Mark Kelly says Kamala Harris ‘would be incredibly strong’ in a 2028 presidential run
Mark Kelly says Kamala Harris ‘would be incredibly strong’ in a 2028 presidential run
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) joins Meet the Press to respond to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ words about him in her new book — questioning whether he had been tested on the national stage — and weighs in on whether she should run for president a…www.nbcnews.com
Cat train stationmaster in Japan’s Yamagata retires
Cat train stationmaster in Japan’s Yamagata retires
Chocolat was rescued by the nonprofit organisation that manages the station. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions
Our steadfast people, this stage represents an opportunity to enhance social solidarity within the Gaza Strip by supporting affected families, securing the necessities of daily life and activating frameworks of cooperation between factions, society and relevant local and international institutions, creating a resilient and unified environment capable of facing all challenges and preserving our people’s steadfastness.We renew the call for unity and national responsibility, to embark on a unified national political path with all powers and factions. We are working in cooperation with gracious Egyptian efforts to hold an urgent and comprehensive national meeting for the next step after the ceasefire to unify the Palestinian position, formulate a comprehensive national strategy and rebuild our national institutions on the foundations of partnership, credibility and transparency.
We also stress our categorical rejection of any foreign guardianship and affirm that determining the form of governance for the Gaza Strip and the foundations of its institutions’ work is an internal Palestinian matter to be jointly decided by the national components of our people. We are prepared to benefit from Arab and international participation in the areas of reconstruction, recovery and development support, in a way that promotes a dignified life for our people and preserves their rights to their land.
In conclusion, at this decisive historical moment, we renew our loyalty to the martyrs, prisoners, wounded and resistance fighters. We affirm our unwavering adherence to our people’s rights to their land, homeland, holy sites and dignity and our insistence on continuing the resistance in all its forms until all our rights are achieved, foremost among them the removal of the occupation, self-determination and the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on Oct. 10, 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.Workers World
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Loops Joins the Fediverse
Loops Joins the Fediverse
We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.Daniel Supernault (Loops Official Blog)
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Seems a bit early to me.
I tried searching for @loops.video users on three separate mastodon instances and the only ones that pop up are the "official" accounts (@dansup@loops.video and @loops.video@loops.video).
Anyone else have better luck federating with loops?
Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower was struck by Iran, analysis shows
When Iran struck a series of targets in the heart of north Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles on June 13, Israeli authorities immediately cordoned off the area to prevent journalists from filming the damage. “The building on this compound was just hit,” Trey Yingst of Fox News reported as he arrived that evening at the site of HaKirya, Israel’s Defense Ministry headquarters, and the nearby Azrieli Center. But within seconds, Israeli police officers arrived to aggressively shunt Yingst away from where he was standing, just north of the HaKirya Bridge on the west side of Menachem Begin Road.
That day, Iranian missiles struck the north tower of the Da Vinci apartment complex roughly 550 meters southwest of Yingst’s location. The Grayzone has determined that the building sits immediately south of the “Canarit” / “Kannarit” Israeli Air Force towers and above an underground military intelligence bunker jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries. According to an analysis of leaked emails, public documents, and Israeli news reports, the location is host to a highly secretive, electromagnetically shielded intelligence facility known as “Site 81.”
Israel aggressively censors information relating to its urban military and intelligence facilities while simultaneously accusing its adversaries of engaging in ‘human shielding’ – a practice of protecting military targets with civilian populations that is prohibited by international humanitarian law. While the existence of a U.S. Army project to expand Site 81 to a 6,000 square-meter facility was widely reported from government records circa 2013, the specific location remained unknown.
China's Rare Earth Checkmate Is Not What Media Pretends.
Everyone in the corporate press is framing China's rare earth controls as just another trade war escalation. They're missing the point entirely, probably on purpose. China is directly dismantling the US war machine's supply chain.
The US has been burning through its weapons stockpiles in proxy wars for years. Now, just as the Pentagon desperately needs to rebuild, China moves to restrict the very materials needed to make advanced weapons like F-35 jets, missiles, drones, you name it. China controls over 90% of the global supply for this stuff, and restricting output is a strategic move to defang the imperial core.
