US House panel subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton for Epstein testimony
House oversight committee also issued subpoenas to several former attorneys general and FBI directors
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France’s PM turns to YouTube to sell his budget cuts
François Bayrou takes to the video site in a bid to explain his draconian budget cuts and win over the public.
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Boeing 777X Nears Certification, Could Fly Passengers By Mid-2026
The Boeing 777X is making progress with its certification, and the plane could actually be flying passengers by the middle of 2026.
Boeing 747 Hydraulic Failure & Tire Damage Incident Final Report Revealed
The most likely cause of the hydraulic issue was damage to the seventh and eighth tires during the taxi.
Australia | Tasmania Plane Disappearance: Search Continues for Missing Couple and Dog
A bright green light aircraft with two people and a dog on board has gone missing in Tasmania, sparking a massive search operation. No distress signal was sent before the plane disappeared.
Tasmania Plane Disappearance: Search Continues for Missing Couple and Dog
Police and rescue teams are searching for a missing light aircraft with two people and a dog on board that disappeared after departing from northern Tasmania on August 2.Prachi Patel (Simple Flying)
Messy Alaska & Virgin Trademark Dispute Now Involves Delta
Alaska Airlines is still trying to get out of paying $160 million in royalties for the Virgin America brand, and this now involves Delta.
Air Canada flight attendants enter final day of strike mandate vote
Air Canada flight attendants are entering the final day of voting on whether to give a strike mandate to their union.
Thousands of Boeing workers who build fighter jets and weapons go on strike
Several thousand workers at three Midwest manufacturing plants where Boeing develops military aircraft and weapons went on strike early Monday, potentially complicating the aerospace company’s progress in regaining its financial footing.
Thousands of Boeing workers who build fighter jets and weapons go on strike - Wings Magazine
NEW YORK (AP) — Several thousand workers at three Midwest manufacturing plants where Boeing develops military aircraft and weapons went on strike earlyWings Staff (Wings Magazine)
British teenager mistakenly flies to Italy instead of back home from Menorca Airport
A 15-year-old British boy accidentally boarded an easyJet flight to Milan Malpensa instead of returning on a TUI flight to London Stansted with his family from Mahon Airport in Menorca on Monday, 4 August.
Spain | Iberia Serves Kosher Meals With "Free Palestine" Message
Iberia is apologizing after serving Jewish passengers kosher meals with the message "Free Palestine" written on them.
DHS Attacks DACA Recipients, Tells Them to Self-Deport
Under Trump, federal agents have detained and attempted to deport recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
DHS Says DACA Recipients Are “Illegal Aliens,” Tells Them to “Self-Deport”
Since President Donald Trump took office, federal agents have detained and attempted to deport DACA recipients.Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Truthout)
Columbia Prof. Rashid Khalidi Cancels Course, Slams School’s Trump Settlement
“I don’t see how people can, in good conscience, continue as before inside these universities,” Khalidi says.
Speaker Mike Johnson Calls Occupied West Bank an “Integral Part” of Israel
Johnson is reportedly the highest-ranking American official to visit an illegal Israeli settlement.
Trump Administration Is Deploying Soldiers to Immigration Jails in 20 States
Immigrant rights advocate Setareh Ghandehari called the move “another marker of an authoritarian regime.”
Trump Administration Is Deploying Soldiers to Immigration Jails in 20 States
Immigrant rights advocate Setareh Ghandehari called the move “another marker of an authoritarian regime.”…Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Truthout)
A Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent. Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted.
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.
Maine Renters Can Appear Evicted Despite Fulfilling Repayment Deals
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. Instead, in Maine, such deals have put evictions on their permanent records.ProPublica
Far-right militias adored the Constitution. Then came Trump.
Right-wing activists have long warned of the coming federal invasion. Where are they now that it's happened?
US | The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations
U.S. delegates have objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, toxic pollution and chemical waste.
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He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
Netanyahu Pushing Forward Plan to Occupy All of Gaza, Israeli Media Reports
Far right ministers in the governing coalition have pushed to reoccupy Gaza rather than negotiate a ceasefire.
