The tragic change a single year has made in America
“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism,” Garrett Graff, the American historian and author, wrote in August. “In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.”
One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.
The tragic change a single year has made in America
As we approach the anniversary of the 2024 election, we awake to new horrors each day. But we must not give up hopeMargaret Sullivan (The Guardian)
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When the oligarchs pay the military, it becomes a private militia
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.— Timothy Snyder
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Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?
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GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program
GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program
While it hasn't been properly publicly announced yet, GOG Patrons is a new system launched by GOG to hopefully pull in more people to donate.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Bootstrapping Your Own CPU
Dear community,
Let's just say I'm a country that wants to create my own CPU only using knowledge/tech/techniques that are in the open and nothing proprietary. When I said CPU, let's just say something that can run a C program, and eventually the linux kernel.
Is creating one out of publicly accessed knowledge and resources even possible, and how minuscule the tolerance need to be? Is there even a successful open CPU project out there?
I'm asking this because of an anxiety that I have when knowing only several companies in the world know how to create a CPU.
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Cuomo condemned over racist AI ad depicting "criminals for Zohran Mamdani'
Cuomo condemned over racist AI ad depicting ‘criminals for Zohran Mamdani’
Official X accounts posts and then deletes AI-generated attack ad that prompts widespread denunciationJenna Amatulli (The Guardian)
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Muhammad Alì: vita, vittorie nella boxe, attivismo e morte
Muhammad Ali: vita, vittorie nella boxe e morte
Vita di Muhammad Ali, nato Cassius Clay, vincitore per gli USA della medaglia d’oro dei medio-massimi alle Olimpiadi Roma, il quale si associò alla Nation of Islam, setta islamica militante e radicale che predicava il nazionalismo nero e il separatis…Francesco Caldari (Fatti per la Storia)
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➜ Not so fast sailor! Do this first ✔️ Recommended: Use Firefox + uBlock Origin. Firefox is the top non-Chromium browser, offering nice security and privacy features.rentry.org
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Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too
Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too
Teens have been pushed out of the workforce, and now we’re training robots to take what few scraps are left.Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)
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Van Morrison - Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue (2015)
Non è un mistero che i dischi del nuovo millennio, comunque sempre dignitosi, di “Van the Man”, oltre ad un paio di compilations, albums di covers e il nostalgico, storico live di Astral Weeks, siano scivolati progressivamente verso una stanchezza creativa che è andata di pari passo a quella fisica... Leggi e ascolta...
Van Morrison - Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue (2015)
Non è un mistero che i dischi del nuovo millennio, comunque sempre dignitosi, di “Van the Man”, oltre ad un paio di compilations, albums di covers e il nostalgico, storico live di Astral Weeks, siano scivolati progressivamente verso una stanchezza creativa che è andata di pari passo a quella fisica... Leggi e ascolta...
Microsoft threatens to bring Copilot to on-prem Exchange
Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem
: Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setupsRichard Speed (The Register)
Rebuilding wrecked Syria vital for regional stability: UN
Geneva (AFP) – After 14 years of destruction, Syria must be swiftly rebuilt to bring stability to the country and the wider region, a top UN official in the war-ravaged nation told AFP.Reconstruction is one of the most significant challenges facing Syria's new Islamist authorities after the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December.
"The international community should definitely rush into rebuilding Syria," Rawhi Afaghani, the UN Development Programme's deputy representative in Syria, told AFP this week during a visit to Geneva.
"Being able to help the country to rebound and come out of this war and come out of this destruction is for the Syrians themselves, but also for the stability and the good of the whole region," he said in the interview.
The Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011 with Assad's brutal repression of anti-government protests, killed over half a million people and devastated the country's infrastructure.
The World Bank this week estimated that Syria's post-war reconstruction could cost up to $216 billion.
Afaghani said he could not put a price tag on rebuilding Syria, but described the needs as "massive".
Across the country, he said governors had told him about the massive need for housing, schools, and health centres, as well as electricity and water.
Complicating the clean-up efforts are the vast quantities of unexploded ordnance littering the entire country, including within mountains of rubble that need to be cleared, he said.
More than one million Syrian refugees have already returned from abroad and nearly double as many have returned to their places of origin after being displaced inside the country, UN figures show.
While those returns are a good sign, Afaghani warned that they were "putting a lot of pressure on the infrastructure, on the transportation, on the education, on the bakeries".
"People are returning to destroyed houses or houses that are actually occupied by other people," he said.
