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Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes


By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
14 December 2025 12:47 GMT

Since winter began, Saber has lived in constant fear. Their fragile tent offered little protection from rain or wind, and he knew it could collapse at any moment.

Two weeks earlier, rainwater had already flooded the tent, reaching nearly 30cm. His daughters fell ill with colds that lasted for days. Desperate to prevent it from happening again, Saber borrowed money from one of his relatives to buy a plastic tarpaulin and reinforced the tent with wooden poles.

But when the latest storm hit Gaza a few days ago, his efforts proved useless.

“I spent the first night of the rain holding the tent up with my own hands as rain poured in from every direction,” Saber told Middle East Eye.

“It felt like I had done nothing at all. The tent collapsed on us in the first hours of the rain.”



Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40321940

By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
14 December 2025 12:47 GMT
Since winter began, Saber has lived in constant fear. Their fragile tent offered little protection from rain or wind, and he knew it could collapse at any moment.

Two weeks earlier, rainwater had already flooded the tent, reaching nearly 30cm. His daughters fell ill with colds that lasted for days. Desperate to prevent it from happening again, Saber borrowed money from one of his relatives to buy a plastic tarpaulin and reinforced the tent with wooden poles.

But when the latest storm hit Gaza a few days ago, his efforts proved useless.

“I spent the first night of the rain holding the tent up with my own hands as rain poured in from every direction,” Saber told Middle East Eye.

“It felt like I had done nothing at all. The tent collapsed on us in the first hours of the rain.”




Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes


By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
14 December 2025 12:47 GMT

Since winter began, Saber has lived in constant fear. Their fragile tent offered little protection from rain or wind, and he knew it could collapse at any moment.

Two weeks earlier, rainwater had already flooded the tent, reaching nearly 30cm. His daughters fell ill with colds that lasted for days. Desperate to prevent it from happening again, Saber borrowed money from one of his relatives to buy a plastic tarpaulin and reinforced the tent with wooden poles.

But when the latest storm hit Gaza a few days ago, his efforts proved useless.

“I spent the first night of the rain holding the tent up with my own hands as rain poured in from every direction,” Saber told Middle East Eye.

“It felt like I had done nothing at all. The tent collapsed on us in the first hours of the rain.”





Detalhes de uma delação inflamável


Beto Louco, investigado em fraude dos combustíveis, quer relatar à PGR pagamentos pedidos a Alcolumbre para bancar show de Roberto Carlos – uma parte dos milhões que diz já ter desembolsado para o senador

O Amapá celebrou os últimos dias de 2024 com uma programação que incluiu shows de astros da música como João Gomes, Alceu Valença, Pablo do Arrocha, Alok e a maior estrela, Roberto Carlos. Em um texto de divulgação, o governo do Estado celebrou o próprio governador, Clécio Luís, do Solidariedade, e o senador Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP). Dizia: “O trabalho sério e com responsabilidade de divulgação do Amapá feito pelo governador Clécio, com apoio do senador Davi, vem chamando a atenção da iniciativa privada e garantindo investidores para os eventos”. Não há detalhes de como o parlamentar, que não tem nenhum cargo no governo do Amapá, participou dos preparativos.

Uma versão muito menos congratulatória está detalhada em uma proposta de colaboração premiada apresentada à Procuradoria-Geral da República. Os candidatos a delator são dois investigados em fraudes bilionárias no setor de combustíveis: o empresário Roberto Leme — conhecido como Beto Louco, controlador da Copape, fabricante de gasolina — e seu sócio Mohamad Hussein Mourad, o “Primo”. A dupla propõe revelar como abasteceu boa parte do panteão do Congresso Nacional com dezenas de milhões de reais em troca de influência, entre 2021 e 2025, com destaque para Davi Alcolumbre, presidente do Senado, e Antonio Rueda, presidente do União Brasil.



