In Kiev, they hit the underground facilities of the military—industrial complex covered by civilians - "Legitimate"
In Kiev, they hit the underground facilities of the military—industrial complex covered by civilians - "Legitimate": EADaily
EADaily, August 28th, 2025. Last night, the Russian Armed Forces struck at underground locations of decentralized production of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, which are located in the parking lots of shopping centers and other such facil…EADaily
Moscow confirms hypersonic missile strikes on Ukraine
Moscow confirms hypersonic missile strikes on Ukraine
Arms factories and airfields were hit in the long-range operation, the MOD has saidRT
Israeli official Alexandrovich skips US court hearing on child sex charges
A senior Israeli official accused of child sex crimes in the United States has failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing in his case, weeks after he returned to Israel, prompting concerns that he may have fled to avoid facing trial.
The Israeli official was arrested on August 6, but the incident was not made public until more than a week later, when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced an undercover operation “targeting child sex predators”.
Alexandrovich was released and allowed to return to Israel after being charged with luring or attempting to lure a child online to engage in sexual conduct.
Israeli official Alexandrovich skips US court hearing on child sex charges
Judge denies lawyer’s claim that Israeli official could skip arraignment for child sex crime charges in Nevada.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
Israeli official Alexandrovich skips US court hearing on child sex charges
A senior Israeli official accused of child sex crimes in the United States has failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing in his case, weeks after he returned to Israel, prompting concerns that he may have fled to avoid facing trial.
The Israeli official was arrested on August 6, but the incident was not made public until more than a week later, when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced an undercover operation “targeting child sex predators”.
Alexandrovich was released and allowed to return to Israel after being charged with luring or attempting to lure a child online to engage in sexual conduct.
Israeli official Alexandrovich skips US court hearing on child sex charges
Judge denies lawyer’s claim that Israeli official could skip arraignment for child sex crime charges in Nevada.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
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Young Ukrainians rushing to leave the country – border official (VIDEO)
Young Ukrainians rushing to leave the country – border official (VIDEO)
The exodus comes after Kiev lifted its wartime travel ban on men under 23 earlier this monthRT
OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them
The multibillion-dollar AI giant is filing complaints and issuing subpoenas to groups opposed to it, suggesting they’re all part of a billionaire conspiracy.Emily Shugerman (The San Francisco Standard)
Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.
The mystery over the award only deepened last week as the new facility began to accept its first detainees. The Pentagon has refused to release the contract or explain why it selected Acquisition Logistics over a dozen other bidders to build the massive tent camp at Fort Bliss in West Texas. At least one competitor has filed a complaint.
US air force to grant military honors to Capitol rioter fatally shot on January 6
The US air force will provide military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter fatally shot during the January 6 Capitol attack, marking another step in Donald Trump’s aggressive rehabilitation of the attack.
The under secretary of the air force, Matthew Lohmeier, confirmed the decision in an August letter to Babbitt’s family. The Biden administration previously denied Babbitt the honors, but Lohmeier said he was “persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect” after reviewing new information about her death.
Babbitt, 35, served in the air force and air national guard and was shot by Capitol Hill police as she climbed through a barricaded door near the House chamber in the mass frenzy to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. The air force had originally refused honors in February 2021, according to Lohmeier’s letter, saying they would “bring discredit upon the Air Force” due to the circumstances of her death. She was the only person killed by gunfire during the riot.
US air force to grant military honors to Capitol rioter fatally shot on January 6
Move to provide Ashli Babbitt with funeral honors marks another step in Trump’s aggressive reframing of the attackJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
US air force to grant military honors to Capitol rioter fatally shot on January 6
The US air force will provide military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter fatally shot during the January 6 Capitol attack, marking another step in Donald Trump’s aggressive rehabilitation of the attack.
The under secretary of the air force, Matthew Lohmeier, confirmed the decision in an August letter to Babbitt’s family. The Biden administration previously denied Babbitt the honors, but Lohmeier said he was “persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect” after reviewing new information about her death.
Babbitt, 35, served in the air force and air national guard and was shot by Capitol Hill police as she climbed through a barricaded door near the House chamber in the mass frenzy to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. The air force had originally refused honors in February 2021, according to Lohmeier’s letter, saying they would “bring discredit upon the Air Force” due to the circumstances of her death. She was the only person killed by gunfire during the riot.
