NSPM-7 is fundamentally a law enforcement directive, and it dispenses with the complications of using the active duty military or the National Guard in pursuit of political violence. It directs the Department of Justice to focus the FBI’s approximately 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) to the new mission. The FBI network of task forces comprises over 4,000 members—including FBI personnel and task force officers (or TFOs) from more than 500 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies, including special agents, police officers, intelligence analysts and surveillance technicians. First established in New York City in 1980 to systematize FBI and NYPD cooperation, today there are task forces around the country, including at least one in each of the FBI’s 55 field offices.
“The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder,” NSPM-7 says.
Jason Burke, Seham Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in Jerusalem Thu 9 Oct 2025 18.36 EDT First published on Thu 9 Oct 2025 15.38 EDT
In Gaza, there was joy but much anxiety. Many expressed the fear that the new deal would collapse, bringing more suffering to the devastated territory. Though crowds gathered in some places to dance and sing, in many places witnesses reported muted reaction amid loud overflights by warplanes and drones.
In Israel, on a day of fast-moving and sometimes chaotic developments, hospitals readied to receive hostages to be released by Hamas, the ruling coalition government signed off on the new ceasefire deal and thousands took to the streets of Tel Aviv to express joy and relief.
Late on Thursday evening, a statement from the government said it had “just approved the framework for the release of all the hostages – both the living and the deceased”.
Hamas and Israel prepare to implement ceasefire as Netanyahu says deal approved by government
Jason Burke, Seham Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in Jerusalem Thu 9 Oct 2025 18.36 EDT First published on Thu 9 Oct 2025 15.38 EDT
In Gaza, there was joy but much anxiety. Many expressed the fear that the new deal would collapse, bringing more suffering to the devastated territory. Though crowds gathered in some places to dance and sing, in many places witnesses reported muted reaction amid loud overflights by warplanes and drones.
In Israel, on a day of fast-moving and sometimes chaotic developments, hospitals readied to receive hostages to be released by Hamas, the ruling coalition government signed off on the new ceasefire deal and thousands took to the streets of Tel Aviv to express joy and relief.
Late on Thursday evening, a statement from the government said it had “just approved the framework for the release of all the hostages – both the living and the deceased”.
Jason Burke, Seham Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in Jerusalem Thu 9 Oct 2025 18.36 EDT First published on Thu 9 Oct 2025 15.38 EDT
In Gaza, there was joy but much anxiety. Many expressed the fear that the new deal would collapse, bringing more suffering to the devastated territory. Though crowds gathered in some places to dance and sing, in many places witnesses reported muted reaction amid loud overflights by warplanes and drones.
In Israel, on a day of fast-moving and sometimes chaotic developments, hospitals readied to receive hostages to be released by Hamas, the ruling coalition government signed off on the new ceasefire deal and thousands took to the streets of Tel Aviv to express joy and relief.
Late on Thursday evening, a statement from the government said it had “just approved the framework for the release of all the hostages – both the living and the deceased”.
Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night.
By Sharon Otterman Published Oct. 8, 2025 Updated Oct. 9, 2025, 2:54 AM ET
In the weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, he has become a target of right-wing hate, accused of being a part of the movement he studied. Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA then circulated a petition accusing Dr. Bray of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for him to be fired.
The petition referred to him as “Dr. Antifa.”
“My role in this is as a professor,” Dr. Bray, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers, said in an interview on Wednesday, hours before his planned departure. “I’ve never been part of an antifa group, and I’m not currently. There’s an effort underway to paint me as someone who is doing the things that I’ve researched, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.”
For several years, I've entertained the idea of creating an online portfolio, but it's remained only an idea since I am not sure what I should put on it. What's a good way to decide what goes on the personally-identifiable portfolio and what should remain under pseudonyms?
I'm interested to see if anyone else has run into the same situation and found a good thought process for it. Problem is, if I need to pull anything from a pseudonym over to an identifiable portfolio, that pseudonym is no longer useful. But I can't really justify getting a personal domain name if all it's doing is hosting a glorified resume.