Anatomy of a settler abduction


Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025

Also:
* Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
* Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
* After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
* Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
* The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=189049

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Anatomy of a settler abduction


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40321023

Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025

Also:
* Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
* Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
* After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
* Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
* The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters



Anatomy of a settler abduction


Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025

Also:
* Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
* Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
* After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
* Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
* The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters


https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=189049



Projets Libres rejoint LinuxFr.org !


Annoncé en grandes pompes jeudi 11 décembre lors du temps fort associatif d'Open Source Experience, Projets Libres devient le podcast de LinuxFr.org. Depuis avril 2023, le podcast Projets Libres vous apporte un éclairage sur les projets, communautés et le

Annoncé en grandes pompes jeudi 11 décembre lors du temps fort associatif d’Open Source Experience, Projets Libres devient le podcast de LinuxFr.org. Depuis avril 2023, le podcast Projets Libres vous apporte un éclairage sur les projets, communautés et les individus qui composent l’écosystème libre et open source. Les épisodes sont régulièrement promus sur LinuxFr.
Logo du podcast Projets Libres avec mention du rattachement au site LinuxFR.org
Tout en conservant son nom d’origine, il s’intègre désormais à la galaxie du site LinuxFr pour proposer, en plus des dépêches, journaux, liens… un format audio régulier consacré au logiciel libre, à ses actrices et acteurs et à ses projets. Ce rapprochement ne changera pas la ligne éditoriale du podcast, mais inscrit ce travail dans le temps long. À court terme, il inclut un nouveau logo et générique pour le podcast, et un lien d’accès au podcast depuis LinuxFr.org.

LinuxFr.org, de son côté, n’a plus vraiment besoin d’être présenté ici : le site communautaire francophone consacré au libre depuis 1998 regroupe dépêches, journaux, liens, forums, sondages, tribunes et autres contenus publiés par la communauté. L’arrivée d’un format audio s’inscrit donc comme une évolution naturelle pour enrichir encore les contenus mis en avant. Mais si vous voulez en savoir plus sur LinuxFr.org, sachez que nous avons eu droit à notre épisode dédié il y a deux ans et que nous vous invitons à l’écouter !

Pourquoi ce rapprochement ?

Sommaire


Le podcast a connu une accélération en 2025, et le besoin d’avoir une entité légale s’est fait sentir. L’idée étant de récolter des fonds pour financer notre travail, mais aussi de préciser le but non lucratif et les motivations de l’équipe. Plutôt que de créer une n-ième association dont il allait falloir s’occuper, au détriment du temps passé à la réalisation de podcasts.

De plus, nous pressentons clairement que les deux communautés se recoupent et aiment découvrir des projets libres en écoutant des retours d’expérience, des interviews ou des discussions techniques… et LinuxFr.org dispose justement d’une communauté intéressée par ce type de contenus. Le rapprochement permettra :

  • d’augmenter la visibilité des épisodes existants et futurs ;
  • de favoriser des synergies entre la rédaction des dépêches et la production audio (interviews associées à une dépêche, compléments audio d’articles, discussions prolongées, etc.) ;
  • de proposer un point d’entrée unique vers le contenu éditorial écrit et audio du site.

Pas d’inquiétude : le podcast garde sa ligne éditoriale, son nom et son style.

Concrètement, ça va se passer comment ?


Un nouveau générique et un nouveau logo vont très vite faire leur apparition, mais pour le reste, pas grand-chose ne change pour les personnes qui écoutent déjà Projets Libres :

  • les épisodes restent disponibles sur le site historique du podcast ;
  • le flux RSS existant continue de fonctionner dans vos lecteurs de podcast habituels ;
  • les archives restent accessibles.

Côté LinuxFr.org,

  • Un lien dans l’en-tête va apparaître aux côtés des Dépêches, Journaux, Liens, Forum, etc.
  • Chaque nouvel épisode fera l’objet d’une dépêche un peu plus étoffée permettant de continuer la discussion
  • La création d’une liste de diffusion dédiée

Le tout reste sous licence libre ou ouverte, dans la continuité de ce que pratiquaient déjà LinuxFr.org et le podcast.

