mpv I get audio and video, but every 5 to 6 seconds it's like instead of getting 24 fps I get 22, the user noticing the missing frames.
Is this a hardware issue? software?
debian 12.11, vlc 3.0.21 flatpak, mpv 0.40.0 flatpak
what do I do?
Check using e.g. top for your CPU (nvidia-smi or amd-smi for your GPU) or System Monitor on KDE if any of your resource is being maxed out. If so then most likely you found the culprit.
Regarding what the actual codec is being used you can use ffprobe but anyway what matters if resource bottleneck and thus if you can have hardware acceleration for it.
It's probably worth investigating so that you don't keep on getting video files too big for your computer to handle. I imagine it's something very high resolution with very recent compression. If so, look for something less demanding, e.g. x265 720p and if that's still leading to performance hiccups the older x264 720p or even 480p.
It's rare that the media player itself, e.g. VLC or mpv, actually is the bottleneck.
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/493495
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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way outGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Jack Dorsey has built an app for Iphone to track your vitamin D, released under Public Domain.
GitHub - jackjackbits/sunday: track your D
track your D. Contribute to jackjackbits/sunday development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
- Google Announcement.
- Anthropic Announcement.
> Today, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced contract awards to leading U.S. frontier AI companies to accelerate Department of Defense (DoD) adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges. Frontier AI companies lead development of the most advanced AI models and technologies, conduct insightful research into the use of frontier AI, and pioneer efforts to address both the potential benefits and risks of frontier AI technologies.
The awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI – each with a $200M ceiling – will enable the Department to leverage the technology and talent of U.S. frontier AI companies to develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas. Establishing these partnerships will broaden DoD use of and experience in frontier AI capabilities and increase the ability of these companies to understand and address critical national security needs with the most advanced AI capabilities U.S. industry has to offer.
Google Public Sector Awarded $200M DoD CDAO Contract for AI & Cloud Acceleration
Google Public Sector secures $200M DoD CDAO contract, accelerating AI and cloud adoption to enhance U.S. national security and mission readiness with cutting-edge tech.Jim Kelly (Google Cloud)
The European Commission says that France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app meant to protect children online
The release of this blueprint launches a pilot phase during which a software solution for age verification will be tested and further customised in collaboration with Member States, online platforms and end-users. Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Spain will be the first to take up the technical solution in view of taking it up in their national digital wallets or publishing a customised national age verification app on the app stores. Market players can also take up the software solution and further develop it.
Commission makes available an age-verification blueprint
To help online platforms implement a user-friendly and privacy-preserving age verification method, the Commission is developing a harmonised approach in close collaboration with the Member States.Shaping Europe’s digital future
Probe launched into Westminster group’s Israel funding
An official inquiry has been launched after Declassified revealed that an Israeli state-owned weapons firm had funded a group of British MPs.
RUK Advanced Systems Ltd sells weapons including urban combat missiles and “hard kill” torpedoes. But records show it is part of the defence giant Rafael, which is owned by the Israeli government.
Our investigation found the company had paid at least £1,499 to partner with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Defence Technology, which provides “opportunities to network with MPs”. The money was paid directly to the group’s secretariat.
But parliamentary rules say that APPGs should not “accept the services of a secretariat funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”.
Probe launched into Westminster group’s Israel funding
Exclusive: Parliamentary standards boss announces investigation after Declassified revealed donation from Israeli state-owned arms firm.Martin Williams (Declassified Media ltd)
Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama adviser in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
Is he building links or a sheep in wolf's clothing?
Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama advisor in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.World Socialist Web Site
Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
Say Hello to the World’s Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
Looking for the world's largest hard drive that you can buy? Seagate just released a monster 36TB HDD for $800, but it's tough to find.Matt Jancer (VICE)
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Filch Stealer: A new infostealer leveraging old techniques
Filch Stealer: A new infostealer leveraging old techniques - Rapid7
In recent weeks, Rapid7 has observed an increased volume of incidents involving domains generated by domain generation algorithms (DGAs). Learn more!Rapid7
Filch Stealer: A new infostealer leveraging old techniques
Filch Stealer: A new infostealer leveraging old techniques - Rapid7
In recent weeks, Rapid7 has observed an increased volume of incidents involving domains generated by domain generation algorithms (DGAs). Learn more!Rapid7
New report reveals how risky and unchecked AI chatbots are the new ‘go to’ for millions of children
Me, Myself & AI: Chatbot research | Internet Matters
Me, Myself & AI: Chatbot research | Internet Matters. Explore children's interactions with AI chatbots as both tools and companions.Internet Matters Team (Internet Matters Ltd)
The Fatal Failures of the Copyright Office’s Report on AI
The Fatal Failures of the Copyright Office’s Report on AI - Public Knowledge
At long last, the Copyright Office released its third report on fair use and AI — but their analysis contained serious missteps.Meredith Filak Rose (Public Knowledge)
‘Real treatment’ IV drip clinics boom in Russia as ordinary people seek quick fixes for fatigue, stress, and more
‘Real treatment’
IV drip clinics boom in Russia as ordinary people seek quick fixes for fatigue, stress, and moreMeduza
Tesla to hold shareholder vote on whether to invest in xAI
Tesla will hold a shareholder vote on whether Elon Musk’s carmaker should invest in his artificial intelligence startup xAI, the billionaire said Sunday
Tesla to hold shareholder vote on whether to invest in xAI
Tesla will hold a shareholder vote on whether Elon Musk’s carmaker should invest in his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, the billionaire said in a post on X Sunday.Clare Duffy (CNN)
Teddy sleeping
https://piped.chrisco.me/videos/watch/c9a7d7fc-ace8-497e-87f2-1d51d4fdf0bb
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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Sanders why gizmodo.com/bernie-sanders-rev…
Sen. Sanders: I have talked to CEOs. Funny that you mention it. I won’t mention his name, but I’ve just gotten off the phone with one of the leading experts in the world on artificial intelligence, two hours ago.. . .
