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If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M), I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50% global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms. What’s your view?

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

Firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped for more than five hours under the rubble after a Russian attack struck the building in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, on Dec. 1, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Ukraine denies Russian occupation of Klynove in Donetsk Oblast. “The informational ‘victories’ that the Russian Defense Ministry announces daily on paper have nothing to do with the real situation on the front lines,” Ukraine’s 11th Army Corps said.

Ukrainian Special Forces hit Russian Shahed drone launch site in occupied Crimea, military says. A Ukrainian deep-strike unit hit a Russian “storage and launch area” for Shahed-type drones near Cape Chauda, Crimea, overnight on Nov. 28, the Special Operations Forces said.

Ukraine’s Umerov meets Trump envoy Witkoff again after Florida talks, White House says. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff held another meeting with Ukrainian negotiator and top security official Rustem Umerov in Florida, a White House official told the Kyiv Independent on Dec. 1.

Putin claims Russian capture of Pokrovsk, Vovchansk as Kyiv warns of Kremlin propaganda blitz amid peace talks. “All of this is done exclusively for Western audiences and to raise the stakes in diplomacy,” said Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation.

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Ukraine rejects Kazakhstan’s criticism over drone strike on Russian oil terminal. “No actions by Ukraine are directed against Kazakhstan or other third parties — all of Ukraine’s efforts are focused on repelling full-scale Russian aggression,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said.

HUR reports explosions at rail, pipeline hub in Russia’s Novosibirsk, Bryansk oblasts. Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claims that railway infrastructure was damaged in Russia’s Novosibirsk and Bryansk regions on Nov. 20 and Nov. 28, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent.

Drones attack Russia’s Dagestan, damaging buildings near military-industrial plant, media reports. Drones targeted the Russian republic of Dagestan on the morning of December 1, with explosions reported in the city of Kaspiysk, the head of the republic Sergey Melikov said.

Ukraine returns 1,859 abducted children, Zelenska says in Paris. According to Ukraine’s national “Children of War” database, at least 19,546 Ukrainian children have been abducted from Russian-occupied territories and taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas since February 2022.

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Ukraine war latest: DeepState says Russia seized about 90% more territory in November than in October

Russian forces captured about 505 square kilometers (195 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in November, almost twice the gains recorded in September, the Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState said on Dec. 1.

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Why Trump’s peace plan is unlikely to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

Days before the U.S.-Ukraine consultations in Florida on Nov. 30, Vladimir Putin signaled that he sees no reason to make meaningful concessions. He brushed aside talk of progress, linking a ceasefire to Ukraine’s withdrawal from unoccupied territory.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

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EU weighing sanctions on Belarus over alleged hybrid attacks disrupting Lithuania’s airspace. The latest incident occurred on Nov. 30, when Vilnius International Airport suspended operations after unidentified objects — believed to be balloons — appeared in nearby airspace.

F-16 ammunition, air defenses — Netherlands announces $290 million Ukraine aid package. The Netherlands on Dec. 1 pledged to purchase U.S. arms for Kyiv worth 250 million euros ($290 million) under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL).

Polish prosecutors seek European arrest warrant for 2 Ukrainians over suspected Russian-backed rail sabotage. Yevhenii Ivanov, 41, and Oleksandr Kononov, 39, are suspected of sabotaging the Warsaw-Lublin railway line in mid-November before fleeing to Belarus.

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Court orders detention of Zelensky’s fugitive associate in Ukraine’s biggest corruption case. Businessman Timur Mindich, a former business partner of President Volodymyr Zelensky, fled Ukraine before the court considered the motion.

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• Writeup on how attackers can abuse npmscan-style scanners and public npm metadata to map vulnerable dependencies in typical Next.js / Nuxt.js / React apps, then turn that insight into real exploits in production.​
• Walkthrough of a sample audit, showing how weak dependency hygiene, risky postinstall scripts, and misconfigured CI/CD pipelines combine into an easy supply‑chain entry point for web applications.​
• Includes a checklist for web devs on safer dependency management, from scanning package.json before installs to hardening build pipelines so npm supply‑chain attacks are harder to pull off.​

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Gaza Strip, Palestine/London, Ontario, Canada – In an unprecedented breakthrough for medical innovation under siege, Glia, a medical solidarity organization, has developed and deployed the first external fixator (a critical orthopedic device for severe fractures) ever designed and manufactured entirely inside the Gaza Strip. Created using local materials, 3D printing, recycled plastics, and solar power, the device has already saved three patients from possible amputation or permanent disability amid the near-total collapse of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and blockade on medical imports.

