The controversial Georgian mine fueling Europe’s new industrial arms race
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The controversial Georgian mine fueling Europe’s new industrial arms race
A troubled manganese mine in the former Soviet state is exposing the European Union’s double standards on environmental and worker protections.Olivia Acland (POLITICO)
Just imagine what could have been if OpenAI acquired Notion and BCNY
#ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #News #Productivity #Notion #ChatGPT #Business #ArcBrowser #DiaBrowser
Drake Shares New Songs Featuring Yeat and Cash Cobain on 'Iceman' Live Stream
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Drake Shares New Songs Featuring Yeat and Cash Cobain
The rapper's enigmatic rollout for his upcoming album continues, this time with special guestsJeff Ihaza (Rolling Stone)
Astronomers Reveal Massive Binary Star System in Milky Way - Lowell Observatory
A new study led by Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Michael West reveals that galaxy clusters align like cosmic highways, tracing dark matter structures across the universe.Kevin Schindler (Lowell Observatory)
Gemini South Captures Growing Tail of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS During Educational Observing Program - New images of the famous interstellar visitor were captured live from the Gemini South telescope control room in Chile during Shadow the Scientists pr
Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the growing tail of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS.www.noirlab.edu
台湾への海底ケーブル状態がリアルタイムでわかる smc.peering.tw。切断や障害を即把握でき、通信の脆弱ポイントを特定、防御ルートの構築や軍事インシデントの兆候検知に使える。リアルタイム監視としての価値高し。
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#Radiogeek – Huawei les gano a todos y lanzo la segunda generación de smartphone triple – Nro 2750
En el episodio del 4 de septiembre de 2025 de Radio Geek Podcast, se abordaron varios temas relacionados con el mundo de la tecnología. El foco principal estuvo en los lanzamientos de Samsung, incluyendo el nuevo Galaxy S25 FE con características de gama alta a un precio accesible, la serie Galaxy Tab S11 que incorpora inteligencia artificial y un diseño ultradelgado, y su concepto «AI Home» presentado en IFA 2025, el cual busca integrar la IA en los hogares. Además, se discutió el lanzamiento de la tableta TCL Nxtpaper 11 Gen 2, conocida por su pantalla que protege la vista. Finalmente, se analizó el potencial resurgimiento de la línea Galaxy Note de Samsung debido a la finalización de algunas actualizaciones, y se destacó el reciente lanzamiento de un segundo teléfono plegable por parte de Huawei.
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Huawei’s second trifold adds stylus support and purple pleather
The Huawei Mate XTs arrives in China for $2,500 — before Samsung has even announced its first trifold.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
I have a finished object for #FinishOrFrogAlong ! It’s a Purl Soho Home Life Washcloth, which my dad absolutely loves for using in the kitchen. Making more of them for him was one of my fiber intentions for this year, so yay! #knitting #handmade
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It’s a pretty boring object, so Rumble included as model for your viewing pleasure.
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"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is a free #book downloadable from Cory's website.
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I have the sequel "Homeland" on my TBR pile too. Scarily prophetic for what is happening in USA right now. Maybe not great for hopeful escapism altho I expect a survivable ending cos the next in the series "Attack Surface" has some of the samecharacters.
For weirder escapism I'm also reading Merchant Traders series by Charles Stross @cstross
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They're portal fiction unlike the James Bond on a budget meets Lovecraft + Brit bureacracy of the #LaundryFiles. The latest ones in the New Management phase may appeal
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Or the lighter UK X files but police and magic and nicer #RiversOfLondon series by Ben Aaronovitch in #books and comics
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I also read cosy mysteries like Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series.
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And for total escapism, Georgette Heyers' historical romances. Try The Grand Sophy
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Posting on the fediverse feels like a disagreement in a family, there’s a decency to it.
Posting on Reddit feels like an argument with a lunatic in a metro station, it’s so unhinged.
Begs the question: Why do it unless you have to?
Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting'
Children are at increased risk of being harassed, cyber-bullied and having their identities stolen in later life by having their photos posted online by parents, according to new research.
