Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
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Huawei e l'indipendenza energetica europea
Huawei è una importante azienda cinese che opera anche sul mercato del fotovoltaico controllando la produzione di gran parte degli inverter che vengono installati negli impianti fotovoltaici, rendendo quindi la produzione di energia solare dipendente dai prodotti di questa azienda. Pare sia stata coinvolta in una inchiesta per corruzione nei confronti di alcuni deputati del parlamento europeo.
In questo articolo del 11 ottobre 2025 di Giulio Cavalli, dal titolo: "Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell’Ue sull’indipendenza energetica" su Lettera43 se ne parla, mettendo in evidenza la dipendenza industriale dell'Europa, soprattutto dai produttori cinesi.
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Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell'Ue sull'indipendenza energetica - Lettera43
Dopo l'inchiesta per corruzione, il parlamento europeo aveva tagliato i rapporti con Huawei. Che però è rientrato dalla finestra...Giulio Cavalli (Lettera43)
The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students
When Abby Fagerlin tried logging into Canvas, a popular educational technology platform, to check on her assignments Monday morning, she couldn’t get in.That meant the 19-year-old college sophomore, who is studying physics at Pasadena City College, was unable to access materials she needed for her three classes, which were hosted on or linked through the learning management system. After searching online, she realized the Amazon Web Services outage that crippled much of the internet Monday had also temporarily taken down Canvas.
Fagerlin also couldn’t be sure if she’d missed a message from her professors—some of whom she said communicated exclusively with their students through a messaging system hosted on Canvas. Going to talk to one of her professors to ask for physical materials from his class, meanwhile, posed a separate challenge.
“His office hours are [posted] on Canvas,” she said.
It wasn’t just Fagerlin having problems. More than a dozen students at colleges and universities across the country told WIRED the Canvas outage threw off their schedules, preventing them from not just submitting and viewing assignments but also from participating in-class activities, contacting professors, and accessing the textbooks and other materials they need to study.
[...]the disruptions to students are a testament to just how popular Canvas is on college campuses—and how much of modern educational life is increasingly centered on a handful of educational technology platforms.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-aws-outage-was-a-nightmare-for-college-students/
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Stories of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year
Stories of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year
More than 40 children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this year.Al Jazeera
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Unearthed documents show that MI6, the British spy service, planned to cut China into three separate countries
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Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages
Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages
Ingrassia, Trump’s pick to lead the office of special counsel, allegedly described himself as having ‘a Nazi streak’Joseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota: The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor; critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will dump its top sponsor, after Toyota is accused of funding climate denial.Sammy Roth (Climate-Colored Goggles)
Toyota hybrids are outselling everything, because people are buying them. Other manufacturers are losing money on EVs in the US, and unlike Tesla, Toyota has to actually make money.
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Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1936 – mentre Pavese si trova al confino a Brancaleone Calabro – la raccolta poetica “Lavorare stanca” racchiude i temi che resteranno centrali in tutta la sua opera. Con i versi lunghi, di tredici o sedici sillabe, e uno stile semplice e diretto in contrasto con quello dell’epoca, Pavese apre la strada a un nuovo mondo narrativo, in cui le poesie hanno l’aria di racconti, microstorie. Nonostante i riferimenti a luoghi a lui conosciuti, l’autore dona a ogni elemento – le stelle, l’alba, le colline, ma anche la città, gli uomini e le donne – una dimensione mitica, universale, e fa emergere tra le pagine fitte, distinta, la presenza di un «Io» ingombrante, pur se mimetizzato negli altri. Un viaggio che evoca con nostalgia non solo il passato, ma anche un futuro su cui egli già proietta tutto il senso di inadeguatezza e l’irrimediabilità della propria solitudine. Prefazione di Simona Mingardi.
Rileggere Pavese come se fossimo noi a tornare a casa la sera.
