Il giovedì del libro! @libri@feddit.it @libri #UnoLibri . Il #SuggerimentoDiLettura n°176 è un libro per bambini, come spesso mi piace consigliare: PER TE VORREI... di Amy Krouse Rosenthal e Tom Lichtenheld. È un piccolo albo illustrato delicatissimo, con un testo che abbraccia e scalda il cuore. Un piccolo elenco delle meravigliose esperienze e sensazioni della vita che si vorrebbero augurare a un piccolo uomo o a una piccola donna che muove i suoi primi passi nel mondo.
We’ve gathered a few wrap-up moments from different shoots. Each photo comes from a different production, with different moods but the same energy of ending an exhausting day together, knowing we made it through. Looking at them side by side, you see how every project leaves its own kind of memory. #sisi #film #art #cinema #Movies
National Camera Day 2025 On the RMS Queen Mary. The RMS Queen Mary, docked in long beach. As shot from the port bow. Camera: Nikon FE2 Film: Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
A list of 29 heroes and interesting people that few people have heard of. I’ve only heard of one or two of these folks. neatorama.com/2025/09/01/Obscu…
Why should I care about electing representatives when my immediate community faces urgent material and social needs that require direct, collective action and self-management?
Arc was (arguably) the most beautiful productivity app of the decade. Its exit: selling to the world’s most boring enterprise company (Atlassian). Which is exactly how software history always resolves.
@codinghorror It’s been popular amongst my academic friends. I’ve been primarily using Vivaldi but I’m really looking forward to the day I can use Ladybird as a daily driver.
#Cinéma #Gaza Au Festival de Venise, documentaires, manifestations et déclarations publiques ont exposé les contradictions du monde artistique face à la tragédie palestinienne.
Chiusura in calo per lo spread tra Btp e Bund tedesco. Il differenziale di rendimento tra i due bond decennali è sceso di due punti base, a quota 85. In calo di 4 punti base il rendimento del Btp, sceso al 3,567% (ANSA). (ANSA)
So...the US shot a civilian boat with a hellfire missile, obviously killing everyone on board, and nobody is talking about how this is a violation of international law, and a really fucking scary precedent?
Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, countries are prohibited from using force against vessels in international waters except under limited conditions such as “hot pursuit.”
This boat wasn't boarded, it wasn't searched, there is absolutely no proof that they were drug runners. Rubio just wanted to shoot someone so Daddy King Kankles would pat him on the head.
We are so far down the rabbit hole of Orwell meets Kafka for Absinthe, I can't even.
Je suis passé au cimetière chinois de Nolette. Pendant la première GM, l'armée anglaise a fait venir des dizaines de milliers de travailleurs chinois pour faire des travaux de terrassement à l'arrière du front mais aussi creuser des tranchées. Ils étaient tellement encadrés que la population locale pensaient qu'ils étaient prisonniers. Ils n'avaient pas le droit d'aller seuls en ville par exemple. Beaucoup sont morts après la guerre de la grippe espagnole, la plupart sont repartis en chine, quelques centaines sont restés ici. C'est le plus grand cimetière chinois d'europe. Une honte de plus lié à cette guerre, et un scandale peu connu.
The article highlights how everyday use of AI—from social media algorithms to chatbots and generative apps—may be crossing into addictive behaviors, with consequences similar to gambling or gaming disorder.
With DuckDuckGo's $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
“Se bloccano la Flotilla siamo pronti a bloccare le scuole e le università”. Con questo slogan, al grido Palestina libera, degli studenti universitari di Cambiare Rotta e liceali di Osa a Roma, si sono radunati sotto l’ufficio scolastico regionale e poi sotto il rettorato della
The International Science Council’s Centre for Science Futures is seeking consultants to produce four technology profiles on emerging technologies and their potential for and impacts on science and innovation in the Global South.
New from Special Correspondent Mary Tuma: House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states.
The story of the 1990s in #Russia is not just a local tragedy. It is the cornerstone of the modern #deathcult order. December 25th, 1991. The Soviet flag lowered for the last time. The West declared victory. The Cold War was over. “Democracy” had won. But
The story of the 1990s in #Russia is not just a local tragedy. It is the cornerstone of the modern #deathcult order. December 25th, 1991. The Soviet flag lowered for the last time. The West declared victory. The Cold War was over. “Democracy” had won.
But for millions of Russians, that night was not liberation. It was the start of collapse. The USSR’s vertical system had provided stability: guaranteed jobs, cheap housing, free healthcare. When it fell, all of it was ripped away in the name of “shock therapy” engineered by Western #neoliberal economists.
