Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read “Make Liberals Cry Again,” and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.
So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.
GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter
As the nation reels from another devastating mass shooting—this time at a Mormon church in suburban Michigan—Republican leaders have remained notably silent following revelations that the gunman was a devoted Trump supporter who once proudly wore the…Staff Writer (The Daily Boulder)
How Ruby Went Off the Rails
How Ruby Went Off the Rails
For the past couple of weeks, a community of developers who use the programming language Ruby have been closely following a dramatic change in ownership of some of the most essential tools in its ecosystem with far reaching impacts for the worldwide web.If you’re not familiar with Ruby or the open source development community, you probably haven’t heard about any of this, but the tools in question serve as critical infrastructure for gigantic internet services like GitHub, Shopify, and others, so any disruption to them would be catastrophic to those companies, their users, and vast swaths of the internet.
On September 19, Ruby Central, a nonprofit organization that manages RubyGems.org, a platform for sharing Ruby code and libraries, asserted control over several GitHub repositories for Ruby Gems as well as other critical Ruby open source projects that the rest of the Ruby development community relies on. A group of open source developers who had contributed to those projects and maintained them for years had their permissions suddenly revoked. When these developers announced on social media that their access was taken away, many Ruby developers saw the decision as a betrayal of their years-long contributions to the Ruby ecosystem and open source principles more generally. Others accused Ruby Central of succumbing to corporate pressure from companies like Shopify, which they claimed wanted more control over the project.
In some ways, this whole affair is an example of why this stuff gets really messy when people start getting paid
I’ve spent the last week talking to people who had direct involvement with Ruby Central’s decision, the contributors who were ousted, and developers in the Ruby community. I’ve heard accusations of greed, toxic personalities, and stories about years-long feuds between people, at times in open disagreement, who ultimately govern some of these important open source tools.RubyGems.org and other critical Ruby tools have so far not been interrupted during this transition, but the incident sheds light on a basic truth about the internet and open source development: Much of the technology we use every day and take for granted is being maintained by a small number of developers who are not compensated for that work or get paid very little when compared to salaries at big tech companies. Open source development continues to make much of the internet possible, but as some of these tools become more important and financially valuable, they’re subject to more scrutiny and pressure from the community, organizations, and companies that rely on them.
“In some ways, this whole affair is an example of why this stuff gets really messy when people start getting paid, and once you start introducing formal organizations and employees and nonprofits and lawyers and all this kind of complexity,” Mike McQuaid, developer of the popular package manager Homebrew, which is built with Ruby, told me. McQuaid has talked to and offered to mediate between Ruby Central and the ousted maintainers. “This is a textbook case of what happens when there's this conflict between what companies want, what nonprofit individuals want, how much responsibility people have when they take money, who gets control and when. How much democracy versus just ‘I have the power to do something, therefore I'm going to do it.’”
With Ruby developers can download and use self-contained packages of code that add different functionalities to a Ruby project. These packages are called gems, and are distributed primarily via RubyGems.org, where developers can upload gems they’ve developed or download gems from other developers.
The ability to download gems and plug them into different projects is very useful and convenient for Ruby developers, but can create complications. Different gems are developed by different teams and are updated at different times with bug fixes and new features, and might not necessarily be compatible or play well with one another as they evolve.
This is where Bundler comes in. As its website explains, “Bundler provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed.” So, for example, if a developer is building a Ruby project and wants to use gems X, Y, and Z, Bundler will pull the versions of those gems that are compatible with one another, providing developers an easy solution for what Bundler describes as “dependency hell.”
Bundler is an open source project that was initially developed by Yehuda Katz, but the GitHub repository for the project was created and was administrated by André Arko. In 2015, Arko also founded a nonprofit trade organization named Ruby Together, which raised funds from developers and companies that use Ruby in order to maintain Bundler and other open source tools.
I will not mince words here: This was a hostile takeover
RubyGems.org, the site and service, is governed by Ruby Central, a nonprofit founded in 2001, which also organizes several Ruby conferences like RubyConf and RailsConf. In 2022, Arko’s Ruby Together and Ruby Central merged, “uniting the Ruby community’s leading events and infrastructure under one roof,” according to Ruby Central’s site. Bundler’s and RubyGems.org’s work often overlapped both in their goals and the developers who worked on them, but operated across two different GitHub organizations, each with its own repositories. To streamline development of these open source projects, Bundler also joined the Ruby Gems GitHub organization in 2022.In 2023, Ruby Central established the Open Source Software Committee, which according to its site oversees RubyGems, Bundler, and RubyGems.org, focusing on infrastructure stability, security, and sustainability.