Non ci può essere migliore recensione, per un libro di poesie, se non quella che lo stesso autore scrive. Probabilmente questo lo sapeva anche Pavese che nei due testi in appendice alla sua opera spiega perfettamente le percezioni che la lettura mi aveva dato. In particolare a pag. 120 leggiamo:
Definito “Lavorare stanca” come l’avventura dell’adolescente che, orgoglioso della sua campagna, immagina consimile la città, ma vi trova la solitudine e vi rimedia col sesso e la passione che sevono solo a gettarlo lontano da campagna e città, in una più tragica solitudine che è la fine dell’adolescenza […]
C’è una stanchezza che non passa. Non quella delle braccia, ma quella che scava dentro e non trova nome. Quella di chi lasciava le Langhe per la scintillante città e le sue promesse. Quella di chi si sottrae alla carezza della brezza marina e allo sguardo delle esperidi per un nebbioso posto fisso (non parlo di Pavese). Ma anche di chi è strappato alle proprie radici dall’istinto di sopravvivenza. Pavese siamo noi nel tempo e nello spazio alla ricerca spesso di un orizzonte che si sottrae ad ogni passo. E che per ogni passo in avanti che ci sembrerà di fare non sarà mai più vicino rispetto al punto dal quale eravamo partiti. È come se il percorso obbligato di crescità che la modernità ci ha imposto non facesse altro che allontanarci dall’essere umani mentre ci affanniamo a diventare persone.
La città mi ha insegnato infinite paure
Poesie e poetica
La sua lingua è nuda, prosastica, quasi sgraziata. È il contrario della poesia come la immaginavano gli altri: Pavese non vuole consolare, vuole far vedere.
C’è il lavoro, sì, ma dietro il lavoro c’è l’assenza. L’impossibilità di stare davvero con gli altri, la solitudine come condizione naturale. In questa raccolta, l’uomo è un animale separato: guarda, ricorda, desidera, ma non si muove più. Il mito — quello che Pavese inseguirà sempre — qui è solo un’eco lontana, un sogno che non sa ancora di esserlo.
Cosa rimane
Eppure qualcosa resta. Nella polvere delle Langhe, nei paesi immobili, nei versi che sembrano camminare e non arrivare mai, c’è una specie di pietà. Pavese non giudica ma osserva. La sua poesia è stanca ma lucida, come chi ha smesso di cercare risposte e continua comunque a fare domande.
La vite, la vite e la donna
Come già egregiamente espresso nella recensione de “La Luna e i falò”, scritta da Cristina Desideri per il nostro blog, l’uva e il lavoro che la circonda è un tema centrale anche in Lavorare stanca. Una vite che è la vita stessa che assorbe e rimanda le personalità di chi gli vive intorno, come fa con i profumi e gli aromi delle erbe che crescono nelle sue vicinanze. Una vite che si confonde poeticamente con il desiderio e quindi, per Pavese, con la donna. Un appagamento fugace di felicità terrena e di senso di libertà che si può raggiungere talvolta in un orgasmo etilico o erotico.
Questa raccolta, infine, è un bazar di profumi e sensazioni. Talvolta disturbanti. C’è quasi bisogno, tra una poesia e l’altra di annusare dei chicchi di caffè, come facevano alcuni profumieri del passato, per resettare il naso e predisporlo a una nuova esperienza sinestetica.
La casa editrice
Una menzione di merito va certamente alla casa editrice “4 Punte Edizioni” che ha scelto di ripubblicare questa raccolta. I chiodi a “4 Punte” erano uno strumento di sabotaggio e resistenza usato dai partigiani. I libri “resistenti” che fanno parte della collana #ilTrenoVersoSud ci rinnovano la necessità di sabotare con ogni mezzo controculturale l’egemonia indifferente e repressiva che troppo spesso si respira in questo paese.
L’eccellente prefazione di Simona Mingardi riesce a spaziare in poche righe tra i sentimenti e le opere di Pavese, aiutandoci a comprendere la raccolta.