US air force to grant military honors to Capitol rioter fatally shot on January 6
Move to provide Ashli Babbitt with funeral honors marks another step in Trump’s aggressive reframing of the attackJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
European nations start process to impose 'snapback' sanctions on Iran
France, Germany and the United Kingdom started the process on Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, after a 12-day conflict with Israel in June saw its atomic sites repeatedly bombed.
The mechanism, termed snapback by the diplomats who negotiated it into the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) with world powers, was designed to be veto-proof at the UN and is likely to go into effect.
It would again freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals with Tehran and penalise any development of its ballistic missile program, among other measures, further squeezing the country's reeling economy.
The European move starts a 30-day clock for the sanctions to return, a period that could see intensified diplomacy from Iran, whose refusal to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) inspectors started the crisis.
European nations start process to impose 'snapback' sanctions on Iran over nuclear programme
The mechanism freezes Iranian assets abroad, halts arms deals with Tehran and penalises any development of its ballistic missile program.Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)
White House seeks to use Chicago-area military base for ‘sanctuary cities’ crackdown
The White House has requested that a US military base on the outskirts of Chicago assist with immigration operations as the Trump administration plans a broader takeover of Democratic-run “sanctuary cities”.
On Thursday, the Naval Station Great Lakes (NSGL) confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security had reached out for assistance, telling the Associated Press that the DHS had requested “limited support in the form of facilities, infrastructure, and other logistical needs to support DHS operations”.
An NSGL spokesperson told the outlet that no decisions have been made regarding the request and that the base has not yet received any official request to support a national guard deployment. The Guardian has reached out to the NSGL for comment.
White House seeks to use Chicago-area military base for ‘sanctuary cities’ crackdown
Naval Station Great Lakes said Trump administration asked for assistance in federal takeover of policing in US citiesMaya Yang (The Guardian)
White House seeks to use Chicago-area military base for ‘sanctuary cities’ crackdown
The White House has requested that a US military base on the outskirts of Chicago assist with immigration operations as the Trump administration plans a broader takeover of Democratic-run “sanctuary cities”.
On Thursday, the Naval Station Great Lakes (NSGL) confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security had reached out for assistance, telling the Associated Press that the DHS had requested “limited support in the form of facilities, infrastructure, and other logistical needs to support DHS operations”.
An NSGL spokesperson told the outlet that no decisions have been made regarding the request and that the base has not yet received any official request to support a national guard deployment. The Guardian has reached out to the NSGL for comment.
White House seeks to use Chicago-area military base for ‘sanctuary cities’ crackdown
Naval Station Great Lakes said Trump administration asked for assistance in federal takeover of policing in US citiesMaya Yang (The Guardian)
Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are "no innocents" in the Gaza Strip. aChord, a research group linked to Hebrew University specialising in social psychology, said 76 percent of the Jewish public partially or fully agree that "there are no innocents in Gaza".
The survey found that even among Israeli opposition voters, 47 percent fully supported the claim, while among Jewish opposition voters, a majority also agrees with the claim. Researcher Ron Gerlitz described the results of the survey as "difficult findings" that indicated attitudes that fed into acceptance of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment in Israel has been growing in recent years, targeting both Palestinians in the occupied territories and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Last week, a Palestinian bus driver in Israel was attacked by a group of Jewish youths shouting "death to Arabs", the latest incident in a string of racist attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel. The bus driver, Mohammed Abd al-Hadi, told Ynet the incident happened after he asked the young passengers to stop screaming and vandalising the vehicle. "They insulted me and shouted racist sayings like 'Jew - good; Arab - son of a removed' and 'death to Arabs'," he said.
Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are "no innocents" in the Gaza Strip.Alex MacDonald (Middle East Eye)
Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are "no innocents" in the Gaza Strip. aChord, a research group linked to Hebrew University specialising in social psychology, said 76 percent of the Jewish public partially or fully agree that "there are no innocents in Gaza".
The survey found that even among Israeli opposition voters, 47 percent fully supported the claim, while among Jewish opposition voters, a majority also agrees with the claim. Researcher Ron Gerlitz described the results of the survey as "difficult findings" that indicated attitudes that fed into acceptance of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment in Israel has been growing in recent years, targeting both Palestinians in the occupied territories and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Last week, a Palestinian bus driver in Israel was attacked by a group of Jewish youths shouting "death to Arabs", the latest incident in a string of racist attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel. The bus driver, Mohammed Abd al-Hadi, told Ynet the incident happened after he asked the young passengers to stop screaming and vandalising the vehicle. "They insulted me and shouted racist sayings like 'Jew - good; Arab - son of a removed' and 'death to Arabs'," he said.
Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are "no innocents" in the Gaza Strip.Alex MacDonald (Middle East Eye)
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There was no 'Hamas camera' - just complicit media enabling Israel's genocide
They took umbrage at their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the double-tap bombing of Nasser hospital “a tragic mishap”. It was neither tragic nor a mishap, according to them. Channel 14, which supports Netanyahu’s government and the war, reported military sources as saying the attack killed “terrorists disguised as journalists”. The sources said that soldiers targeted a Hamas “terror headquarters” in Nasser hospital.
“According to the current security concept, any place where terrorists operate, whether it used to be a school or a hospital, becomes a legitimate target,” the report noted. Soldiers involved in the attack told Channel 14 that it had been “approved and coordinated with the senior command, and they knew about it before it was carried out”. Similarly, Maariv reported that it was carried out “after receiving approvals from the command level”.
Zvi Yehezkeli, the Arab affairs correspondent for i24 News, praised the killings in Khan Younis: “These are Nukhba men in every way,” he said, referring to the slain journalists as members of an elite Hamas military unit. “If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never.” Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, is at least being honest. That is more than can be said for two international news agencies, Reuters and the AP, that used the work of these slain journalists for whom, one naively assumes, they should feel a duty of care.
Apparently not. Both swiftly reported without qualification the Israeli military’s ever-changing excuse for targeting the hospital: that the Golani Brigade was targeting a camera used by Hamas. This provides no explanation for the second strike 15 minutes after the first, which wiped out the journalists. In reporting this claim straight, as if Israel had the right to balance the assertion that the journalists were targeted with its own fabrication, Reuters and the AP offered no account of the fact that this “Hamas” camera could have indeed been the camera set up for Reuters to use as a live feed.
Media was also integral to the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels systematically dehumanised the Jews, justified their persecution, and secured public support for mass murder. The concentration camps compelled prisoners to send postcards home saying they were being treated well. Concerts were filmed in Theresienstadt, after which the entire crew was sent to Auschwitz.
Propaganda that Jews were being “resettled in the east” was critical to the Nazi regime’s attempts to disguise its “final solution” in the gas chambers. Today, Israeli media reports on negotiations with South Sudan as the destination for an “evacuation” of Palestinians in Gaza as if it were the most normal and humanitarian thing in the world.
Nasser Hospital attack: There was no 'Hamas camera' - just complicity in Israel's genocide
Echoing Nazi-era propaganda, Israel aims to secure public support for its slaughter in Gaza by erasing Palestinian coverageMiddle East Eye
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Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - Aftermath
Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - Aftermath
Workers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, joining the teams behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft before them.aftermath.site
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Happy Birthday Linux (Linux Prepper selfhosted podcast)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35055740
Happy Birthday to Linux from 8/25. Detailed show notes available here.
Selfhosted apps
- Jellyswarrm
- iSponsorBlockTV
Desktop apps
- Anki
- Thunderbird
- Steam key giveaway
- Share your thoughts on Matrix Chat and Truenas
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Open Source is one person
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
Kiev On Fire: The Night Russia Crippled Ukraine’s Rear
Kyiv On Fire: The Night Russia Crippled Ukraine's Rear
On the night of August 27-28, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces launched one of the most extensive and sophisticated combined...Anonymous103 (South Front)
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
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::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
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Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
You can be against Zionism and isreals genocide against Palestinians without being antisemitic. Criticism of the actions of a government =/= hatred of a race/religion.
False equivalency.
According to Israel, the only credible authority on anything and everything, you are Antisemitic Hamas.
Expect a live missile on your local hospital's doorstep for your crimes against semitism.
Nazis are antisemitic, zionists are nazis, Netanyahu is an nazi asshole and supported by an US nazi asshole. Sheldon Cooper had the best idea with moving Israel to the US.
Rwanda accepts seven people from US as part of deportation deal
Rwanda accepts seven people from US as part of deportation deal
Trump administration pushing controversial deal to send people to non-home countries including South Sudan and EswatiniGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Oh wow. That means there's a non-zero chance they're lying about treating the extraordinarily renditioned well.
Edit: thank you for answering.
