The president's term officially expired midnight Thursday. But instead of a transfer of power, Sissoco Embalo stayed on as president in what the opposition has termed as an illegal power grab
Das Video zeigt einen Mann in einem Innenszenario, wahrscheinlich in einem Wohnzimmer, wie er mit einem überraschten Gesichtsausdruck reagiert. Er trägt ein hellblaues Hemd und hat kurze, dunkle Haare. Seine Augen sind weit aufgerissen, und sein Mund ist leicht geöffnet, was auf Überraschung oder Schock hinweist. Der Hintergrund ist unscharf, aber man kann einen Teil eines Fensters und ein rosa Vorhangstück erkennen. Die Beleuchtung ist warm und weich, was auf eine innere Beleuchtung hinweist. Der Mann scheint in einer Situation zu sein, die ihn überrascht oder schockt, was durch seine Mimik deutlich wird.
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Bajo la batuta del chef Alejandro Durán, el restaurante galardonado con un Sol Repsol ofrece una carta donde el producto y la técnica son protagonistas
Logique et attendu. Par contre, ce n'est pas impossible que les étapes suivantes soit plus problématiques pour nous... J'ai l'impression que le pire est désormais inéluctable.
Macron pourrait sans doute se maintenir aux manettes grâce à la guerre... Pendant deux mois épiques, pour l'histoire de la télévision. Mais ça serait la fin de sa carrière, de son héritage et toute sa famille politique.
It just gets worse and worse. Yet when I contact left-leaning organizations and ask them to fight back, they say things like, "We don't have the capacity to do that." Staying silent is just as bad as bending the knee, fellow progressives. Find the capacity. #Politics #Democrats #Democracy #News #Journalism #CBS #US #USpolvariety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-n…
Halcyon, azienda che si occupa di servizi di restauro per modelli classici dei marchi britannici più blasonati, reinterpreta la Rolls-Royce Corniche in chiave sostenibile con un restomod che parte dall'esterno, attraverso la lavorazione dei pannelli …
🇺🇸 The US has warned it will cut security funding for countries bordering Russia, FT reports, citing sources.
The move will hit Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia the hardest.
La straordinaria personalità di Ayrton Senna attraverso testimonianze inedite e il legame con l'Autodromo di Imola è il cuore del documentario "Il nostro amico Ayrton", presentato alla 82/a Mostra del Cinema di Venezia negli spazi di Casa I Wonder Pi…
Yay, we can see the sky again today. Air Quality from forest fire particulate is still at moderate risk, but at least the blue sky deception is nice. ☀️ #Photography
The image depicts a landscape with a clear blue sky. In the foreground, there is a grassy hillside with patches of yellow flowering plants, possibly gorse or broom, and a path running through it. The hillside is bordered by dense green trees and shrubs on the right, and a residential area with houses is visible in the background. The houses are modern, with large windows and dark roofs, and are set against a backdrop of more trees and buildings. The scene is well-lit, suggesting it is a sunny day. The overall impression is of a peaceful, suburban area with a mix of natural and built environments.
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Security researcher Ibrahima Keita shared his internship project on glitching and fault injection attacks, where he learned and reproduced them on the Renesas RH850.
Le Conseil municipal de la Ville de #Genève a voté mardi soir à l'unanimité un crédit pour un ambitieux programme de #numérisation des collections et fonds patrimoniaux de la Ville. La Tribune de Genève en parle dans cet article: tdg.ch/geneve-la-ville-numeris… #archivCH
Le Conseil municipal a voté près de 11 millions de francs pour sauvegarder des fonds patrimoniaux issus de huit institutions majeures. Un travail de titan en perspective.
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Just before federal troops descended on the District, a House committee quietly introduced a provision to shield oil and gas companies from D.C. law. ExxonKnews, Emily Sanders Sep 05, 2025
Endlich im Urlaub mal Zeit gefunden um mit #FreeCAD was zu erstellen und zu drucken. So richtig warm werd ich immer noch nicht damit aber ich hab in ner Stunde was zusammen geklickt bekommen...
When you read the conclusions of Sir Laure Magnus' investigation into Angela Rayner's miss-payment of taxation, it is even more obvious that while it was her choice to resign, this really was a storm in a teacup, and hence really is (as I said earlier) the sad case of a working-class woman being hounded out of office for an issue that would have been down-played should she have been an entitled male member of the political class!
