‘Unhinged and Anti-American’: Critics Erupt Over Trump‘s AI-Generated Threat
‘Unhinged and Anti-American’: Critics Erupt Over Trump‘s AI-Generated Threat
Donald Trump critics blasted the president's Truth Social post that featured an AI re-imagining of the war movie Apocalypse Now.Jennifer Bowers Bahney (Mediaite)
L’illimitato potenziale artistico del frassino nell’arte intrecciata dei Wabanaki
L'illimitato potenziale artistico del frassino nell'arte intrecciata dei Wabanaki - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Un’arte nobile può accedere ai confini della coscienza collettiva per una serie di ragioni qualche volta distinte: l’idea che tutto nasca da una serie di appropriate circostanze, essendo lo specifico prodotto di un momento storico, una fase culturale…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
How to Blow Up a Planet
For liberal supporters of the “abundance” movement, deregulation is crucial to solving climate and economic crises. Their critics argue something more confrontational is needed.
How to Blow Up a Planet
What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a sharedTrevor Jackson (The New York Review of Books)
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TF = (what) the fuck
Sometimes people drop the "what" part
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I was hoping that it's some kind of piratey alternative to Netflix.
I've stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and "buying" content is getting worse and worse.
Now I'm just downloading older movies from YouTube and similar services or look it up on archive.org.
Pirating was quite simple in the olden donkey / emule / kazaar etc times. BitTorrent was simple at the beginning as well. Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.
IRC seemed complicated as well and I can't bring myself to ever look into usenet because to me it was my first "social media" and it breaks my heart to see what it turned into.
Also it's super weird because it's not meant for this purpose. It's like using twitter to share base64 encoded warez. It kinda works but it's not meant for it.
Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.
This isn't really true. Maybe you have that impression because piracy communities tend to be filled with snobs who constantly humble brag about all their private trackers and paid services. You can still find good quality versions of almost everything through public trackers.
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You can still download an entire blockbuster from piratebay.
Arr software and Jellyfin make it easier and accessing it convenient, but at the backend, we're all still doing the same shit.
VPN yo ass up and download some movies, choom.
VPN yo ass up and download some movies, choom.
A Shadowrun reference in the wild?
Cyberpunk 2077 grabbed 'choom' and threw it into their lexicon so it has a whole new group of choomies enjoying it.
We're self-actualizing a real cyberpunk dystopia.
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Google's AI Ambitions An ‘Existential Crisis’ For News Online
Google's AI Ambitions An ‘Existential Crisis’ For News Online
Critics warn that this shift risks creating “echo chambers” filled with sensationalism and clickbait, at the expense of thorough, investigative journalism.Riley Gutiérrez McDermid (Gizmodo)
U.S. says it will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini because he fears deportation to Uganda
Attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Friday letter that they intend to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the African nation of Eswatini after he expressed a fear of deportation to Uganda.
The letter from ICE to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys was earlier reported by Fox News. It states that his fear of persecution or torture in Uganda is “hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries. ...Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini.”
Eswatini’s government spokesperson told The Associated Press on Saturday that it had no received no communication regarding Abrego Garcia’s transfer there.
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They killed over 16.000 people in 10 months in the XVIII century France. Most victims (over 80%) were commoners too.
Adding executions numbers range from over 25k to 50k. Again, in 10 months, that's worth having a name. For the noble rule there are several times but the broader one is Absolute Monarchy / Absolutism.
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Loads of countries have royal families. I said many times that it's not a stupid model and latest events in Poland only confirm this.
Long story short: Polish president has mostly decorative role but current far-right guy is now illegally usurping powers that are constitutionally not his and conspiring with Trump behind the government's back.
In monarchies the King/Queen have pretty much the same role but their position is so weak that they simply smile and follow the orders. They have a lot to lose and nothing to gain.
It is extremely polarized but it's not about elections. Couple examples of what the president is doing now:
- the constitution is clear that the government (so the Prime Minister and his staff) is responsible for foreign policy. When the president goes abroad he should get his instructions from the government and be accompanied by someone from the government. President ignored this before meeting Trump. He's basically trying to run parallel foreign policy which is crazy dangerous and damaging
- new judges have to be swear in before the president. it's just a ceremony but the president decided he will not swear in judges he doesn't like
- same with ambassadors. according to the constitution those are nominated by the gov but the president decided he will only swear in those he approves
He's basically using weak points of the constitution (which admittedly is simply badly written) to derail the government and is trying to rule in parallel where possible even though his post was designed as a purely ceremonial one.
Who cares about this?