Un piccolo aneddoto
Cesare Pavese fu vittima della repressione fascista che lo costrinse al confino, presso Brancaleone (RC) tra il 1935 – 36′.
Lo scorso agosto, durante un evento di presentazione di una mia raccolta di poesie svoltasi a Bova Marina (RC), ho avuto modo di conoscere il fratello di un altro confinato politico antifascista. Anch’egli confinato sempre a Brancaleone, nello stesso periodo di Pavese. Il fratello mi ha raccontato che Pavese, essendo un ospite di “spicco”, riceveva talvolta delle sigarette o altre piccole gentilezze dai carcerieri ma non era solito condividere tali “gioie” con gli altri reclusi che certamente non apprezzavano questa caratteristica. Una piccola storia nella storia che certamente nulla toglie al grande poeta ma ci dona una punta di colore nell’affresco del poeta.
#antifascismo #ilTrenoVersoSud #lavoro #Pavese #poesia #terraEVendemmia #uva #vino
Brancaleone; la grande storia. - Pro Loco di Brancaleone APS
Fu la costruzione della ferrovia che cominciò ad attirare molte famiglie, provenienti dall'entroterra e da alcune zone del Meridione d'Italia.admin (Pro Loco Brancaleone)
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Trump’s White House Demolition Is the Perfect Symbol of His Presidency
Trump’s White House Demolition Is the Perfect Symbol of His Presidency
Trump’s East Wing demolition began before full approval. The marble may shine, but what’s crumbling is the process meant to protect democracy’s house.Colby Hall (Mediaite)
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My first months in cyberspace
In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months after leaving university. I’d given up on trying to be an illustrator, had a bit of freelance work making models for Aardman Animations, and would soon be the only one of my friends not to have permanent work. I was increasingly interested in technology and this brand new thing: Internet.
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.Phil Gyford’s website
DR Congo provides grants for minigrids, solar home systems
DR Congo provides grants for minigrids, solar home systems
The Mwinda Fund is aiming to distribute $500 million in grants for minigrids, solar home systems and clean cooking solutions in DR Congo by 2030.pv magazine International
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I'll try to provide a serious answer.
The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like "yellow peril" describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it's not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.
It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it's difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there's such a racist connotation/history there.
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS worksCorey Quinn (The Register)
Fyodor Lukyanov: A Palestine without Palestinians is impossible
Fyodor Lukyanov: A Palestine without Palestinians is impossible
The Middle East cannot be stabilized by money aloneRT
Ukraine Loses Over 480 Soldiers in Battles With Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup
Ukraine Loses Over 480 Soldiers in Battles With Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup
Russia's Tsentr battlegroup of forces has eliminated more than 480 Ukrainian military personnel in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.Sputnik International
Open letter by more than 2000 Scientists: Climate Neutrality is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity
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The benefits of such a target are enormous. If done correctly, it could, among others,\
● save over €850 billion in fossil fuel imports between 2025 and 2040,\
● increase competitiveness and create more than 2 million new jobs in clean
industries,\
● cut household energy bills by up to two-thirds, and\
● reduce Europe’s dependency on autocratic countries, strengthening
independence and resilience.
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
HRF files ICC complaint naming 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders for the killing of Hind Rajab, her family, and two rescuers in Gaza.THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
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Hamas agrees to return two more bodies of hostages to Israel later today
Hamas agrees to return two more bodies of hostages to Israel later today
On the morning of October 13, Hamas and its allies released all 20 living Israeli hostages and returned four more bodies of deceased hostages in accordance with the Gaza ceasefire dealTASS
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Its not about what your doing its the fact, it indiscriminately tracks people.
What is fine and legal today could be illegal tomorrow.
Also there are so many examples of abuse and mistakes by flock that they are unredeemable
Key point: "Flock users can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.”