Second point: This is not science fiction. There are very, very knowledgeable people—and I just talked to one today—who worry very much that human beings will not be able to control the technology, and that artificial intelligence will in fact dominate our society. We will not be able to control it. It may be able to control us. That’s kind of the doomsday scenario—and there is some concern about that among very knowledgeable people in the industry.
taking a wild guess it's Yudkowsky. "very knowledgeable people" and "many/most experts" is staying on my AI apocalypse bingo sheet.
even among people critical of AI (who don't otherwise talk about it that much), the AI apocalypse angle seems really common and it's frustrating to see it normalized everywhere. though I think I'm more nitpicking than anything because it's not usually their most important issue, and maybe it's useful as a wedge issue just to bring attention to other criticisms about AI? I'm not really familiar with Bernie Sanders' takes on AI or how other politicians talk about this. I don't know if that makes sense, I'm very tired
Bernie Sanders Reveals the AI 'Doomsday Scenario' That Worries Top Experts
The Vermont senator discusses his fears that artificial intelligence will only enrich the billionaire class, the fight for a 32-hour work week, and the ‘doomsday scenario’ that has some of the world’s top experts deeply concerned.Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries
"I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it's vibe physics."Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
STORIE AL PASSO camminata poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide a Bore (Parma), sabato 19 e domenica 20 luglio
STORIE AL PASSO
Silentwalk poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide
A cura di Gabriele Anzaldi, Simone Baroni, Rita Di Leo, Giorgia Favoti
Musiche e suoni di Gabriele Anzaldi
Produzione: Fondazione Federico Cornoni
In collaborazione con il Comune di Bore
All’interno del festival Canile Drammatico, promosso dalla Fondazione Federico Cornoni ETS con il contributo di Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Parma, Fondazione Cariparma, Confesercenti Parma, e il patrocinio di Comune di Bore e Università di Parma.
Il festival, dedicato al teatro contemporaneo per un pubblico giovane, approda a Bore con un progetto nato da una ricerca sul territorio e dai racconti degli abitanti, diventati base drammaturgica dell’evento.
“Storie al passo” è una camminata performativa lungo l’Anello di Davide, tra i faggeti del monte Carameto, a cura del Comitato Artistico della Fondazione, nata per ricordare Federico, giovane attore parmigiano. Una narrazione che intreccia memoria collettiva, Resistenza, antichi mestieri ed emigrazione.
Domenica 20 luglio alle ore 15.30, presso la Sala Multimediale dell’ex Colonia Leoni (via Roma 83), si terrà la presentazione del libro “Donne resistenti” di Fausto Ferrari, con testimonianze di partigiane delle montagne tra Piacenza e Parma.
Entrambi i giorni, dalle 10 alle 18, sempre all’Ex Colonia Leoni, sarà proiettato in loop il backstage del progetto, con le voci di alcuni abitanti coinvolti: Giuseppe e Valentino Campana, Iole Chiesa, Lorenzo Conti, Marisa Cornoni, Paolo Dondi, Fausto e Gaetano Ferrari, Michele Lalli.
L’iniziativa rientra nel progetto FaTiCa a margine, che collega diversi festival per avvicinare le comunità marginali al teatro.
INFO E PRENOTAZIONI
Partenza: Strada Comunale (loc. Orsi), ore 10 e 17 – Puntualità richiesta
Percorso: 3 km, dislivello 225 mt – Durata 1h30 circa
Abbigliamento comodo – Cuffie fornite
Prenotazioni: 348-8229334 – organizzazione@fondazionefedericocornoni.it
www.fondazionefedericocornoni.it – FB @Canile drammatico – IG @caniledrammatico_festival
STORIE AL PASSO camminata poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide a Bore (Parma), sabato 19 e domenica 20 luglio - ViaggieMiraggi
Bore (Parma) Sabato 19 e domenica 20 luglio 2025 ore 10 e 17 STORIE AL PASSO Silentwalk camminata poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide a cura di Gabriele Anzaldi, Simone Baroni, Rita Di Leo, Giorgia Favoti musiche e suoni...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
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