A confusing and central point of disagreement between Ruby Central and the maintainers it ousted on September 19 is rooted in the merging of Ruby Together and Ruby Central and the difference between Rubygems.org the service, essentially an implementation of the Ruby Gems codebase on an AWS instance, which both parties agree Ruby Central owns and operates, and the Ruby Gems the codebase that lives in the same GitHub organization as Bundler.
According to a recording of a mid-September Zoom meeting which I obtained between Marty Haught, Ruby Central’s Director of Open Source, Arko, and the other ousted contributors, Ruby Central maintains that the codebase and GitHub organization became its responsibility when Ruby Central merged with Ruby Together in 2022. The ousted contributors’ position is that members of Ruby Central, like Haught, can be owners of the GitHub organization, but that ownership of the RubyGems codebase and other projects in the GitHub organization belong to the contributors, who don’t have a detailed governance model but historically have governed by consensus.
Arko made this argument to me in a recent interview, but also outlined that argument in a blog post, where he also shared the merger agreement between Ruby Central and Ruby Together. It shows that Ruby Together would dissolve and that Ruby Central would be in charge of raising and allocating funds for development, but does not explicitly say Ruby Central takes ownership of the RubyGems and Bundler projects or the GitHub organization.
To make matters even more complicated, Arko was at once a contributor to these open source projects, a contributor to RubyGems.org the service, an owner of the GitHub organization, and an advisor to Ruby Central’s Open Source Software Committee.
In May, Arko resigned his position as an advisor to Ruby Central’s Open Source Software Committee, but continued his work as a contributor. Arko told me he resigned his advisory role because of Ruby Central’s last minute invitation of David Heinemeier Hansson, better known online as DHH, as a keynote speaker at RailsConf.
Arko told me he objected to that decision because of DHH’s “horrifying, racist, misogynist, politics” and DHH’s “personal vendetta” against him. In 2021, back at Motherboard, we reported that many employees at DHH’s company, Basecamp, quit after his decision to ban any discussion of politics at work, which many employees saw as squashing discussion about race, bias, and diversity. Arko told me that DHH’s “personal vendetta” against him stemmed from Arko not wanting to support a certain feature DHH wanted added to Bundler, after which DHH demanded Arko be removed from the Ruby Together board.
The current controversy erupted on social media on September 19, when one contributor to the open source projects in the RubyGems and Bundler GitHub organization, Ellen Dash, announced that Haught, Ruby Central’s Director of Open Source, revoked GitHub organization membership for all admins on the RubyGems, Bundler, and RubyGems.org maintainer teams. At that moment, their permissions and access to the GitHub organization were revoked, meaning they could no longer make any changes or contributions to the code, and Haught, representing Ruby Central, took control.
“I will not mince words here: This was a hostile takeover,” Dash said in a public “goodbye” letter they shared online. “I consider Ruby Central’s behavior a threat to the Ruby community as a whole. The forceful removal of those who maintained RubyGems and Bundler for over a decade is inherently a hostile action. Ruby Central crossed a line by doing this.”
The news was seen by many developers in the Ruby and open source community as betraying the dedication and labor that Dash, Arko, and other maintainers put into these tools for years.
Ruby Central, meanwhile, describes the move as one centered around security.
“With the recent increase of software supply chain attacks, we are taking proactive steps to safeguard the Ruby gem ecosystem end-to-end,” Ruby Central said in an explanation of its decision. “To strengthen supply chain security, we are taking important steps to ensure that administrative access to the RubyGems.org, RubyGems, and Bundler is securely managed. This includes both our production systems and GitHub repositories. In the near term we will temporarily hold administrative access to these projects while we finalize new policies that limit commit and organization access rights. This decision was made and approved by the Ruby Central Board as part of our fiduciary responsibility. In the interim, we have a strong on-call rotation in place to ensure continuity and reliability while we advance this work. These changes are designed to protect critical infrastructure that power the Ruby ecosystem, whether you are a developer downloading gems to your local machine [or] a small or large team who rely on the safety and availability of these tools.”