This is not any kind of live link. It is just another way to request a specific video recording be shared by the user. The user has full control. Ring already has the same system in place on their "neighborhood" platform.
Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia - Banks vs. the Amazon
Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia - Banks vs. the Amazon
Ranking major banks' Amazon oil and gas financingStand.earth
Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating
This does unfortunately happen multiple times per day. Sometimes it’s smaller incidents where the tram driver can get out and collapse the car’s mirror. Other times the owner of the car comes out of a nearby house after the tram used its bell extensively (like today) and moves the car. And then there are times when police needs to get involved to tow the car which often takes upwards of 1 hour.
The truly infuriating part is that if the tram damages a poorly parked car, the transportation company will have to pay the damages. Poorly parked vehicles never get fined and the owners will only need to pay if the car ends up getting towed.
Why do we accept that drivers sabotage a city’s public transport infrastructure like this?
As a car guy (yes I know where I am - I don't live in a city though), idiots like this make no sense to me.
If you enjoy driving, you should in fact be in favor of public transit. It means less traffic, makes driving nicer. Even if you're 100% self-absorbed, you should still be supportive of public transit.
Welcome to the war on cars, car guy.
But legit this take makes so much sense. The whole point of the war on cars is that we all have options that meet our needs. People who need to take cars, due to distance or disability can, because the roads are clearer with others taking transit, walking or biking. Multi-modal transit benefits car people as much as it does everyone else.
‘Vampire Empire’ – Investigation Reveals Israeli Soldiers Who Killed Hind Rajab
Al-Jazeera’s program ‘What’s Hidden is Greater’ has uncovered the identities of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of six-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab, whose death became one of the most powerful symbols of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
On January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab was trapped inside her family’s car in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood after Israeli tanks opened fire.
Her final words, whispered to rescuers over the phone — “The tank is next to me” — went viral across the world. Hours later, rescuers found the vehicle riddled with bullets, the six-year-old’s body lying beside her mother and other family members.
Israel denied its forces were present in the area at the time.
The investigation identified the perpetrators as members of the 401st Armored Brigade of the Israeli army, under the command of Benny Aharon, and specifically its 52nd Battalion, led by Colonel Daniel Ella.
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Japanese man jailed after rare public accusation of rape
Toyama (Japan) (AFP) – A Japanese court handed down an eight-year jail sentence Tuesday to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous.Koji Daimon was convicted of raping his daughter Riho Fukuyama in 2016, when she was in high school.
He admitted to the act but maintained his innocence, arguing that "my daughter was in a state where she could have resisted".
In the ruling, judge Toshiaki Umezawa said that "given that the victim continues to suffer physical and mental distress to this day... the consequences must be deemed grave."
Fukuyama says the rapes began when she was in junior high school when her mother was not at home.
Fukuyama went public in March last year following the arrest of her father.
Just a handful of other victims of similar crimes have revealed their identities in Japan.
"I was relieved" after hearing the ruling, Fukuyama told reporters gathered outside the court in Toyama, a coastal city in central Japan.
"I want to tell the world sexual violence within families does exist. Please don't look away from victims."
Fukuyama said at a press conference earlier this year that she had worried that people wouldn't believe her claims of sexual abuse.
"I want a society where, even when you tell others you've been victimised, the immediate response is 'It's not your fault'," she said at the time.
Among victims who have chosen to go public with their accusations are journalist Shiori Ito, who won a landmark civil case against a prominent TV reporter who raped her.
And in 2021, Rina Gonoi accused fellow soldiers of sexual assault and three of them were later given suspended sentences. She left the military after the assault.
Both women were praised for their bravery in coming forward but also received a barrage of online hate, which forced Ito to move to London.
In a recent high-profile case, an Osaka prosecutor accused her former boss of raping her, but she remains anonymous as she hopes to return to work.
Even though there has been no major #MeToo movement like those elsewhere around the world, modest-sized rallies against sexual violence sprang up across Japan after several alleged rapists were acquitted in 2019.
