5 Shocking Truths About the EU's Unrelenting Plan to Scan Your Private Messages

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#EU #chatcontrol #reading #privacy

Sparatoria alla Brown University, rilasciata la persona arrestata - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/12/15/sparatoria-alla-brown-university-rilasciata-la-persona-arrestata_1570fdfe-d961-401b-b4dd-7948c0557051.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa

Sparatoria alla Brown University, rilasciata la persona arrestata - Ultima ora - Ansa.it

La persona arrestata per la sparatoria in cui sono morti due studenti alla Brown University sarà rilasciata. Lo hanno dichiarato domenica funzionari statunitensi. (ANSA)

^{Agenzia ANSA}

📰 New blog article

Self-host your own multi-service #music server on #Android

How to replace your music streaming apps with a setup that supports multiple streaming services, multiple devices and multiple outputs from a single Webapp.

#mopidy #platypush #termux #ntfy #Tasker #python

@Selfhosted @Android @python

blog.platypush.tech/article/Se…

Self-host your music experience on mobile

Build your mobile music streaming experience with Mopidy, Platypush, ntfy and Tasker

^Platypush

#Antisemitism is a #SerialKiller walking amongst us.

Support your #Jewish #Friends by destroying that age-old #BeastOfHate.

At the very, very least by not looking away.

🕎 😔

It's like 'the Monroe Doctrine on steroids': Canadian politicos react to Trump's new 'very chilling' national security strategy
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/12/15/u-s-national-security-strategy-risks-making-canada-a-vassal-state-and-possible-cold-war-with-washington-say-former-foreign-affairs-ministers/485707/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Foreign Policy @foreign-policy-TheHillTimes

It’s like ‘the Monroe Doctrine on steroids’: Canadian politicos react to Trump’s n ...

The Canadian government has been relatively silent about the strategy, with ministers only weighing in when asked by reporters.

^{Christopher Guly (The Hill Times)}

I found these guys totally mesmerising to watch - I guess it's a combination of the familiarity of seeing someone dance, but mixed with this different medium, a wheel-induced fluidity was there which isn't normally present for a dancer.

#photography #Berlin #CarnivalOfCultures #street #people

leonard.earth/2025/12/15/rolle…

Roller Dancers

Right behind the Roller DJs came the roller dancers at Berlin’s Carnival of Cultures. I found these guys totally mesmerising to watch – I guess it’s a combination of the familiari…

^{On a Variety of Topics}

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

newrepublic.com/article/204225…

Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.

#ICE #CHICAGO #IMMIGRATION #REPUBLICANS #PRESS

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

^{The New Republic}

Relatora de la ONU que denunció genocidio en Gaza pide a Costa Rica pausar ratificación de TLC con Israel

Francesca Albanese solicita una revisión de derechos humanos antes de avalar el acuerdo comercial.

delfino.cr/2025/12/relatora-de…

Francesca Albanese, la primera mujer en ocupar el cargo de relatora de las Naciones Unidas para los Territorios Palestinos ocupados, y quien denunció la existencia de un genocidio perpetrado por Israel en contra de Palestina, urgió a Costa Rica pausar la ratificación del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) negociado con Israel.

#Israel #CostaRica #Genocidio #TLC #apartheid

Relatora de la ONU que denunció genocidio en Gaza pide a Costa Rica pausar ratificación de TLC con Israel

^delfino.cr

Ruchir Sharma (Rockefeller Int.) offers four 'O's of a bubble:

Over-valuation - i.e are the 'bubble' stocks valued at over double the rest of the marker for shares?

Over-ownership - is everyone trying to buy these 'booming' shares?

Over-investment - do the returns on investment in the medium term look plausible?

Over-leverage - is much of the booming sector reliant on high debt ratios (see earlier post on Credit Default Swaps)?

Sharma say yes to all four & sees an AI bubble!

#AI
h/t FT

iRobot files for bankruptcy
https://www.theverge.com/news/844460/irobot-files-for-bankruptcy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech News @tech-news-theverge

iRobot files for bankruptcy

The Roomba vacuum maker will be bought by Picea Robotics and plans to continue operating.