Tesla sales in Europe slump 40% as BYD new car registrations more than triple
Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.
There were 8,837 sales of Tesla cars last month across the EU, the European Free Trade Association and the UK, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). That compared with 14,769 at the same point last year.
New car registrations for BYD across Europe rose to 13,503 last month, compared with 4,151 a year earlier. BYD now has 1.2% market share, the ACEA found. Tesla’s share remains at 0.8%.
Tesla sales in Europe slump 40% as BYD new car registrations more than triple
Electric car business run by Elon Musk continues to lose ground to Chinese rival despite recent revamp of Model YLauren Almeida (The Guardian)
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Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Russian airstrikes on Kyiv have killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the most deadly night raid on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Seventeen people were reported killed when a five-storey residential building in the eastern Darnytskyi district was struck in the middle of the night, said Svitlana Vodolaha, a spokesperson for the state rescue service.
A further 10 were still unaccounted for but not all may have been the building at the time, she added. There were 200 rescuers and 59 rescue vehicles on site and the search and clean-up effort was expected to go on into the night.
The victims included four children, Vodolaha said. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, had earlier said a child as young as two had died at the scene.
Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table’ after strikes on more than 20 locationsDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Russian airstrikes on Kyiv have killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the most deadly night raid on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Seventeen people were reported killed when a five-storey residential building in the eastern Darnytskyi district was struck in the middle of the night, said Svitlana Vodolaha, a spokesperson for the state rescue service.
A further 10 were still unaccounted for but not all may have been the building at the time, she added. There were 200 rescuers and 59 rescue vehicles on site and the search and clean-up effort was expected to go on into the night.
The victims included four children, Vodolaha said. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, had earlier said a child as young as two had died at the scene.
Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table’ after strikes on more than 20 locationsDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of F35 manufacturer’
A group named online as Palestinian Martyrs appear to have broken into the Moog Aircraft Group factory in Pendeford, Wolverhampton at 3:50am on Tuesday.
Dramatic footage shows a black four-wheel drive car smashing through two white barriers, before the activists set off red flares and climb a ladder onto the roof of a building.
The manufacturer was targeted because it builds parts for the F-35 fighter jets which the UK sells to Israel via a global pool, the group claimed. F-35 fighter jets have been used in Israel’s destructive bombing campaign in Gaza for nearly two years.
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of defence manufacturer’
The ‘Palestinian Martyrs’ say the Moog Aircraft Group, owner of the factory its members broke into, produces parts for F-35 fighter jets used in Israel’s bombing of GazaAlex Croft (The Independent)
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Yeah it's always a bit saddening when vandals stop before unleashing actual destruction on the facility.
Though I'm not going to criticize people risking prison sentence for not risking a far heavier prison sentence.
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of F35 manufacturer’
A group named online as Palestinian Martyrs appear to have broken into the Moog Aircraft Group factory in Pendeford, Wolverhampton at 3:50am on Tuesday.
Dramatic footage shows a black four-wheel drive car smashing through two white barriers, before the activists set off red flares and climb a ladder onto the roof of a building.
The manufacturer was targeted because it builds parts for the F-35 fighter jets which the UK sells to Israel via a global pool, the group claimed. F-35 fighter jets have been used in Israel’s destructive bombing campaign in Gaza for nearly two years.
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of defence manufacturer’
The ‘Palestinian Martyrs’ say the Moog Aircraft Group, owner of the factory its members broke into, produces parts for F-35 fighter jets used in Israel’s bombing of GazaAlex Croft (The Independent)
As long as they hurt goods and not people there is no problem.
That's not how deceptive authoritarian governments work 🤣
Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35116322
Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-xi-china-military-officials-purge/
Venice: Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer Back Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ as Executive Producers
Hollywood heavyweights, including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Rooney Mara, have come on board Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza-set drama The Voice of Hind Rajab, as executive producers, boosting the film’s profile ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Also joining the film as executive producers are Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner of Pitt’s production outfit Plan B, The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, and Roma filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron. Several high-profile companies, including Britain’s Film4 and Saudi Arabian state-owned group MBC Studio, have also backed The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix Back Gaza Drama 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'
Kaouther Ben Hania's film retells the real-life story of a six-year-old girl trapped in Gaza under Israeli fire, pleading for rescue.Scott Roxborough (The Hollywood Reporter)
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
In a private group chat in June, dozens of Democratic political influencers discussed whether to take advantage of an enticing opportunity. They were being offered $8,000 per month to take part in a secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet.