Prices exploded 2,500% in a single year. Pensions evaporated. Scientists, teachers, and doctors became taxi drivers and street vendors. Oligarchs bought entire industries for the price of a few crates of vodka and envelopes of bribes. The “transition” wasn’t transition at all. It was theft on an unprecedented scale.
From stability to rot: Bandit capitalism of factories sold for pennies, resources looted, mafia rule normalized. Gangster democracy with car bombs, contract killings, “roof” protection rackets running entire cities. Humiliation of grandmothers begging at metro stations, teachers starving, children roaming unsupervised.
This was not an accident, it was planned, the #deathcult in action, the neoliberal faith that “free markets” would magically self-organize into harmony. What actually emerged was rule by predators. While the West celebrated the “end of history,” Russia burned.
And from that compost of despair, a “quiet man from the KGB” rose up. Putin was not a break from the chaos, he was its product. The mafia state fused with the official state, suffering compacted into concrete, poured into the foundations of authoritarianism.
This is not only a Russia’s story, it’s the parable of the last century: Stalinism’s dead weight crushed trust and creativity. Postmodernism’s cynical fog turned truth into a selfish plaything. Neoliberalism’s greed-choked rot hollowed out alternatives and sold them for scrap. Each era piled on the stink. Each era buried and obscured the simple #KISS truth:
The right-wing feeds on division.
The left-wing grows from trust.
This 1990s history matter because it exposes the current right-wing hallucinations of the #deathcult, the lie of the free market, the false “victory” of the Cold War, the blind faith in Western models. Millions lived and died in that wreckage. And the system that followed, that is now pushing war and control towards the art of Europe – authoritarian, kleptocratic, imperial – was fertilized in this mess.
We see the same script running in the USA, and soon, likely, across the UK. This is now the legacy, social brake down packaged as progress, and authoritarianism sold as the only escape from #neoliberal collapse.
And, the lesson from this mess, is not that collapse is inevitable. The lesson is that composting is necessary. The wreckage of “proper channels”, whether Soviet bureaucracy or neoliberal privatization, is raw material. When left to fester, it breeds gangster rule and authoritarian “order.” Where the path we need to take, If we turn it, together, shovel in hand, it might become the soil of humane culture.
This work is not glamorous, it is not the smiling-face hallucination of the #fashionistas. It is dirty. Necessary. Real. Pick up the shovel, compost the #deathcult, grow something alive, before the tanks of war can churn over our gardens.
Zu Grundschulzeiten habe ich in Söflingen an dem Lagerraumbarracke nur zu gerne immer mal wieder ein Bumbum oder, wenn es cooler sein sollte ein Beach Eis geholt.BumBum ist ein richtiges Kult-Eis aus den 90ern.
Oh, would you look at that! Someone's been here before me and replaced with of these with a standard 7-segment. I'm pondering on borrowing two working segments from the 2-digit credit display and worrying about replacing them later when I can source some 7-segments that'll fit here.
Why are (new) UK houses so expensive but so badly built?
Well the simple answer is that around 70% of the value of the average house is in the land.
So no wonder they seem cheaply & badly made for the price; they are.
What this does suggest is that finding a way to massage down land prices over time would be the best way to slowly unwind the house price crisis along with a programme of both new houses where they are needed & bringing empty homes back into use.
Taxing housebuilders properly on their banked land would be a start.
They are however also very badly built because there is a massive shortage of labour (skilled or even slightly competent). That means the building companies will take pretty much anyone however dodgy their work is.
There's also another answer to some of it - we in the UK are really good at building portakabin villages for construction work. One or two councils are playing with this for emergency housing now
Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu’s Office to Spread Israeli #Propaganda
Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for #Google, #YouTube, #X, #Meta, and other tech platforms.
“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by the #Israel foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video platform and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45M advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in June.
At least 367 Palestinians, including 131 children, have died as a result of hunger and malnutrition since the war began.
Datenschutz: Rekordstrafen gegen Google & Shein wegen Cookies und Inbox-Werbung
Google muss in Frankreich 325 Millionen, der Onlinehändler Shein 150 Millionen Euro zahlen. Beide haben keine ausreichende Zustimmung für Cookies eingeholt.
Budapest International Organ Festival. Zsolt Máté Mészáros, organ, and the Szolnok Béla Bartók Women's Choir conducted by Éva Molnár perform:
Gyula FEKETE: Pensieroso.
Viktor MOLNÁR...
Oh great, another newcomer asserting that fascism can be abolished through electoral means. As if electoralism changes anything, only the proletariat, through collective class struggle and revolutionary self-emancipation, can genuinely overthrow the capitalist system that sustains fascist and oppressive conditions.