^{Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)}

Hong Kong, il magnate dei media Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/12/15/news/hong_kong_il_magnate_dei_media_jimmy_lai_colpevole_di_collusione_e_sedizione-425039900/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Notizie dal mondo - la Repubblica @notizie-dal-mondo-la-repubblica-repubblica

Hong Kong, il magnate dei media Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione

Il magnate dei media pro-democrazia processato per la legge sulla sicurezza nazionale

^{Gianluca Modolo (la Repubblica)}

The Bubble catches its breath
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/12/15/cdnpoli-catches-its-breath/485927/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Hill Life & People @hill-life-people-TheHillTimes

The Bubble catches its breath

Plus, Chris d’Entremont joins the golf-cheque circuit.

^{Peter Mazereeuw (The Hill Times)}

RE: journa.host/@ScottLucas/115722…

Nobel Peace Prize laureate #NargesMohammadi:

I was beaten on head and neck w batons by #Iran plainsclothes agents

Told “We will put your mother into mourning" and accused of “cooperating with the Israeli government”

Taken to emergency room twice for treatment

#IranHumanRights #WomanLifeFreedom

Scott Lucas

2025-12-15 06:19:56

UPDATE: #Iran Authorities Detain Nobel Prize Laureate #NargesMohammadi

#IranHumanRights #WomanLifeFreedom

eaworldview.com/2025/12/narges…

UPDATE: Iran Authorities Detain Nobel Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi - EA WorldView

Iran security forces seize Nobel Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi and other mourners at memorial ceremony for rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi.

^{Deepa Parent (EA WorldView)}

🎧 #music break

You invite me to a war party
Me no want to go
Everybody seem to be inviting me to - a war party
Heard about the last one
So thanks but-no

You killed off all the Indians
And you killed off all the slaves
But no quite
So you killed off the remains
You a look for me
And I'm looking for you

You've invited all our wise men many time before
To dance around your fires and even out your scores
And when the tolls taken of the valiant and the brave

Eddy Grant

youtube.com/watch?v=2vGmnce_fL…

Sluta härma fascister

"Trots alla experters varningar om att kriminella bara kommer rekrytera yngre och yngre, och att risken är att de som fängslas i stället hamnar djupare i kriminalitet, fortsätter både regering och socialdemokrater att komma med förslag.

Nu senast föreslog Magdalena Andersson fotboja på barn mellan 6–12 år. De behöver inte ens ha begått något brott, de ska vara i ”riskzonen”."

De vill bura in barnen som ringer Bris i panik

aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/Okn0qq…

De vill bura in barnen som ringer Bris i panik

Leken limbo går ut på att deltagarna går bakåtböjda under en ribba, utan att nudda den. Den som kan gå lägst vinner. I Socialdemokraternas fall har de tagit upp

^{Zina Al-Dewany (Aftonbladet)}

UPDATE: #Iran Authorities Detain Nobel Prize Laureate #NargesMohammadi

#IranHumanRights #WomanLifeFreedom

eaworldview.com/2025/12/narges…

UPDATE: Iran Authorities Detain Nobel Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi - EA WorldView

Iran security forces seize Nobel Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi and other mourners at memorial ceremony for rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi.

^{Deepa Parent (EA WorldView)}

Porcodio chi l'avrebbe mai detto porcamadonna.

Imprecare sui social: lo studio sulla "parolacce" aiuta ad individuare bot e disinformazione

redhotcyber.com/post/imprecare…

> Uno studio dell'Università della Finlandia Orientale rivela che gli americani imprecano di più sui social, mentre gli australiani sono più creativi con le parolacce.

Sieht so aus, als ob die USA den venezuelanischen Öltanker nicht nur beschlagnahmt haben, sondern auch entführen.
Quelle: VesselFinder App

It seems that the USA not only seized that venezuelan tanker but also kidnap it.
Source: VesselFinder App
#usa #venezuela #Skipper #tanker #seizure #kidnapping

arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742 "We show that a small amount of fine-tuning in narrow contexts can dramatically shift behavior outside those contexts." #ai #genai #chatgpt #openai #anthropic #google #meta #amazon #microsoft #nvidia

arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09742

Moscow’s crisis management in response to Zelensky’s presence in #Kupiansk on December 12 is as predictable as it is disappointing, even by their average standards.