And the beautiful part is how they're doing it. They're using the US's own playbook of "national security" export controls, highlighting the blatant hypocrisy. They're not even doing a full ban, just forcing licenses that will block military use. So all the hand-wringing in Washington is pure theater. They're angry because their ability to produce weapons for future interventions in Venezuela or Iran is being critically hampered.
We're seeing a fundamental shift here. China insulated its own supply chains first, and is now using its economic sovereignty to challenge US military dominance at its weakest point. They're actively constraining the empire's capacity for violence. This is a win for global peace, and the panic in the imperial press proves it.
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Which country benefits from this the most? Russia. Which country suffers the most? Ukraine.
That said, if China wants the US to become a rare earths giant, this is the way. The oil crisis of the 1970's and 1980's created the economic conditions needed for American oil to become a dominating industry.
Imagine thinking that a dysfunctional state that's on a brink of a civil war is going to become anything giant. 🤣
Good of you to admit that Ukraine is a US proxy that needs a constant flow of weapons to keep fighting.
You watch too much social media.
Ukraine relies on US, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Canada, and a bunch of other countries to survive and repel the unjust invader Russia. China doesn't want Russia to lose but also doesn't want them to win. Too much money to be made by Chinese businesses profiting by the unjust invasion. Plus, it'll be terribly convenient for them if the US is distracted when China invades Taiwan.
You're such an utter ignoramus. Here are all the Burger Reich bases that are already surrounding China. Everybody with even a minimally functioning brain understands that you chuds would do exactly the same in Russia if you got your way.
Meanwhile, RAND literally publishes policy papers on how you chuds plan to attack China.
I doubt China fears the imbecile empire, but they're certainly not going to let it continue surrounding them from the west.
You may have noticed that all these military bases are easily supplied through naval support. My prior comment was about supply lines. You are never going to get reliable supply lines for American military through 11 time zones of difficult to transit Russian territory. Your map is also a bit bogus. There's no military base in Pakistan. A small one operated until 2017, to support troops in Afghanistan, but was not sustainable. There's never been a US military base inside India.
Yes, China has the geopolitical challenge of US bases in the Pacific. These are easily resupplied and support supply chains. It should also be noted that US military presence does not harm China's ability to conduct trade, execute domestic policy, or retain her sovereignty. China gripes about US "freedom of seas" navigations, because China has naval claims nobody else recognizes, but that's not a problem any other nation on the globe cares about.
You may have noticed that if Russia was balkanized as this RAND paper suggests, then the military bases in the new puppet states could be easily supplied through Europe. Claiming that supplying bases across the ocean is easier than across land is the height of idiocy by the way.
Also, weird how China is geopolitical challenge for the Burger Reich half way across the world from the Burger Reich. Maybe you chuds should just stay home and mind your own fucking business. It is also obvious that the US wants to have the ability blockade China's trade and has openly written policy papers detailing that.
The original point was that China will not allow Russia to fall because they know full well what you fuckheadsd want, and you're not gonna get it.
Too much money to be made by Chinese businesses profiting by the unjust invasion
The projection lol. Check out western defense stocks since 2022
I'm saying western capital made a fuckton of money with the proxy war in Ukraine. NATO is a very profitable market for weapons producers. And in fact since 2022 Rheinmetall, palantir, etc exploded in stock price because the EU is spending 100s of billions of Eur on defense.
The money that you claim that Chinese Business make in order to draw a apparently their interest in the war is just projection. Actually it's in Chinas interest to stop the war because China is both Russias and Ukraines biggest trading partner and it's disrupting trade.
ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say
Amid report after report of increasingly aggressive tactics used by federal immigration enforcement, a pair of Portland medical workers say that an agent threatened to shoot them as they tried to transport an injured protester last week.
According to publicly archived dispatch records reported by Willamette Week, an ambulance crew was attempting to transport a protester with a broken or dislocated collarbone from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in southern Portland on October 5.
The facility has been a flashpoint in recent weeks as the site of several small but persistent protests, which the Trump administration has attempted to characterize as violent provocations by “antifa” in order to justify its deployment of military troops.
ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say
The incident comes as immigrants' rights advocates warn ICE's tactics in US cities are growing increasingly violent.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say
Amid report after report of increasingly aggressive tactics used by federal immigration enforcement, a pair of Portland medical workers say that an agent threatened to shoot them as they tried to transport an injured protester last week.
According to publicly archived dispatch records reported by Willamette Week, an ambulance crew was attempting to transport a protester with a broken or dislocated collarbone from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in southern Portland on October 5.
The facility has been a flashpoint in recent weeks as the site of several small but persistent protests, which the Trump administration has attempted to characterize as violent provocations by “antifa” in order to justify its deployment of military troops.
ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say
The incident comes as immigrants' rights advocates warn ICE's tactics in US cities are growing increasingly violent.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
I'd love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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Hamas spokesman accuses Israel of violating ceasefire after deadly strikes
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Tuesday accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement after several residents of the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire, according to multiple Palestinian media outlets.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the Israeli army’s actions constituted “a clear violation of the ceasefire,” following reports of civilian deaths in different parts of Gaza.
“The Israeli occupation army’s killing of a number of Gaza Strip residents this morning through shelling and gunfire is a violation of the ceasefire agreement,” Qassem said, as quoted by the Quds News Network. He called on mediators to monitor Israel’s conduct and “prevent it from evading its commitments to end the war on the Gaza Strip.”
Hamas spokesman accuses Israel of violating ceasefire after deadly strikes
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Tuesday accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement after several residents of the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire, according to multiple Palestinian media outlets.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the Israeli army’s actions constituted “a clear violation of the ceasefire,” following reports of civilian deaths in different parts of Gaza.
“The Israeli occupation army’s killing of a number of Gaza Strip residents this morning through shelling and gunfire is a violation of the ceasefire agreement,” Qassem said, as quoted by the Quds News Network. He called on mediators to monitor Israel’s conduct and “prevent it from evading its commitments to end the war on the Gaza Strip.”
Starmer says 'intifada' chant is 'call to attack' Jewish people
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed he believes that the call to "internationalise the intifada" is a "call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked Starmer in parliament on Tuesday afternoon whether he accepted that there was no possible interpretation of "internationalise the intifada" other than as "a call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Lewis seemed to be referring to the popular chant "globalise the intifada", often used at pro-Palestine protests. Starmer replied: "There's no other interpretation." He added that he was glad Lewis had raised the point.
Pro-Palestine activists have strongly denied that "globalise the intifada" is antisemitic or a call for violence, and British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
Starmer says 'intifada' chant is 'call to attack' Jewish people
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed he believes that the call to "internationalise the intifada" is a "call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked Starmer in parliament on Tuesday afternoon whether he accepted that there was no possible interpretation of "internationalise the intifada" other than as "a call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Lewis seemed to be referring to the popular chant "globalise the intifada", often used at pro-Palestine protests. Starmer replied: "There's no other interpretation." He added that he was glad Lewis had raised the point.
Pro-Palestine activists have strongly denied that "globalise the intifada" is antisemitic or a call for violence, and British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
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Zarah Sultana Says They're Not The Greens And Wants To Leave NATO
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That the US cannot lead the EU into invading Iran under fake pretenses which I expect any moment now.
In case you haven't noticed, the EU is incredibly dependant on American weapons and are constantly getting blackmailed by it.
Top European human rights official urges UK to review protest laws over Palestine Action arrests
Europe’s most senior human rights official has urged the British government to review its protest laws over the recent proscription of Palestine Action as a terror organisation.
Michael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said in a letter to British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that the UK's legal framework allows authorities to "impose excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression, and risk overpolicing".
His intervention comes after Middle East Eye revealed last month that four times as many people had been charged in the UK under Section 13 counterterrorism powers since Palestine Action was proscribed in July as during the entire "war on terror" since 2001.
Fediverse Report – #138
this week's fediverse news:
- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both activitypub and atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network
- Loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse
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Loops Joins the Fediverse
Loops Joins the Fediverse
We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.Daniel Supernault (Loops Official Blog)
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That's fair.