Anything tied to your existence, like domain names, professional or academic work, companies registered in your name, voting records, social media (lemmy is social media, Reddit is social media), depictions of yourself, legal records, publicly owned property or documents in your name (like a license plate and by extension the car attached to it) and probably stuff like that should be on your personally identifiable portfolio.
E: work completed under a pseudonym with someone else should also go on it and that pseudonyms use should be discontinued.
They subsequently edited their own video to blur one of his two swastika tattoos, without any editorial note explaining what they are blurring and why. The 2nd partly obscured one is still partially visible, just to the left of blurring. That's basically an admission that they know exactly what they're doing there.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Coinciding with the Disk System's release, Nintendo installed several "Disk Writer" kiosks in various toy and electronic stores across the country. These kiosks allowed customers to bring in their disk games and have a new game rewritten onto them for a ¥500 fee; blank disks could also be purchased for ¥2000. Nintendo then decided to make an early form of online gaming; In 1987, they introduced special high-score tournaments for specific Disk System games, where players could submit their scores directly to Nintendo via "Disk Fax" machines found in retail stores. Winners would receive exclusive prizes, including Famicom-branded stationery sets and a gold-colored Punch-Out!! cartridge. Nintendo of America announced plans to release the Disk System for the Famicom's international counterpart, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and began filing patents simultaneously. However, by the time these were approved in November 1988, Nintendo cancelled their plans to release the system stateside.
Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.
What are the chances that this gets passed? It should be a vote from the people, but they know we don't want it. But if they pass it there and no one riots, they'll pass it everywhere.
This is something no one should allow. VPNs are the backbone of security in businesses. Not just work from home. We would be wide open to cyber attacks, with no defenses.
Whoever this lawmaker is, I hate their fuckin guts.
The article suggests that if VPNs are banned, businesses will have to find other ways to secure their connections and that would be expensive. But it's not even clear that anything could do that job without, by that very fact, counting as a VPN according to this bill and/or others like it. Effectively, they're proposing an end to all securely tunnelled connections across the internet, and that would just make the internet useless for a lot of things businesses (and the rest of us) need to do.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Ramez Al-Naouq, a child living in Gaza, was born with a severe congenital deformity in his upper and lower eyelids, which prevent him from closing his eyes even while he is sleeping.
His eyes constantly bleed, become ulcerated and inflamed, and put him at risk of permanent blindness.
Before the Israeli occupation’s genocide on the Gaza Strip, Al-Naouq received ointments and eye drops to keep his eyes moisturised and reduce the inflammation. But his treatment has now completely stopped because of the ongoing blockade and severe shortage of medicines. As a result his condition has dramatically worsened.
Although Ramez urgently needs complex operations to repair his eyelids and protect his vision, doctors in Gaza are not able to carry out the necessary surgeries, because of a lack of medical resources.
Rateb
Rateb is a child amputee in Gaza. He has been trying hard to make a plastic limb for himself, so he can play with other children. He lost his leg after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a car a few months ago.
There are hundreds of children like Rateb in Gaza, who have lost upper or lower limbs, and are left permanently disabled because of injuries sustained during this genocide. These become infected and, because poor nutrition slows healing and antibiotics are intentionally being prevented from entering the Strip, sepsis sets in, leaving no other option but amputation.
Child amputees have a lifetime of disability and a very uncertain future ahead of them. Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world, with 10 children, every single day for the past two years losing one or both of their legs.
Hanna
Hanaa Al-Awdi, was a Palestinian child who developed brain cancer during the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and also suffered from brain atrophy which had already taken away her sight and hearing. The Israeli occupation’s complete blockade of the besieged Gaza Strip meant there was a delay in her travel for treatment abroad, so her condition became significantly worse. This left her body unable to withstand the disease, and although she was eventually able to travel to Italy for treatment, she recently passed away in an Italian hospital with stage four brain cancer, which had spread throughout her body.
These children mentioned here are not unique in Gaza. There are thousands who are suffering and left to die, slowly and painfully, without anyone hearing about them. The Israeli regime has intentionally bombed hospitals to bring about the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, while the ongoing intentional blockade prevents the entry of everything necessary for the survival of the Palestinian population, including medicine and fuel. Dozens of children have also experienced severe deterioration in their health, or have already lost their lives, because of delays in medical evacuation by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Chicago, IL – On October 8, 7000 Chicagoans mobilized in the Loop to demand an end to the occupation of the city by ICE and the National Guard.