404 Media has covered the kind of recent supply chain attacks targeting open source projects that Ruby Central is referring to. Earlier this month, a critical JavaScript development tool Node Package Manager (NPM), was targeted by a similar supply chain attack. But not everyone in the Ruby development community bought the explanation that security was at the heart of the recent moves. One reason for that is a public statement from a Ruby Central board member and treasurer Freedom Dumlao.
On Substack, Dumlao apologized for the sudden change and how it was communicated.
“If Ruby Central made a critical mistake, it's here,” he wrote. “Could these conversations have been happening in public? Could the concerns we were hearing from companies, users and sponsors have been made more apparent? Probably. But I remind you we don't have a ‘communications team’, no real PR mechanism, we are all just engineers who (like many of you I'm sure) go heads down on a problem until it's solved.”
Dumlao reiterated that RubyGems and Bundler are critical infrastructure that are now increasingly under the threat of supply chain attacks, and said that the companies that rely on them “count” on Ruby Central do everything it can to keep them and their users safe.
However, Dumlao also said that Ruby Central was under “deadline” to make this change.
“Either Ruby Central puts controls in place to ensure the safety and stability of the infrastructure we are responsible for, or lose the funding that we use to keep those things online and going,” Dumlao wrote.
In a September 22 video message in response to criticism about its decision to remove maintainers, Ruby Central’s executive director Shan Cureton described a similar dynamic. She said “sponsors and companies who depend on Ruby tooling came to us with supply chain concerns” and that “Our funding and sponsorships are directly tied to our ability to demonstrate strong operational standards. Without those standards in place, it becomes harder to secure the support needed to keep maintainers paid, organize events, and provide resources for developers at every stage of their journey.”
Since Shopify is one of the primary sponsors and funders of Ruby Central, this led some in the Ruby community to believe that Shopify was exerting pressure on Ruby Central to make this change.
“That is not how it happened, and I wish I had been more careful with my wording in that blog post,” Dumlao told me in a Linkedin message when I asked him if Ruby Central was under pressure from Shopify to make these changes.
I just don't think that there's any other plausible explanation than Shopify demanded this.
After I gave Dumlao my number so we could do a phone interview, I got an email from Cindi Sutera, who was recently brought on as a spokesperson for Ruby Central."Ruby Central’s mission is to keep the infrastructure that Rubyists rely on stable, safe, and trustworthy,” she told me. “As part of a routine review following organizational changes, we identified a small number of accounts whose privileges no longer matched current role requirements. The Board voted that it was imperative to align access with our privilege policy to keep the infrastructure that the Ruby community depends on stable. This is our mission.”
Sutera said that the board approved “a temporary administrative hold on certain elevated permissions” while it finalized operator agreements and governance roles.
“To move quickly and transparently, we imposed a clear deadline to complete operator agreements and close gaps,” she said. “We could have communicated earlier that we felt it necessary to move quickly and wish we could have given the community more time to prepare for this action. And now, here we are committed to completing this transition for the stability and security of the Ruby Gems supply chain. More updates are coming as we work through security protocols and stabilization efforts.”
“There’s literally only one company providing the money that is keeping Ruby Central open, and it is Shopify,” Arko told me. “And so I just don't think that there's any other plausible explanation than Shopify demanded this.”
When I asked Arko why he thought Ruby Central removed him, if it wasn’t for security reasons, Arko said: “totally unprovable speculation is Shopify’s CEO is best friends with DHH, who hates me.” DHH is also a Shopify board member.
“Thanks for the invitation, but not my place to weigh in a lot on this while they're working through these changes,” DHH told me in an email when reached for comment. “But I support them taking steps to secure and professionalize the supply chain work they're doing.”
Shopify did not reply to a request for comment.
As this episode spread on social media, I talked to several people associated with Ruby Central who told me the board was acting in the interest of the RubyGems and the Ruby community. Two sources who asked for anonymity for fear of retaliation said that Arko was difficult to work with, questioned how he used funds raised by Ruby Together, and claimed that a new Ruby version manager he’s working on, rv, means he has a conflict of interest with his work on RubyGems and Bundler.
