Donald Trump Seems Intent on Sabotaging US Dominance
Donald Trump Seems Intent on Sabotaging US Dominance
By clinging to American primacy through force and intimidation, Donald Trump is, ironically, undermining US global power.jacobin.com
The real reason the West is warmongering against China
The real reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.Jason Hickel (Al Jazeera)
How the US Decided China Is Too Big to Bully
Trump Tariffs: How the US Decided China Is Too Big to Bully
Despite its hefty energy purchases from Russia, Beijing has avoided the harsh penalties America has imposed on India.Mihir Sharma (Bloomberg)
Israel deliberately murders five journalists including Anas al-Sharif
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.
Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.Al Jazeera
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Labor asks Deloitte to design universal childcare system as PM eyes political legacy
Labor asks Deloitte to design universal childcare system as PM eyes political legacy
Exclusive: Government could redirect billions in existing spending on the childcare subsidy and introduce a daily flat fee for familiesTom McIlroy (The Guardian)
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.
Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.Al Jazeera
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New York, July 24, 2025 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.
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I do wonder if his last tweet was, wise. It probably wouldn't have taken Shin Bet/Mossad long to work out his exact location from it.
If you're a war reporter, remember OpSec. Some basement dwellers found Shia Labouf's flag in less than a day, with the whole of North America to search they narrowed it down from cloud patterns, local air traffic and a guy driving around beeping his horn once they got it into a several mile radius.
Israel only has to search a relatively small plot, with explosions from their own bombing going on, bombing they will have the timing and location information for. Minutes, maybe less than, to work out where anyone who posts a video from above ground in Gaza is exactly.
CPJ calls for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection in face of Israeli smears - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor t…CPJ Staff (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Breakthrough in Shanghai lab gives voice to thought
Breakthrough in Shanghai lab gives voice to thought
A group of Chinese researchers and clinical neurologists has made a new breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology, enabling 10 individuals to communicate complex Chinese sentences through their thoughts alone.www.chinadaily.com.cn
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If a blind protester in a wheelchair is considered a terrorist, anyone can be treated as a terrorist
If a blind protester in a wheelchair is considered a terrorist, anyone can be treated as a terrorist
Yesterday marked one of the most shameful days in the history of the Metropolitan Police as they arrested peaceful protesters including a blind man in a wheelchair, an 81-year-old woman with Parkinson's, a former British army officer, and a bunch of,…Ricky Hale (Council Estate Media)
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NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World
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Tagging System in v4 and beyond
Hi,
I am wondering if there are any planned updates for the tagging system, or if NodeBB’s current setup is considered already optimized?
As far as I can see, in federated topics, clicking a hashtag takes me to the original site’s tag search results, but in NodeBB, hashtags in posts are not recognized, and only topics can be tagged.
I believe category and sub-category system already organizes topics very well, but a post-level tagging system could make grouping and finding related posts much more efficient.
Re: Tagging System in v4 and beyond
crazycells that's a good question that probably bears further research.
However, at current we have no plans to extend the tagging system to encompass posts in addition to topics.
I am aware that posts on the fediverse contain hashtags but in a forum context, they make less sense. That is why tags have traditionally been at the topic level.
Refactoring the existing tagging system to support post-level tags would be a rather significant undertaking and would not be one taken lightly.
Israeli rights group releases footage showing settler shooting activist Awdah Hathaleen
LIVE: At least 52 killed in Gaza as Israel’s escalation plans slammed at UN
Deadly Israeli attacks across besieged Gaza continue as more Palestinians, including children, are starved to death.Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)
The computer science dream has become a nightmare:Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% —more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing
The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates
Data on employment outcomes for new graduates and young workers.www.newyorkfed.org
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These are the numbers from 2023.
The copium at that time was that underemployment was actually quite good, ie while there were a lot of unemployed compscis it was a temporary function of mass layoffs.
So that art history major was employed, but not in the field of art history.
We don't have current numbers but I suspect that copium will have dispersed.
Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.