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The age of storage: Batteries primed for India’s power markets
Extreme price swings in wholesale electricity markets and growing concerns around grid instability are opening up new markets for energy storage. Batteries are now a critical solution to drive value for both capital and consumers.
IPTV FAQ and articles
"welcome to iptv.surf! here you’ll find a collection of articles from IPTVGroupBuy (rip) that will help you get started on your IPTV journey."
I posted a link to an archive of most of this stuff in an earlier post but this url is much more convenient.
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Invite only - "please do not go posting this on open forums" "please try to stick to people you actually talk to"
I still don't get the appeal of discord for this kind of stuff. Seems like a matter of time before it gets shut down too and all the useful info isn't discoverable by regular people. But I'm uninformed when it comes to discord.
Got it - thanks for the response. I agree with you, Discord seems suboptimal. But, if that’s where the discussion is, there’s not much choice.
Lemmy seems like a great solution, honestly
EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages.
It's clear and simple mass surveilance. You might not have something to hide now, but maybe you will one day if your country plunges into fascism or other authoritarianism or they will make something that is now legal illegal retroactively like has happened with abortion in the US. Protect your rights while you can.
Sign change.org/stopchatcontrol and contact your MEPs directly europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/hom…
Agenda Prep for August 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link (anyone can make comments for review.)
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025.
We will be discussing:
- FEP 7888/f228 adoption update
- Context Inheritance
- Context Ownership
- Merging of Contexts (aka "cross-posting")
2025-08 Agenda
August 2025 Agenda Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force Format Information gathering prior to the meeting will be held asynchronously via the fediverse, with topics posted on one of the following two locations: https://community.nodebb.Google Docs
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Was there a meeting? Could you provide a short summary?
I am particularly interested in cross posting.
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silverpill@mitra.social there was! I am very bad with putting together minutes but I will put some together tomorrow (hopefully)
For cross posting essentially I outlined how Piefed does it, and how NodeBB hopes to do it differently, but there are some moderation concerns.
Will elaborate more in the minutes.
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This is a test comment, sorry for the inconvenience (and thanks for your work!)
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@tuneintodetuned No, pero aquí parece haber un ejemplo: https://community.nodebb.org/post/105411 Voy a comentar en ese hilo, desde Mastodon, con un enlace a este comentario, a ver qué pasa ¿vale?Mastodon
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Kernwapens: 80 jaar na Hiroshima
In de jaren 90/00 waren vrijwel alle grote internationale conflicten gerelateerd aan civiele nucleaire programma’s en of die gebruikt werden voor militaire doeleinden: Noord-Korea, Irak, Iran, noem maar op. Kernwapens zijn daarna een poosje uit het nieuws geweest, maar na de aanvallen op nucleaire installaties in Iran, een – klein – beetje aandacht voor de Israelische kernwapens en het dreigen met een kernoorlog door Medvedev en de reactie van Trump om onderzeeërs met kernwapens richting Rusland te sturen, is het weer ‘hot news’. En de veel gehoorde opmerking dat Rusland Oekraine nooit had aangevallen als Oekraine in 1992 haar kernwapens niet weggedaan had (vaak dezelfde mensen die de aanval op Iran verdedigen), geven een troebele boodschap. Want wat ze eigenlijk zeggen: zorg dat je kernwapens hebt, dan wordt je niet aangevallen. Natuurlijk geldt dat alleen voor onze vrienden. Een ernstige vergissing: kernwapens maken de wereld niet veiliger en dus kernenergie ook niet. Sterker nog: vrienden kunnen zomaar vijanden worden en dan kan een civiel nucleaire programma ook zo maar een reden voor een aanval zijn.
I built ovosim using AI
I’ve been curious about what AI tools can do, so I decided to try building something with them.
The result is OVOSIM — a small eSIM store for travelers.
There’s no AI behind the product itself. I just used AI to help me write, design, and put it all together faster.
It’s simple, it works, and I enjoyed making it.