The thousands of people coming out on a Wednesday evening shows that the momentum of the resistance against Trump’s occupation is not slowing down. Chicago is in the center of this country’s fight back against Trump’s reactionary agenda, alongside LA and DC.
“We must build the largest united front against the invasion of our city and state. We need to escalate our defense and go on the offensive! To block the movement of the National Guard and shut down ICE operations,” opened Husam Marajda of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). He urged people to join the movement and get involved with an organization.
“What we are seeing is an administration that is sending troops in to scare us into silence. To punish dissent. And we will not allow that here in the city of Chicago,” said Jessie Fuentes, the progressive Puerto Rican alderperson of the 26th ward of Chicago. On October 3, Fuentes was violently arrested by racist ICE agents after she had confronted them over planned kidnappings of people in the Humboldt Park Hospital. Fuentes stood in solidarity with protesters and has promised to continue fighting for immigrants in the City Council.
Frank Chapman, executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, spoke last at the rally. He challenged the crowd, stating, “We have to stop these ICE agents.” The ICE occupation has killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. This past weekend, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was shot by federal agents, but survived. Chapman addressed these acts, saying, “We have to use every means necessary to stop those who come here to kill us; who come here to occupy.”
Chapman finished with, “We had a peaceful demonstration, but when we’re violently attacked, we have the right to defend ourselves!”
Protesters marched down Michigan Avenue, making it clear that Chicagoans are not licking boots, and they are ready to take down Trump and his long repressive agenda.
Join the resistance!
The Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) is a coalition of over 80 organizations building a united front against the reactionary Trump administration. The Trump administration is coming after all sectors of the people’s movements. It’s the coalition’s goal to unite these movements in action against the reactionary Trump agenda.
These stats capture 1 year of torrenting on a TrueNas scale machine I built as soon as fiber showed up on my street. It was my first ever proper rack mount server. I use this machine primarily for torrenting and jellyfin transcoding via an RTX 2080. The plan is to soon set it up for navidrome. Machine sits around 230 watts. Feel free to offer TrueNas scale tips.
Quite odd cpu choice for the job. True, it's still a beast, although very power inefficient when idle. Rtx2080 on a top of that adds even more power consumption. Your gear consuming 230W with 4 disks.
For comparison my one with core i5-13500, 5x hdd, 1x ssd, but 1x nvme.... 55W average over the years.
Haha yep, the CPU is honestly not a good fit at all... The only reason I used it is because I already had it. I decided to build this server mostly from parts scavenged off my old gaming PC. I rationalize the choice since the server sits in a basement that I struggle to keep warm. You've got me thinking though... It might be worth it to get into the BIOS and make sure I'm on ECO mode, at least.
Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)
Opportunity 🙂 and already looking into it. They currently don't support non-Bsky PDSs, so once that's working I'll give the service a try and see where interop can take place.
In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.
Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.
It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.
That site looks like it's closed source. FOSS projects tend to not be well designed in the frontend except the occasional gem. Not sure why it's such a pattern, considering this project isn't making much money and it's made by a single dev.
I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto's strength is that it was built for a "credible exit", i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.
Federation is not the natural unit of organization, that's a hill I'm ready to die on. The problem is that most people get hung up on the idea of instances because they've only experienced the two extremes of siloed networks and the "Dark Forest" of blockchain.
On the topic of 'hills to die on', I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.
We might disagree on the best way to do things. I'd witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you've stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.
I agree with everything. The thing is, I've been thinking about the psychology behind this lately.
When Fedi-Fans complain about Bluesky, it is usually based on the misunderstanding that it also is instance based. It really doesn't seem to occur to many that things might be done differently. But I think it may go a little deeper.
A common complaint is that it's too expensive to run a full relay. People want to self-host it all. They want to feel that they are in control and don't need anyone. It's not particularly rational but people do lots of silly things chasing that feeling. The rational start would be to move somewhere remote and grow your own food. Instead, people buy a pick-up truck or degoogle their phone.
