Colombia Resumes Talks With Venezuela to Plug Gas Shortfall
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/colombia-resumes-talks-with-venezuela-to-plug-gas-shortfall?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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AI enhanced psychosis is not a great thing. AI Psychosis sounds like a sci-fi problem, but it is real, and present tense. Turns out AIs like ChatGPT, and their propensity to lie and their lack of actual intelligence, comes with costs. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/t...#tech

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Por cierto, esta mañana publicamos nuevos cupones de descuento para todos los cursos de #juncotic! 😃

Si les interesa los temas de GNU/Linux, redes TCP/IP, Wireshark, Python, Flask, SSH, firewalling, etc... pueden encontrar los enlaces promocionales en nuestro sitio web 👇 👇

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📷 New post on @glass — ICEE 🧊
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#photography #photographer

ICEE 🧊

Nathaniel on Glass

^glass.photo

We Track Sales For A Living — These Are The Best Amazon Deals To Shop This Week
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-weekly-amazon-deals-september-5-2025_l_68b7406fe4b0ebb9e3c89a7c?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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We Track Sales For A Living — These Are The Best Amazon Deals To Shop This Week

From Amazon’s legendary “adult baby blanket” to a powerful electric toothbrush, these are the deals you should snap up ASAP.

^{Marquaysa Battle (HuffPost)}

Kneeling down, picking up some dirt and letting it fall through my fingers as I smell the air

“There was a great turmoil here”

UN Chief Guterres advocates for climate justice and financial reform
https://www.africanews.com/2025/09/05/un-chief-guterres-advocates-for-climate-justice-and-financial-reform/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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UN Chief Guterres advocates for climate justice and financial reform | Africanews

Before his departure from Papua New Guinea, the Secretary-General appealed once again for climate justice and emphasized the need for international financial systems reforms, so that developing countries can have a stronger voice.

^Africanews

Gravity Storm – First Mission just landed on Steam today—a 2D run-’n-gun platformer with a gravity-flipping twist.

Think Mega Man with VVVVVV’s inversion gimmick. That’s the DNA here. You run, jump, shoot, and dash like the Blue Bomber, but you also slam gravity on demand—dropping to the ceiling or crashing back down—turning every corridor into a puzzle of timing and positioning.

Story is wafer-thin: you’re Project Gravity Storm, a machine built to manipulate gravity. But nobody comes here for lore.

The real star is the level design—tight, clever, grin-inducing. Five stages, two bosses, and a grab-bag of modes: Story, Time Attack, Score Attack, Custom, and even a Boss Rush. There’s also a built-in art gallery featuring community illustrations.

Visually, it doesn’t chase the NES look. Instead it feels like early 90s DOS shareware—closer to Alien Carnage or Bio Menace, though a bit smoother.

Audio is pure modern chiptune. Not era-perfect, but the drive is there. The sound effects, though—they do have that crunchy DOS vibe, like something you’d have heard through a Sound Blaster 16.

Controls: yes, you can do keyboard, but it gets busy with all the gravity flips, dashes, and supers. The dev openly recommends a gamepad, and both Xbox and PlayStation pads work out of the box. Controls are fully remappable, vibration and screen-shake can be toggled, and there’s an in-game tutorial so you don’t fumble through.

Tech side: Windows-only natively, built in GameMaker. I got it running on Linux just fine via Proton. The footprint is tiny—200 MB install, Intel HD 4000 minimum. Basically anything from the last decade can run it.

This is Jampley Games’ first release. And while reviews haven’t rolled in yet, I’m impressed. Not just with the concept, but with the polish. It even ships with twelve Steam achievements, and the dev has already outlined a roadmap: leaderboards, an enemy bestiary, an epilogue stage, and the soundtrack release.

Price is C$8.99 (US$6.99). And with a free demo available, you don’t even need to take my word for it. But if you want my verdict? This is marvelous. A compact, arcade-forward platformer that delivers where it counts. Highly recommended.

store.steampowered.com/app/348…

@videogames

Argentina lawmakers overturn Milei’s veto

semafor.com/article/09/05/2025…

Argentina lawmakers overturn Milei’s veto

The libertarian leader had sought to halt a pensions increase he said threatened to derail his austerity agenda.