Arko acknowledged to me he heard he’s been difficult to work with in the past. He said that sometimes he’s been able to reach out to people directly and resolve any issues, and that sometimes he hasn’t. He rejected the other allegations, and said that Ruby Together’s financials have always been public.
“It has always been fully public, and the amount has been fixed at $150 an hour for 10 years,” he said, referring to the amount contributors got paid to work on Bundler. Arko added that nobody has ever been paid for more than 20 hours a week, and that the most he’s been able to raise in a single year is $300,000 to pay eight different contributors. “Nobody has gotten a raise for 10 years.”
"As a matter of policy, we don’t discuss individual personnel,” Sutera, the Ruby Central spokesperson, said when I asked if Arko was removed from the GitHub organization because of his previous behavior. “Our recent actions were organization-wide governance measures aimed at aligning access with policy. Our priority is maintaining a stable and secure Ruby Gems supply chain."
McQuaid, the developer of Homebrew and who followed the controversy, told me that even Arko’s harshest critics wouldn’t deny the contributions he’s made to the Ruby community over the years.
Regarding Arko’s blog post about his removal, McQuaid told me it’s good that Arko is crediting other people for their contribution and that he’s following open source principles of community and transparency, but that “his ‘transparency’ here has been selective to things that benefit him/his narrative, he seems unwilling or unable to admit that he failed as a leader in being unwilling or unable to introduce a formal governance process long before this all went down or appoint a meaningful successor and step down amicably.”
The fundamental disagreement here is about who “owns” the GitHub organization that houses Bundler and RubyGems. Technically, Ruby Central was able to assert control because Hiroshi Shibata, a member of the Ruby core team and one of the contributors who has owner-level permissions on the GitHub, made Haught, who revoked the others’ access, an owner as well. Any owner can add or remove any other owner, but when Ruby Central’s board voted to make this change Haught acted immediately and removed Arko, Dash, and others.
However, Arko fundamentally disagrees with the premise that Ruby Central has the right to govern the GitHub organization in any way, and believes that it has always belonged to the group of contributors who had access up until September 19.
Arko said that even if Ruby Central gave him his permissions back, he would not consider the matter resolved until Ruby Central stopped claiming it owns Bundler “but I am definitely not going to hold my breath for that one.”
“When people really care, they're passionate and they're enthusiastic and they argue, and that often looks like drama,” McQuaid, the developer of Homebrew, said when I asked what he thinks this entire affair says about the state of open source development. “But if I had to pick between having the enthusiasm and the drama or losing both, then I'd probably pick the enthusiasm and the drama, because in some ways, the system is somewhat self correcting. Even the stuff that's going on right now, people are having essentially a very public debate about what role do large companies or nonprofits or individual maintainers have in open source. To what extent does someone's level of contribution matter versus what type of person they are? I think these are valuable discussions to be having, and we're having them in the open, whereas if it was in a company, this would all be in a meeting room or with an HR department or in a leadership offsite or whatever.”
A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.Freedom Dumlao (Freedom’s Substack)
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DeepSeek-V3.2 released
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NASA ordered to destroy fully functional carbon-monitoring satellite despite its vital climate data contributions : "This is illegal" - African In Space
NASA ordered to destroy fully functional carbon-monitoring satellite despite its vital climate data contributions : "This is illegal" - African In Space
NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’sNicolas Menier (African In Space)
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‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.
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DeepSeek-V3.2 released
DeepSeek V3.2 introduces Native Sparse Attention architecture designed to make long-context models more efficient without sacrificing performance. Instead of applying sparsity only during inference (after training is complete), NSA is designed to be sparse from the very beginning and is trainable from end-to-end.
By learning the sparse patterns during pretraining, DeepSeek is able to exceed the performance of standard Full Attention models in different benchmarks. It also allows the model to be efficiently fine-tuned for complex tasks like chain-of-thought reasoning.
There's a dramatic reduction in the number of token needed for both prefilling and decoding as the context length increases, making it much more economical to run.
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Hungary bans 12 Ukrainian media outlets
Hungary blocked 12 Ukrainian media outlets in response to Kyiv's earlier ban on several foreign publications over Russian narratives, Hungarian Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas said on Sept. 29.
