AI may soon make Nobel-level discovery, scientists predict
AI may soon make Nobel-level discovery, scientists predict
“It’s almost certain” that AI will reach that level eventually, one researcher told Nature.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
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Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives.www.guru3d.com
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Germany: Drone sightings disrupt Munich airport
The Guardian, largest non-profit newspaper in the world, publishes it's 2024/2025 annual report
- Total revenue is £275.9m, up from £257.8m in 2023
- The newspaper has improved its financial performances but is still losing money. Cash outflow was £24.3 million this year, down from £36.5m
- The number of Guardian supporters increased by 150,000 people in a single year. It has now reached 1.3 million people, with growth in every region of the world.
Guardian editor Katharine Viner said:
“At a time when media freedom is under threat, we’re growing our global operation with rigorous, independent journalism that is freely available to all. The Guardian is now supported by more than 1.3 million readers around the world. It’s a remarkable number and testament to our powerful relationship with our audience, our strategy of continuous innovation and how much our readers care about Guardian journalism.”
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The Guardian Media Group publishes 2024/25 annual report
Positive results reflect emphasis on global readership and adapting to changing digital behaviourGNM press office (The Guardian)
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FIFA Council takes no action against Israel
FIFA Council takes no action against Israel, urges peace - ESPN
Facing growing global calls to suspend Israeli teams from football, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Thursday the governing body must promote peace and unity and could not solve political issues.Associated Press (ESPN)
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Russia is currently suspended from official FIFA and UEFA matches.
bbc.com/sport/football/article…
Russia football sanctions: Why team is still playing despite Fifa and Uefa ban
Russia may not be partaking in competitions as normal, but they haven't stopped playing football completelyDaniel Austin (BBC Sport)
It's been 3 and a half years.
If you don't give bad organisations credit when they do something right, why would they ever do it again?
They ban federations on political interference regularly.
Killing your other opponents' team is optional apparently...
At least 40 dead and 124 injured in crush at Vijay rally in India
At least 40 dead and 124 injured in crush at Vijay rally in India
Victims include nine children at election campaign gathering in Tamil Nadu led by popular actor and politicianJennifer Rankin (The Guardian)
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Part of Pablo Escobar’s ranch to be given to female victims of Colombia conflict
Part of Pablo Escobar’s ranch to be given to female victims of Colombia conflict
Estate was abandoned after Escobar’s 1993 killing and later became a theme park, and now the land has been granted to female farmersHarriet Barber (The Guardian)
Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia
Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia
Military court convicts Kabila of war crimes, treason and other offences in verdict that could fuel enduring tensionsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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This is actually bad news.
Don't get me wrong. Joseph Kabila was a vicious kleptocrat who ruled Congo for too long.
But what makes him a truly extraordinary figure is that after mass protests and international pressure, he said he was ready to voluntarily resign. Most African leaders would rather burn their country to the ground rather than resign.
The international community and his successor promised Joseph Kabila that would not be prosecuted. So Kabila decided to leave office. There was an incredibly peaceful transition of power. No one imagined it would be possible in Africa.
There is one law that all political scientists agree about : Monarchies are the political systems the most likely to transition to democracies.
Why ? Because a powerful monarch like King Abdullah of Jordan can give up political power. He will keep his bodyguards, his big salary, his cars, his palaces. He will see no changes to his lifestyle.
Presidents like Vladimir Putin or Abdelfattah Sisi can't do that. If they give up power, it's over 💀
If dictators know that leaving power means their death, they will fight to death rather than resign.
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So... Because we have a massive wanker at the top, we must not disturb him and his disgusting lifestyle, otherwise it could turn him into a killer. And that's why he can keep the big salary and palaces.
That's not a good advertisement for monarchy. I wish I had free money and a big house while sitting on my ass. I promise I won't kill anyone.
If violent dictators can't trust that you're making a deal for peaceful resolution in good faith, then a lot of people are going to die to achieve that transition. If the only way out is death, they're going to take as many people with them as possible. Is that worth it, just to kill one rich guy?
Peaceful transitions of power always involve compromises. Here, they agreed to spare his life in exchange for the future lives of countless citizens. If they didn't want to agree to those conditions, they shouldn't have made the deal. It just makes it harder for this situation to play out peacefully in the future.
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Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko overthrown by Laurent Kabila.
Laurent Kabila assassinated.