BREAKING: Washington strikes back: D.C. sues Trump for “illegal” National Guard deployment, citing a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. A California judge already ruled against him. The fight over military on America’s streets just escalated. nbcnews.com/politics/politics-… #press
Between "boosts" and "favorites" Mastodon now shows the number of "quote" posts.
Is this new functionality to be rolled out? And is there any information on how to block or control this (as abuse via the badly implemented quote system is one of the things I disliked about Twitter).
As to bruises, I nearly always have a few. They mean for me that I'm on blood thinners from stent surgery some time ago. Perhaps Trump is on blood thinners in hopes it will get some needed blood to his brain.
Trump's agenda out in the open (as if it ever wasn't).
Germany has been notably silent on US domestic politics, it's worth observing, whereas I'd doubt the reverse is true (substitute 'Western Europe' for 'Germany' if you like - works just as well).
Οι υποτακτικοί είναι κατάλληλοι για να καταπιέζουν.
Οι Αθηναίοι χρησιμοποιούσαν ως αστυνομικούς μόνο δούλους. Όποιος ασκεί την καταπίεση ως επάγγελμα, δεν μπορεί παρά να είναι ο ίδιος ένας υποδειγματικός καταπιεσμένος. Αυτή είναι η βαθύτερη αιτία που στον στρατό και στην αστυνομία η τυφλή υπακοή και η παράλογη εκπαίδευση παίζουν τόσο μεγάλο ρόλο. Όποιος έχει συνηθίσει να κάνει ερωτήσεις, είναι κακός, καταπιεσμένος και επομένως δεν κάνει για επιστάτης. Πώς μπορεί κάποιος που στοχάζεται γύρω από τη νομιμότητα των κατεστημένων κανόνων, να χτυπάει, να μαχαιρώνει ή να πυροβολεί εργάτες, όπως απαιτούν οι νόμοι έκτακτης ανάγκης σ’ ορισμένες περιπτώσεις; Η σημερινή εκπαίδευση που γίνεται στην αστυνομία και στον στρατό είναι μια επανάληψη της διαδικασίας μετατροπής των δούλων, σε φύλακες που προδίδουν τους συντρόφους τους.
Στα ναζιστικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης, μερικοί από τους πιο έμπιστους επόπτες ήταν κρατούμενοι. Ο εκδημοκρατισμός του στρατού δεν ελαττώνει τη δύναμη κρούσης του προς τα έξω σε περίπτωση αμυντικού πολέμου, αλλά την ελαττώνει σε περίπτωση επιθετικού πολέμου, ο εκδημοκρατισμός ελαττώνει, πάνω απ’ όλα, τη δύναμη κρούσης προς τα μέσα. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε μια γνωστή ανθρώπινη κοινωνία του παρελθόντος, στην οποία το κράτος να μην ήταν ένας μηχανισμός καταπίεσης της πλειοψηφίας από μια μειοψηφία. Έτσι ήταν στη δουλοκτητική κοινωνία της Αθήνας και της Ρώμης, έτσι ήταν σ’ όλες τις φεουδαλικές κοινωνίες.
Όταν οι δουλοπάροικοι χωρικοί επαναστάτησαν, ο ιδεολόγος των τότε αφεντάδων, Μαρτίνος Λούθηρος, έγραψε: «Όποιος μπορεί, πρέπει να τους συντρίψει, να τους στραγγαλίσει και να τους μαχαιρώσει, κρυφά και φανερά, όπως σκοτώνει κανείς ένα λυσσασμένο σκυλί!». Κι αυτό ακριβώς έκαναν οι ευσεβείς πρίγκιπες με τη βοήθεια του νόμου και της τάξης, των δικαστών, των δημίων, της αστυνομίας και των στρατιωτών. Ακόμα και σήμερα οι Εκκλησίες λένε ότι κάθε εξουσία πηγάζει από τον Θεό. Σωστότερο θα ήταν να πούμε ότι κάθε Θεός πηγάζει από την εξουσία
«Η κατασκευή υπηκόων – Πως κατασκευάζεται μια γνώμη σ’ ένα κεφάλι» του Ερνστ Αλεξάντερ Ράουτερ
I’ve been posting a lot of photos of Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) lately—there’s no shortage of them around here this year. It’s fascinating to watch them dart in and out of the forest, like punctuation marks in motion.
Step into a world where even the smallest moments—like the glint in a bird's eye—tell their own story.
This week on The Servitor, Abi reads AI 2027 and Ed Zitron's "How to argue with an AI booster" and tries to find reality.
Main conclusion: Possible end of world from AI in 2027 is an awfully short timeline for doom. Doom has a lot of work to do if it wants to make its deadline.
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in reply to Casey • • •I also overlooked Arc until TIL about the acquisition via HN. Lotsa positive experiences on the thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian | Hacker News
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