BBC news channel thinks there is nothing to say other news. We had to use different solicitors for sale and purchase as the solicitor for the sales said he was not capable of dealing with a propert in two countries. Didn’t happen much in N Yorkshire even on the Cumbrian border
Louise Haigh, Angela Rayner: which (somewhat left) woman will the tabloids go for next? Probably Bridget Phillipson
Meanwhile Nigel Garage (thank you spellchecker) gets a free pass.
On the plus side for her, if no one else, it gives her the opportunity to start distancing herself from Starmer's increasingly inept and authoritarian government. Which might have been a factor in her resigning rather than toughing it out.
She was quick enough to seek expert legal advice once the Torygraph broke the story. Pity she didn't do so before attempting to defraud the taxpayer of £40,000.
Well, I'd imagine few of us would seek a second opinion if we had the first & it seemed OK; the difficulty is non-experts understanding our byzantine tax laws.
But when she was advised there was a problem, as you say she was quick to get a second opinion.... I would say that's how most of us would have acted.
You might say as the ethics review suggested as someone in her position she should have routinely got a second opinion, but that's hardly corruption!
@andyc She took a chance after being told & failed to get expert opinion. Consequences, imho. It should work at all levels but doesn’t in our extremely corrupt society. Covid ppe profiteering ?
If I understand correctly the trust beneficiary will turn 18 within three years of the flat purchase. At that point will Angela Rayner then only be owner of one property and be able to reclaim the additional stamp duty?
Iniziative solidali con la global sumud flotilla: a pisa occupati i binari, a bari proteste sotto al consolato israeliano @anarchia Grande partecipazione alle decine di iniziative messe in campo ieri, giovedì 4 settembre, in occasione della giornata di mobilitazione nazionale per la Global Sumud Flotilla, che partirà dalle rivoluzioneanarchica.it/inizia…
Grande partecipazione alle decine di iniziative messe in campo ieri, giovedì 4 settembre, in occasione della giornata di mobilitazione nazionale per la Global Sumud Flotilla, che partirà dalle coste siciliane domenica per unirsi alle barche partite d…
Mio babbo vorrebbe a tutti i costi uno #smartphone grande come #Samsung S9, solo che a parte la Apple mi pare che nessun nuovo cell sia così "piccolo", mi sbaglio? meglio andare su un usato o ricondizionato? @tecnologia
Seitdem mein Blog unter der bekannten Domain names kranzkrone.de nun temporär(ein paar Wochen wohl) nicht mehr erreichbar ist wegen dem Wechsel von WordPress zu Kirby, scheinen manche bemerkt zu haben das etwas fehlt in deren digitalen Leben. 😅
Zumeist die selben Personen, welche meinen Blog bisher nur still gelesen anstatt aktiv sich beteiligt hatten. 🙄
I think the US should welcome businesspeople from US-allied democracies who are investing in America, rather than send federal agents to harass and arrest them.
yesterday's weird discovery is that every regular sized carrot I have tested is almost exactly 100kΩ end to end with sharp probes stuck in it. a couple of them come out at 100.0k on the dot.
when I saw the @weirdunits post yesterday about carrots per ohm I spent about 30 seconds trying to decide whether or not to actually go measure a carrot for a laugh, and I'm glad I did because the results were actually way more interesting than I expected. so there's a lesson. always go do the silly thing.
“Attrezzatevi per poter curare fino a 250 soldati feriti al giorno”: la circolare del ministero francese mobilita gli ospedali per il rischio guerra e ora si unisce la Germania con la richiesta di disponibilità per 100 posti letto al giorno in collaborazione con la Difesa. L'obiettivo è garantire che siano pronte, entro marzo 2026, ad accogliere un alto numero di militari di ritorno dal fronte Questi vogliono a tutti i costi una guerra non perché siano minacciati ma per pura follia
se servisse a dirottare un po’ di solidi sulla sanità pubblica, sarebbe una storiella niente male, soldi per il riarmo spesi per il bene comune. Immagina la beffa. Solo che purtroppo non sono così furbi e penseranno a spenderli in armi e guerre vere.
Envie de partager un de mes grands coups de cœur du festival d’Arles 2025 ✨ L’exposition Father de Diana Markosian, commissariat de Claartje van Dijk, retrace une histoire intime : la recherche d’un père absent, la mémoire familiale, la distance et la réconciliation.