For years, Democrats have struggled to work with influencers. In 2024, President Joe Biden’s White House snubbed several prominent content creators after they lightly criticized the administration over its policies on climate change, Covid, Gaza, and the TikTok ban. Content creators who challenged Kamala Harris—including Hasan Piker, a well-known influencer on the left—were similarly unwelcome at campaign events.
The program kicked off last month, and creators involved were told by Chorus that over 90 influencers were set to take part. Creators told WIRED that the contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
aerc mail client + mbsync problem (maybe)
Dear fellow nerds,
I recently started to use aerc, synched locally with mbsync.
Unfortunately, I'm facing a rather annoying problem with Gmail:
- I read emails (flag "seen") and move them to the archive;
- run the mbsync < account > command to sync;
- the mails are correctly moved, however, they seem to lose the "seen" flag, and they revert to unread.
Am I missing something? Any idea what could be the problem?
If it matters, I'm on a Wayland session on NixOS.
Thanks!
I tried a few things, and the aerc behaviour seems fine.
When I read an email, the "S" is added, and when I move it, the flag is preserved.
However, I observed 2 scenarios:
- If I read > mbsync > move > mbsync, the result is the expected one, having the mail red and moved on both server and locally;
- If I read > move > mbsync, the mail is red and moved locally, but it's only moved on the server. This means that the next time that I do mbsync, the mail will revert to unread locally.
One thing I noticed (which might be the problem somehow?) is that:
- The filename is initially something like "1756379541.12762_13.host,U=13:2,"
- After the reading changes to "1756379541.12762_13.host,U=13:2,S"
- After the moving changes to "1756379541.12762_13.host:2,S"
- After the sync changes to "1756379541.12762_13.host,U=3376:2,S"
- And eventually, after another sync the S flag is removed
This means that the difference in the 2 scenarios above, is that in the first case (the expected one) the mail is synced while having the U=13 present, while in the second case is synced with the U removed.
I tried to understand what's the meaning of that part (which looks like an ID) and if it's relevant in the process, but I didn't find any information, sadly.
For now, I think I will just use the imap connection rather than local, but if you have any insights, please let me know! 🙃
And thanks again for the debugging tip, it really helped to understand what's going on! 😁
That "U=xxx" is the IMAP UID, which is a unique identifier that message has in the IMAP mailbox. mbsync adds that to the filename just so it can track which (local) message corresponds to what message on the IMAP server.
When moving a message from one mailbox (folder) to another, this UID changes, because it's per-mailbox only. If you read the manpage for mbsync, it says explicitly that the MUA should strip the U=xxx when moving between maildirs, so the behavior of aerc here is correct.
In order to get to the bottom of this, you'd probably have to enable the debug output of mbsync and look at exactly what IMAP commands it sends to Gmail, then decipher the relevant command(s) by looking at the RFC, and then decide whether it's Gmail or mbsync's fault this gets lost. You could also contact the mbsync devs with this I guess.
I found someone complaining about the same issue, without getting a reply, 7 years ago, except that person was using mutt: stackoverflow.com/questions/52…
That doesn't help you obviously but from this we might guess it's probably not aerc's fault.
isync (mbsync) on gmail marks mail as new after move to another folder
I'm trying to use (neo)mutt combined with isync (mbsync) for reading my mail from gmail account. However I have slight issue. When I use mutt to move mail to another folder, the message is marked a...Stack Overflow
Made the switch
I have moved to Linux. Hopefully for a long time. Or even forever.
Chose PikaOS with KDE.
Based on Debian, but with latest kernels to improve gaming experience. And hopefully make it easier installing various Windows programs I need for work.
Everybody got to start somewhere.
To be honest, I have tried Linux before with Ubuntu(back when those eee PC existed). I also used Manjaro and Arch. Even installed Arch without archinstall. Didn't exist back then.
But I have to say Linux has definitely improved a lot. Almost everything just worked now. To be fair. I don't have nvidia gpu or Intel cpu anymore. Only AMD. So that could be part of why it went smoother.
One small annoyance I got was that my pc could not play from speakers when front audio port was connected by my headset.
And now I need to figure out how to install Filemaker 19 pro on my PC. So I can work from home. Winehq is not encouraging
Can someone also recommend a really good replacement for Directory Opus but for Linux? Paid or free software do not matter. As long as it functions like Dopus does.