That architecture also appeals to a more tribal mindset. An instance is "our" place. We just pull up the drawbridge when bad people come and we are safe here in "our" castle.
I think to some people that is more appealing than the more open design of atproto.
On Bluesky, there is all this waffle about some people trying to get someone banned. They might find such tribal architecture more appealing.
It's a mess, I find it ridiculous that my account and all of its data is tied to a fediverse instance (which is most often operated by a single person that could decide to shut it down at any time) and other people are ok with this
A new report has accused London’s £34 billion ($45.43 billion) public sector pension fund of investing billions in companies allegedly complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians, Anadolu reports.
The Blood Money report, released Thursday by the campaign group Shake The CIV, claims that the London Collective Investment Vehicle (LCIV) — which manages £34.2 billion on behalf of 32 London local authorities — has over £7 billion ($9 billion) invested in firms “enabling Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.”
The fund represents the deferred wages of around 700,000 Londoners.
Thoughts on Rishi taking up jobs at Microsoft and Anthropic?
Apparently he plans to "donate his earnings to a charity he founded", which makes sense, given that his family is already worth around £640 million.
Also Rishi apparently already has a job with Goldman Sachs in addition to another existing job of his: remaining the MP for Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire.
This is from a few years back but I always find a chance to show everyone that google is a sus company. I decided to post this after reading and doing research on a separate yet somewhat related topic on how when you do CAPTCHA online you are usually training A.I. now and days.
If you wanted to know why there are more CAPTCHAs than ever before. Biggest insult to injury is that certain A.I.s can solve them 70% of the time
As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.
In his opinion, which extended the consent decree until February, the judge lifted all conditions of release for 11 people detained in the Chicago area who were subjected to warrantless arrests, and ordered ICE to produce names, detainee tracking information known as “A-numbers,” and arrest documents for anyone arrested in the northern Illinois without warrants since June.
Liberty Vote announced the acquisition in a brief news release that proclaimed the mission of the new company would be “to restore public confidence in the electoral process.” It featured language favored by conservatives, professing to “improve election integrity in America” and “leveraging hand-marked paper ballots enabling compliance with President Trump’s executive order,” a reference to the president’s effort in March to overhaul electoral processes that has been largely blocked by courts.
The founder of Liberty Vote, Scott Leiendecker, is a former Republican election official from St. Louis with years of experience in elections. He also is the chief executive officer of KNOWiNK, a company that produces electronic poll books, digital devices that are used across the country to help election workers upload and maintain voter rolls at voting sites. In July, KNOWiNK announced that its Poll Pad “was the first electronic poll book to earn certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.”
yeah, how about we start with their fucking nukes? where are the comparable UN sanctions that the DPRK and IRI suffer under for isntreal's NPT violation?
Does it really boggle the mind that Israels handler and primary sponsor will bend over backwards to recontextualize the issue into a palatable, hypocritical, perversion of itself just to "increase" support among the (already entirely supportive) near centre voting populous. They do the same to every other event, surely it's not mind boggling if the context leads you to expect it.