#Parenting #SocialMedia #Children #Privacy
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Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting'
Researchers at the University of Southampton are warning of the dangers of posting your children's photos online.Shiona McCallum (BBC News)
On Kiki Iriafen’s record day, Mystics suffer eighth straight loss
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/09/04/mystics-mercury-kiki-iriafen/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it will protect China’s interests
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Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it will protect China’s interests
Goodwill messages continued this week’s public display of diplomatic unity between Beijing, Pyongyang and Moscow.Al Jazeera
Apple hit with patent lawsuit over ‘Hey Siri’ and virtual keyboard features
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Apple hit with patent lawsuit over Hey Siri and virtual keyboard features - 9to5Mac
Today, Cerence filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of infringing multiple patents. Here are the details.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
Global Sumud Flotilla activists share their messages to Palestinians in Gaza - YouTube
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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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Boulanger, Debussy, Saint-Saëns with Lang and Churchill from Sydney - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Lang Lang, piano, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey play: L.BOULANGER: D’un Matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning). DEBUSSY: La Mer – Three Symphonic Sketches. SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No.2, Op...www.worldconcerthall.com
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the average hourly wage required to afford a vacant unit in Ottawa is $39 for a one-bedroom apartment and $48 an hour for a two-bedroom apartment.
Ontario’s minimum wage is $17.20 an hour.
#Ottawa #Housing #HousingCrisis
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Here’s how much you need to earn to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Ottawa
Ottawa renters need to earn more than double the minimum wage to afford a vacant one-bedroom apartment in the capital, according to a new report.Josh Pringle (CTVNews)
Carved Wooden Sculpture of #Toads
Japan, Edo Period, 19th c.
Signed “Masanao”
L 4 in. (10.2 cm)
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Donald Trump’s plan for the US and Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for Israel are both shaped by racist, colonialist worldviews that grant full rights and personhood to some while justifying the repression and extermination of others.
Lukewarm take
The government should require vaccinations because parents are too stupid to keep their children alive
“D.C. attorney general’s lawsuit to expel National Guard could backfire Brian Schwalb is antagonizing the president as House Republicans consider curbing home rule.”
Fire everyone on the WaPo editorial board.
Hire an exorcist to cleanse their offices of evil spirits.
Let their names never again be spoken aloud.
This Life Is a Test
This life’s trials and tests are meant to ensure we do not ever decide to turn away from God.Pastor Darryl Hall
The video begins with a close-up of a political campaign flyer for Tim Cartmell, who is running for Mayor. The flyer features a man in a suit and tie against a teal background, with the text "Tim Cartmell FOR MAYOR" prominently displayed. Below the image, there is a blue button with the word "Gross." and the handle "[@]timcartmell" is visible. The flyer also includes a URL, "Learn more at votebetteredmonton.ca." The scene transitions to a hand holding the flyer, showing more of the surrounding area, which includes a green patterned fabric and a black coat. The flyer is then placed into a trash bin, with the lid being lifted to reveal the contents. The video concludes with the flyer being discarded into the bin, and the lid being closed. Throughout the video, the word "Gross." remains displayed in a blue box, and the handle "[@]timcartmell" is visible, indicating a negative reaction to the campaign material.
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I met a skunk!
#Blog #Nature #Skunks
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Creatures of the Night, Cloaked in Black
I had a close encounter in the backyard a moment ago.reasonably.social
REPORTER: What legal authority did the Pentagon invoke to strike that boat?
PETE HEGSETH: We have the absolutely and complete authority
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NVIDIAのCEOいわく「AIとロボットの導入で人間はもっと忙しくなる」
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Many countries have established ecocide as a crime, and others are planning to do so. I am in favor of this. Declaring ecosystems to be "persons" is an absurdity, but fortunately we can protect them legally without being absurd.
Company directors who cause nature damage in Scotland could face jail
New ecocide bill in Scottish parliament aims to criminalise environmental destruction in line with EU directiveSeverin Carrell (The Guardian)
Dish (with a #lion , #dog , and #stag )
Ottoman: Iznik, Türkiye, c.1585-1600
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Dish, fritware, painted in colours with tulips, carnatiosn and saz leaves, Turkey, Iznik, ca.1585-1600Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections
Men and women both enforce this mindset. If a woman has also bought into toxic masculinity they will treat men who cage themselves inside of it better and want nothing to do with those who are free of it. Its part of why it took me until I was 30 to have a real relationship.
Toxic masculinity is bad for everyone. There is no one way to be a man, you don't lose you man card for liking certain things or doing certain things. You just might get treated like trash if you do and no longer be recognized by the toxic masculine cult as a man.
The people that matter will recognize you for who you are not for what twisted "virtue" signals you give off. I think toxic masculine infantilism is probably one of the worst natural logical conclusion to toxic masculinity.