Did you know that China forcibly disappeared a 6 year old back in 1995 and they're still holding him captive to this day?
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I don't think "disappear" is a transitive verb. You can't "disappear someone", as far as I know. I'm getting grammar squiggles for that already while typing this comment.
Edit: I guess I'm wrong, but it sure sounds stupid. Sounds like one of those TikTok censor words you put in place of the real word.
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He may be the last if he is unable to produce a son.
If they won't allow women to be emperor, I wonder if sex-selective IVF will be the answer.
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It was about six hundred years before we had a queen in England too. I'm sure they'll just go "fuck it, guess we're doing empresses now"
It's not like they actually run anything. It could honestly be a fucking cat and be more popular.
I mean, unless this 19 year old dude stated that he will not have kids, period, I don't see how "he may be the last".
The fundamental question is not whether to allow male or female succession line but how to save the monarchy
The answer is "don't". Monarchies' only use nowadays are as living relics of worse types of government and social structure.
New content moderation rules harm Arabic sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) advocacy online
New content moderation rules harm Arabic SRHR advocacy online - SMEX
The New Rules of the GameIn early 2025, Instagram and TikTok flagged several Arabic-language sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR)...Nourhane Kazak (SMEX)
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'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'
‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."Jason Ma (Fortune)
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Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content Against Palestinians During Genocide in Gaza
Hamleh - New 7amleh Report: Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content Against Palestinians During Genocide in Gaza
New 7amleh Report: Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content Against Palestinians During Genocide in Gaza7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement
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West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’
In addition to his storied acting career, Hanks served as national spokesperson for the World War II Memorial in Washington DC and supported the late Republican senator Bob Dole’s fundraiser to create the Dwight D Eisenhower Memorial, according to the alumni association’s original announcement.
It’s not clear how honoring Hanks conflicts with “preparing cadets”, but the actor has donated to Democrats; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama; and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Since taking office a second time, Donald Trump has taken a litany of actions against his perceived enemies. For example, he has revoked the security clearances and details of some people in the Biden administration and of people who served in his first administration whom he deemed “bad” or “disloyal”; blocked some news organizations from the Pentagon workspace and White House press pool; and revoked security clearances of – and investigated – law firms that were “very, very dishonest”.
West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’
Little known about decision, although Hanks, who has advocated for military memorials, also voted for BidenEric Berger (The Guardian)
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How Generative AI Video Works | Computerphile [27:32]
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Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.Nieman Lab
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Put down your phone and engage in boredom – how philosophy can help with digital overload
Put down your phone and engage in boredom – how philosophy can help with digital overload
Avoiding boredom means we are denying ourselves access to our whole selves.The Conversation
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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.The Conversation
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Trump’s Crypto Dealings Now Have the Perfect Cover
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The Trumps have never been known for their subtlety: They like to do things fast, big, and loud. This is especially so in the context of cryptocurrency, a noisy and chaotic industry by nature. Remember our president’s collection of NFTs? Among the depictions on these digital trading cards is a portrait of Donald Trump in an Iron Man–inspired suit, accompanied by the caption “SUPERTRUMP.” Or how about the $TRUMP meme coin and accompanying gamified gala dinner for its biggest investors
The Trump Crypto Empire Is Growing Up
In recent weeks, the family has dressed up its business dealings in the veneer of legitimacy.Will Gottsegen (The Atlantic)
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I honestly wonder if the "AI" data centers were always just meant to be used for crypto mining.
Like that was the true reason they had to build so much hype around AI, knowing we were nowhere near the point of actually achieving AGI.
Like I'm sure they will still be spying on everyone and dumping their data into these places to try to eventually reach it, but that was always secondary to having $10B data mining factories the size of Manhattan in places like Louisiana.
They're finally admitting "Ok yeah we goofed on the whole AI thing lol, our bad" but we're still going ahead with the data centers for some reason. Also, that $10B Meta data center has suddenly increased to a $50B "investment" from the U.S. tax payers within days of Fuckerburg announcing he's freezing his own company's spending spree on AI due to his fears of a bubble??
But nobody really noticed because this is literally being built in one of the poorest states in the U.S.
Meta puts the brakes on its massive AI talent spending spree
Meta Platforms has paused hiring for its AI division, ending a spending spree that saw the company acquire a wave of high-priced AI researchers and engineers.Dylan Butts (CNBC)
People who complain that crypto is a "pyramid scheme" or whatever are correct, but they fail to realize that capitalism is a pyramid scheme at best. I mean the biggest stock last year was a fascist surveillance company... And stuff like this is exactly why crypto will continue to succeed under capitalism.