If you’re curious, here it is: www.ovosim.com
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles | 404 Media
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet.Wikipedia is maintained by a global, collaborative community of volunteer contributors and editors, and part of the reason it remains a reliable source of information is that this community takes a lot of time to discuss, deliberate, and argue about everything that happens on the platform, be it changes to individual articles or the policies that govern how those changes are made. It is normal for entire Wikipedia articles to be deleted, but the main process for deletion usually requires a week-long discussion phase during which Wikipedians try to come to consensus on whether to delete the article.
However, in order to deal with common problems that clearly violate Wikipedia’s policies, Wikipedia also has a “speedy deletion” process, where one person flags an article, an administrator checks if it meets certain conditions, and then deletes the article without the discussion period.
For example, articles composed entirely of gibberish, meaningless text, or what Wikipedia calls “patent nonsense,” can be flagged for speedy deletion. The same is true for articles that are just advertisements with no encyclopedic value. If someone flags an article for deletion because it is “most likely not notable,” that is a more subjective evaluation that requires a full discussion.
At the moment, most articles that Wikipedia editors flag as being AI-generated fall into the latter category because editors can’t be absolutely certain that they were AI-generated. Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup and an editor that contributed some critical language in the recently adopted policy on AI generated articles and speedy deletion, told me that this is why previous proposals on regulating AI generated articles on Wikipedia have struggled.
“While it can be easy to spot hints that something is AI-generated (wording choices, em-dashes, bullet lists with bolded headers, ...), these tells are usually not so clear-cut, and we don't want to mistakenly delete something just because it sounds like AI,” Lebleu told me in an email. “In general, the rise of easy-to-generate AI content has been described as an ‘existential threat’ to Wikipedia: as our processes are geared towards (often long) discussions and consensus-building, the ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly. Of course, AI content is not uniquely bad, and humans are perfectly capable of writing bad content too, but certainly not at the same rate. Our tools were made for a completely different scale.”
The solution Wikipedians came up with is to allow the speedy deletion of clearly AI-generated articles that broadly meet two conditions. The first is if the article includes “communication intended for the user.” This refers to language in the article that is clearly an LLM responding to a user prompt, like "Here is your Wikipedia article on…,” “Up to my last training update …,” and "as a large language model.” This is a clear tell that the article was generated by an LLM, and a method we’ve previously used to identify AI-generated social media posts and scientific papers.
Lebleu, who told me they’ve seen these tells “quite a few times,” said that more importantly, they indicate the user hasn’t even read the article they’re submitting.
“If the user hasn't checked for these basic things, we can safely assume that they haven't reviewed anything of what they copy-pasted, and that it is about as useful as white noise,” they said.
The other condition that would make an AI-generated article eligible for speedy deletion is if its citations are clearly wrong, another type of error LLMs are prone to. This can include both the inclusion of external links for books, articles, or scientific papers that don’t exist and don’t resolve, or links that lead to completely unrelated content. Wikipedia's new policy gives the example of “a paper on a beetle species being cited for a computer science article.”
Lebleu said that speedy deletion is a “band-aid” that can take care of the most obvious cases and that the AI problem will persist as they see a lot more AI-generated content that doesn’t meet these new conditions for speedy deletion. They also noted that AI can be a useful tool that could be a positive force for Wikipedia in the future.
“However, the present situation is very different, and speculation on how the technology might develop in the coming years can easily distract us from solving issues we are facing now, they said. “A key pillar of Wikipedia is that we have no firm rules, and any decisions we take today can be revisited in a few years when the technology evolves.”
Lebleu said that ultimately the new policy leaves Wikipedia in a better position than before, but not a perfect one.
“The good news (beyond the speedy deletion thing itself) is that we have, formally, made a statement on LLM-generated articles. This has been a controversial aspect in the community before: while the vast majority of us are opposed to AI content, exactly how to deal with it has been a point of contention, and early attempts at wide-ranging policies had failed. Here, building up on the previous incremental wins on AI images, drafts, and discussion comments, we workshopped a much more specific criterion, which nonetheless clearly states that unreviewed LLM content is not compatible in spirit with Wikipedia.”
Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...Google DeepMind
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Dockworkers in Italy win against arms shipment to Israel
Dockworkers in Italy secure victory as shipping companies announce return of Israeli-bound weapons cargo to its point of origin.