Law changes have also helped. The definition of rape was broadened in 2017, while the need for victims to prove violence or intimidation was removed in 2023.
As Fukuyama's assaults predated the law changes, the local prosecutors office indicted her father under the then-applicable offence, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun daily.
Japanese man jailed after rare public accusation of rape
A Japanese court handed down an eight-year jail sentence on Tuesday to the father of a woman who publicly accused him of rape, a rare case in the country where many victims stay anonymous.RFI
He admitted to the act but maintained his innocence, arguing that "my daughter was in a state where she could have resisted".
Child rapist mentality.
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country | Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insectsHelena Horton (The Guardian)
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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
A foreign actor infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus through vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint browser-based app, raising questions about the need to solidify further federal IT/OT se…Cynthia Brumfield (CSO Online)
Brazil okays oil drilling near mouth of Amazon weeks before it hosts COP30 summit, draws flak
Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras has received approval to begin exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, raising environmental concerns as the country prepares to host the COP30 climate summit.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has faced criticism from conservationists, who say his oil expansion plans contradict his image as a global climate leader. The drilling, set to start immediately, will last five months and take place in a block off Amapá, around 500 km (311 miles) from the Amazon’s mouth on the Brazilian Equatorial Margin.
Petrobras said it complied with all environmental licensing requirements set by Ibama and aims to assess the potential for economically viable oil and gas in the area. “We hope to obtain excellent results from this research and prove the existence of oil in the Brazilian portion of this new global energy frontier,” said Petrobras president Magda Chambriard.
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Análise: Intervenção judicial na questão da Foz do Amazonas pode ser saída política que preserve Lula
Análise: Intervenção judicial na questão da Foz do Amazonas pode ser saída política que preserve Lula
Presidente evitaria contrariar o posicionamento histórico de uma ala da esquerda com a qual se reconciliou em 2022 sem ter o ônus de dizer não a sua principal viga de sustentação no CongressoValor econômico
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds | Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee accounted for about 40 per cent of the increase in food prices over the past year, despite making up barely a tenth of the typical household food basket, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) research group.
Switching to a plant-based pattern solves the top 3.
So who are pushing the false narrative that it's wages and taxes that are driving food-price inflation? Oh, right: "industry groups."
That probably also means they're using recent events as an excuse to fatten their profit margins.
List of 30 thousand Israeli Air Force service members leaked to Al Jazeera
The "Hidden Is More Immense" investigative journalism program on the Qatari Al Jazeera network published a supposedly "leaked document" on Monday that includes a list of approximately 30 thousand Israeli Air Force pilots and service members who participated in the war in Gaza.
The list also includes photos and the service members' personal information. The episode, which discusses the legal persecution of IDF soldiers abroad by the Brazil-based Hind Rajib Foundation, shows pictures and information taken from social media about IDF soldiers during their time in Gaza.
List of 30 thousand Air Force service members leaked to Al Jazeera
An Al Jazeera news program published a 'leaked document' with the names, photos, and information of 30,000 IAF pilots and service members.Israel National News
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Why Eating a Burger in Houston Is Less Climate-Friendly Than in Chicago
Greenhouse gas emissions vary so much because of location-specific factors that are not readily apparent to consumers at the grocery store, like regional differences in where animals come from, he says. In Midwestern cities like Chicago, beef is more likely to come from culled dairy cows, making it more environmentally friendly than in Texas cities like Houston and parts of California, which rely more on dedicated beef herds. Beef from dairy cows is assigned a lower carbon footprint because some of the emissions are attributed to the milk the animals spend most of their lives producing.
In other words, we still need to either radically change the gut bacteria in cows, or (with a bigger impact) get rid of most of the cows.
The paper is here
The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain - Nature Climate Change
Meat products represent a large share of the carbon footprints of cities, which are dependent on the characteristics of supply regions.Nature
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