Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings
Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in memo, after blowout earnings
Microsoft reported a $27 billion quarterly profit, after cutting thousands of jobs. The CFO is keeping up the pressure.Ashley Stewart (Business Insider)
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Texas Democrats Flee State to Thwart Trump-Led Plot Against Democracy
In order to prevent a quorum, state representatives in the Texas House are leaving the state to combat what one Democratic lawmaker called "the rot at the core of our broken political system."
UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!
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UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!
The UK government programme to force AI into everything has reached the Ministry of Justice, with the ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’! If they can bodge something with AI, they’re going to. [Ministry …Pivot to AI
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Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles
Switch 2 and online membership pricing “will remain unchanged at this time.”
Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles
Switch 2 and online membership pricing “will remain unchanged at this time.”…Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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Every year, sanctions kill more people than wars
Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused over 500,000 deaths annually, surpassing yearly global deaths from armed conflict.
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A volcano in Russia’s Far East erupts for the first time in centuries
A volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted for the first time in hundreds of years
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Senate confirms Trump ally Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for DC
Former Fox News host boosted lies that Trump lost 2020 election because of electoral fraud
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2 Palestinian girls injured by Israeli fire as illegal settlers torch Palestinian vehicle in West Bank
Two Palestinian girls were wounded by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, as illegal settlers set fire to a Palestinian vehicle and scrawled racist graffiti in Hebron in the latest wave of violence across the occupied territory, Anadolu reports.
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Sydney Sweeney’s voter registration emerges amid uproar over controversial American Eagle jeans ad
Actor has been registered in Florida with one of the two main parties since June 2024, according to public voting records
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Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans
The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.
Cholera kills 80, infects over 2,100 in Sudan’s Darfur: UNICEF
At least 80 people have died and over 2,100 cases have been recorded in Sudan’s five Darfur states until July 30, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.
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Evidence pointing to genocide in Gaza overwhelming, says ex-war crimes prosecutor
A former deputy prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said the amount of evidence pointing to genocide in Gaza is overwhelming and likened the situation to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Anadolu reports.
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Woman arrested after travelling with two-year-old in suitcase in New Zealand
Police say 27-year-old charged with ill treatment and neglect of a child after bus driver spotted a bag moving
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Israeli forces kill at least 27 at food site while minister’s al-Aqsa visit causes outrage
Six more people die from malnutrition, while Itamar Ben-Gvir is first minister to publicly pray at sensitive site
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Senior judges reveal regret at handing out ‘unfair’ indefinite jail terms and call for scandal to be ‘put right’
Exclusive: ‘I have been a part of the system that is wrong. I feel that I ought to be part of the system to put it right,’ says one judge who backs proposals to help those trapped under the ‘unfair’ sentence
Former US soldier suspected of killing 4 in Montana remains at large
Authorities say a former US soldier suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar is still at large and believed to be armed.
Marjorie Taylor Greene hints that she might be finished with the Republican Party
Georgia firebrand recently broke from her party to condemn Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza – one of the few positions she’s taken in opposition to her party
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Australia | 'Stop Genocide!' 300,000 March Across Sydney Bridge for Gaza
"One has to be blind not to see that Israel has completely lost the majority of the world—including in the West."
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Spain | Bodies of pilot and son recovered after plane crash off Port de Sóller, Mallorca
Civil Guard divers have recovered the bodies of a former US Army fighter pilot and his 13-year-old son after their small plane crashed into the sea near Port de Sóller, Mallorca. The crash occurred during an acrobatic flight in a Team Rocket F4 Raider registered N31VX on Saturday evening, shortly after takeoff from Binissalem airfield.
Poland extends border controls with Germany, Lithuania
The Polish interior minister announced that the relevant regulation had been issued last Friday and submitted to the European Commission for notification
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Ryanair flights delayed at Eindhoven Airport due to staff shortages
Ryanair departures from Eindhoven Airport faced major delays on Sunday, largely due to ongoing staff shortages at ground handling firm Skytanking, the airport confirmed. Departing flights were most affected, though some arrivals were also delayed earlier in the day.the
[Article] Solar power plant repurposed to hunt asteroids at night
To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give heliostat mirrors a side hustle. At the National Solar Thermal Test Facility he's experimenting with getting them to hunt for asteroids at night.