Several Hungarian media outlets were among those temporarily restricted in Ukraine by an order by the State Special Communications Service on Sept. 8
According to Gulyas, Ukraine blocked the Hungarian outlets Origo and Demokrata because they "dared to write critically about the policy of sanctions against Russia, Ukraine's armed support, and portray the EU and NATO as fragmented and ineffective organizations."
Gulyas described the ban on Hungarian outlets in Ukraine as "a completely unjustified attack."
The list of 12 banned Ukrainian media outlets in Hungary includes several popular sources such as Ukrainska Pravda, European Pravda, NV, hromadske and TSN.
"With Ukraine's accession, the EU would only become more fragmented," Gulyas wrote on Facebok.
The news marks the most recent point of tension amid strained relations between Kyiv and Budapest.
Hungary is broadly seen as the most Kremlin-friendly government in the EU and NATO. The country has consistently obstructed aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia throughout the full-scale war.
Ukraine applied for EU membership shortly after Russia launched its war in 2022 and was granted candidate status within months.
As an EU member, Hungary has veto power over further progress.
Last week, reconnaissance drones likely belonging to Hungary had violated Ukraine's airspace along the border, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Budapest rejected the allegations.
Hungarian drones breach Ukraine's airspace, Zelensky says
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces recorded drone incursions over border areas and that preliminary assessments suggest the unmanned aircraft were "conducting reconnaissance on the industrial potential of Ukraine's border areas."The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)
The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It
The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It
Going into 2026 and 2028 it’s time for — essential for — Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to reformed (expanded in number…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Why the West Trails Russia in Civilian Nuclear Tech
Why the West Trails Russia in Civilian Nuclear Tech
Russia’s civilian nuclear sector boasts 70+ years of world-firsts and accomplishments, and just shook things up again this week as President Putin announced the country’s plans to launch “the world’s first nuclear energy system with a closed fuel cyc…Sputnik International
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Ah, Sputnikglobe.com, your one stop shop source for thruth.
I don't care about left, right, west, east, but please stop feeding me propaganda from whatever direction you aim it at me.
The article doesn't make any arguments for being ahead on nuclear tech.
It just lists accomplishments and speaks of the launch of a closed cycle nuclear reactor announced by Putin.
The generation IV International Forum (GIF) which includes Russia has announced this in 2002 and selected the 6 gen IV systems most suited for development out of about 100 proposed designs.
The original charter members of GIF are Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, the UK and the USA. They have been joined by Switzerland, China, Russia, Australia and, through the Euratom research and training programme, the European Union.
Seems to me no country can solely claim this advancement
Most of the countries are party to the 2005 Framework Agreement, which formally commits them to participate in the development of one or more Generation IV systems selected by GIF for further R&D. Argentina, Australia and Brazil did not sign the Framework Agreement, and the UK withdrew from it. Russia formalized its accession to the Framework Agreement in August 2009 as its tenth member, with Rosatom as implementing agent.
I mean, this article makes no claim to support the title. Therefor >> propaganda by a state owned news outlet.
Generation IV Nuclear Reactors - World Nuclear Association
An international task force is developing six nuclear reactor technologies for deployment between 2020 and 2030. Four are fast neutron reactors.world-nuclear.org
It just lists accomplishments
Last when i checked having accomplishments others don't have is being ahead of them.
How?
Every major sports team has accomplishments that another team doesn't have.
That a team won the Superbowl in 1970 doesn't give them a reason to claim that all other teams are trailing them.
If a company claims to have 50 patents they still don't get to claim to be market leader if you don't compare them to others.
Libs? Hate? Where?
I'm feed up being squashed between left, right, China, USA, Israel, Palestine,... Whatever.
Why is everyone so quick to try and label you. If you want to discuss, discuss. I'm so up for that. I don't know everything and I'm willing to learn.
This article makes a claim in the title and doesn't seem to have anything to build its claim upon.
I don't mind any country being good at anything. Why should I?
'Pyrrhic Victory': Dodon on PAS’s Narrow Edge in Elections
'Pyrrhic Victory': Dodon on PAS’s Narrow Edge in Elections
Most Moldovans in the country are “categorically dissatisfied” with the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, former President Igor Dodon tells Sputnik.Sputnik International
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
Sep 27, 2025
In NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” President Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other national security agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America, retooling a network of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to focus on “leftist” political violence in America. This vast counterterrorism army, made up of federal, state, and local agents would, as Trump aide Stephen Miller said, form “the central hub of that effort.”NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.”