It's a casino economy. Our lives have already been sold for chips. The branding of the chips doesn't actually matter but improved chip technology does. Casinos aren't actually using the same chips from the 1800s but the state is.
'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'
‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."Jason Ma (Fortune)
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For a time, until aggregate demand craters and the economy enters a depression.
It's nice to see that Hinton isn't playing apolitical.
All of these doomers are talking about the consequences of true AGI.
On the one hand, we don't have true AGI, and probably won't for a while yet.
On the other hand, we are so behind with regulating tech that if we do develop AGI we will certainly be completely unprepared for the consequences despite all these doomers telling everybody exactly what could go wrong. And they will be right.
Fingers crossed it doesn't happen in our lifetimes.
Yes we’ve known this about capitalism and automation for centuries. My point (that you’re ignoring) is that LLMs will not give us any kind of automation worthy of discussion in that context.
Except perhaps for shitty SEO recipe website automation.
He's very clearly saying it's the problem with the system by assigning fault:
“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” Hinton said. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.”
ChatGPT struggles to answer whether a "seehorse" emoji exists.
ChatGPT Struggles to Answer Whether a "Seehorse" emoji exists.
Inside the Kimsuky Leak: How the “Kim” Dump Exposed North Korea’s Credential Theft Playbook
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A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor’s operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South Korean and Taiwanese networks, with a blending of Chinese-language tooling, infrastructure, and possible logistical support. The “Kim” dump, which includes bash histories, phishing domains, OCR workflows, compiled stagers, and rootkit evidence, reflects a hybrid operation situated between DPRK attribution and Chinese resource utilization.
This report is broken down into three parts:
- Technical Analysis of the dump materials
- Motivation and Goals of the APT actor (group)
- A CTI report compartment for analystsWhile this leak only gives a partial idea of what the Kimusky/PRC activities have been, the material provides insight into the expansion of activities, nature of the actor(s), and goals they have in their penetration of the South Korean governmental systems that would benefit not only DPRK, but also PRC.
Without a doubt, there will be more coming out from this dump in the future, particularly if the burned assets have not been taken offline and access is still available, or if others have cloned those assets for further analysis. We may revisit this in the future if additional novel information comes to light.
Inside the Kimsuky Leak: How the “Kim” Dump Exposed North Korea’s Credential Theft Playbook - DomainTools Investigations | DTI
A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure.DomainTools Investigations | DTI
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More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London
More than 425 people have been arrested at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action.
Defend Our Juries, who organised the demonstrations, said there were 1,500 sign-holders in Parliament Square on Saturday at a fresh protest in London against the ban. At the previous major demonstration last month, 532 people were arrested for taking part. Participants gathered in Parliament Square by 1pm, many holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
At just after 9pm, the Metropolitan police said it had made more than 425 arrests. The Met’s deputy assistant commissioner, Claire Smart, who led the operation, said: “In carrying out their duties today, our officers have been punched, kicked, spat on and had objects thrown at them by protesters. It is intolerable that those whose job it is to enforce the law and keep people safe – in this case arresting individuals committing offences under the Terrorism Act – should be subject to this level of abuse.”
Police make arrests at London Palestine Action ban protest
More than 1,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in what is billed as the largest protest since group was proscribedSammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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As serious as the situation is, the blind guy holding his sign upside down gave me a chuckle.
Good on him though.
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i love these guys, appropriately they've adopted the martyrdom approach favored by terrorists in palestine, rather than
- acknowledging that vandalizing military sites is terrorism
- simply calling themselves anything else
nice of them to volunteer their identities so we can help them with their intellectual diversity in the future
actually the blind stupid leading the blind
Jimmy boy, you've missed the point quite spectacularly.
Forcing the police to arrest pensioners veterans, and disabled people is the entire point.
Neoliberals literally can't understand basic social and material facts. You could tell them all day that arresting a thousand grannies will concretely demonstrate the newly passed law is bullshit creating the pressure to fix it. And they'll respond "well if they named themselves something else they could have protested without being arrested" until their last breath.
Neoliberals literally CAN'T think of the common good because they think there shouldn't be commons, only individuals, families, and private property. They also don't think there can be good, only profitable and legal matter, in that order.
- Daddy, what did you do at work today?
- I arrested a granny because she said starving children to death is bad.
Or: I arrested a person who thought that it's more important to write "I support Palestine action" (classified as terroristic organization in UK) on a paper than "I support Palestine".
IMO, these people want to produce these pictures of arrests we are now seeing...