Ce qui m’a le plus touchée, c’est la lumière. Une lumière douce et tranchante à la fois, qui caresse les objets du quotidien, révèle les silences des intérieurs, sculpte les visages. Elle donne aux images une intensité presque palpable, comme si chaque rayon contenait la mémoire d’une séparation.
📸 Une œuvre où la photographie devient langage de l’intime et éclat de vérité.
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Riccardo Pera il “texano” difende la leadership mondiale ad Austin Riccardo Pera Si presenta sul circuito di Austin in Texas da leader del mondiale Endurance WEC, con i suoi valorosi compagni di squadra Ryan Hardwick e Richard Lietz sulla Porsche #92 del team Manthey. Al momento sono 13 i punti di vantaggio sulla Ferrari 296 #21 e ben 26 punti sulla Corvette terza in classifica.
Riccardo Pera Si presenta sul circuito di Austin in Texas da leader del mondiale Endurance WEC, con i suoi valorosi compagni di squadra Ryan Hardwick e Richard Lietz sulla Porsche #92 del team Manthey.
Lípa Musica International Music Festival. Bella Adamova, mezzo-soprano, Nikol Bóková, piano, and the Baborák Ensemble conducted by Radek Baborák perform:
Nikol BOKOVÁ:
Fantasy for Voice and Strings,...
For the past five quarters, Apple Watch sales have declined due to a lack of exciting updates and new models. So what does Apple need to do to get back on track?
Read @vicmsong's first issue of Optimizer:
SFP+ collegati (quanto scaldano!) e LAG a 5gbps fatto, e ho anche eliminato due Raspberry PI, uno era Pi-Hole e l’altro Homebridge e messo entrambi i servizi su un unico nanoPi R4S (con root su SSD ubs3) con due IP diversi su ogni porta. Vediamo se è affidabile… già è un casino con le rotte sul kernel per fare capire ad un servizio che il DNS è sulla stessa macchina ma sull’area Interfaccia.
Es gehört zu den größten intellektuellen Zumutungen der Moderne, dass Worte nicht unschuldig sind. Helmut Lethen erinnert in seinen „Stoischen Gangarten“ an Büchners Satz: „Geht einmal euren Phrasen nach bis zu dem Punkt, wo sie verkörpert werden.
UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms
Simon Stiell calls for “strong” climate targets to be submitted as soon as possible to ensure their inclusion in a critical UN progress report Sep 3, 2025
We are adding a visual indicator concerning the visibility of messages when composing. Each color related to visibility can be customized (public, unlisted, private and direct). This option can be disabled in settings. #Fedilab
Once again, I have noticed something else that has always bothered me. When I search for a word, I would like to filter it so that it only searches for posts, profiles, hashtags in a predetermined language. Is that possible?
Yes, bit it's a little unfair to colorblind people.
What if the amount of visibility was also correlated to the amount of length of the dashes on the bottom colored line? Like public is unbroken line, unlisted is line with wide dashes, private is line with minus-length dashes, direct is dotted line
I think the feature is good. What I've been missing for a long time (and in the browser I solved this with CSS manipulation) is a different tile color for DMs in my timeline.
I hope you have implemented this design feature with accessibility in mind.
"Level A: According to Level A guidelines, colors cannot be used “as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.”
Please bear in mind that some people have difficulty distinguishing between certain colors. If different settings are mainly indicated by different colors, this is not very accessible. There should at least also be clearly distinguishable symbols. This is also important if the display is set to grayscale ("reading mode").
Bueno, parece que hay que hacer una #presentacion por acá, asi que aca va mi intento: vivo en lo que llaman el interior de la Pcia. de Bs. As., soy ñoña de la fotografía, el cine y la música. Trabajo dando talleres de fotografía, sacando fotos, haciendo shows drag y también soy draga Dj. Obvio que no me alcanza. Me enteré de esta red descentralizada hace un rato, asi que la estoy explorando. Coordino un Ciclo de cine en una Biblioteca Popular. Aguante ñoñar y buscar alternativas como esta!
