When I Look at #ZohranMamdani, Here’s What I See
By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15
But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam....when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/zohran-mamdani-muslim-america-new-york.html
When I Look at #ZohranMamdani, Here’s What I See
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38202880
By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam....when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.
When I Look at #ZohranMamdani, Here’s What I See
By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam....when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/zohran-mamdani-muslim-america-new-york.html
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals | Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening.
Blah, blah, blah ... new startup faces uphill battle in ramping production. But then:
“As vehicles evolve into software-defined supercomputers on wheels, a new opportunity emerges—to reimagine mobility with intelligence at every turn. Together with Lucid, we’re accelerating the future of autonomous, AI-powered transportation, built on [the] Nvidia full-stack automotive platform,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.
It's amazing to me that some people can unironically parse that as human language.
An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening.
Nvidia is working with Lucid on autonomous cars and future factories.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
The twitter.com domain is officially being retired; 2FA action required
The twitter.com domain is officially being retired; 2FA action required
The twitter.com domain is now being retired, as X is asking users to re-enroll their 2FA passkeys to the new x.com domainMatthew Mountjoy (MobileSyrup)
Help changing text and images in POS software
Hello everyone, how are you? First of all, I'm new here, and I didn't see anything about this type of post in the rules, so I believe I'm not violating any rules, right? I don't know if I can mention the name of the software here, so I chose not to, unless it's allowed. That's why I censored the logo image that contains its name, and the text with its name.
It's a POS system, I think only available here in Brazil. I can't find the logo to change it. In fact, there are almost no images. I tried accessing the images with Resource Hacker, Resource Turner, and similar programs, but nothing worked. The bitmaps simply don't appear.
Searching online, I found two identical software programs. I downloaded them, and when I checked, it was exactly the same system/software. Someone pirated them and managed to change the images and some other system features, but unfortunately, they released pirated versions and also offered them for sale with a trial mode. So, yes, you can change it; I just couldn't do anything, not even with the help of AI.
I want to use it to manage my business. I've gone back to working with food delivery, and this software is very good. With it, I can control incoming and outgoing funds, manage inventory, and do many things in a much more organized way than manually. I used the trial version, and it's very good and easy to use. I want to modify it to put a different logo and system name (my store's name and a different logo on the interface). But it seems impossible; even in the pirated versions I mentioned, I couldn't find the logo or change the window texts. In their folder, there's a logo.bmp file; I changed the image and nothing changed, I removed the image and nothing changed, meaning the logo.bmp in the main folder is useless.
I'm not a programmer, but I've enjoyed tinkering with these things since I was little, and I'm always tinkering with everything to modify something. But this software is impossible; even with AI help, I couldn't find the logo that appears on the interface or change the texts. Can anyone help me?
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lol I actually looked this up and the op is asking how to replace the developers own cashier facing logo on the pirated software package.
~~datacaixa~~ marvel’s really good pos
Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/704939
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure- introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.The Cloudflare Blog
Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
(Nextcloud is written in PHP)
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/40795258
Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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Europees Hof: landen moeten bij winning fossiele brandstoffen kijken naar álle uitstoot die daaruit voortvloeit
Europees Hof: landen moeten bij winning fossiele brandstoffen kijken naar álle uitstoot die daaruit voortvloeit
Klimaatzaak: Landen moeten voortaan laten zien dat de uitstoot van nieuwe olie-, gas- en kolenwinning past binnen hun klimaatdoelen, en daarbij ook kijken naar de uitstoot wanneer die brandstoffen worden gebruikt.Luuk van der Sterren (NRC)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried about Elon Musk's Grokipedia: 'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia and what he says is 'woke' bias, but founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried, and says LLMs can't even write a wiki.Eric Rosenbaum (CNBC)
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Is it possible to bind Soulseek(or equivalent) to VPN?
Hi all!
Looking to get back into pirating more music. Torrent sites don't have a large selection. Other options have poor quality.
I've been looking into alternatives like Soulseek, but can't find how to bind that to VPN like I do with Qbit.
I've heard the risks are lower, but I'd still prefer to bind to VPN. I know from experience that kill switches are unreliable. Is this possible in soulseek or something similar (preferably OSS and with ok sound quality).
I've read the FAQ, megathread and done a search and didn't find anything.
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NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay
NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay - E&E News by POLITICO
The planes have been flying into Hurricane Melissa as part of monitoring the monster storm.Daniel Cusick (E&E News by POLITICO)
Planning to selfhost images and calendar in addition to HTTP(S)
I would like some ideas or suggestions as I am not sure how to continue with self hosting.
I want to self host images and caldav, maybe documents later as well. These would need to be continuously available to PC clients and Android. There would be a handful of users maximum.
The obvious (?) solution would be Nextcloud, which would do everything I need.
My problem is that I have only one public IP address and the HTTP and HTTPS ports are already in use by Apache.