But I get it... It gets them media attention, just like driving with boats to a war zone to obviously get stopped there by military.
Thanks for your arguments without any insults.
I get your point, although from my view, it's not a random organization that is just like any other, as the intensity of the crimes is.... exceptional. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestin…
The proscription was in response to their protest in 2022 where they aimed to destroy some equipment. This isn't a terrorist act. The people involved were prosecuted under existing laws and served prison time for what they did, which were not acts of terror.
Their acts are not violent, they are not threatening anyone and calling throwing paint at planes "serious damage to property" is a stretch.
If we are going to give organisations the label of terrorist based on this flimsy criteria then Reform should also be proscribed for inciting people to protest at hotels where asylum seeker children are living, commiting arson and threatening violence. Physical violence against humans.
Palestine Action want the UK to stop sending military equipment to Israel. There are people in power making a fuck load of money off this, and they've proscribed PA after being out under pressure to make them go away.
You are correct that the protests are specifically about the group Palestine Action. Which while they have committed crimes within the UK haven't committed any acts of terror. And therefore should not be classified as terrorist.
The terror act was extremely controversial when it was enacted because it grants the government far reaching authoritarian abilities which are fundamentally against our standard of human rights.
It is only acceptable for extreme cases of groups which are in fact committing acts of terror against civilian population.
Therefore, it is protesting against the decision to designated a group which is not terrorist as terrorist
I kind of get what you are writing, but why are people focussing on the group that obviously broke the law (the law there sees it as terrorism) - and not just one time, but multiple times, the Wikipedia article is not short... - instead of the actual goal?
Why not forgetting the criminal (if you don't want to call is terroristic) group, creating a new group that does not commit crime and protest for the actual thing???
To clarify, it is a significant stretch that under British law Palestine Action committed any acts of terrorism.
It is mostly an authoritarian overreach.
And the reason that people are protesting so vehemently is two-fold:
Firstly, it is critical for the functioning of our society, that the government is not able to freely carry out gross abuses of power such as the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Secondly, it is relatively trivial for the government to use their proscription of Palestine Action as a basis for the proscription of subsequent protest groups, and they have also already used it to arrest people simply for signs which say things like "free Palestine".
In other words, protestors are able to make twice the impact with a single protest.
All the other rancid bullshit in your comment aside, why do you imply that media attention in this case is bad?
Also, the one word difference means what, you support an org that spray painted a few jets? And that justifiably makes them all terrorists for wearing it on a T-shirt ?
I guess they've successfully removed all meaning from the word "terrorist" now.
rancid bullshit
Great base for a dialog...
why do you imply that media attention in this case is bad
Did I?? I said "I get it" above... I just spoke out what others here don't want to speak out... I guess, people will be surprised again, when Greta will successfully fail to enter Gaza the next time (according to plan).
you support an org that spray painted a few jets
Read the Wikipedia article... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestin…
BTW: Jets don't park at the side of the road... You usually need to break into military related areas to do so, which is not what average people do.
I guess they’ve successfully removed all meaning from the word “terrorist” now.
And we have successfully replaced the debate about people starving in Gaza with a debate about a British group that continuously breaks the law.
A person who thought that it's more important to write "I support Palestine action" ... on a paper than "I support Palestine".
Ahhh, the worst kind of crime, adding the word "action" to an otherwise acceptable protest sign. His kids will be proud of him! He helped stop hundreds of the worst criminal scum today and really kept the streets of London safe!
ACAB
Well, the one sentence supports people starving and the other one supports an organization classified as terroristic in the UK... It's not the same thing...
When I write "Europe colonizing America in = bad" and I just append the word "fakenews" or "lies", it changes the meaning....
i mean...they DID trespass onto a military airport and messed with military aircraft.
that was what they did, that got them the designation "terrorist organization".
the planes were about to fly weapons down to israel, afaik, so i think they were doing something worthwhile, but, you know...bad idea regardless.
I don't agree that this makes them terrorists, i think that's some insane hyperbole on the governments side...but it does fit a very draconian definition of "terrorism": simply defined a "using force to achieve a political goal"
the entire thing is stupid. this is the stupidest timeline, after all...
Sure they did something highly illegal, but anyone who thinks that illegally trying to stop a weapons shipment is terrorism is insane. If "using force to achieve a political goal" is terrorism, then nearly every country on the planet is a terrorist organization. Idk if thats like actually the UK's definition or something but that is a ludicrous definition for terrorism.