Réunissons-nous autour d'un verre lors de notre permanence ! Que vous soyez une chtitedev convaincue ou simple curieuse, que vous restiez deux heures ou 5 minutes, nous serons heureuses de discuter de manière informelle avec vous. Et pour celles qui ont une petite faim, le lieu a un grand choix de stands de nourriture ! Les organisatrices resteront jusque 20:30 (et plus si affinité ;)
Rendez-vous au Kitchen Market dans la Galerie des tanneurs, 27 rue des tanneurs 59800 Lille
Pas besoin de s’inscrire. Venez quand vous voulez 😉
Io, in fondo in fondo un minimo scherzavo, pazziavo, sulla storia per cui sono tremendamente distrutta oltre ogni limite dalle cose susseguentesi… un minimo, perché comunque la storia di base è assolutamente vera… eppure, oggi mi rendo conto che non ero per niente pronta per il momento in cui tutto questo sarebbe diventato reale per […]
giornata cacata per fattori multiuniversali (analisi delle mie ultime paturnie, applicate a oggi ma non solo)
Io, in fondo in fondo un minimo scherzavo, pazziavo, sulla storia per cui sono tremendamente distrutta oltre ogni limite dalle cose susseguentesi… un minimo, perché comunque la storia di base è assolutamente vera… eppure, oggi mi rendo conto che non ero per niente pronta per il momento in cui tutto questo sarebbe diventato reale per davvero, al di là dei miei sottili ma ampi e ben impilati strati di ironia… Ed esattamente come le mie lagne sono un combinarsi di cose per formare il racconto di esperienze assolutamente non invidiabili, questo mio progressivo sfaldamento è da imputare a fin troppi fattori combinati, quindi non c’è una singola particolare cosa che se cambiata risolvererebbe tutto. (No, neanche il dormire 13 ore in un giorno… anche se spero di comunque riuscire a fare proprio questa fine sabato!) 🐭
1, il sempre presente: Il freddo. Ormai lo sto dicendo ad nauseam, ma veramente… mi distrugge tipo da dentro, mi consuma e mi rende una persona più vuota, a fatica permettendomi di finire la giornata!!! Ed è un ciclo continuo e subdolo, seppur con un po’ di variazione da un giorno all’altro, per via di come sono strutturati i miei orari… Esco di casa e, se è mattina presto, tengo freddo (beh, in realtà anche solo a stare in casa a quell’ora fa il freddo, ma quando mai non è stato così in case di letteralmente il secolo scorso… e vaffanculo alla società di 50 anni fa che ignorava totalmente il concetto di efficienza energetica). Bisogna aspettare a più tardi, all’orario comodo di sveglia che io preferisco ma non sempre posso permettermi, per non piangere… e poi sorprendentemente si sta bene, anche fuori; addirittura oggi, non essendoci quel vento bruttissimo di giorni fa, fuori si stava proprio bene, c’era un gustoso tepore… ma anche un’escursione termica da spavento tra l’ombra e il sole, al punto che non ironicamente dovevo prepararmi mentalmente per entrare in un edificio, essendoci il portico. E poi, la sera… giuro, dal momento in cui il sole tramonta, da che sto bene inizio a fottutamente tremare; ma non fuori alla strada eh, dico proprio dentro casa (si torni al punto delle case di merda.)… NON ce la faccio!!! 🥀
Le mattine di giovedì e venerdì, specialmente, sono particolarmente traumatiche, comunque. Questo perché l’aula di merda in cui in quelle mattine ho lezione — che è merda per lo stesso motivo della casa, e infatti mi risulta sia stata costruita circa nello stesso periodo (non so come, visto che l’edificio ha la seconda numerazione più recente, ma così ci disse il prof molto vecchio l’anno scorso, ed è l’unica fonte disponibile, seppur credo una per niente affidabile… quindi non si può fare altro che credergli) — dove, a differenza delle altre aule, i climatizzatori attualmente mi risultano spenti, e l’edificio fa schifo e proprio lo percepisco come se fosse posseduto ed emettesse freddo verso dentro… ma forse sarà solo il vento gelido da fuori che entra pure con tutto chiuso, forse perché essendo per metà finestre sarà fisicamente per metà spifferi. Poi, ovviamente, non aiuta che il professore della seconda materia abbia aperto metà delle imposte per “far cambiare aria“… poi qualche decina di minuti dopo qualcuno ha chiuso almeno quelle che stavano direttamente dietro di me, però intanto il vento è entrato prepotente a rompere ancora di più l’anima; in qualche modo demoniaco e fisicamente incomprensibile riuscendo a soffiarmi pure all’altezza delle caviglie!!! 😭