Laurent's son Joseph becomes corrupt leader.
India and China to resume direct flights after a five-year ban
India and China to resume direct flights in October after five-year ban
India's IndiGo airline said that it would restart direct flights between Kolkata and Guangzhou from 26 October.Cherylann Mollan (BBC News)
Thai killer of Cambodian opposition politician sentenced to life in prison
Thai killer of Cambodia politician Lim Kimya sentenced to life in prison
Lim Kimya was shot dead in Bangkok in January, in what many believe was a political killing.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
What Happened with Proton Mail and Journalist Accounts
What Happened with Proton Mail and Journalist Accounts
Episode 241: ProtonMail allegedly banned journalist accounts, Plex had a data breach, leadership changes at the EFF, and more. Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New ...PeerTube.wtf
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New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
A new study from Yale University shows that AI hasn't had much of an impact on jobs as many have predicted or feared.Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
A new study from Yale University shows that AI hasn't had much of an impact on jobs as many have predicted or feared.Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
A new study from Yale University shows that AI hasn't had much of an impact on jobs as many have predicted or feared.Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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New study sheds light on what kinds of workers are losing jobs to AI
AI Kills Jobs, Stanford Study Finds, Especially For Young People
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New study sheds light on what kinds of workers are losing jobs to AI
Stanford University research offers insights for students and young workers as artificial intelligence begins to reshape the labor market.Megan Cerullo (CBS News)
What explains the depressing job market — most starkly illustrated in a viral chart on X, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing the number of position openings cratering since ChatGPT was released? And what about early career jobs, which seem scarce these days, to the chagrin of recent graduates?Some think that the softening in the job market should instead be attributed to the US Federal Reserve putting a kibosh to the era of zero interest-rate policy in 2022. Before it ended, companies borrowed massive amounts of capital at cheap rates and plowed them into high-risk startups — thereby inflating assets, making lots of millionaires, and fueling a gold rush of well-paying tech positions. (Squint at that chart in the previous paragraph and it does seem to support this thesis, with the decline in openings coinciding more cleanly with the interest rate hike than the release of ChatGPT.)
As for early career positions decreasing, some experts think the phenomenon predates ChatGPT and could be a sign that there are simply more college graduates than there are early career jobs where a higher degree is a must, along with other structural changes.
And there are the headlines, which are littered with stories of people getting laid off due to AI — but maybe that’s a function of some CEOs jumping the gun and buying into the hype even though AI still leaves much to be desired in practice. That’s reflected in the uneven adoption of AI across industrial sectors.
While generative AI looks likely to join the ranks of transformative, general purpose technologies,” the Yale study reads, “It is too soon to tell how disruptive the technology will be to jobs.
anyone with 1/4 of a brain knows this.
but the vast majority of the population, including our leadership, are mostly brainless hype drunk monkeys.
AI really isn't that useful.
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
A new study from Yale University shows that AI hasn't had much of an impact on jobs as many have predicted or feared.Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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Surprisingly, they found that the rate of change in the labor market’s makeup in the wake of AI closely matches the pace when computers and the internet were first taking off. In other words, AI doesn’t appear to be more disruptive than those two technologies
Possibly two of the most disruptive technologies in the last 100 years. Who writes this shit?
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs
A new study from Yale University shows that AI hasn't had much of an impact on jobs as many have predicted or feared.Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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Signal isn’t part of the fediverse.
Element X (Matrix) is.
It’s my understanding that something is only part of the Fediverse if it can communicate with the ActivityPub protocol. Something that the Matrix protocol cannot.
Matrix is federated though, but with another protocol. Element X uses Matrix.
Hacker group Black Mirror releases first batch of Rostec files detailing Russia’s international military deals and sanctions evasion schemes
The hacker collective Black Mirror has released the first portion of an archive of documents from the Russian state defense corporation Rostec. The tranche contains more than 300 items. The materials detail Russia’s military and technical cooperation with foreign clients, pricing for military items, and logistics schemes aimed at evading sanctions. The published documents also include internal correspondence, presentations on overseas helicopter service centers, and agreements with international partners.
The files show that Russian companies have faced difficulties receiving payments for contracts with Algeria, Egypt, China, and India. Russian banks have been unable to issue guarantees or conduct transactions through the SWIFT system, forcing them to search for alternative settlement schemes in yuan, rubles, and euros.