At least 68 African migrants dead and scores missing after ship capsizes off Yemen coast
At least 68 migrants are dead and 74 more missing after a ship sank off the coast of Yemen Sunday, the UN's migration agency said. Tens of thousands of migrants cross the perilous waters between the Horn and Africa and Yemen every year in search of work in Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Gulf states.
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UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs
Programme about performer Bonnie Blue condemned for ‘glamorising and normalising’ extreme pornography
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White House boasts about Trump’s golf score – days after he was accused of cheating on his own course
President’s net golf score indicates he has an impressive handicap of around two
UK: Social media people smugglers to face jail
The British government is looking to pass new legislation to clamp down on people smugglers who use social media to promote their services, including English Channel crossings, fake documentation and accomodation.
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DOGE embarrasses Trump again with accidental bird flu expert firings
ANALYSIS: The firing of bird flu experts while Trump’s team boasted about the federal response to the crisis was a misleading self-own by the White House
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US Boeing defense workers slated to strike after rejecting latest offer
Over 3,200 union machinists around St Louis expected to strike at midnight on Monday as they seek new contract
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GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"
The backlash continues after a large swath of sexually explicit games were removed from Steam and Itch--along with games that feature LGBTQ content and themes.
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Trump administration denies daily quota for immigration arrests
In May reports revealed that White House officials had set goals for Ice agents to arrest 3,000 people per day
Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."
Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict
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Tesla must pay the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages, the jury said.
Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict
Tesla must pay the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages, the jury said.
Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict
Tesla must pay the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages, the jury said.
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One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday
About 34% of the web is still powered by HTTP/1.1 and that protocol will likely come under severe attack starting on Wednesday. Get a preview of what's in store for the latest security headache.
Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
The Dollar is Dead
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Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw
Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin.
Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
As I write this, I'm sitting on an airplane flying over the Canadian prairies on my way home from Vancouver, BC.
What an amazing group of individuals, who took the time out of their extraordinarily busy lives to see, hear, and learn about the fediverse! The connections made and ideas discussed were so important, and you could feel the energy in the air.
You'd think after a solid six hours a day in a lecture hall would be enough, but at every opportunity in between, there were lively discussions about ActivityPub and the fediverse. It turns out when you get all of us in a group together we can talk and continue to talk about the open social web for ages.
I now have a to-do list about a kilometer long, they all need to get done ASAP!
Thank you to reiver@mastodon.social for organizing this conference, all of those who helped out and participated, and all those who attended.
From now on, whenever someone points a camera to me, I'll picture jaz@toot.wales saying "say FEEEEEEDIVERSE".
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Re: Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
strypey@socialhub.activitypub.rocks I spoke to quite a few people at fedicon about this exact issue.
Many feel that some sort of discussion platform is needed, but for one reason or another SocialHub is not that platform.
They did often agree with my assertion that discussion of activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse itself.
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for one reason or another SocialHub is not that platform.
I'm curious to hear those reasons in some detail, ideally from the horses mouth. Whether here, in the verse (I'm @strypey at mastodon.nzoss.nz), or elsewise (contact info in the profile for that account). That helps us figure out what needs to be done differently. No need to worry about upsetting me, I respect absolute candour, and commit to replying both honestly and respectfully.
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activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse itself.
I agree. As @how said in the against fragmentation topic, SH is part of the fediverse. But it also offers things that ephemeral micro-posting chatter doesn't, not least permanent archiving for later reference, and an entry point for newbies. If it's not doing a good job, let's talk about why, and do something about it.
One thing we could experiment with, if you're keen, is a complete mirror of the existing SH using NodeBB. With full archives, and full federation so anything posted to one can be read on both. That way people can use their forum interface of choice to participate (as well as being able to use other apps via AP federation). It also ends the problem of the existing SH being a SPoF, and thus a source of tension and territorial conflict.
Against fragmentation: unifying dev discussions with forum federation
On a recent episode of the Dot Social podcast, John O’Nolan of Ghost said; “For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large, man, we are spread across Mastodon DMs sometimes, an email thread other …SocialHub
Re: Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
There is no existing, up-to-date exporter for Discourse to NodeBB. One would have to pay someone to do it.
While we (the royal we, NodeBB Inc.) would gladly take your money, you're better off sending it to nitro-porter, whose migrator is OSS.
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julian:discussion of activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse itself.