Terrorists use terror. Its why they are called that. Not the use of force, but specifically attempting to strike deep fear into a civilian populace. At no point was PA trying to make people fearful. They were trying to stop people from dying.
anyone who thinks that illegally trying to stop a weapons shipment is terrorism
I mean... The law of the UK defines what falls under terrorism. It does not matter what anyone thinks.
If a pro-Russian saboteur sabotages a weapon shipment to Ukraine, it will fall under the term, too.
If “using force to achieve a political goal” is terrorism, then nearly every country on the planet is a terrorist organization.
The term is usually not used to describe nations. It's to describe people or groups of people.
The wikipedia article goes into the details.
In May 2024, Edinburgh Palestine Action activists targeted a Leonardo factory in Crewe Toll, spraying red paint over the factory and fighter-jet models, as well as claiming to have sabotaged "internet cables", with a spokesperson for the group saying, "In the early hours of Tuesday 28th May [2024], a group opened the box of cables, cut the internet wires, sprayed expanding foam inside the box and spray painted 'Stop Arming Israel' on the lid." The action was carried out, against Leonardo, according to PA Scotland, for "continuing to arm the Israeli military with weapons". In January of the same year several activists occupied the roof of the same factory.[48]
Also:
The UK Ministry of Defence, and a defence expert,[68] said the particular aircraft spray-painted hadn't refuelled or supported Israeli air force jets.[69] The BBC reported that those two particular jets had not been used to support the Israeli air force, although they had been used in British air attacks in Yemen, Iraq and Syria.
So they vandalized some planes and snipped some cables? And this got them declared as terrorists?
I've noticed a pattern where "terrorist" is often used as a stand in for any group that opposes the government.
Well, that was one of their actions. I mean, it might be daily business for you.... But for me, getting access to fighter jets, sabotaging them and doing whatever else they did there does not sound like usual activity that some other organization would do. I have never head of someone from an LGBT organization seen sabotaging fighter jets... During BLM, there was also no organization sabotaging fighter jets or anything remotely similar to it.
for any group that opposes the government.
Organizing a protest on the streets is the base form of "opposing". Sabotaging stuff by breaking the law is for sure also "opposing", but I don't think, we should put that on the same level.
I dunno... It feels kind of intended...
"I support Palestine Action"
Just leave the word "action" away... Now, it's not "supporting an organisation classified as terroristic" anymore.
First day on the job for a Home Secretary that says she as an ardent supporter of Palestine and has challenged previous government ministers to recognise Palestinian statehood.
What's she going to do now that she has the power to effect change?
...and keep people safe – in this case arresting individuals committing offences under the Terrorism Act...
Ah yes, everyone is much safer now.
(Back in my day, being a terrorist actually meant something. Way to water down the term.)
Guess what?
It is intolerable that those whose job it is to enforce the law and keep people safe
"Keep people safe" defending the extermination of a group of people in the Middle East.
Once again the /r/worldNews thread on this is a cesspool
"These morons, don't they know they threw paint into a plane engine?! Arrest them all, Israel has a right to defend itself!"
South Korea vows 'all-out efforts' to help hundreds detained in raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia
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South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered “all-out efforts” to respond to the arrests of hundreds of its citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia, as the key American ally and trading partner reeled from the news.
Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility.
At an emergency government meeting Saturday, South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”
The foreign ministry told NBC News that the government had set up a response team and that Cho was prepared to travel to Washington to meet officials if needed, while Cho reiterated earlier remarks made by Lee that the rights of South Koreans “must be not unjustly infringed.”
South Korea vows 'all-out efforts' to help hundreds detained in raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered all out efforts to respond to the arrests of its citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia.Stella Kim (NBC News)
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Ah, so they were doing dodgy shit.
Arresting everyone is completely over the top, but it sounds like there were genuine issues to be resolved.
US Dept of Justice says names of two associates Jeffrey Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret
DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret
Justice Department says the names of two Jeffrey Epstein associates who he wired $100,000 and $250,000 and helped protect from prosecution should stay secret.Tom Winter (NBC News)
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Israel to bring influencers and officials in global PR campaign
As part of the war of awareness against the anti-Israel narrative worldwide, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar is promoting an unprecedented move in its scope: By the end of December, approximately 400 delegations are expected to arrive in Israel, including over 5,000 participants who will help spread the Israeli narrative in the international media and to international audiences.
The delegations include a wide range of participants, including government officials and elected officials, journalists and influencers, academics, legal, religious, cultural and sports figures. For comparison, so far, in an average year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has brought only 25 delegations to Israel.