Afaghani warned that the strain on infrastructure "could lead to community tensions".
At the same time, he said the lack of infrastructure, services and jobs was dissuading many Syrians who want to return home from doing so.
"We thought there would be a much higher rate of return," he acknowledged, pointing out that most of those who have returned from abroad had left often difficult conditions in neighbouring Jordan and Lebanon.
From Europe, "we don't see that massive return", he said.
Afaghani voiced hope that swift reconstruction could usher in "a stable Syria", which in turn would draw more returns from Europe.
"Those are high-skilled people -- they can rebuild Syria," he said.
Those returnees, he insisted, could also "be a big, good influence in the whole region from an economic perspective, and from a peace-building perspective".
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Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article
Google to use digital driver's licenses to verify the age of website users • NFCW
VERIFICATION: The Digital Credentials API will use digital IDs to verify website users A new Digital Credentials API that will allow visitors to a websiteSarah Clark (NFCW)
Neville Brothers — Yellow Moon (1989)
Assieme a Brothers Keeper è senz’altro Yellow Moon il disco più importante della produzione musicale dei Neville Brothers.
Seguendo coerentemente una linea di sviluppo artistico che dall’iniziale influenza del cajun e della tradizione creola di New Orleans li ha... Leggi e ascolta...
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La Cima sta vincendo anche la sfida sul riciclo delle batterie
Gioielli neri
Siamo a ottobre e ci sono buone probabilità che Furèsta de La Nina sarà il disco italiano dell’anno. Un disco che non solo è bello e profondo ma anche fertile, come capita ai dischi che escono in un crocevia di artisti e influenze.
Un frutto di Furèsta è Gioielli neri di Sara Gioielli, cantante napoletana (anzi puteolana) con una lunga esperienza nel canto classico. Gioielli neri è un album di solo pianoforte e voci eppure non suona come un disco piano-e-voce: le sovraincisioni, i riverberi, un coro (in “Anche di giorno”) danno un grande spessore alle canzoni ma senza snaturarle. Per fortuna, perché si tratta di canzoni scritte bene e prodotte meglio, davvero un album d’esordio sorprendente.
Il tema centrale di molte canzoni è la cura; la cura delle cose, la cura di sé, come spiega Sara Gioielli stessa in questa intervista. La stessa cura che sembra essere stata posta nell’infilare dietro l’altra le canzoni del disco. Consigliatissimo, magari di sera e con un buon impianto, oppure in cuffia.
NEW NAME, NEXT HYPE Sara Gioielli, prendersi cura di sé
Abbiamo intervistato Sara Gioielli in occasione dell'uscita del suo primo album, Gioielli Neri, pubblicato il 17 ottobre 2025.Anna Carla Zucca (Cosmopolitan)
Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
Models trained on short, popular, and/or “superficial” tweets perform worse on benchmarks.Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
Asahi Linux Still Working On Apple M3 Support, m1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts.Asahi Linux developers have kept working on new kernel patches and some being upstreamed for Linux 6.17 and 6.18 cycles, as previously covered on Phoronix. Notably with Linux 6.18 is the Device Trees for the Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra devices albeit more driver code is still working its way upstream.
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ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay
I tried ChatGPT's Atlas browser to rival Google - here's what I found
OpenAI hopes to upend the browser market currently dominated by Google Chrome, but it depends on paid users.Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)
Un diario di viaggio che è diventato un podcast, ma anche una sfida
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Domenica prossima, al vostro risveglio, potrete ascoltare la seconda puntata del nuovo #podcast in cui, girando per l'Europa, cerco una nuova casa.Non cerco un edificio (quello arriverà dopo), ma un posto dove il Cuore voglia stare e la Ragione non abbia niente da obiettare.
E' una sfida, è una necessità, è un progetto di lungo termine ma che devo portare a compimento.
Comincio raccontandovi di quando, con tanta aspettativa e speranza, ho messo piede nell'isola più remota delle #Canarie, un'isola particolarissima che...
Potete ascoltare il podcast sulla vostra piattaforma audio preferita, su Youtube nel canale "Verso Casa" e naturalmente qui nel Fediverso, all'indirizzo castopod.it/versocasa
Se vi va, potete anche seguire l'account @versocasa@castopod.it
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Joan Shelley - Real Warmth (2025)
Joan Shelley - Real Warmth (2025)
di Silvano Bottaro Joan Shelley pubblica album da quindici anni, eppure riesce sempre a far sì che ogni album sembri un nuovo, facile abbrac...Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)
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