^{Jeronimo Gonzalez (www.semafor.com)}

Neat. Find connections between two (famous) people through photographs.

networkoftime.com

#SixDegreesOfSeparation

When creating products and services, whether they are #AI-based applications, social media platforms, or other #digital products, their impact on users, including their mental #health, must be taken into account.

Protecting children and young people is not just a compliance checkbox, but also a #social responsibility that must be taken seriously. #socialmedia #mentalhealth #tech

In mezzo all'estate, un po' di soppiatto, Cassandra Jenkins ha sfornato un disco anomalo, ipnotico, struggente.

L'ho recensito per Sentireascoltare

sentireascoltare.com/recension…

Stock Movers: Strategy, Broadcom, Lululemon
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-09-05/stock-movers-strategy-broadcom-lululemon-podcast?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-bloomberg

Heute noch ein später Gruß, länger Tag mit den 🚲 . Aufgesattelt, nach Linz gefahren und dann ein wenig am Rhein und der Ahr entlang.

#bike #photography #ontour

We mentioned on Winging It that we might show some of our favorite browser tips. Here's one of many that I find delightful.

If you are working with shape-outside, then Firefox has a great path editor. I made a quick video to show how it works.

Weirdly, all the federal chaos has finally gotten me to agree with the (now nearly extinct) actual conservatives who thought the federal government was too big.

The amount of damage MAGA is able to do is enormous. At this point, I think things like public health should be inter-state collaborations, not federal. Probably a bunch of other things, too. The US right just can't be trusted to care about citizens, and the Senate and the electoral college will keep giving them disproportionate power until long after I'm in the ground. But blue states can still make good things happen.

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress

I don't believe that intelligence is something, that can be measured.

But I do see some kind of spectrum that goes from reading banned books to using AI to summarize a tweet.

#LLMMeAlone

Interested in a (free, online) #Solarpunk #Writing Class?

I'm pulling details together but probably will be 2 levels, based on the feedback I'm getting about what people want.

Subscribe to be notified when signups are available! Also let me know what you're looking for, so I can fold that into the class!
#bookstodon #hopepunk #SFF #writers

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Afternoon cat and kitten wreckage!

#catsofmastodon #kittensofmastodon

The three larges, left to right: Harriet, Oscar and Gurp.
The three smalls: Nellie, Billie and Cora.

JUST IN: President Trump never told Congress about a disastrous 2019 intelligence mission targeting North Korea that left several people dead. trib.al/TkvLSO0

The news follows the Pentagon's deadly strike on a boat in international waters that officials claimed was carrying drugs.

When it comes to health and fitness it’s tiger moves or stfu as far as I’m concerned.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gqn6bDA0…

Envision a world where every cow thrives in a vegan sanctuary, embraced as unique beings, not treated as mere commodities in the dairy and 'beef' industry. 🌱🐮💕

🎬 the gentle barn

If anyone is able to test and help fix this on iOS, there's an issue with menu items not showing up on Safari: github.com/writefreely/writefr…

Input and pull requests are more than welcome!

#WriteFreely #WriteFreelyDev #HelpWanted

Publish-to dropdown renders incorrectly on iOS Safari

Describe the bug The publish-to dropdown menu (when writing a new post) does not render correctly on iOS Safari. Specifically, it appears empty and is therefore unusable, i.e., cannot select a blog...

^{kontaxis (GitHub)}

Die Tochter wünscht sich eine E-Gitarre zum Geburtstag.

Hat jemand eine Idee, worauf man beim Kauf achten sollte?

The rich guy libertarian schtick really doesn't cover up the hypocrisy or sheer stupidity of having endorsed rFk jr. And Polis's refusal to admit this or learn from make his surprise about approval numbers very unsurprising ...

coloradosun.com/2025/09/05/jar…

#Colorado #uspol

Jared Polis told Redditors to ask him anything. They pounced on his statements supporting RFK Jr.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis faced questions on Reddit during an "ask my anything" session about past statements supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

^{John Ingold (The Colorado Sun)}

Heute stand ich vor dem Rathaus in Hamburg. Hier war vor langer Zeit der Friedhof des Konventes St. Johannis, auf dem Telemann nach langjähriger Amtszeit beerdigt wurde. Er hat die Musik in der Hansestadt durch und durch geprägt.

#telemann #musik #music #flöte #flötenliteratur #barock

#politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow

My Tesla had this weird error message on screen