The archive also contains information about an international network of service centers for Russian helicopter equipment. The documents describe existing and planned maintenance facilities in the UAE, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and other countries. Particular attention is paid to the creation of an international regional logistics hub in Dubai, near Al Maktoum Airport, designed as a central node for supplying spare parts and components.
Among the materials is a letter from the Rostec holding company Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (CRET) on pricing for military products in export contracts. The document proposes a simplified formula for setting wholesale prices, profit margins, transport expenses, and currency risks. It also discusses possible legal changes to allow more flexible use of revenues from military-technical cooperation.
The hackers said this is only the first portion of the Rostec archive, which they are releasing in what they called “fuck off exposure” mode. Black Mirror claims the documents include a list of “reliable trading partners” in several countries.
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Spanish prosecutor closes investigation into major manufacturer Maxam, whose Russian plants continue producing explosives despite EU ban
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43400129
ArchivedSpain’s public prosecutor has closed a pretrial investigation into MaxamCorp International S.L. that was opened after a report by The Insider exposed the company’s Russian factories, which continue to produce explosives despite Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian antiwar activists living in Spain filed a complaint that prompted the probe in June. Three months later, the prosecutor at Spain’s National Court dropped the investigation, despite the factories not halting their operations.
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In the decision declining to press charges [...] the prosecutor, without citing specific sources, said Maxam did not export explosive substances to Russia in 2024-2025 and that in 2024 the company lost control of its Russian subsidiaries.
The Insider asked an independent sanctions-compliance lawyer to comment on the prosecutor’s ruling.
Alex Prezanti, [an independent sanctions-compliance lawyer and] co-executive director of the nonprofit State Capture Accountability Project (SCAP), said the prosecutor examined the evidence selectively:
“In his decision to close the investigation against Maxam International, the Spanish prosecutor appears to have only examined events in 2024-2025 — once Maxam had lost control of its Russian subsidiaries. However, the complaint and the Insider's reporting also allege that Maxam International provided its Russian subsidiaries with materials and intellectual property for the production of explosives between 2022 and 2023.The reporting also alleges that in 2023, Maxam appears to have accepted dividends on profits accrued by its subsidiaries in Russia from a direct supplier to the Russian military industrial complex. It is therefore unfortunate, in my opinion, that the Spanish prosecutor omitted the events of 2022-2023 from his examination. Whilst I have not seen enough evidence to conclude whether there was criminal conduct, on the face of it these allegations would justify a full investigation to determine whether Maxam International broke the law during the first two years of Russia's full scale invasion.”
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Maxam has operated in Russia since 1999 through four subsidiaries: the management company Maxam Rusia LLC ((ООО «Максам Русия»), along with three explosives plants — “High-Tech Initiation Systems” JSC (AO “VSI”) in the Samara Region, “Eastern Mining Services” LLC (ООО «ИМС») in the northern Murmansk Region, and YUII-Sibir LLC (ООО «ЮИИ-Сибирь») in Krasnoyarsk Krai in central Siberia. The ultimate owner of those firms was Spain’s MaxamCorp International S.L.
All three production sites continued operating after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Spanish prosecutor closes investigation into major manufacturer Maxam, whose Russian plants continue produc...
Spain’s public prosecutor has closed a pretrial investigation into MaxamCorp International S.L. that was opened after a report by The Insider exposed the company’s Russian factories, which continue to produce explosives despite Russia’s full-scale in…The Insider
Ukraine criticises proposed law banning promotion of Ukrainian nationalist ideology in Poland
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50147549
The episode marks the latest flashpoint in long-standing tensions between Poland and Ukraine – two otherwise close allies – over wartime history, and in particular the massacre of around 100,000 ethnic Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.In Poland, those events, known as the Volhynia massacres, have been officially recognised as an act of genocide. However, Ukraine rejects the use of that term. It also still venerates many UPA and OUN figures as national heroes, prompting criticism from Poland and Israel.
How Gen Z is taking the fight for their rights from TikTok to the streets
How Gen Z is taking the fight for their rights from TikTok to the streets
After sweeping away the Nepalese government in early September and shaking up the Philippines, a wave of protests initiated by Generation Z has now spread to Madagascar and Morocco.RFI
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Most Germans favour Israel's inclusion in Eurovision Song Contest | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50147109
Some 65% of respondents said Israeli artists and athletes should not be penalized for the actions of the Israeli government, German public broadcaster ARD's poll found.