The second problem is that I already use wireguard to another location, and Android cannot connect simultaneously to several wireguard endpoints. At least as far as I know.
Below, I list the approaches I have considered and the problems / drawbacks I see.
Please comment if I am wrong about something here.
At the moment I am looking at option 4.
Any comments are welcome!
Option 1. Nextcloud AIO publicly available through HTTPS
It needs the HTTP & HTTPS ports which are in use.
Otherwise, this would be the go-to for me.
Option 2. Nextcloud AIO through wireguard
I would have to switch between two wireguard instances on Android. There would probably be continuous connection errors and sync problems on apps that try to connect to either location (nextcloud and davx5 for example).
Setup would be a bit compilated for me. AFAIK, I would have to set up a local DNS, self made certificates and a reverse proxy for the Apache server.
Setup would be complicated for all other users as well and require wireguard and manually installed certificates.
Option 3. Nextcloud AIO with tailscale
Setup complicated like #2 and then some?
I have no idea if it works while using the android wireguard app for the other connection I need.
Option 4. Radicale and Ente publicly available
As far as I know, these run on special ports that are not 80 or 443.
Server setup would be slightly complicated.
Client setup would be simple.
Document sync I would have to figure out later (maybe just syncthing or otter setup?).
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Use a reverse proxy to proxy everything through https, then you can install how many services you want. Caddy is super simple, you can reverse proxy with just 1 line.
For calendar and contacts (caldav, cardav) Baikal is extremely easy to install and use. And pretty minimal.
[Pregnant Ai] The Clankers Are Having Children Now... by SomeOrdinaryGamers - Oct 26, 2025 (Video, 13:10 min)
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RfdiKOD…
YouTube: youtu.be/RfdiKODOJYc
Video description (only relevant parts):
This time we take a look at how the world's first AI Minister, someone that has a modicum of real world power has finally now gotten pregnant somehow giving birth to over 80 children. How?
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Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
: 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big systemBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Boring Is What We Wanted
Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels
We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way.Stephen Hackett (512 Pixels)
Chi è Natalino Mele, il bambino sopravvissuto al Mostro di Firenze: la verità riemersa dopo 57 anni
Chi è Natalino Mele, il bambino sopravvissuto al Mostro di Firenze: la verità riemersa dopo 57 anni
Non aveva nemmeno sette anni quando vide la notte trasformarsi in incubo. Era il 21 agosto del 1968, e a Castelletti di Signa, alle porte di Firenze, il piccolo Natalino Mele si svegliò in un’auto insanguinata.Serena Comito (Alphabetcity)
Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a "pilot" to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz."stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Australian Coalition MPs weighing net zero given denialist briefing on climate science
Coalition sources familiar with the briefing said MPs were told it was funded by an anonymous “high net-worth individual” – not the party.
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committeeDan Jervis-Bardy (The Guardian)
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We're so fucked.
We're sitting in the back of the German Wings climate change plane and the rich Andreas Lubitz assholes have decided to crash us into a mountain, because they are mentally ill.
Trump's cashed in $800m from crypto alone in 1st half of 2025 - Reuters report
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/
Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network
Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network
The vehicles would be fully self-driving, without the need for human intervention.Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38001927
In this post, I hope to clarify and expand on some of the points and rebut some of the counter-messaging that we have witnessed.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...f-droid.org
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Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs, blames AI
‘Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs.
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs
Amazon said the growth of generative AI is to blame for the layoffs.Robert Hart (The Verge)
Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/29544831
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.
Texas attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.Eleanor Klibanoff (The Texas Tribune)
Democratic Peace Theory, R.I.P.
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helpedBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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Zohran Mamdani - Reimagining NYC Through Safety and Affordability - The Daily Show
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The Future of Magazines… and the World
There's a fair amount of publishing inside baseball here, but what stuck out at me was:
DSJ: Your work is mostly concerned with the past and the present, but what kind of futures do you see unfolding for the world?TM: There was an extraordinary moment of international class coordination in the 1990s and early 2000s. Washington, Beijing, Moscow, and Brussels all agreed—despite their mounting geopolitical tensions—that they wanted their capitalists to get richer, that they no longer faced real threats from their working populations, and that they would help each other in the other great cause of the day, “counterterrorism,” which in practice meant killing and repressing Muslims the world over, whether in Xinjiang, Iraq, or Chechnya. Muslims were the ideal target for fine-tuning the emerging world order because they had no major power base of their own; their wealthiest members in the Gulf had no interest in upsetting the status quo. What is fascinating is how quickly this order broke down. One can point to cracks like the Iraq War, Putin’s 2007 Munich speech, the 2011 Libya intervention, or even further back to the Yugoslav wars, which Beijing and Moscow took to be a grisly preview of coming attractions.