The decision to "concentrate effort" on delegations, with an investment of approximately 135 million NIS, comes after studies that have shown the effectiveness of the tool in the war of consciousness, bringing public opinion multipliers to Israel, who, after their visit to Israel, spread the Israeli narrative on social media and in the communities in which they are active. A notable example of this was Caitlyn Jenner's visit, who was brought to Israel during Operation Rising Lion and her content from Israel were exposed to millions of people.
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Meta AI may be scanning your camera roll photos without your consent
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Wonderful decision.
Gambling businesses are loved by Oligarchs, thugs, and criminal scum. It's an activity incompatible with democracy.
One of the reason I think Australia is not a real democracy is because it's a nation of gambling addicts. To be honest, I have never been there, but everything I hear in the media about Australia is extremely negative in that regard.
Basically, Australians are completely addicted to gambling and it's now destroying their entire society. Even their Australian government prostitutes itself to gambling companies. Recently, rich gambling Australians created a streaming platform where a french streamer was violently beaten to death. That's alarming.
In recent years, the USA embraced massive online gambling. Americans love to buy the latest cryptoshitcoin and Musk meme stocks. No wonder the same US population embraced Trump.
Gambling is a cancer. Thank you India.
Belgian PM De Wever still supports reunification of Belgium and the Netherlands
Despite the fact that Bart De Wever (N-VA) is now the Prime Minister of Belgium, the Flemish nationalist still supports the idea of a reunification of Belgium and the Netherlands, he said on Dutch radio this week.
De Wever has been Prime Minister of Belgium since February 2025, but he is well-known for his outspoken views on greater autonomy for Flanders. Speaking on the Dutch radio programme Sven op 1, however, he stressed that he was not advocating for dividing Belgium, but for the reunification of the Low Countries.
"I am not talking about detaching Flanders, I am talking about the reunification of the entire Southern Netherlands. However, the enthusiasm in the south is perhaps somewhat less than in the north," he said.
Belgian PM De Wever still supports reunification of Belgium and the Netherlands
"I am convinced that the separation of the Netherlands in the 16th century is the greatest disaster that has ever befallen us."www.brusselstimes.com
Belgium always appeared to me as this weird mixture of people that more or less begrudgingly work together but threaten to go back home to their parents every now and then.
I remember during highschool some twenty odd years ago, giving a short presentation about then current political events in Belgium and how the country could split if the situation was not resolved.
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More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period
More than 7,000 children under the age of five were put on recovery programmes for acute malnutrition at clinics run by Unicef in Gaza in just two weeks last month, figures reveal.
The overall total for August is being compiled by Unicef but is expected to exceed 15,000 new patients, more than seven times the total in February.
A famine was declared in Gaza City, in the north of the devastated territory, last month, but other towns farther south are “fast catching up”, officials from the agency said.
“On the ground, it is crystal clear that people are starving, that there is a famine unfolding in Gaza City, and Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis [two southern cities in Gaza] are not far behind,” said Tess Ingram, a spokesperson with Unicef who has spent recent days in Gaza City.
More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period
Unicef says it expects total for August to exceed 15,000 new patients, more than seven times February figureJason Burke (The Guardian)
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I dont get the need to compare suffering.
Imo you desecrate both Holacaust victims and the Palestine people in their identity, experience and pain.
Just keep it simple and call Israeli Gvement and especially Netanyahu fucking (genocidal) murderers and Fascist.
Trump threatens 'Apocalypse Now' style action against Chicago to boost deportations
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A goodbye to kbin ...
Like many others, when the reddit APIcalypse happened, I moved to the fediverse. Like many, I wasn't sure what it really consisted of, how it worked, or what instance to move to. Eventually I decided to sign up with kbin.social. Ernest was welcoming, the instance was friendly with a nice mix of topics, the community was great, having access to both threadiverse and microblogs was great, and I loved it.
And then Ernest started having health issues and the instance became unstable. Eventually I moved to fedia/mbin, which I enjoy a lot, but I just haven't quite felt that same sense of belonging - I don't know, maybe the new job just kept me away a bit too much, or I'm getting old, or just been through too many changes. But I've kept kbin on my launch page, and sometimes I find myself a bit wistful for it.
I poked at the internet, and the kbin.social domain expires in a few days, on 10 September, which I suppose will be a formal end to the project. In memory of kbin, I'd like thank Ernest: wherever you are, I hope you are well and enjoying your life. Thank you for the concepts behind and your work on kbin; I love the bridging of the microblogs and threadiverse. And thank you for making the transition to the fediverse less confusing to this old redditor. I wish you the best in life, and thank you again.
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Same, moved to kbin then hopped around some after it went into limbo. Ended up on .zip and appreciate its kind of hand-off, user-deals with it, federation/blocking.