Scoperto un antidoto rapido contro il monossido di carbonio.L'intossicazione da monossido di carbonio rappresenta una delle emergenze mediche più insidiose.Fino a oggi,l’unico trattamento efficace consisteva nella camera iperbarica, un processo che spesso lascia danni permanenti a cuore e cervello. I laboratori dell’Università del Maryland potrebbe cambiare radicalmente le cose: un “spazzino molecolare” in grado di neutralizzare il gas in pochi minuti. tomshw.it/scienze/antidoto-rap…
Let’s be clear- the president of the United States ordered the US military to assassinate people in international waters- on a boat - who had not had a trial or had not been convicted of any crimes. This is murder by our military🤬
This is William Calley shit—but authorized by the commander-in-chief. They must be tried and convicted for carrying out an illegal order.
also, finally, what could possibly be better than having 20 nineteen year olds check out the @mediaarchaeologylab for the first time and hearing them mutter repeatedly to each other across a row of typewriters and ancient cell phones, "nice. this place is dope."
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Mari Eriksmoen, soprano, Marianne Beate Kielland, alto, Eirik Grøtvedt, tenor, Audun Iversen, baritone, the Edvard Grieg Choir and the Bergen Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend perform:
Ørjan MATRE: Freud...
🇨🇳🇹🇼 China has been drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), with at least 12 vessels and drilling structures detected since July, some as close as 50 km from Taiwan’s Pratas Islands, - The Guardian
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🇨🇳🇹🇼 Китай бурит…
So plenty of pieces this week pushing back on Fedi criticism of #Bluesky's centralization. 'Who cares? People on Bluesky like it. Booooring. Typical Mastodon scold culture. Why does it matter?'
So, why does it matter? Let's get into it.
Last night Computer Scientist Kirus @BlueCircuitDragon posted a fascinating thread:
Social media platforms are influence engines. All of them are. The state of media today is that most communication is not simply to inform, but to influence others to behave and take desired actions. The deal with social media platforms is that they provide technology to enable these communications, but most are not neutral.
And, this is important, the monetary valuation of a platform is directly related to the degree of outsized influence it wields.
So, back to Kirus' thread. It's pretty technical, but the criticism basically boils down to his analysis that they are herding users into "clusters" where they are "close" to each other, and in particular, to specific users (influencers) promoted by their algorithm. This methodology is superchanged by Bluesky Starter Packs which provide ready made clusters.
This network topology is ripe for wielding influence because the network operator has control over what is algorithmically promoted.
The critical thing here is that platform architecture itself is the problem. It doesn't particularly matter whether the influence being asserted by the operator is good, evil or benign. This can change, as we saw when Musk bought Twitter. What matters is that the platform is designed to enable the operator to assert maximal influence, and it does so by clustering users and fostering algorithmic "virality".
Quoting Kirus: "They're creating a system where everyone orbits nodes with a high amount of influence."
Contrast this with Mastodon. "Bad ideas spread like viruses. It's called memetics. #Mastodon is too open, and the people aren't clustered. Bluesky is making sure you're clustered together." And again, once clustered, vulnerable to algorithmic manipulation.
So, now back to why decentralization matters. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber expressed it well in her "No Caesars" charm offensive. If #Bluesky were to become evil, you can fork off. That is, go to another node in the network. Well, you can't because there is no place to go. But, more importantly, as a Bluesky user you are ensconced in a sophisticated influence engine. You are along for the ride, and have no perspective on your experience versus that of other users of the network on other nodes.
In closing, it should be said that Bluesky is not AT Protocol. Clustering and algorithmic virality are characteristics of platforms not protocols. There are other fledgling platforms on AT Protocol, most notably Blacksky, which do not employ the same influence concentrating techniques, but they are miniscule by comparison to the Bluesky corporate platform.
What do you mean exactly when you write algorithm?
I'm not aware of an algorithm on Bluesky that makes posts go viral due to the software by itself promoting particular posts. It works much like in the Fediverse: I only get to see posts and boosts by those I follow – and only if I happen to come across it in the time window I am browsing my feed, say, posts from the last 2 hours. If they posted or boosted 3 hours ago, I won't see it. And the software will not recommend the post to me out of its own accord. Their post is a dead fish if they posted outside my scrolling window.
Starter packs have been around on Bluesky forever. It's a list of users curated by another user. You can serial-follow all listed entries by a single click. I made use of several Starter Packs curated by climate scientists.