Tra l’altro, stamattina mi sono pure svegliata con una gola atrocemente secca, non so perché. Durante la giornata poi mi è salito a tutti gli effetti proprio il mal di gola, con ogni tanto pure il coff coff… solo nella sera mi è sembrato un po’ meglio, ma sento comunque la gola fatta di carta vetrata fine (oh, poteva essere molto peggio… a granula grossa…). E durante il pranzo mi è venuto pure il raffreddore, o comunque qualunque cosa porti a far uscire il muco dal naso, e che palle veramente… già in primavera devo stare con questi porca puttana di fazzoletti per l’allergia; se ora a inizio ottobre già riesce fuori la merdata del muco divento una bestia. 🤧
E ok, un (1) fattore quantomeno l’ho decodificato per bene, ma non ci posso fare granché; se mi vestissi invernale già ora, sarebbero problemi. Il resto rimane poco chiaro, invece… Mi distrugge così tanto andare 5 giorni su 7 in culandia a semplicemente sentire sciroccati yappare? Perché stress vero e proprio non ne ho… o almeno, non ho motivi per pensare di starne subendo un’accumulazione; non ho esami di mezzo, sto prendendo tutto per i cazzi miei, alla fine la verità è che comunque ‘sto nel chill. Quindi, 2 e oltre: ancora boh, per ora. 😑
L’unica cosa buona della giornata, almeno, è che ho detto vaffanculo e sono andata al ristorante a pranzare (anche perché oggi in giro a quell’ora non ho intravisto nessuna persona che non mi detesta, quindi sarei stata piantata lì per niente), dunque a pranzo ho certamente goduto, e non indifferentemente… ma l’ho fatto perché già con soli 2 giorni di fila a mangiare solo pane e acqua fino a quando non arriva la cena, che è ben 7-8 ore dopo, finisco a casa che un altro po’ cado per terra — non subito, a dire il vero, ma appena cala il sole e arriva il freddo di cui sopra si — 3 volte una dietro l’altra mi sa mi sa che sono proprio un suicidio, manco fossi detenuta in un campo di lavoro forzato di uno qualsiasi dei tanti famosi paesi poco democratici esistenti nel nostro mondo… quindi bene spendere dei soldini per sopravvivere. 😇
Comunque, anche in questo c’è una cosa bizzarra: bono e saziante il pranzo, con primo e secondo, e ho speso appena 15 euro in totale, quindi non posso proprio lamentarmi…ma comunque dopo un po’ mi è salito quell'”aaaaa” di stanchezza di mezza giornata… no, non è abbiocco post-pranzo, perché quello in genere non mi viene, almeno non quando pranzo per bene. Ho fatto tutto con estrema calma, godendomi i momenti della goduria, quindi ho passato più di 1 ora al ristorante, muovendo i piedini con pazienza nell’andare e tornare, e prendendo il caffè al bar dell’università (e non alle macchinette, stavolta, vaffanculo agli stronzi ladri criminali!!!) pur di perdere altro tempo… però alla fine dei conti mi sono trovata comunque con mezz’ora bucata e nulla di particolarmente infognante da fare sul PC nel restante spicchio di pomeriggio, quindi mi è salito comunque quel sentimento di vuoto di stomaco misto a vuoto dell’anima… 😬
Inspiegabile, tutto ciò, davvero. Almeno, ora che sono a casina (cioè, da ore, come l’altra volta, poi ho avuto altro da fare), comunque la differenza con il fatto che ho pranzato veramente si vede, perché non mi sento sul punto di morte… evviva!? E in realtà, tra scrivere questo stesso post e finirne altri per il blog della stufa, ho smesso di sentirmi cacata come a prima… Aspe… miiinchia… ma vuoi vedere che, sotto sotto, il professore con l’accento siciliano ha ragione, e l’aria dell’università è realmente viziata (in tutte le aule, non solo quella di stamattina) e peggiora magicamente l’umore???Si vede che sarebbe probabilmente il caso di abbatterli proprio, ‘sti palazzi schifosi, e fare direttamente lezione all’aperto, a questo punto, basta. 👻 …Comunque, questo fatto è sempre più vero!!! #giornate #paturnie #pensieri #problemi
I am not saying i understand it at all. My comment is genuine, not rhetorical.
On the contrary i express that i do not understand this to the point of deeming it strange or weird, triggering my curiosity.
I was hoping someone would chime in an explain how text generator techniques (which i do know alot about) known to have no capacity to use real world reason or logic can be used to help solve dna puzzles unless as a sub module of general machine learning. In which that later case would be within my understanding
I am asking that all the people doing this watch Jurassic Park at least once.