RIP kbin you were a real one and I hope all your devs (Ernest) future projects go well.
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Yeah thats why I ended up on .zip
I was running squaredcircle on kbin, so I wanted to find an instance with the least federation issues (outside of the obvious like csam and such) so users wouldn't have problems accessing us, .zip was pretty much perfect across the board with the userbase, still there today!
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Same! I was one of the early migrants just before the mass migration, having seen the writing on the wall and having already joined Mastodon. It was a great time initially, a bit of "you're new? okay, I've figured a few things out, try this". We caught Ernest by surprise because he was only making a proof of concept to offer an alternative to Lemmy. And then we showed up in droves. But he did his best, and while it was bumpy, it was still an overall great experience, much like the early days of Reddit, pre-Digg.
I still like the kbin-style instances over Lemmy, but yeah, it's not quite the same any more. That said, still preferable to Reddit these days.
Thank you, Ernest. Hope you're recovering wherever you are.
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Another kbin.social refugee here. I only moved when it was obvious that Ernest wasn't coming back. So instead, I decided to lean on Melroy, who's been an awesome admin and dev.
So, Ernest, I wish you nothing but the best. Thanks for kicking off a small revolution. And Melroy - thank you for taking up the torch.
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Yeah I think I've seen some recent commits on his GitHub profile as well. He seems to be "back", just not on kbin.
I hosted my own kbin instance for a while as it seemed interesting, but admittedly I never really got into it. Still a cool approach, just not for me.
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It was a great website. You could feel the fun of exploring everything together with hundreds of new users, from Lemmy communities to Mastodon toots with great threading of discussions. From custom magazine CSS to Collections (remade by PieFed as Feeds). A new, emergent website culture and the promise of later progress (we were meant later to have e.g. flairs (as Badges), and federation with Mobilizon).
You are seeing /kbin software as a Reddit alternative, but it could be more than that. I am aware of attempts of making, based on /kbin, a newsletter/blog platform (instead of Substack?) or a local social media website, as an alternative to Facebook local groups.
Mbin should still be able to view any post from subscribed blogs (be it from WriteFreely, WordPress, openwrite or Ghost), as a full article and the view of it should be very clean.
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Nothing lasts forever, especially on the Internet, but I'm happy to say I enjoyed kbin.social for as long as I used it.
Thanks Ernest! Good luck on your recovery and next projects!
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I dunno, for me it's painfully obvious what the correct social media successors are.
Lemmy for reddit.
Friendica for facebook.
Pixelfed for instagram.
Mastodon for twitter.
Matrix for discord.
Peertube for youtube.
Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
This summer, a first-of-its-kind global research expedition followed up on that surprise. Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.
It's just one of many depositories of "secret fresh water" known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world that might some day be tapped to slake the planet's intensifying thirst, said Brandon Dugan, the expedition's co-chief scientist.
"We need to look for every possibility we have to find more water for society," Dugan, a geophysicist and hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines, told Associated Press journalists who recently spent 12 hours on the drilling platform. The research teams looked in "one of the last places you would probably look for fresh water on Earth."
Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S.CALVIN WOODWARD (Phys.org)
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Good News: You've got a new source of fresh water.
Bad News: Extraction will cause groundwater-related subsidence of the nearby shoreline, causing rapid erosion and lower elevations. Multiple shoreline properties may be lost.
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Multiple shoreline properties may be lost.
Depending on the area, I don't think I'm going to care much about some rich millionaires' second homes being destroyed. Sure, I don't want to see the erosion and decay of the landscape, but, you know...
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There are already lots of viable strategies for getting rid of brine, they are just more expensive than the naïve approach of having a big pipe on the shore spewing it into the ocean. Diluting it with seawater seems to be the most viable right now.
I wonder if something like a 10 km underwater pipe with small holes in it that only let out a little bit of brine at a time would work. Might be a hassle to lay, at least to start, but I think that once it is in place it could operate without maintenance for decades. And piping is not really that expensive. Perhaps there are already researchers studying it, or it has been proven to not work. It seems like such an obvious idea.
No. My memory is that the English language article was a bit unclear on the details and had several indications that the author didn't actually understand the technology, but someone said a Japanese language article did a better job of explaining it.
Brine and fresh water doesn't make any sense, because you're spending energy to create fresh water with the brine as the waste. Just turning around and recombining it to make evergy again is stupid. You can't even get back as much energy as you used to make the fresh water.