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
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F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
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For the past 15 years1, F-Droid has provided a safe and securehaven for Android users around the world to find and install free and opensource apps. When con...f-droid.org
Quarta Repubblica, documenti inediti sul caso Garlasco: anticipazioni e ospiti del 29 settembre 2025
Nicola Porro torna questa sera, lunedì 29 settembre 2025, con un nuovo appuntamento di Quarta Repubblica, il talk show di approfondimento politico ed economico in onda in prima serata su Rete 4.
Dopo i quotidiani 10 Minuti nel preserale, il giornalista guiderà il dibattito su alcuni dei temi più caldi dell’attualità italiana, tra politica, giustizia e cronaca.
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Quarta Repubblica 29 settembre 2025: anticipazioni e ospiti
Stasera, 29 settembre 2025, torna Quarta Repubblica con Nicola Porro. Ospiti e anticipazioni: nuovi documenti sul caso Garlasco.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Thanks, I was more commenting on the difference between instances and painted a flattened picture of tankies. I'm aware that tankies are willing to criticize Stalin and shouldn't have made such a stupid joke.
That said, you might guess from my instance that I disagree with the notion your quoting. When tankies say how bourgeois states are bad I agree because states in general are bad to varying degrees and in different ways but all states are authoritarian. For me, socialist state is an oxymoron and neither Lenin nor Stalin substantially worked towards a free, stateless society. That's what Bakunin predicted in his exchange with Marx, Kropotkin warned Lenin about, Goldman criticized after Kronstadt, ...
Kropotkin started a school of thought that describes stateless, egalitarian societies. Recent authors like Graeber, Gelderloos and J. C. Scott follow this tradition. The reason that it is difficult to find recent examples is that both bourgeois and bolshevik states work together to smash anti-state movements like the Makhnovshchina or the anarchosyndicalists in Spain, or more recently Rojava and the Zapatistas.
Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive
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Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care collapse. The Knesset advances a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in cases that constitute “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Trump will meet with Netanyahu in the White House to discuss the 21-point ceasefire plan for Gaza; Hamas has not yet been presented with the plan. Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayoral race. Trump signs a directive vastly expanding federal powers to target those expressing anti-capitalist views or anti-Christian views, Ken Klippenstein reports. Hundreds of drones are launched into Ukraine by Russia overnight. Snapback sanctions hit Iran. The U.S. contemplates further military incursions into the Caribbean.
Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive
Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care collapse. The Knesset advances a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in cases that constitute “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Trump will meet with Netanyahu in the White House to discuss the 21-point ceasefire plan for Gaza; Hamas has not yet been presented with the plan. Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayoral race. Trump signs a directive vastly expanding federal powers to target those expressing anti-capitalist views or anti-Christian views, Ken Klippenstein reports. Hundreds of drones are launched into Ukraine by Russia overnight. Snapback sanctions hit Iran. The U.S. contemplates further military incursions into the Caribbean.
Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive
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Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care collapse. The Knesset advances a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in cases that constitute “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Trump will meet with Netanyahu in the White House to discuss the 21-point ceasefire plan for Gaza; Hamas has not yet been presented with the plan. Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayoral race. Trump signs a directive vastly expanding federal powers to target those expressing anti-capitalist views or anti-Christian views, Ken Klippenstein reports. Hundreds of drones are launched into Ukraine by Russia overnight. Snapback sanctions hit Iran. The U.S. contemplates further military incursions into the Caribbean.
Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive
Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care collapse. The Knesset advances a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in cases that constitute “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Trump will meet with Netanyahu in the White House to discuss the 21-point ceasefire plan for Gaza; Hamas has not yet been presented with the plan. Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayoral race. Trump signs a directive vastly expanding federal powers to target those expressing anti-capitalist views or anti-Christian views, Ken Klippenstein reports. Hundreds of drones are launched into Ukraine by Russia overnight. Snapback sanctions hit Iran. The U.S. contemplates further military incursions into the Caribbean.
Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive
I don't think any nation is for humanity. It's all just business and we are all just their products to be bought and sold for labor and money production. ...or pawns for wars that benefit evil. It's the same ideology of gangs and mafias. And it all uses the idea of fear to manipulate people so that they lack faith in themselves and genuine love of authentic community.
So I find it backwards that people still promote change via government sides. Then again people have been naive and duped by their governments and the people meant to protect them that it's impossible to leave. Like joining a gang and trying to get out. It's all the same evil human element that powers these things. But the fear and Stockholm syndrome has people going back begging their masters and owners for change.
Maybe it's time to detach fully from the owners of the globe and everything that stems from them even if it means a harder and shorter life without the 1st world privilege of escapism and ignorance/arrogance.
Western media suppresses reputable reports about planned Kiev provocations — Russian MFA
Western media suppresses reputable reports about planned Kiev provocations — Russian MFA
According to Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, journalists who initially published data about a planned provocation by Kiev and continued to investigate the topic are now speaking of "a whole series of such staged operations"TASS
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
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More than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation
Workers preparing to leave the government have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.
“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”
Trump news at a glance: more than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation
Latest departures in Trump administration’s deferred resignation program come as Congress faces government shutdown deadline – key US politics stories from Sunday 28 SeptemberGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Giulia Salemi inviata di Pechino Express 2026 insieme a Lillo e Guido Meda
Cambio di squadra per la nuova edizione di Pechino Express 2026, il celebre reality di Sky Original condotto da Costantino Della Gherardesca: a sorpresa, l’influencer e conduttrice Giulia Salemi torna nello show che l’aveva vista concorrente nel 2015, ma questa volta nel ruolo di inviata. Sarà affiancata dal comico Lillo e dal giornalista sportivo Guido Meda.
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Giulia Salemi inviata di Pechino Express 2026 con Lillo e Meda
Giulia Salemi torna a Pechino Express 2026 come inviata insieme a Lillo e Guido Meda. Scopri tutte le novità, le tappe e le anticipazioni.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
The Supreme Court is considering Ghislaine Maxwell’s petition. Here’s what to know.
Maxwell argues she was unfairly charged in New York, citing Epstein’s notorious non-prosecution agreement in Florida that said, in part, that “the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
Her lawyers present the issue as one that requires the justices to resolve a split among the nation’s appellate courts regarding whether a promise on behalf of the “United States” or the “Government” that’s made by a U.S. attorney in one district binds federal prosecutors in other districts.
As a general matter, one of the reasons the justices will take an appeal is when there’s a so-called circuit split to resolve, which is why Maxwell’s lawyers have presented her appeal in this way.
The Supreme Court is considering Ghislaine Maxwell’s petition. Here’s what to know.
The convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate’s appeal is one of many scheduled for consideration in the justices' so-called long conference Monday. Most get denied.Jordan Rubin (MSNBC)
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse (video in article)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken one of its agents off the streets after he was caught on video throwing a distraught mother to the floor of a New York City courthouse in front of her two children on Thursday.
It wasn’t the first time videos have captured scenes of immigration agents using violent force to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. But the videos of this incident — one of which I filmed for ProPublica — seemed to stir something different. In a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded an officer for such conduct.
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.ProPublica
The Justice Department is ramping up Trump’s election-rigging efforts
On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify a ramping up of the Trump administration’s voter-suppression agenda in the wake of similar lawsuits the department filed last week against Maine and Oregon.
Explanation in article:
In particular, the DOJ appears eager to share state voter data with the Department of Homeland Security, in order to comb through federal immigration databases to search for cases of ineligible voting or noncitizens on the voter rolls. Such databases are not designed for those purposes and will likely produce inaccurate results, especially because such fraud is also exceedingly rare. Nonetheless, this will give them an opportunity to trumpet fake claims of fraud in order to advance Trump’s lies about the voting process.“My guess is they want the voter files to be able to say we have the voter files and we know there are x or y fraudulent people on it,” says Justin Levitt, who served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division under President Obama. “It will be fiction, but now they’ll say it because they have them. Even if they find an infinitesimal number of wrong people on the rolls, they will lie about the numbers. This administration cannot be trusted. They have an enormous problem with credibility and an even bigger problem with data.”