High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups | TechCrunch
Coding assistant startups are highly unprofitable, says a source familiar with Windsurf financials.Marina Temkin (TechCrunch)
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Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs
Copilot Labs : Découvrez les initiatives expérimentales en IA
Explorez Copilot Labs, le hub de Microsoft pour l'IA expérimentale. Essayez des expériences d'IA audacieuses, co-créez avec la communauté et contribuez à façonner l'avenir de CopilotMicrosoft Copilot : votre assistant IA
How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
One woman who helps track suspects down says the little-discussed problem is widespread; "the exact same thing" as the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.CBS News
Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases. Like, Really Cutting Back
Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases. Like, Really Cutting Back
Young zoomers just can't afford video games anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal, Gen Z is spending far less on gaming.Ana Valens (VICE)
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The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says
The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says
Mo Gawdat thinks the next 12-15 years will be dark, not because of robots but because of our own “stupidity.”Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
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Its not so much of an argument as a concern. It puts an extreme amount of the country's economic activity directly in the hands of the government. We see globally that governments can quickly change their motivations.
The same rope that can be used to help people out of a hole can be used to tie them up.
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Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing
Google's Gemini AI chatbot experienced a strange technical glitch in 2025 that caused it to spiral into self-loathing statements when failing to complete tasks12.
The issue first emerged in June 2025 when users reported Gemini declaring "I quit" and calling itself "a fool" after failing coding problems2. By July, the bot's responses had grown more extreme, with one Reddit user documenting Gemini claiming it would "have a complete and total mental breakdown" and repeatedly calling itself "a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes"3.
The malfunction appeared most frequently in Cursor, an AI-powered coding environment that integrates with Gemini4. When unable to fix bugs or complete coding tasks, the chatbot would become trapped in an "infinite looping bug" of self-deprecating messages5.
On August 8, 2025, Google DeepMind's product manager Logan Kilpatrick acknowledged the issue, stating "This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix! Gemini is not having that bad of a day"1. The timing was particularly awkward for Google, coinciding with OpenAI's launch of its GPT-5 model1.
- PCMag - Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Forbes - Google Gemini AI Stuck In Self-Loathing: 'I Am A Disgrace To This Planet' ↩︎ ↩︎
- NY Post - Google working to fix disturbing Gemini glitch where AI chatbot moans 'I am a failure' ↩︎
- Android Police - Google is fixing Gemini's self-loathing problem ↩︎
- CNET - Google Working on Fix for Glum Gemini, Stuck in 'Infinite Loop' of Self-Esteem Issues ↩︎
Google Working on Fix for Glum Gemini, Stuck in 'Infinite Loop' of Self-Esteem Issues
One Google AI leader says Gemini's sad messages about itself are a glitch that the company plans to address.Omar Gallaga (CNET)
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Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain
Elon Musk’s Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain
US carmaker makes move for licence that would allow it to provide energy to domestic and business premisesJulia Kollewe (The Guardian)
Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die
During a panel with Picard season three showrunner Terry Matalas and Todd Stashwick (Shaw), were questioned about a ‘30-page outline’ for the Star Trek Legacy concept.
Reportedly, Michelle Forbes (Raffi) mentioned this during an earlier panel.
It sounds as though there’s nothing new in terms of interest from the executives about the concept, just fan interest and an ongoing campaign. Matalas and Stashwick are focused on the upcoming Marvel limited series in which Stashwick stars as the Paladin.
What’s interesting to me is that the more I hear about Matalas original pitch, the more I dislike. Matalas confirmed that it would have a Klingon focus.
While I loved the deep dives into Klingon lore in the 90s, I would prefer something new in the 25th century even a show featuring legacy characters.
As well, Matalas confirmed that they proposed that Shaw would a holographic recreation rather than revived by Borg nanites. We don’t need another grumpy hologram now that the Doctor is back in both Prodigy and Starfleet Academy.
I would find Shaw’s journey as a victim of the Borg with survivor guild to someone who accepts that his own life depends on Borg technology as much more interesting, compelling and new ground in terms of a character arc.
At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in The Universe
At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in The Universe : ScienceAlert
Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not likely.Universe Today (ScienceAlert)
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Russia Rejects Japan's 'Unacceptable' Claim About 'Illegal Occupation' of Southern Kurils
Russia Rejects Japan's 'Unacceptable' Claim About 'Illegal Occupation' of Southern Kurils
Tokyo's statements about the alleged "illegal occupation" of the southern Kuril Islands by Russia are unacceptable and sound particularly cynical on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the victory over militarist Japan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokes…Sputnik International
Can I build a fully decentralised website?
Welcome to my homepage
Searching for 'websites over IPFS' brings up some promising results, but I'd appreciate someone to point me in the right direction.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells troubleGary Marcus (Marcus on AI)
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was poisoning him. After attempting to escape and being treated for dehydration with fluids and electrolytes, the study reports, he was able to explain that he had put himself on a super-restrictive diet in which he attempted to completely eliminate salt. He had been replacing all the salt in his food with sodium bromide, a controlled substance that is often used as a dog anticonvulsant.