Two or three days of complete silence is standard practice in the event of unexpected failures—they acted the same way after #Chernobyl in 1986 and the #Kursk offensive in 2024. Even #Russia bots were silent because they had no “methodologies”, as they call it (the official narrative to spread).

Coming out now with the narrative that this is “fake news from 2022” is so pathetic that it clearly shows the scale of surprise in Moscow.

Some heads will probably quietly roll in the military structures because #Putin has made himself look ridiculous. And no, it wasn’t the generals who made him look ridiculous, he did it himself because he appointed them himself, building a system in which only what he wants to hear is passed on to the top. And I’m quite certain he himself knew the town was “not quite” controlled, but he needed a “card” for Trump.

Notably, Russian military channels have been discussing this topic straight away since December 12, without much embarrassment, because they themselves are well aware of the practice of “liberation on credit” and are critical of it. And now the burden of reversing reality to fit Putin’s words will fall on them, at absolutely any cost.

The first is from the channel “Vojenny osvedomitel” from December 12, immediately after the publication of Zelensky’s video. The author has no doubts about the authenticity of the recording — and it is clear that he made some effort to verify it, as he compares the appearance of the sign with the name of the city to last year’s visit and also notes the presence of drone nets. These are obvious things for anyone familiar with the reality on the ground – and journalists who have been there many times were among the first to write about it, posting photos from a few months ago, where Kupiansk already looks like it does in Zelensky’s video, and certainly not like it did in 2022. The reactions of Russian readers of the channel (anger) are also characteristic.

On December 12, Alexei Milchakov from “Rusich” posted several posts in a mocking tone, brazenly quoting recordings from Gerasimov, Putin, and Kuzovlev from November, talking about the “complete liberation of Kupiansk.” Milchakov directly calls them “fairy tales” and maliciously asks whether Zelensky is currently in captivity due to a flagrant violation of the Russian Federation’s state border.

This is just a small sample, because practically all military channels wrote about Kupiansk in this tone as early as December 12. They complained about “liberating cities on credit,” about the widespread practice of commanders lying in their reports “to the top”… and that was pretty much the end of the topic.

Meanwhile, Moscow remained silent for two days. And only yesterday did it launch its “anticrisis” campaign, spouting nonsense about “fakes from 2022,” which mainly shows how much the Russian command has no idea how to get out of this mess. This type of narrative is desperate, because it is intended for the lowest level of audience, the “bottom feeders.”

Loan documents show two Paraguayan banks loaned tens of millions of dollars to firms owned by Ulisses Rodrigues Teixeira, a Brazilian agribusinessman who admitted to environmental crimes in eastern Paraguay in a 2022 plea deal.

occrp.org/en/scoop/brazilian-d…

#crime #corruption #news

Paraguay Banks Pledging Sustainability Financed Companies Owned By Businessman With Record of Environmental Crime

^OCCRP

I know it's just snow
But I would be much obliged
If it took a break

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Autumn #Fall #Winter #Snow #Weather #Storm #Stop #USA #Photography

December 15, 2025

Cold Moon
エゾモモンガ
カラマツの新芽を食べてます

#tokyocameraclub

Hmmm.... another sign that investors are becoming worried that the AI bubble may be about to burst.

Since September the use of Credit Default Swaps (used as a form of insurance against default of debt obligations) related to key US tech corporations' debt have risen by around 90%.

The use of CDS for Oracle debt has been particularly pronounced alongside CoreWeave both who have raised billions for data centre investment.

A rush for the exit looks ever more likely?

#AI #FinancialCrisis
h/t FT

NATALE
di Giuseppe Ungaretti

Non ho voglia
di tuffarmi
in un gomitolo
di strade.

Ho tanta
stanchezza
sulle spalle.

Lasciatemi così
come una
cosa
posata
in un
angolo
e dimenticata.

Qui
non si sente
altro
che il caldo buono.

Sto
con le quattro
capriole
di fumo
del focolare.

On the 38th Anniversary of the Launch: Al-Aqsa Flood is a Firm Milestone in the Struggle of Our People — Hamas

The 38th anniversary of the launch of the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas comes more than two years after a savage aggression and a war of extermination, starvation, and destruction—unprecedented in history—against more than two million besieged people in the Gaza Strip, alongside systematic crimes against our people in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, and plans aimed at annexing land, expanding settlements, and Judaizing Al-Aqsa Mosque. Over these two years, our great people, united with their valiant resistance, have confronted this brutal aggression with steadfast will, legendary resilience, and a heroic epic rarely seen in modern history.