Et pour la suite ?


Nous allons travailler à une intégration plus poussée, mais elle reste encore à imaginer. Et comme tout ce qui touche à LinuxFr.org, ce rapprochement se veut avant tout communautaire. Vous avez une idée de sujet ? Vous maintenez un projet libre et souhaitez en parler au micro ? Vous aimeriez participer à un enregistrement, proposer une chronique, ou simplement donner votre avis ?
N’hésitez pas à le signaler dans les commentaires, ou à contacter l’équipe du podcast.

Bonne écoute, et à bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! 🎙️





YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem


Over the past four years, I've significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I've found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.

I am not going to pretend that YouTube hasn't played its part in the global disinformation epidemic or that it has somehow escaped the claws of enshittification. What I will say is that unlike other social platforms, its feed (unlike those of its competitors) are maleable using browser-based plugins (tools such as subscription managers). It is one of my primary learning platforms; without its vast array of tutorials, there is no way that I, a non-programmer, would have learnt Linux as fast or become as comfortable in a FOSS-based computing environment, as I have since the pandemic.

But enshittification is, like death and taxes, a certainty now. Which brings us to the subject of this column: AI moderation on YouTube.



SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years


After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.

The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess "birefringence," meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light.

That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel's location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space.

And because the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.



The View From Inside the AI Bubble


In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.

The threat of technological superintelligence is the stuff of science fiction, yet it has become a topic of serious discussion in the past few years. Despite the lack of clear definition—even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called AGI a “weakly defined term”—the idea that powerful AI contains an inherent threat to humanity has gained acceptance among respected cultural critics.

Granted, generative AI is a powerful technology that has already had a massive impact on our work and culture. But superintelligence has become one of several questionable narratives promoted by the AI industry, along with the ideas that AI learns like a human, that it has “emergent” capabilities, that “reasoning models” are actually reasoning, and that the technology will eventually improve itself.

I traveled to NeurIPS, held at the waterfront fortress that is the San Diego Convention Center, partly to understand how seriously these narratives are taken within the AI industry. Do AGI aspirations guide research and product development? When I asked Tegmark about this, he told me that the major AI companies were sincerely trying to build AGI, but his reasoning was unconvincing. “I know their founders,” he said. “And they’ve said so publicly.”







Oh Say, Can You See, We Have Never Been Free – George Tsakraklides





14 décembre 2025, 12:00:00 CET - GMT+1 - 28 Avenue Roger Cohé, 33600, Pessac, France
Dic 14
Repas / Débat Espéranto langue comme les autres ?
Dom 12:00 - 16:00
Esperanto Gironde

À l’occasion de la journée de Zamenhof, nous débattrons l’après-midi à propos de l’espéranto :

– De quoi s’agit-il réellement ? La définition du PIV est-elle suffisante ?

– L’espéranto est-il plus qu’une langue ?

– Comment est-ce possible, ou cela pourrait-il l’être ?

– Est-ce important ?

– Comment vivez-vous personnellement l’espéranto ?

– Zaza influence-t-il encore le mouvement actuel ?

Ce débat sera l’après-midi en français et sera précédé d’un agréable repas en auberge espagnole à midi et des affaires courantes de l’association le matin (en espéranto).

N’oubliez pas votre pique-nique et vos couverts pour le repas partagé.

Nos réunions sont ouvertes à tous, membres et non membres de l’association, locuteurs ou non d’espéranto, bien que nos discussions soient souvent en espéranto.

Vous pouvez arriver à midi si vous ne désirez pas participer à la réunion en espéranto du matin.

Venez nombreux !!!

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Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market


Local media says one of the suspects is an imam at a mosque, and police allege he "called for a vehicle attack".


Archived version: archive.is/20251214100252/bbc.…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Thailand says Cambodian rocket fire has caused its first civilian death in new border fighting


Thailand's government reports a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.