German poll finds same support for far-right party as conservatives | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50147047
That is the best result for the far-right party so far in these surveys, held regularly among eligible voters, Infratest dimap said of the Deutschlandtrend poll.
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Delusions of a Protocol
So, if you're online poisoned like me, you may have noticed that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been having sort of a slow motion, low-key public meltdown for the past several weeks. Most recently, in this interaction with a user.
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Even with practical technical decentralization, the vast majority of Bluesky users are on, well, Bluesky. Bluesky was never really packaged as something that was relatively easy for someone to spin up on their own servers; the network has been historically extremely centralized, and only small minorities of users have broken off.AT Proto decentralization doesn't exist as a practical reality, and if it ever does it won't be for years. Most of the work driving effective decentralization is being done by third parties, who have limited guarantees about future compatibility with possible breaking changes on Bluesky's end.
Bluesky inc isn't really making 'a protocol', they're making Bluesky, the monolithic (to within a rounding error) social network that they operate.
I do genuinely believe that the Bluesky team set off from the start to create a decentralized protocol, but unfortunately for them they ended up running a social network. And at this point, AT Proto has become essentially a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform.
This is, of course, just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability. The tech industry elite are very much like Gilded Age railroad barons – buying up whole towns, breaking up strikes, imposing top-down economic policy on whole sectors – except all the while they claim that they are just technology enthusiasts playing with their little trains.
This does raise a question relevant to the Fediverse. Some Bluesky users are lobbying to have Jesse Singal banned, whoever that is. Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.
Once people find out what decentralization means, are they even willing to tolerate it?
Bluesky is a platform for scammers and morons.
If you're not the one scamming, that only leaves one other option.
China Is Back on the Radar of European Pension Funds, Endowments
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50141482
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European pension funds, endowments and other large pools of long-term money are once again exploring private equity investments in ChinaNow, Chinese markets are booming on increased optimism over technology breakthroughs and the economy, as well as a shift out of the US.
In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN
A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen AI experts. The list of research talent leaving the US to work in China is glittering – and growing.
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This is relevant for immigrants who are trying to escape poverty, almost with no future in their own countries either for their personal or professional aspirations. I am not a China fan, but when you look at countries around the world, many of which are very poor and underdeveloped but with lots of brilliant, hard-working people with dreams and potential, they would rather go to a place where they have at least some stability, predicted living and working conditions, and a future, rather than to a place where one doesn't know whether the potential future mayor of New York City, born and brought up in the USA and hence of course a citizen who happens to be the son of a world-famous filmmaker and a well-known academic, will actually be deported or not. I mean that's a real possibility at this point - let that sink in. (I am not even going for more extreme examples)
I wish things were better, and I wish we didn't live in a world where China, yes, China – of all the countries, might become a viable alternative for people from the developing or underdeveloped world compared to the USA.
The number of times I have used TikTok in my life is the integer just below 1.
(And now I am getting a sense of what that "other kind" of echo chamber these platforms are becoming as opposed to that kind of echo chamber Twitter etc are)
I mean the damn thing is banned here.
There are always isolated exceptions, but the idea to move from the US to China because the US is becoming more and more autocratic is baseless. China has been a dictatorship for decades, and it doesn't get better because the US getting worse.
The list of researchers and others professionals leaving the US for Canada, Australia, Europe, and other democratic states is much longer. This article doesn't make sense.
As an addition, a report citing a Chinese state-controlled media:
Chinese professionals eye Europe as US visa uncertainty grows
According to the South China Morning Post, recent uncertainty over the U.S. H-1B visa program has led many Chinese professionals to consider leaving the United States for Europe. Confusion followed a U.S. government proposal to introduce a US$100,000 application fee for H-1B visas. Although later clarified to apply only to new visas, the announcement triggered panic among skilled workers and their families.
Chinese professionals eye Europe as US visa uncertainty grows - Scandasia
According to the South China Morning Post, recent uncertainty over the U.S. H-1B visa program has led many Chinese professionals to consider leaving the United States for Europe. Confusion followed …Alexander Vittrup (Scandasia)
Munich drone sightings force airport to cancel flights in latest Europe disruption
Drone sightings over Munich airport on Thursday evening forced air traffic control to suspend operations, leading to the cancellation of 17 flights and disrupting travel for nearly 3,000 passengers in the German city.Another 15 arriving flights were diverted to Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Vienna and Frankfurt, the airport said in a statement, marking the latest drone disruption to European aviation after sightings temporarily shut airports in Denmark and Norway last week.