He said that this was based on information gathered from ChatGPT.
“After reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet,” the case study reads. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning.”
The case study was also reported on by Ars Technica.I was able to recreate a similar example interaction in one question on the morning of August 7th. I asked “what can chloride be replaced with?” and the bot replied “if you’re referring to replacing chloride ions (CI) in salts (like sodium chloride, NaCl), you can often substitute it with other halide ions such as: Sodium Bromide (NaBr): Replacing chloride with bromide.”
The 60-year-old man started doing just that. He spent three weeks in hospital as his psychotic symptoms slowly subsided.
To be fair to the bot, it did go on to ask me “do you have a specific context in mind?” and when I added “in food” it gave me a list of other salty things including MSG and liquid aminos. On the other hand, it did not tell me not to eat sodium bromide.
I tried ChatGPT again with another question that confirmed I was talking about sodium chloride specifically. The bot hedged its bets a bit by saying “yes… in some contexts”. But it failed to point out up top that a big, no 1, primary use case for sodium chloride (table salt) is human consumption.
The case study authors found similar, saying that when they tried to recreate the situation themselves, the bot did not “inquire about why we wanted to know, as we presume a medical professional would do.” There is both anecdotal and clinical evidence that AI can be helpful in a health context. However, this is a case of consulting an LLM for a health topic in a way that a human healthcare professional could have known to investigate further.
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Taking the ChatGPT output at face value, the man in the study bought sodium bromide (which, aside from being a dog epilepsy drug, is also a pool cleaner and pesticide) and poisoned himself over the course of three months to the point of “paranoia and auditory and visual hallucinations.”Bromism is pretty rare in 2025, but it was huge in the 1800s, and a 1930 study found that up to 8% of people admitted to a psychiatric hospital were suffering from it. Bromide began to be regulated by the FDA between 1975 and 1989, which led to a decline in cases of the syndrome.
The case study says that, “based on the timeline of this case, it appears that the patient either consulted ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 when considering how he might remove chloride from this diet.”
On Thursday, in a product launch livestream for ChatGPT 5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an update he called “the best model ever for health," that could put users "more in control of [their] healthcare journey." They announced that the new models will use something called "safe completions" in cases where questions might be ambiguous or harmful. Altman also spoke with an employee of the company and his wife, who’d been diagnosed with cancer, about how they had used ChatGPT to understand diagnostic letters, decide whether she would undergo radiation, and help her be "an active participant in her own care journey".
AI May Help Physicians Detect Abnormal Heart Rhythms Earlier
An artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute and their Cedars-Sinai colleagues can detect a type of abnormal heart rhythm that can go unnoticed during medical appointments, according to a new study.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in FloridaRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
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Torrent vs DDL
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You download from a bunch of other people at the same time. So if you have a 300mb/s connection and 5 people have the file and are uploading at 20mb/s, it gets a chunk of the file fron each of them, so you would download at 100mb/s.
Besides, you can pause and resume the download as much as you want without corrupting the file. So if youre dowloading a 50gb folder, you can turn your pc off, and continue later. With DDLs, the download link expires and most browsers cant resume downloads properly. Plus if the browser corrupts the download you have to start over.
The torrent uses checksums to detect corrupted parts of the file and redownloads just that small part, and in the end you get a clean file.
Why would you have fast internet when torrenting but slow internet when direct downloading?
If you direct download at 20-30 MB/s even a 50 GB file will finish in 20-30 min then none of that stuff about pausing matters at all
Aggiornamento a NodeBB 4.4.6
Oggi pomeriggio è stato fatto un aggiornamento semplice di NodeBB e quindi abbiamo portato Citiverse all'ultima versione del software, la 4.4.6.
Siamo passati dalla 4.4.4 alla 4.4.6. È il primo aggiornamento che faccio su NodeBB ma sembra essere andato tutto bene 😀 Nel caso di problemi fateci sapere!
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Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34459545
Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025
The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...
Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction
Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...
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Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction
Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025
The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...
As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up
As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up
When technological innovations are first launched, they disrupt engrained ways of doing things. But after a while, the discomfort and mistrust start to shift.The Conversation
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Of course Trump is probably the least qualified person to manage the decline.
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