One million households without power in Ukraine after Russia attacks energy grid


The latest overnight attacks come as US envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to hold more talks with Ukraine's president.


Archived version: archive.is/20251213055652/bbc.…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Airline Industry On The Verge Of Historic $1 Trillion Revenue This Year


The global aviation industry is expected to achieve $1.008 trillion this year marking a 4% growth from 2024 & forecasts a further 4.5% growth in 2026.



Australia | At least 10 dead including gunman at Sydney's Bondi beach shooting, police say


At least 10 people, including a gunman, were killed on Sunday after a shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. An additional 11 people were injured and another gunman was arrested, according to the national media.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/france24.com…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Hamas chief negotiator says Israel's killing of senior commander threatens ceasefire


Hamas' chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya said on Sunday that a targeted assassination by Israel on Saturday of one of the group's senior ‍commanders ​threatens the "viability of the truce" in the enclave.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide



A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.

The average price of SMS verification for an online platform during the year-long study period running to July 2025 was $4.93 in Japan and $3.24 in Australia, yet just a fraction of that in the US ($0.26), UK ($0.10) and Russia ($0.08).

The research also reveals that prices for fake accounts on Telegram and WhatsApp appear to spike in countries about to have national elections, suggesting a surge in demand due to “influence operations”.

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This Month’s Poem

Halsway Carol
Iain Frisk

Lo for the tiding of the long night moon
Let the sunrise call about the morning soon
Short is the biding of the fading light
Sing for the coming of the longest night

North wind tell us what we need to know
When the stars are shining on the midnight snow
All of the branches will be turned to white
Sing for the coming of the longest night

  A winter day, the summer grass turned hay
  Frost in the field ’til the dawn of May
  A summer’s light never shone as clear or as bright
  So dance in the shadows of a winter’s night

Lo for the tiding of the long night moon
May the harvest last until the springtime bloom
Home is our comfort at the winter’s height
Sing for the coming of the longest night

All of the colours of the sunrise sky
Shine a light upon us, as the day goes by
Sun-setting shadows fading out of sight
Sing for the coming of the longest night

  A winter day, the summer grass turned hay
  Frost in the field ’til the dawn of May
  A summer’s light never shone as clear or as bright
  So dance in the shadows of a winter’s night

Find this poem online at Town Common Songs

#blog #December #poetry #zenmischief



Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide


Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index

A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.

The average price of SMS verification for an online platform during the year-long study period running to July 2025 was $4.93 in Japan and $3.24 in Australia, yet just a fraction of that in the US ($0.26), UK ($0.10) and Russia ($0.08).

The research also reveals that prices for fake accounts on Telegram and WhatsApp appear to spike in countries about to have national elections, suggesting a surge in demand due to “influence operations”.




VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits




VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits




LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash


It's wild just how much they're trying to shove AI down our throats.



in reply to nieceandtows

Looks like a combination of under-extrusion and a bed thats not really level?


Jared Kushner is at the center of Trump's corruption


From media mergers to foreign policy, Trump's son-in-law is consolidating power — and making millions

The speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated. In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his son-in-law is casually consolidating economic and political power with staggering speed.

Kushner has positioned himself at the center of the biggest media merger in years and at the fulcrum of White House foreign policy, all while taking in multi-billion-dollar investments from autocratic governments.



Easily set up your PieFed instance using YunoHost!


After [url=https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/252]5 months of chipping away at it[/url], PieFed is now an installable ‘app’ in the Yunohost store! It’s been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation ma

After 5 months of chipping away at it, PieFed is now an installable 'app' in the Yunohost store! It's been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation mark because some automated tests hadn't ran yet. But that's gone now so I feel confident about recommending it to others.

Yunohost is a linux distro for servers that has a web gui for installing and managing services, that takes all the hassle out of self-hosting. How to get started with Yunohost.

@squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi and @michael@piefed.chrisco.me have had good success setting up their instances already: piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/…