This achievement comes as over 90% of Gaza’s health facilities are damaged or destroyed, and conventional external fixators — costing upwards of $500 and requiring specialized imports — have become unobtainable due to the Israeli blockade. With hospitals overwhelmed, electricity scarce, and supply chains severed, Glia’s fixator represents a lifeline born from necessity.

I was getting rid of some spool ends the other day by manually feeding them in while printing. That way I was able to push all these ends past any sensors and into the extruder for uninterrupted printing. It came out fine but was quite tedious.

So this got me thinking: Do any of you guys splice filaments? Not only would this allow for more efficient material use, but I suspect a print made from a bunch of small segments of different colors could look kinda cool.

I'm primarily printing with PETG, so my question is specifically about that, but I'm sure the concept should work for other filaments too.

Che il profilo artistico di Tamara Lindeman fosse pregevole lo si capiva gia dalle buone frequentazioni della musicista canadese, le sue apparizioni negli album di Will Stratton e Barzin avevano stimolato l’attenzione di critica e pubblico, mettendo in luce un talento maturo e una ispirazione cristallina... Leggi e ascolta...

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The Weather Station - Loyalty (2015)

Che il profilo artistico di Tamara Lindeman fosse pregevole lo si capiva gia dalle buone frequentazioni della musicista canadese, le sue apparizioni negli album di Will Stratton e Barzin avevano stimolato l’attenzione di critica e pubblico, mettendo in luce un talento maturo e una ispirazione cristallina. The Weather Station sono la sua creatura discografica, dove si alternano amici e collaboratori diversi. Per il terzo capitolo, “Loyalty”, l’artista ha chiamato al suo fianco Afie Jurvanen e Robbie Lackritz (produttore gia di Feist), e ha scelto gli studi francesi La Frette per realizzare il suo album più intenso e ambizioso... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/05…

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Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025

Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.

“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu

The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.

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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39755013

Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025

Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.

“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”

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2025-12-02 06:35:28

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu

Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025

Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.

“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu

The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.

^{Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)}

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The Globe and Mail's Carrie Tait, Tom Cardoso, and Matthew Scace, reveal that Sam Mraiche, an alleged central figure in the CorruptCare scandals, had deeper ties to Premier Smith than previously acknowledged. I'll include the highlights from the article, but it's worth a read.

The Globe’s investigation, published Saturday, revealed that Mr. Mraiche’s connections to the governing United Conservative Party are more extensive than previously reported.

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Ms. Smith, speaking to reporters at the United Conservative Party’s annual meeting in Edmonton on Saturday, maintained that she treated Mr. Mraiche just as she would any other executive.

“I have always said that I have seen him socially a handful of times, as I have with many, many individuals who want to do business with our government.”

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In a letter MHCare sent to the government in April, it said: “The unspectacular truth is that Mr. Mraiche’s interactions with government, those in elected office and senior staff fit entirely within the established parameters of typical government relations for the CEO of a commercial entity.”

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The investigation, for example, found that Mr. Mraiche joined Ms. Smith’s inner circle in a hotel suite to watch the provincial election results in May, 2023.

“When you are waiting for the results to come in, especially in a close race like it was in 2023, you are surrounded only by [your] absolute closest advisers,” Mr. Nenshi said in an interview Sunday. Calgarians elected Mr. Nenshi as their mayor three times before he became leader of the NDP last year.

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The Globe’s story on Saturday revealed that Ms. Smith’s schedule included a dinner at Mr. Mraiche’s home and a Zoom call with him and a former Alberta Health Services procurement official before she became Premier.

Further, newly obtained photos show Ms. Smith, five cabinet ministers, and senior political staff with Mr. Mraiche in a box suite during the Edmonton Oilers playoff run in 2024.

Details of Premier’s ties to businessman underscore need for public probe, Alberta NDP says

Leader Naheed Nenshi says The Globe’s investigation into links between Sam Mraiche and Danielle Smith’s government worthy of further examination

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There is an increasing apprehension among service members that they may be asked to carry out an illegal order, amid reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered troops to “kill everybody” in a boat strike in September.

The concerns, reflected in an uptick in calls to the Orders Project — which provides free legal advice to military personnel — come from the likes of staff officers involved in planning the strikes on supposed drug-carrying boats and those in charge of designating those on the vessels as a threat in order to carry out such attacks.

Even as a reported Justice Department classified memo from this summer preemptively argued that U.S. troops involved in the strikes would not be in legal jeopardy, service members appear far more concerned than usual that the U.S. military may be opening them up to legal harm, according to Frank Rosenblatt, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, which runs the Orders Project.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5628685-service-members-boat-strikes-orders-hegseth/

cross-posted from: piefed.social/c/cool/p/1517755…

With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.

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