I agree. As @how said in the against fragmentation topic, SH is part of the fediverse.
imo this is one of those points that sounds better than it actually is. being "on the fediverse" or "part of the fediverse" is a meaningless term without providing specifics. what actually matters here is the distribution and aggregation of resources (posts, threads, and so on). it's not broadly useful to have discussions about activitypub "on the fediverse" if those discussions never end up being seen by the people who want to see them.
for a discussion to end up on socialhub, one of the following needs to happen:
- either someone notifies socialhub that their post should be aggregated
- or socialhub crawls the fediverse and proactively aggregates posts
again, it's a distribution problem. keeping socialhub "in the loop" is necessary if you want your post to end up on socialhub. this can happen via fedi or it can happen via web ui. but it's automatic if you do it via the web ui, whereas if you do it via fedi you have to remember to send your post to the appropriate actor. the UX of participating in actual threads and including aggregators is very bad in the current fedi softwares -- usually, you have to include a mention of the actor who manages the thread in every single post you care to end up there, and there isn't a straightforward way to make that actor aware of old posts. this is why federation without any additional considerations is bad -- it leads to context collapse. you can't consider only federation, but instead you need to consider federation how, and with whom, and with which expectations.
for these reasons, i can't agree that "discussions of activitypub topics should take place on the fediverse" unless/until the fediverse becomes aware of the concept of discussions as separate from reply trees, and subsequently knows where to send all relevant notifications.
Against fragmentation: unifying dev discussions with forum federation
On a recent episode of the Dot Social podcast, John O’Nolan of Ghost said; “For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large, man, we are spread across Mastodon DMs sometimes, an email thread other …SocialHub
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a, we may be talking about slightly different things.
My assertion is that discussions about ActivityPub should take place on the fediverse*.
I think you are asserting that SocialHub discussions shouldn't take place on the fediverse.
And so sure, there is zero ability for SocialHub to proactively pull in posts, but that's a failure of the software, not of the fediverse in general. (FWIW that failure is present in NodeBB too, even though we do have existing discovery tooling.)
I'll admit that it's hard to consume long running discussions on typical microblogging software, and additional steps need to be taken to keep SH in the loop, but that doesn't mean discussions don't happen there.
Because you know as well as I do that discussions do happen there organically, and often, too.
* Additional considerations about "which fediverse" is out of scope of this statement
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agreed that it's not broadly useful to have discussions that aren't seen by people who want to see them. It's a two-way problem, keeping SocialHub in the loop and keeping everybody else in the loop as well. It's a good example of what I was talkingn about in the other thread: it's useful to get input on the question of whether or not SocialHub discussions are currenlty meaningfully "on the fediverse" from people who don't have SocialHub accounts!
I'm not sure you need to be able to fully pull in discussions that are happening elsewhere ... for example a link aggregator that combines links to interesting discussions elsewhere with discussions of its own that others can participate isn't as smoothly integrated but could still be useful.
Being able to have threaded, categorized long-form discussions that people who have accounts elsewhere can broadly participate in certainly seems like something that a lot of people want. If that's not possible with current fediverse software then (a) that's disappointing but also (b) now's as good a time as any to work on improving it and this is as good a use case as any.
By contrast it seems to me that most of the potential audience doesn't want non-federated threaded, categorized long-form discussions enough with the people currently active on SocialHub to participate on any kind of regular basis on SH.
Yeah. I have no idea how to follow SocialHub discussions Mastodon account. I see this post because I'm following you, but it's disembodied -- I don't see the rest of the thread. And I can search for @community@socialhub.activity.rocks but its profile is empty.
Not only that, If I'm reading it over there, and see something I want to reply to from here, doing the "copy this URL" trick doesn't work. Does that mean I'm not in the fediverse??? Hard to know, but in any case I haven't yet figured out how I can participate in discussions there except by replying to somebody I follow.
Re: Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
jdp23@neuromatch.social I don't want to get overly technical about it, but that's due to fixable deficiencies in Discourse's AP integration.
I think you should be able to follow the @community@socialhub.activity.rocks actor, no?
The "copy URL" flow is especially prevalent on the fediverse, but Discourse doesn't support it (neither does Ghost, while I am talking about it.)
Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
Yeah. I have no idea how to follow SocialHub discussions from my Mastodon account. I see the post I'm replying to you because I'm following you, but it's ...NodeBB Community
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