Masculinity as we have it in the west wasn't even really a thing until sometime before WWII, what a gay scare was happening, and there was a fear of not enough men with fighting spirit, never mind the Spartans were gay as hell and could slaughter people with ease. Each generation the restrictions that define a man keep getting tighter and tighter to the point that having the vulnerability to make friends as an adult is too gay for men in the cult, leading to loneliness on a scale we have never before seen in history.
For the rest of the world being a man is all over the place on how you are defined as one. But the US especially can only look inward so most don't realize that men all over the world life outside of this cage and are still men. Are we against men or masculinity? No we want you to be able to define those terms however you choose and be treated as a person with all the respect you deserve due a person. But being a man baby or demanding a man abandon half of who he is for some stupid made up set of rules is hurting every including those who maintain it.
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I may be out of context, but true manliness is never toxic.
What enforced standards, for example? Can you name a few so I can understand you better?
I still find it highly remarkable that male is the only human gender which is convinced that members thereof are required to PROVE that they're the gender they were born as. Of course I'm speaking of the cis members. Nobody else has to prove anything to anybody else.
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Nice! Hawaii just joined the West Coast Health Alliance of Washington, Oregon and California.
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Things people don't understand about having a cognitive disability;
It's possible for the same person who presented a paper at an academic conference to spend whole days in bed, and for that to be a win. Because when I wake up, I usually feel like someone is driving a garbage truck through my head, and it takes a huge effort of will not to roll over and go back to sleep.
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TFINER is an Atompunk Solar Sail Lookalike
It’s not every day we hear of a new space propulsion method. Even rarer to hear of one that actually seems halfway practical. Yet that’s what we have in the case of TFINER, a proposal by [James A. Bickford] we found summarized on Centauri Dreams by [Paul Gilster] .
TFINER stands for Thin-Film Nuclear Engine Rocket Engine, and it’s a hoot. The word “rocket” is in the name, so you know there’s got to be some reaction mass, but this thing looks more like a solar sail. The secret is that the “sail” is the rocket: as the name implies, it hosts a thin film of nuclear materialwhose decay products provide the reaction mass. (In the Phase I study for NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts office (NIAC), it’s alpha particles from Thorium-228 or Radium-228.) Alpha particles go pretty quick (about 5% c for these isotopes), so the ISP on this thing is amazing. (1.81 million seconds!)
Now you might be thinking, “nuclear decay is isotropic! The sail will thrust equally in both directions and go nowhere!”– which would be true, if the sail was made of Thorium or Radium. It’s not; the radioisotope is a 9.5 um thin film on a 35 um beryllium back-plane that’s going to absorb any alpha emissions going the wrong way around. 9.5um is thin enough that most of the alphas from the initial isotope and its decay products (lets not forget that most of this decay chain are alpha emitters — 5 in total for both Th and Ra) aimed roughly normal to the surface will make it out.
Since the payload is behind the sail, it’s going to need a touch of shielding or rather long shrouds; the reference design calls for 400 m cables. Playing out or reeling in the cables would allow for some degree of thrust-vectoring, but this thing isn’t going to turn on a dime.
It’s also not going to have oodles of thrust, but the small thrust it does produce is continuous, and will add up to large deltaV over time. After a few years, the thrust is going to fall off (the half-life of Th-228 is 1.91 years, or 5.74 for Ra-228; either way the decay products are too short-lived to matter) but [Bickford]’s paper gives terminal/cruising velocity in either case of ~100 km/s.
Sure, that’s not fast enough to be convenient to measure as a fraction of the speed of light, and maybe it’s not great for a quick trip to Alpha Centauri but that’s plenty fast enough for to reach the furthest reaches of our solar system. For a flyby, anyway: like a solid-fueled rocket, once your burn is done, it’s done. Stopping isn’t really on offer here. The proposal references extra-solar comets like Oumuamua as potential flyby targets. That, and the focus of the Sun’s gravitational lens effect. Said focus is fortunately not a point, but a line, so no worries about a “blink and you miss it” fast-flyby. You can imagine we love both of those ideas.
NASA must have too, since NIAC was interested enough to advance this concept to a Phase II study. As reported at Centauri Dreams, the Phase II study will involve some actual hardware, albeit a ~1 square centimeter demonstrator rather than anything that will fly. We look forward to it. Future work also apparently includes the idea of combining the TFINER concept with an actual solar sail to get maximum possible delta-V from an Oberth-effect sundive. We really look forward to that one.
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