Never genuinely threatened by “terrorism,” untroubled by rebellions of workers at home, the states superintending the 21st-century world economy found their hold on power jeopardized by the very success of the globalized capitalism whose ascendancy they oversaw, as powerful fractions of their ruling classes came to see themselves as unmoored from anything so constrictive as a national interest, however notional. Each state still believed it needed to enrich its elites—that was never in doubt—but there was a question now of which faction of the elite to enrich, and which to cast aside. Major purges were conducted in almost all the major states of the order. The purges were most drastic in China, where Xi in 2020–22 had to prove that the country would resist the liberal script of the business class overpowering the party. Putin conducted his purge more indirectly via the Ukraine war, which neatly separated out his capitalist loyalists from more Western-oriented capitalists in the upper strata around him. Trump, too, has done a purge, to the extent that one even can in the US, where capitalists, to a much greater degree, control the state. Trump had to confine his purge to the US bureaucracy; no major capitalists were threatened or fled the country (though the loyalty oaths extracted from the likes of Zuckerberg made for good television).
The other thing I see emerging is China developing a monopoly on state-backed science, especially climate science—one of Xi’s rumored successors when I was last in China was Chen Jining, the climate scientist who is now the party secretary of Shanghai—while the US will continue to excel in the carnival of recognition and continue to corner the market on identitarian innovation and mimetic desire. This is not a minor form of soft power, though it is one that the US itself barely understands. Meanwhile, the US has so thoroughly financialized itself that it has great difficulty producing basic military hardware, while it commits headlong to a kind of Green New Deal in reverse: the reorganization of its energy infrastructure and capital allocation in order to guarantee wealth transfers to investors in large language models, and to cover the shame of not having developed more socially beneficial innovations.
The last major rearrangement of global fortunes was the Second World War, the best thing—if you hadn’t died in it—that ever happened to American wage earners, and the best thing that ever happened for American technology. It’s doubtful that a war with China would result in a similar uplift, considering not only the obstacles to social mobilization on such a scale but the sheer amount of firepower that could be involved.
That's bleak, baby!
The Future of Magazines… and the World | The Nation
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.The Nation
How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?
How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?
UCLA law professor and voting rights expert Rick Hasen weighs in on the congressional redistricting measureUCLA Law and UCLA Newsroom (UCLA)
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon.Alejandra Caraballo (The Dissident)
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Ohio Secretary of State refers more than 1,200 voter fraud cases to DOJ
"Secretary LaRose refers more than 1,200 criminal cases to DOJ" - Election Law Blog
Portsmouth Daily Times: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced on Tuesday that his office has referred 1,200 criminal cases to the United States Department of Justice for consideration of federal prosecution.Rick Hasen (Election Law Blog)
The Weirdest "Car" I've Ever Driven - mkbhd's video about the Aptera EV
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For Years, Islands Have Warned of Climate Disaster. They’ve Seen Little Help.
As Hurricane Melissa threatens island nations across the Caribbean, many are already burdened by debt from a string of climate-fueled crises.
Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value
Apple market value hits $4 trillion
Apple joined Nvidia and Microsoft to become the third company to break through the $4 trillion market value milestone.Steve Kopack (NBC News)
RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Autism Study Identifies Air Pollution Link
Other factors may be in play, howeverJudy George (MedpageToday)
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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/48759495
Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for an investigation into former Barclays CEO Jes Staley and “all current and former US banking executives who may have facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s illicit conduct,” according to a letter seen by The Guardian.Staley, who like the Democratic senator is from Massachusetts, was known as one of the chief financial enablers of Epstein, allowing the late sexual predator to continue his account with J.P. Morgan in the midst of his crimes coming to light. The New York Times called Staley Epstein’s “chief defender” at J.P. Morgan, processing billions of dollars for him even as Epstein’s abuse and trafficking crimes were public.
Warren also noted that Staley is already banned for life in the UK banking industry for his connections to Epstein, and referred to court documents suggesting that Staley told Epstein about the bank’s apprehension towards him (and his large cash withdrawals), allowing him to alter his approach so that his account wouldn’t raise further suspicion.
Warren has urged the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to announce plans for an investigation by 7 November.
“It is critical to send a message to the public and current bank employees that this type of egregious misconduct has no place in the American banking system,” Warren wrote.
“Staley is not the only bank executive with concerning ties to Epstein. For example, according to Staley’s sworn deposition, he discussed Epstein with [J.P. Morgan] CEO Jamie Dimon on at least two occasions,” she continued. “The Fed, OCC and FDIC should investigate any other current or former banking executives who engaged in similar conduct to determine whether their conduct satisfies the legal standards for a ban on working in the banking industry and civil monetary penalties.... Any banking executives who facilitated the crimes of one of the world’s most notorious sex criminals should be held to account.”
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
Senator Warren is demanding regulators look into Jes Staley for protecting convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.The New Republic
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Enviros sue over EPA incinerator waiver following disasters
Enviros sue over EPA incinerator waiver following disasters - E&E News by POLITICO
The administration cited flooding and hurricane season for its move.Sean Reilly (E&E News by POLITICO)
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