The Justice Department is ramping up Trump’s election-rigging efforts
DOJ officials have sued six more states to demand sensitive voter data.Mother Jones
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years1, F-Droid has provided a safe and securehaven for Android users around the world to find and install free and opensource apps. When con...f-droid.org
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The EU can't be the only one standing up to this foul behaviour.
I hope these evil arsehole moves will span new mobile-phone companies who see the economic benefit of taking side with the users. A little like it happened with Framework and laptops.
My mobile is dying; when it's dead it'll be GrapheneOS – and fuck you Google.
Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36107835
Opinion - Jamelle Bouie
Sept. 13, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ETThe best way to honor Charlie’s memory,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared, “is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”Kirk’s approach, wrote the editors of Politico’s Playbook, “was to persuade, to use charm and charisma and provocation and the power of argument to convince people of the righteousness of his cause.”
There is no doubt that Kirk was influential, no doubt that he had millions of devoted fans. But it is difficult to square this idealized portrait of Kirk as model citizen with the man as he was.
Few if any of them have seen fit to mention the fact that Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist...
Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
Opinion - Jamelle Bouie
Sept. 13, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ETThe best way to honor Charlie’s memory,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared, “is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”Kirk’s approach, wrote the editors of Politico’s Playbook, “was to persuade, to use charm and charisma and provocation and the power of argument to convince people of the righteousness of his cause.”
There is no doubt that Kirk was influential, no doubt that he had millions of devoted fans. But it is difficult to square this idealized portrait of Kirk as model citizen with the man as he was.
Few if any of them have seen fit to mention the fact that Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html
Schutzstaffel in America
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Watch "Leben als Migrant in den USA - Gestapo 2.0 [tfrn32o542sf1]" on Streamable.Streamable
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UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
: Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformationDanny Palmer (The Register)
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UK Middle East minister appears to accept 'risk of genocide' in Gaza
The motion, seen by Middle East Eye, notes that on 16 September, the "United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry found a risk of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza".
In fact, the UN report went further, and concluded that Israel has committed genocide and is still committing genocide in Gaza. Despite this inaccuracy, Falconer's support for the motion citing the UN report indicates an acceptance that Israel has committed human rights abuses in Gaza that justify the designation of "genocide".
Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said on Monday morning: "I am absolutely horrified that Hamish Falconer and the Labour leadership is seeking to deliberately mislead Labour members and affiliated trade unions." "The UN Commission of Inquiry report was unequivocal: it said Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza," McDonnell added.
UK Middle East minister appears to accept 'risk of genocide' in Gaza
Britain's Middle East minister has apparently accepted that there is a "risk" of genocide in Gaza, but has been accused of mislesading Labour Party members over the contents of a major UN report.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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UK Middle East minister appears to accept 'risk of genocide' in Gaza
The motion, seen by Middle East Eye, notes that on 16 September, the "United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry found a risk of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza".
In fact, the UN report went further, and concluded that Israel has committed genocide and is still committing genocide in Gaza. Despite this inaccuracy, Falconer's support for the motion citing the UN report indicates an acceptance that Israel has committed human rights abuses in Gaza that justify the designation of "genocide".
Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said on Monday morning: "I am absolutely horrified that Hamish Falconer and the Labour leadership is seeking to deliberately mislead Labour members and affiliated trade unions." "The UN Commission of Inquiry report was unequivocal: it said Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza," McDonnell added.
UK Middle East minister appears to accept 'risk of genocide' in Gaza
Britain's Middle East minister has apparently accepted that there is a "risk" of genocide in Gaza, but has been accused of mislesading Labour Party members over the contents of a major UN report.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Linux Mint--I've unmounted an ISO, but it still shows under Devices in the File Manager. How can I remove it?
I mounted the ISO through VLC, by right-clicking and choosing VLC as the application to open it.
I unmounted the ISO by right-clicking on the icon on the desktop and choosing unmount.
The ISO still shows under Devices in the file manager after I unmounted it, how can I remove it? The ISO file no longer exists.
Thank you.
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Meta is trying to give us yet another Reels-first social media platform
Meta is trialing a Reels-first experience on Instagram for a limited audience in India. If it's successful, don't be surprised if it expands to a phone near you.
https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-is-trying-to-give-us-yet-another-reels-first-social-media-platform/
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