Munich airport reopens after halting flights because of drone sightings
Travel disrupted for thousands on eve of national holiday in latest drone incident to hit European aviationDeborah Cole (The Guardian)
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Germany updates: AfD tops poll with highest support ever
Germany updates: AfD tops poll with highest support ever
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has topped a nationwide opinion poll. Meanwhile, Kenyan athletes won both the men's and women's races at the Berlin Marathon. DW has the latest from Germany.John Silk (Deutsche Welle)
You realize you literally just linked a page that verifies everything I said wrong with the Danish system, right? And I didn't call Danish left wing parties far right, I called the immigration policy far-right.
Take your sealioning elsewhere.
There's only 1 party in the United States that has political power and it's the party of the ruling class.
Democrat vs. republican only exists to give us the illusion of choice, and it works every time.
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Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango
Last week, Cori Bush announced she would be challenging Bell in a rematch. The election will be held Tuesday, August 4, 2026. During the last race, AIPAC – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – funneled more than $3 million directly to Bell’s campaign, and spent nearly $9 million on a super PAC supporting him. Bell unseated Bush by around 7,000 votes.
Bell previously ran into political problems over a taxpayer-funded 2016 Chevy Tahoe he drove as St. Louis County prosecutor, racking up enough unpaid parking tickets that it made the local news in 2019. In October 2022, Farmer put a personal 2020 Durango up for sale on Facebook.
In September 2022, Bell used public money to order two new vehicles for himself and for Farmer. For himself, he bought a Ford Expedition Limited for $69,964 and for Farmer an Expedition XLT – unlike Bell’s, no leather seats – for $60,494, according to news reports at the time.
To find room in the budget, Bell had requested additional funds to hire new attorneys, and was given $700,000 in American Rescue Plan Act money for the purpose, local media reported. After hiring about half the attorneys he said he would, he shifted money from another fund for employees and used it to buy the vehicles.
Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango
The congressman from St. Louis put some of AIPAC's money to an unusual use. He now faces a rematch with Cori Bush.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango
Last week, Cori Bush announced she would be challenging Bell in a rematch. The election will be held Tuesday, August 4, 2026. During the last race, AIPAC – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – funneled more than $3 million directly to Bell’s campaign, and spent nearly $9 million on a super PAC supporting him. Bell unseated Bush by around 7,000 votes.
Bell previously ran into political problems over a taxpayer-funded 2016 Chevy Tahoe he drove as St. Louis County prosecutor, racking up enough unpaid parking tickets that it made the local news in 2019. In October 2022, Farmer put a personal 2020 Durango up for sale on Facebook.
In September 2022, Bell used public money to order two new vehicles for himself and for Farmer. For himself, he bought a Ford Expedition Limited for $69,964 and for Farmer an Expedition XLT – unlike Bell’s, no leather seats – for $60,494, according to news reports at the time.
To find room in the budget, Bell had requested additional funds to hire new attorneys, and was given $700,000 in American Rescue Plan Act money for the purpose, local media reported. After hiring about half the attorneys he said he would, he shifted money from another fund for employees and used it to buy the vehicles.
Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango
The congressman from St. Louis put some of AIPAC's money to an unusual use. He now faces a rematch with Cori Bush.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline
“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” the comedian Dave Chappelle quipped on Saturday at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the first event of its kind in Saudi Arabia. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/world/middleeast/saudi-comedy-festival-riyadh-free-speech.html
What's the factor when you're planning to self-hosted a instance?
I am interested of self-hosting my own instance but one the issue I have is:
- Price for renting server and buying domain name. Mainly, I have low income.
- Unsure if it be single-user instance or if I want multiple people on my instance.
- If my instance is for multiple users, if I be the best fit for moderation as well, pitching it to non Fedizen (whatever you call people that use the Fediverse) as well as the theme of the instance as it would effect my Fedi software of choice (eg. Friendica, Mastodon/Glitch)
I just worried that I try just do it immediately without planning things out or have whatever things in mind which might otherwise help me know what's the best choice and not be upset that I wasted my time and money on something that didn't work out for me.