A remarkable circumstance on Bluesky that prevents virility: the users there do not boost what they find interesting. They also don't do top level posts but reduce their activity to writing replies. I think, that's in part because the Twix algorithm had taught them that top level postings are for nought anyway – due to the Twix algorithm that hides no-name posts from others based on whatever behavioural statistics.
On Bluesky, the not-boosting "culture" creates the feedback loop: it discourages users from doing a top level post because once outside the scrolling time window of their followers, top level posts are dead fish and the software won't ever revive them – because there is no recommendation algorithm as in "based on your interaction with post x, I offer you post y because it has some of the same keywords" or somesuch.
All this works against posts going viral. Which is good.
Users drive the clustering around big accounts because they reduce themselves to replies-only – if they interact at all. But the software doesn't show me a post by an influencer account like Stefan Rahmstorf just because it has 20 replies or 40 likes, like it was on Twix. I get to see Rahmstorfs posting because he wrote it in my scrolling time window – or because someone I follow boosted (fat chance..) or replied to it in my scrolling time window.
I would say, clustering is driven by users who were educated on Twix algorithms and see no further use in Bluesky other than passively leafing through a glossy paper magazine. The Bluesky users don't use Bluesky as their own social networking platform. The passivity of users make Bluesky a platform for influencers.
Sorry for the long replies. I was developing my thoughts during writing. 🖖🏽
Years and years ago, a little before the attacks on the Rohingya, I read about Facebook's work on targeted advertising, thought "Oh. This is a turnkey propaganda machine." and deleted my account.
What is really interesting about Kirus' post is a window into the structural techniques these platforms use to construct sophisticated influence operations, and the application of graph theory to analyze it. They have certainly come a long way from the early days of Facebook and Cambridge Analytical, but the propaganda objectives are the same.
Here is what Bluesky says about their "Discover" feed:
"Discover is customized for what you like to see, while still giving you a view into what’s trending in the network. The initial version of Discover mixes in a global view of what’s trending in the network with posts from accounts you follow and posts from accounts near your social graph... Our approach to making an algorithmic feed isn’t new..."
Seems like even from what they admit about Discover it is both selecting posts "trending: across the network and picking things "near your social graph" and the methodology is opaque. Might be misunderstanding something here, but isn't this basically what you were discussing? Yes, they give lip service to "customization" aka tweaking the model, but it is still a mysterious algorithm making selections for you.
Note that this may mean that all Bluesky user personal data that has been given Statsig to perform their analytics service has now been transferred to OpenAI
"Business Transfers – We may share certain information in connection with or during negotiations or closing of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company."
Seems like you are missing the point anlomedad. The discussion is not about how you use Bluesky. It is about how Bluesky users end up clustered and subject to influence. The determination is based not on your feelings, but on analysis of actual user distribution.
Not saying whether your responses are deliberate astroturf, or reflexive off topic arguementative cherry picking. Either way they distract from the subject.
They basically want people to have more accounts to follow that they would be interested in, so they have more stuff interesting to them to read, so they won't just leave saying "this place is dead, there's nothing interesting here" - and this guy somehow has constructed a whole conspiracy theory on it
@BlueCircuitDragon Ah, so now it's only about the Bluesky Feed named "Discover"? Aside from Bluesky-system feeds, I have pinned 25 feeds curated by other users, you know, archaeology, marine science, astronomy, stuff that interests me and where I can interact with likeminded users. No need to click on "Discover". When I did click Discover once or twice, it was filled with US accounts I had never heard of, blubbering on about US stuff. I'm from Europe myself and see nothing desirable about US culture, so wasn't keen on clicking Discover more often.
That has changed indeed: Now, Discover shows posts from accounts I follow plus some which might originate from Feeds I have pinned, plus foreign posts with an emphasis on photos, it seems, of which only about half have ALTtexts – which makes me smile... imagining the stubborn dudes who programmed the Discover feed, not being aware of the company's Inclusion Awareness at all.
Ah well. All of Twix was like the Discover feed, and much worse. But 99.9999% of Bluesky is not like the Discover feed.
#AI makes me kinda feel like knowing the sun is turning off in a few years. Nothing we can do. Should we try to ignore it, be depressed or just enjoy ourselves?
Yet it also seems like we should be able to make it illegal worldwide since it requires certain chips and so many resources. Advanced systems can't be run in somebody's basement, right? IDK
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