Oh, with Filemaker my job built custom tool for invoicing, inventory management. Incoming and outgoing ordersystems and more.
So its not just to switch tools since with Filemaker I would connect to a Filemaker server at work to do all those things from home. While the server has a Linux version(CLI), the clients do not. Its all GUI.
Plus the software is dependent on Bonjour. Since Claris develops Filemaker and Apple owns Claris, Bonjour is used. So it would basically be installing bonjour through wine that needs to interpret apple stuff but in windows language. I think Winapps solution will be the best option for me. github.com/winapps-org/winapps…
For the other software… well if it’s from work, even though I’d also suggest to look at alternatives, e.g. learning Python/Tkinter or even low code FLOSS alternatives or Web based one… you might not have that freedom. Consequently I’m going to make an even more outlandish suggestion : if your work does not trust you to pick your own tool… maybe reconsider your workplace? I know, bit crazy but long term, might still be worth it.
Apologies for the life changing suggestions!
A lot of things I can switch to other software/use online versions. E-mail, excel, word, pdf.
That specific one cant be substituted yet. And switch work for just one software is well drastic 😅
What is more challenging IMHO but also more interesting… is reconsidering how you work, not just the tools you enjoyed so far. So yes, as others pointed in the thread there are custom file managers (beyond the default or popular ones) but, and please hear me out, there is also the command line. I know… I know it is VERY different but that’s a good thing! If you already looked and used an alternative file manager it means you are a power user. The command line (or CLI for short) is precisely a way to have MORE freedom to manager files. There are countless tools that one can combine to modify files. It will take a while to learn but it’s definitely worth it. A good starting point could be wizardzines.com/zines/bite-siz…
If possible I do not to work in CLI even if I have used mainly chocolatey and winget + similar tools in Windows for installing programs. Except games. Much more convenient writing
choco upgrade all
And having all software updated. Like with sudo pacman -Syu or sudo apt update folowed by sudo apt upgrade.
However, I do appreciate the suggestion going all CLI. I'm just not there yet now 🙃
GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...GitHub
Bobr
in reply to jackeroni • • •NGL, I am quite surprised by this move.
They have either already agreed on a peace deal behind the curtains, and the clown just tries to somehow boost his rating (I don't believe it can possibly work..), or.. idk... Voluntarily giving up your cannon fodder is super weird.. The kidnapping can now only be extended to 23YOs (from current 25YOs) - could it really help? All the fascist are saying that kidnapping age should be lowered to 18 and include women as well, and we see the opposite here.. Super weird move, unless a peace deal has been reached 🤷
Bobr
in reply to Bobr • • •btw, any lib here wants to take a guess why "the last bastion of democracy with legitimate and democratic president" would want to create a law for imprisoning for up to three years people who want to flee to the "aggressor country that tries to genocide all Ukrainians" (or whatever is the current narrative)?
What idiots would want to that, isn't that literally suicide? And on such a mass scale that they want to create a law for that purpose? Huh.
m.antikor.ua/en/articles/78804…
cfgaussian
in reply to Bobr • • •His rating is irrelevant, he can hold on to power indefinitely as long as he controls the security apparatus. Even if he allows elections which is highly unlikely, it is very easy to rig them given how nearly the entire state apparatus is under their control. So i don't think this is why he's doing it.
A more likely explanation for me is that this is a way of further dialing up the pressure on the Europeans, threatening to unleash a wave of migration that the already strained societies in Europe, already on the brink of economic crisis and with their own social tensions brewing, cannot afford. It's a form of blackmail so they continue to give him a blank check.
He also knows that most of the forcefully mobilized, with rock bottom motivation and nearly non-existent training, are virtually useless at the front as anything but fodder to sit in trenches.
Worse still, this is exactly the demographic that if pushed to the brink could unleash massive protests, and, if too many of them are mobilized at once, meaning faster than they can be broken and brainwashed by the prevailing Nazi culture in the army, there is also a real threat that they could start a cascade of mutinies.
Further, there are also no jobs and no prospects for these people now which makes them even more of a powderkeg, so it is safer to unload them on the Europeans.
His only hope is for the Europeans to put boots on the ground and send their actual militaries, because that is the only way to replenish his now all but depleted stock of real, professional soldiers. He needs to continue to find ways to drag Europe deeper and deeper into the conflict.