But, spending the energy to create the fresh water, letting people use that water as normal, collecting their waste water as normal, treating the waste water as normal, and then, instead of just dumping the treated waste water into the sea, recombining it with the brine to make energy makes a ton of sense.
For the same volume, almost certainly desalination.
But we use far more water than hydrocarbons.
Billions of dollars to get to it when they could install a desalination plant >.>
Why are we like this?
I’d also like to point out that when you say “the energy mix” you’re not meaning the energy mix used by this project.
If any of our energy is from fossil fuels then increasing the use of energy increases the use of fossil fuels. Even if a new project uses 100% renewable energy it will increase the amount of fossil fuels used until we’ve eliminated them completely.
Cool. Come talk to me when finding water is hard, as opposed to just shipping a sufficient quantity to wherever you need it.
If there's a spot where a major center is next to one of these and nothing else, I suppose it could have a niche. I'm guessing the microbes and geological history are the main thing they're excited about, though.
If you heat it to many times it's boiling point, sure.
Has it occurred to you there may be a good reason this isn't done at scale already?
Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that global carbon storage capacity was 10 times less than previous estimates after ruling out geological formations where the gas could leak, trigger earthquakes or contaminate groundwater, or had other limitations. That means carbon capture and storage would only have the potential to reduce human-caused warming by 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.26 Fahrenheit)—far less than previous estimates of around 5-6 degrees Celsius (9-10.8 degrees Fahrenheit), researchers said.
"Carbon storage is often portrayed as a way out of the climate crisis. Our findings make clear that it is a limited tool" and reaffirms "the extreme importance of reducing emissions as fast and as soon as possible," said lead author Matthew Gidden, a research professor at the University Maryland's Center for Global Sustainability. The study was led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, where Gidden also is a senior researcher in the energy, climate and environment program.
Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practic…Tammy Webber (Phys.org)
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So all that billions of tons of carbon we dig up from the ground, sequestered for 300 million years, doesn't just make it's way back there?
Well fuck!
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Why would they need kerosene? Lol.
I'm picturing them hanging out with old lamps down there.
Ah, an aircraft carrier. That makes more sense.
For whatever reason I forgot about those momentarily. That was weird.
It would actually be simpler to go straight to soot and rebuild the coal beds. Electrolysis to CO followed by reverse Boudouard reaction. EZ.
E-fuel is an important technology of it's own, because planes basically don't work without the energy density burning oil has, but stopping the reduction at hydrocarbons has proven a lot trickier.
Now I'm imagining a world where we produce coal in a factory from the air using solar power at peak times in the desert, the send the coal where it's needed and burn it again later. Literally renewable coal nonsense.
(not a serious proposal btw it just seemed really funny to imagine we're so addicted to the stuff we start making more just to keep using it)
what about storing it in plants like forests and jungles and algae? honest question; im a noob
edit: and bogs
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Add bogs to that list. Worldwide, bogs store more CO2 than forests. Restoring them and making sure they don't dry up (which also would release a lot of gases harmful to the climate) would be a good way to capture CO2.
I don't have any numbers to compare it to other techniques though, sorry.
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We have to complete the gas/crue oil cycle: we must make a freaking pit and beging throwing trees in to free space for more trees
Oil is cursed
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Two factors, basically.
Vegetation rots back out to the atmosphere. Bogs are better in that way, because they trap and grow over their own detritus. Managed forests are also pretty carbon-negative, because the carbon is now trapped in whatever wood products for centuries. Ocean-based stuff has had mixed results, though. You could also char and dispose of your biomass before it rots, but now you're adding complexity.
Which brings us to the second: It might be expensive and slow, relative to just artificially capturing it and shoving it underground. Plants are not known for their speed, and reasonably moist land is expensive.
That being said, it's still a serious contender for how to take care of carbon we've already burned, alongside this and other options like grinding up and spreading certain kinds of stone.
It's all about quantity.
The fossil fuel industry is digging up the plants of forests and jungles and algae that have existed over millennia, then died and decomposed into oil, coal, gas. When you then burn it you release the carbon of hundreds of generations of plant life.
Fossil fuels are dead plant concentrate.
they'll do anything to save us from the climate - create new technology, reinvent the wheel, anything anything EXCEPT LIMITING THE FUCKING EMISSIONS THAT ARE GOING TO KILL US.
Can't do that, nah, bro... just a few more hundred billions gallons... bro come on, just a few more...
GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
One scientist says it’s like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)
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US special forces killed N Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US Navy SEALs killed several North Korean fishermen after encountering them by accident during a botched mission, US news outlet reports.
edit: Happened in 2019. Revealed recently.
US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.Al Jazeera
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