I did also try directly searching for accounts from loops, i.e. @eickertv@loops.video and Rudygardea@loops.video, and neither of those popped up either.
Nvidia breakthrough gives 4-bit pretraining technique the accuracy of FP8
Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across…arXiv.org
The EU and Israel’s common ground
The European Commission did not take long to capitulate to comments by Israel’s ambassador to the EU Avi Nir-Feldklein, who said that if the bloc wants to participate in the US plan for Gaza, it must lift the proposed penalties against Israel which EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced last month.
Within a few hours of Nir-Feldklein’s statement, EC spokesperson Paula Pinho said that the sanctions were “proposed in a given context, and if the context changes that could eventually lead to a change of the proposal.” Of course, the EU focused only on the ceasefire not on the Palestinian people’s political rights, so it is highly likely that the belated proposed measures will be reversed, despite the bureaucratic process that might be even briefer, given than there is no angering Israel with reverting to the status quo.
A peace deal, and one that serves Israeli interests, does not cancel out genocide. On the contrary, it rewarded Israel for genocide and consolidated its colonial structure to the detriment of the Palestinian people.
Back to Nir-Feldklein’s discourse of premeditated omission. There will be no “reset of EU-Israeli relations” because proposals are just proposals. The EU was careful not to jeopardise its relations with Israel; the bloc’s actions openly testified to its acceptance of genocide. But this is the Israeli narrative that sells – Israel was wronged, allegedly, by von der Leyen’s very late intention to penalise a colonial, genocidal enterprise, and the EU must now rectify its offence.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251014-the-eu-and-israels-common-ground/
Germany strips Palestinian of citizenship after he celebrated Hamas
A Palestinian man is to be stripped of his newly granted German citizenship after posting a photo showing support for Hamas.
A day after celebrating the arrival of his German passport, the man, referred to only as Abdallah, uploaded a picture to Instagram showing Hamas fighters with the caption “heroes of Palestine”.
Shortly afterwards, he received a letter from Germany’s interior ministry saying his citizenship had been revoked, according to the local Bild newspaper.
In 2024, it reformed its citizenship laws to require applicants to respect its “free-democratic order. New questions were also added about Jewish life and Israel’s “right to exist” in the German citizenship test.
Boosto qualunque thread mi citi nel suo primo post.
Quando Mastodon diventerà compatibile, per essere boostato automaticamente bisognerà per forza seguirmi e avere ricevuto il follow back, dopo di che boosterò i thread in cui verrò citato, con visibilità limitata a chi mi segue.
Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically (also, distro-picking).
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.
- Garuda (Arch-based)
- Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
- Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
- CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
- Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
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Nvidia breakthrough gives 4-bit pretraining technique the accuracy of FP8
NVIDIA just trained a 12B-parameter language model on 10 trillion tokens entirely in 4-bit precision.
Here’s why this matters:
- NVFP4 delivers 2–3× faster math throughput and 50% less memory vs FP8
- Accuracy? Practically identical. (MMLU-Pro: FP8 = 62.62%, NVFP4 = 62.58%)
- Stability issues have been solved using Random Hadamard transforms, stochastic rounding, and 2D scaling
This is the first successful demonstration of large-scale 4-bit pretraining without losing accuracy.
The next generation of frontier models will be faster, cheaper, without compromise.
Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across…arXiv.org
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Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Robinson is a filthy provocateur and instigator of street violence against Muslims and asylum seekers.World Socialist Web Site
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This is where we are now.
Not the first openly antisemitic fascist they invited.
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Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak
Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak
Warezio is threatening ICANN with an unfair competition lawsuit for failing to take action against alleged piracy-enabling domain registries.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Idk why they think that the Czech Republic has power over the Tongolese government. .to is the internet version of tongolese soil. Czech courts don't have power over foreign flags of convenience
Also love the complaint that tongo isn't following European privacy laws
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The other thing is that BOOX devices are for writing and productivity, not just reading. They have stylus support and fantastic note-taking apps built in. So you can mark up a PDF, take meeting notes, or split the screen to have a book open on one side and your notes on the other.
So, while a typical ebook vendor gives you a closed device to consume their content, BOOX gives you an open, flexible tool that you can use anyway you like.
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