“I don’t know where to begin”. Difficile immaginare una confessione più disarmata, per uno che di mestiere fa il cantastorie. Scoprirsi così sopraffatti da aver perso le parole. Da aver paura persino di affrontare il silenzio... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-10-27 08:27:34

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)

“I don’t know where to begin”. Difficile immaginare una confessione più disarmata, per uno che di mestiere fa il cantastorie. Scoprirsi così sopraffatti da aver perso le parole. Da aver paura persino di affrontare il silenzio. Difficile immaginarlo soprattutto per uno come Sufjan l’eclettico, quello del giro dell’America in cinquanta album e delle lettere aperte a Miley Cyrus su Tumblr. Ma in “Carrie & Lowell” le cose sono diverse: “Questo non è il mio progetto artistico. Questa è la mia vita”. E il gioco dei trasformismi lascia il posto alla carne e al sangue dell’esperienza... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/04…

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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)

di Gabriele Benzing “I don’t know where to begin”. Difficile immaginare una confessione più disarmata, per uno che di mestiere fa il can...

^{Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)}

Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30 - DeSmog

^{Hazel Healy (DeSmog)}

The decision follows mounting evidence that wild animals are not just passengers in climate discussions but are powerful actors. From elephants dispersing the seeds of carbon-dense trees, to whales enhancing oceanic carbon pumps, wild animals shape the health and carbon-storage capacity of ecosystems across land and sea.

Wild animals officially recognised as solutions to climate change - Oceanographic

The role of wild animals as enablers of natural solutions to climate change was recognised at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

^{Rob Hutchins (Oceanographic Magazine)}

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/its-not-about-security-its-about-control-how-eu-governments-want-to-encrypt-their-own-comms-but-break-our-private-chats

Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company's own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.

Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December

Microsoft Teams makes presence fiction in home office more difficult: With an update, the platform will track an employee's location via the office Wi-Fi.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

I cannot believe the incredible sarcasm put forth by city services. I hope I managed to capture it in this photograph.

I mean, if there was barbed wire on top of an exclusionary plywood wall that said "compassion" in some movie somewhere, it would be rightly criticized as being heavy-handed.

Thanks for seeing my work.

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First off, I have already installed and am happy with (I don't need any suggestions for these):
- Fennec (browser)
- Heliboard (keyboard, it's awesome!)
- Aves (image gallery)
- AntennaPod (podcasts)
- DAVx^5^ + Etar (calendar)
- Fossify Calendar looks nice, but is less functional in my opinion (you can't see the full name of events in month view!)
- Joplin (notes)
- CalcYou (calculator)
- Breezy Weather
- CoMaps
- Thunderbird (email)
- Material Files (file manager)
- Chrono (alarms, timers, etc.)
- ConnectYou (contacts)
- Fossify Messages (SMS)
- also considering Quik SMS, does it have any advantages over Fossify?
- Moshidon (Mastodon)
- RSS feed reader (Feeder + CapyReader, one of the two probably, both are great)
- Image Toolbox
- My self-hosted stuff (Nextcloud and Immich)
- KeePassDX (password manager)
- Ente Auth (2FA)

I currently need:
- music player (Metro and Vanilla Music are both unmaintained, so those are out. I've also found Auxio, CuteMusic, Lotus, and Phocid as options. Are there any other good ones? I want local playback, not stuff using YT Music)
- Lemmy client (Jerboa crashes when trying to log in for some reason, I've heard Thunder might be good?)
- are there any other apps I should look at?

Another thing, is there a guide to what all the settings in Heliboard do? It's kind of overwhelming. One thing I have changed is the "bottom padding" to make the space bar a bit up, since I accidentally press "c" and "v" way too often when trying to hit space. Also, being able to enable the number row is pretty cool!

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-25/the-1920-s-immigration-mistake-america-may-repeat?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTUyNDcxOSwiZXhwIjoxNzYyMTI5NTE5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNE9TMEFHUTFZUFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3REVDMjIwQjI3Nzg0Q0IwQUU5ODY2OEQxQzVCOEZDMyJ9.WUGXURgwoEjo2IP0raXxJmheRZO90xM7s_AVTP8H9Rg

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2 years of posting Haaretz articles about how Al Aqsa Flood was part of Netanyahu's master plan without self-reflection has me doubting their motives

Fun looking at China and seeing plans for the future, while here, it's nothing but grift for the foreseeable future.

Port electrification follows a predictable sequence. The first stage replaces diesel cranes, trucks, and yard equipment with electric systems. The second extends to tugs and harbor craft. The third, which is now underway in China, reaches inland and short-sea vessels. The fourth will see ports functioning as full energy hubs, feeding deep-sea hybrids and stabilizing regional grids. Every stage builds on the one before it. Once the ground vehicles and cranes switch to electric drive, high-capacity chargers and energy management systems are already in place. Those same assets can serve harbor craft and ships. Electrification propagates by infrastructure reuse.

The Yangtze River has become a living demonstration of this process. It connects the interior manufacturing centers of Chongqing, Wuhan, and Yichang with the export hubs of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Ningbo. Along its length, the physical river has been matched by a set of electrical arteries. Two of them, the Changji–Guquan and Hami–Chongqing UHVDC transmission lines, deliver more than 30 TWh of renewable power each year from the deserts and plateaus of the west to the dense industrial east. Together they provide up to 8 GW of clean capacity directly into the Yangtze corridor. These ultra-high-voltage direct current lines are the spine of a new energy geography, making clean electrons available where cargo and industry already cluster. Without that grid backbone, even the most efficient electric ship would be an isolated experiment.

There's tremendous irony regarding one point ...

This is against a backdrop of radical change in shipping volumes. 40% of all tonnage is of fossil fuels and all are in structural decline. Another 15% is raw iron ore, also in structure decline. Population growth is slowing and the global population is expected to peak between 2050 and 2070. While container shipping will continue to grow, it won’t be growing nearly as fast as bulks decline.

The Yangtze River Is Becoming the World’s Largest Electrified Trade Corridor - CleanTechnica

The Yangtze corridor is emerging as the world’s largest clean-energy trade route, powered by HVDC, solar, and battery-electric vessels.

^{Michael Barnard (CleanTechnica)}

Michael Sainato
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDT

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

^{Michael Sainato (The Guardian)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38114976

Michael Sainato
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDT

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

Peter Link

2025-10-27 02:43:01

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Michael Sainato
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDT

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

^{Michael Sainato (The Guardian)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37917203

The crowd is friendlier now, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has now been drowned out twice by chants of “Tax the Rich”