I'll let experts do their thing, but this kind of thing worries me. I never had "there is no singularity, AI just engineers a generic disease by accident and kills is all" on my bingo.
This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.
What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don't just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!
There's something similar that you can do with categorising stars. Basically they want to map as much of the universe as we can see. We've got the photos the problem is is that when you zoom in on a 1 mm by 1 mm patch of sky 1,100,000 new stars appear. It's going to take a while, even with AI.
You never know you might find a Dyson sphere one day.
The problem is the term AI has become so broadly used that it's become meaningless. There is a popular quote about how the quota doesn't want AI to replace artistic jobs, as if it will. As if generative AI and large language models and projects like this are the same.
When the bubble bursts, (please let it be soon) we're still going to have all of the science AIs because those are actually useful. What we don't need is AI girlfriends.
Just read the actual quote it doesn't say what he says it says and you'll notice that no point have I ever edited it.
They misquoted me because they didn't read the quote properly and then doubled down on it. Meanwhile you are now arguing about it despite the fact that it is demonstrably evident that you are wrong
The Futurama quote is "No I'm doesn't" and doesn't make any sense in this context even if it was properly transcribed.
Bro, either you are being insanely unclear, in which case it's still on you, or you are lying to save face.
There is not one person that thought you meant some obscure Futurama quote spealt "No I'm doesn't" instead of the obvious "No it doesn't". We don't live in your head, you are communicating terribly and trying to spin it on everybody else. I mean, thinking most people even know Futurama enough to spot the quote even if it was properly written is a HUGE ask.
I'm not trying to be overly harsh here but this is a bit ridiculous, sorry.
CRISPR is the tool that lets us precisely edit genes in DNA, which contain the instructions for making proteins. AlphaFold is the AI tool that helped us understand what those edits actually do. It’s the 3D shape of the protein that determines its function - without understanding protein folding, gene editing would be like changing code in a language you don’t fully understand and just hoping it works.
so while not the same, it's a fairly similar field, it is a safe to assume that similar tools can be used. not yet though, the tool is not ready. why is there a study for this? other than hype - for "ai", which this arguably isn't
There was an old game from the PlayStation days called Xenogears. There was a population of mutants and monsters in it than came about from fucking with DNA irresponsibly. I’m reminded of that obnoxious rat-man from the Kislev prison.
This wasted electricity accounts for about 5% to 10% of home energy use, depending on factors like the age of the equipment, according to Alexis Abramson, dean of the Columbia Climate School.
This is shifting the blame, just like pretending your recycling a soda bottle will save the environment compared to the huge amounts of landfill waste generated by companies every day.
In 2024, datacenters alone consumed 1.5% of global energy. That's not even counting non-datacenter server facilities. iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/…
Residential, commercial, and industrial customers each account for roughly one-third of the nation’s electricity use. The transportation sector also accounts for a small fraction of electricity, although it could increase.
Even if it is, this pales in comparison to corporate energy use.
Yeah I agree, I later saw that the article focuses on households, which usually account for like 20% of a countries energy usage.
Honestly, I associated the articles headline and photo to energy losses in the Grid by keeping energy online. So Grid losses, and the application of smart grid functions will save way more then 5% of a ca 20% household energy usage. In this article they talk about a 4-5% overall country gain, for example
I tested most of my devices with a wattmeter. Definitely not true for me. But I live in Germany and don't even own a TV, it's possible that it's true for other types of devices or that the devices that are sold in my country just have higher standards than devices sold in the US.
I had my old house tested ( after I mostly had it all rewired), by various electricians for energy losses. And they claimed that there was always some unaccountable energy loss ( 5% iirc).
No idea tbh. I tried to figure it out myself first, then I had two electricians independently checking it.
And their conclusion was that they didn't know, and that the 5% was sort of normal. I even had my electricity meter recalibrated by the grid company. I was afraid somone was taping, but no.. It still could've been the electricity meter ( which was like only 10 yo, I looked up its specs and readings). Humidity, Magnetism and Radio signals might effect the readings, under circumstances. So to be" safe", I have now a newer smart electricicity meter.