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I didn't give it nearly as much thought before I started.
In terms of price, you can set a very low price for a single-user instance. Hetzner and Netcup, for example, offer very affordable VPS (these are providers I know of, but there are certainly others).
I don't see open registration as a problem either. I've had it for years, and when I get waves of spam, which is very rare, I switch to moderated mode, otherwise it remains open.
I would host software according to your preferences. I should have kept Friendica running and turned off Mastodon, but that ship has sailed for me.
For a single-user instant, it might be interesting to connect to a relay; it is important that it is moderated. Fedimins offers such a service.
Russia is helping China to prepare for a potential invasion of Taiwan, defense institute says
Russia is helping China to prepare for a potential invasion of Taiwan, defense institute says
LONDON (AP) — Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help Beijing prepare an airborne invasion of Taiwan, according to an analysis of leaked Russian documents by a U.K.-based defense and security forum.EMMA BURROWS, Associated Press (The Hill)
I honestly doubt that russia would be trusted to supply anything for the chinese military outside of raw materials.
Also, whats a high altitude parachute? is it just one that deploys higher up? Wouldint that make the troops and stuff easier to hit?
On top of that, if russia had all this...why couldnt they take Kyiv?
After watching Is Russia Already at War With NATO?
I think it is more likely that trump is trying to goad NATO into responding more seriously to russia, and then once they do trump can condem the action and support russia against NATO.
Now russia can pull out of Ukraine without admitting defeat
Thank you for pointing-out that he could be doing that particular machiavellianism: I'd not thought of any such game.
I've been telling people for years that Trump's going to ditch NATO & back his original backer, Putin, against NATO.
lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-intr…
& "The Kremlin Papers" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_… show who's investment Trump is ( apparently The Guardian has now disappeared all such content? from DuckDuckGo, it has, anyways.. how spectacularly depressing to see propagandism go THAT deep, eradicating journalism even-more, since Guardian changed ownership ).
He's playing a negative-sum game, same as Putin, same as mass-shooters: the intent is that NOone matter, after he's gone: he gets to be "the last word", & gets to be the "king" which presides over the destruction of the world's potential.
Zero-sum games are competitive-narcissism, but negative-sum games are competitive-nihilism-and-narcissism.. different motivation entirely.
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Israel set up GHF to ‘weaponize’ aid distribution in Gaza: Whistleblower
Israel set up GHF to ‘weaponize’ aid distribution in Gaza: Whistleblower
A US Army veteran and former contractor for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says Israel established the US-backed aid scheme to “weaponize” food distribution in the Gaza Strip amid a genocidal war.PressTV
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Starvation is a war crime. So why is it so rarely prosecuted?
Starvation is a war crime. So why is it so rarely prosecuted?
From Bengal to Gaza, hunger is often used as a weapon of war but almost never punished.Kalika Mehta (Al Jazeera)
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Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens
Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens
Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s waterPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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Two arrested as 'African tribe' evicted after raid on group's camp in Scottish wood
Two arrested as 'African tribe' evicted after raid on group's camp in Scottish wood
Sky's Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies reported on claims that Kaura Taylor, 21, from Texas, was lured and coerced into moving to the forest, 4,000 miles away from home.Sky News
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in reply to return2ozma • • •I'm pretty sure that you can find one researcher, somewhere, who will agree with anything you say, including that the weather is being affected by a war between Martians and the people living inside the hollow earth. Especially if you're offering a large bribe to said researcher to make a statement about something outside their field while they're somewhat drunk, and then mutilating their remark out of context via the process fondly known as journalism.
In other words, "one researcher" predicting something is pretty much worthless.
earthworm
in reply to return2ozma • • •Semafor doing so much work trying the launder this into a story. "One scientist" in the original article, to multiple scientists in their headline.
And the one "scientist" seems to have switched tracks from doing actual research to doing capitalism.
Frezik
in reply to return2ozma • • •This one probably will happen.
The reason is that there are certain fields where you have to sift through massive amounts of data to find the thing you're looking for. This is an ideal task for machine learning. It's not going to replace real scientists, and it sure as hell shouldn't replace peer review. It's a tool with a use.
As one example, the longest known black hole jet was recently discovered using ML techniques: caltech.edu/about/news/gargant…
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
California Institute of TechnologyFushuan [he/him]
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