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Angola: 22 killed during mass protests against fuel prices
Angola, one of Africa’s top oil producers, is in turmoil after protests erupted over a sharp fuel price hike driven by IMF-backed subsidy cuts.
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Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent chi…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts
Cisco has disclosed that cybercriminals stole the basic profile information of users registered on Cisco.com following a voice phishing (vishing) attack that targeted a company representative.
‘Hail Satan’ But For Break Rooms, As Trump Issues Guidance For Religious Freedom In Workplaces
Trump — perhaps more than other presidents — often feels compelled to present his religious bona fides. Of course, he naturally has none. But as often as evangelical figureheads proclaim him to be (their) God’s personal pick for POTUS, even Donald Trump occasionally feels obligated to give something back to a community that has given him so much and asked for literally nothing in return.
‘Hail Satan’ But For Break Rooms, As Trump Issues Guidance For Religious Freedom In Workplaces
Trump — perhaps more than other presidents — often feels compelled to present his religious bona fides. Of course, he naturally has none. But as often as evangelical figureheads proclai…Techdirt
Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable
Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the answer is no, the law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.”
Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable
Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the answer is no, the law s…Techdirt
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Seattle's one fully pedestrianized street is hosting...an automotive photo shoot
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Advertising cars with the exact scene that carbrained people are constantly getting in the way of is ridiculously ironic.
Carbrained people want to enjoy the beauty and lifestyle that comes from walkable cities, but those things only exist because people aren't driving.
They want to drive on empty roads (that are empty because nobody else has cars) to get to a beautiful leaf-shaded downtown with cafés and shops (that only exist because of dense mixed-use cities) then park in an always-vacant spot right outside the door (that is only vacant because everyone else walked or biked)
The "dream lifestyle" of car ownership is a fakery that only exists if cars are an exclusive luxury for a tiny number of people. It's fundamentally elistist, and selfish. But nonetheless that's the lifestyle advertisers continue to push, and the public continues to lap up.
Yes. Like "You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic."
But getting people to think through anything just seems impossible. It's like most people never really advance beyond toddler levels of reasoning.
Is there a way to show fixed categories in custom page?
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Yuting_11 that's an interesting use case... I don't think we have a widget that does that right now, but a widget to display a single (or multiple) categories could be interesting!
If multiple, though, then you'd probably want to be able to order them, so that makes it difficult.
Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube account
The videos for FediCon 2025 are going to uploaded to the following PeerTube account:
@fedicon
FediCon
What if the Fediverse met... in real life? 🌐 FediCon 📍 Vancouver, Canada https://fedicon.ca Hash-Tags: #FediCon #FediCon2025 @fedicon@techhub.social (Managed by @reiver@mastodon.social )Spectra Video
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Ci sono fitness tracker che non mandano i miei dati di salute agli USA?
Sono alla ricerca di un buon fitness tracker per iniziare a fare cardio in maniera più misurata.
Ero interessato a Polar e Oura in quanto alternative EU (entrambe aziende finlandesi), ma entrambe mandano dati (di salute, quindi sensibili secondo l'art. 9 GDPR) ad AWS.
Siete a conoscenza di soluzioni EU o almeno non USA, cinesi, russe o israeliane, che non mandino i miei dati ad aziende di quelle stesse nazioni?
Mi piacerebbe potermi organizzare con qualcosa di self-hosted, ma ancora non credo di esserne capace.
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Forse in questo caso l'opzione migliore è un device che sia ben supportato da GadgetBridge.
Da quello che vedo i device meglio supportati sono i Mi Band, ma quasi tutti quelli che hanno svoltato con questa soluzione usano gli orologi Garmin.
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Bill, Hillary, Comey, Garland, Lynch, Holder, Muller:
"So we have some questions for you: Why are you so guilty? Why aren't you already in jail? Why shouldn't we throw you in prison right now?"
Barr, Gonzalez, Sessions:
"Ok friends, we just need a little "testimony" from you that you know 100% without a doubt that there is a mountain of evidence against Bill, Hillary, Comey, Garland, Lynch, Holder, and Muller. Oh, these are all Trump's enemies? Ahhh that's just a coincidence."
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