This is probably the start of our residential electricity being throttled and have to pay a premium for what little we use just like internet data caps. Meanwhile inefficient data centers, lights on 24/7 at corporate headquarters and giant art displays guzzling electricity won't even be considered for the chopping block.
Corporations are responsible for a vast majority of the waste
I don't really understand this recurring theme in this context, Can someone explain to me why this is relevant?
Afaik, this isn't a discussion in my country, since most people (should) know that already. This article triggered me, beacuse I want to lower my personal energy usage. Many companies in Europe who were energy wasteful and high energy users (like some chemical, steel, or aluminium plants) needed to close after the Russian invasion in 2022 and the then extreem high energy prices. Those that survived, are still struggling to this day.
It's good to know what we can do to reduce our own use—we all have to live on this planet, after all—but these kinds of articles pop up and, at the very least, make people think their efforts will have a meaningful impact. They go to sleep thinking they're solving the problem (barring extreme situations like war-driven scarcity, for example).
But if every household stopped using electricity, many countries would still have a massive energy problem on their hands, because households aren't really the problem.
At home we minimize energy use and stuff, especially when the Ukraine war induced energy crisis hit.
But in companies nobody turns of their PC at night. Huge TVs are constantly running playing ads to empty rooms all night.
There's a large tower in the inner city where I live and their whole fassade is wrapped in complex RGB lighting. I wrote to them to please disable that since we are in an energy crisis, and their response was (I kid you not) that their building lighting is totally eco-friendly, because one night per month they switch it to completely green light, and that reminds people to save energy, and the energy thus saved offsets anything the building lighting consumes.
And that's not even talking about all the other industrial and corporate energy wasting.
Charron recommends starting with small steps like unplugging chargers for phones and other devices
This is completely useless advice leftover from two decades ago. All of these chargers have been active power supplies for a long time, and use almost no power when not in use
Meanwhile my coffee maker’s power button is on a touch screen? Who the eff designed that? How about yelling at corps to stop doing shit like this?
...The primary drivers of China’s clean technology export growth are batteries, followed by EVs. These technologies drive overall electrification. They also ensure that renewable energy generation can be put to use, even if output is intermittent or peak generation does not align with peak usage. Curtailment can be eliminated. The grid can become more stable, enabling further electrification. EVs shifting energy consumption away from petroleum not only allows emissions to be cut now but also sets up future reductions. By increasing the demand for electricity and creating a means to coordinate supply with demand, the next stage in renewable energy adoption is positioned to take off...
... While some countries are penalizing or blocking China’s clean technology exports (particularly the US), relatively few trade barriers exist for heavily subsidized US fossil fuel exports. However, global perspectives are shifting, with the International Court of Justice issuing a unanimous decision that fossil fuel subsidies have been “unlawful.” Not only do fossil fuel subsidies distort markets, but they also fail to consider the negative externalities of climate change that extend beyond the exporter’s borders...
...Most of China’s cleantech exports are no longer going to wealthy OECD countries. Central Europe now outpaces the EU in solar growth, with panels largely coming from China. So far this year, EV exports are up 75% to ASEAN and up a staggering 287% in Africa. These numbers may be starting from a low baseline, but these countries represent growth markets. As countries develop out of poverty, energy consumption and overall consumption will rise. Having that growth tied to cleantech will ensure the economic development is not accompanied by environmental devastation...
...While China produces 80% of solar PV modules and battery cells and 70% of electric vehicles globally, it is also by far the largest consumer of clean technology. Some will point to China also being the largest fossil fuel consumer, even though its per capita and cumulative emissions are roughly half of the US. However, the lasting effect of clean technology adoption is poised to rapidly change the country’s energy consumption. Electrification of its economy overall will enable that adoption to accelerate. That change will have economic impacts that extend for decades and provide global scale for other countries to follow...
Recent reports out of thinktank Ember on China’s record-breaking $20 Billion in August clean technology exports and the underlying data have stimulated discussion online. Electrek focused on the EV exports that are driving much of the growth.
A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists.
Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”
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