On the 38th anniversary of our blessed launch, we in the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas pray for mercy upon the souls of the founding leaders, foremost among them the martyred Imam Ahmed Yassin; upon the souls of the great martyred leaders of the Al-Aqsa Flood, Haniyeh, Sinwar, Al-Arouri, and Al-Deif, and their fellow martyrs in the movement’s leadership, who were at the heart of this heroic battle, shoulder to shoulder with the sons and daughters of our people. We also pray for mercy upon the convoys of martyrs from our people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Al-Quds, the territories occupied in 1948, the refugee camps and the diaspora, and all the martyrs of our nation whose blood has mingled with that of our people.

We stand with pride and honor before the steadfastness, courage, sacrifices, and perseverance of our great people in all arenas—foremost among them our people in Gaza, the land of dignity, defiance, and pride—who strove, endured, and stood guard in defense of the land and the holy sites on behalf of the entire nation; likewise in the West Bank, Al-Quds, the lands occupied in 1948, and in refugee camps and the diaspora. We ask Allah Almighty for a swift recovery for the wounded and the sick, and for near freedom for the prisoners, detainees, and abductees in the prisons of the zionist enemy.

We affirm the following:

First: The Al-Aqsa Flood was a towering milestone in our people’s march toward freedom and independence, and it will remain a firm landmark marking a true beginning for driving out the occupation and ending its presence on our land.

Second: Over two full years of aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, the occupation has achieved nothing but the criminal targeting of unarmed civilians and civilian life. With all its barbaric war machine, fascist army, and American support, it has failed to achieve its aggressive objectives.

Third: The movement has adhered to all the provisions of the ceasefire agreement, while the occupation continues to violate the agreement daily, fabricating flimsy pretexts to evade its obligations. Accordingly, we reaffirm the following:

1. We demand that the mediators and the U.S. administration pressure the occupation and compel its fascist government to implement the agreement’s provisions, and condemn its ongoing, systematic violations.

2. We demand that the U.S. administration honor its declared commitments to the ceasefire framework, pressure the occupation to respect the ceasefire, halt its violations and assaults against our people, open the crossings—especially the Rafah crossing in both directions—and intensify the entry of aid.

3. We categorically reject all forms of trusteeship or mandate over the Gaza Strip or any inch of our occupied land, and warn against acquiescing to attempts at displacement and the re-engineering of the Strip according to the enemy’s plans. We affirm that our people alone decide who governs them; they are capable of managing their own affairs and possess the legitimate right to defend themselves, liberate their land, and establish their fully sovereign independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.

4. We call upon our Arab and Islamic nation—leaders and governments, peoples and organizations—to act urgently and mobilize all efforts and capabilities to pressure the occupation to halt its aggression, open the crossings, allow the entry of aid, immediately implement relief, shelter, and reconstruction plans, and provide the requirements of normal humanitarian life for more than two million Palestinians.

5. The crimes of the zionist enemy over two years of extermination and starvation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied Al-Quds are systematic and well-documented crimes that will not lapse with time. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court must continue to pursue the occupation and its criminal leaders, prosecute them, and prevent their impunity.

Fourth: Since its inception, the movement has remained—and will remain—steadfast in its principles, faithful to the blood and sacrifices of its people and prisoners, preserving its values and identity, and embracing and defending the aspirations of our people in all arenas of the homeland and in refugee camps and the diaspora, until liberation and return.

Fifth: Occupied Al-Quds and the captive Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain the central symbols of the struggle with the zionist entity. The occupation has neither legitimacy nor sovereignty over them. Judaization and settlement plans will not succeed in erasing their features. Al-Quds will remain the eternal capital of Palestine, and Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain purely Islamic.

Sixth: The crimes of the fascist occupation government against our people’s prisoners and detainees in its prisons constitute a sadistic approach and a systematic policy of revenge that has turned prisons into arenas of direct killing to liquidate them. We affirm that the liberation of our prisoners will remain at the top of our national priorities, denounce the international silence regarding their just cause, and call on the international community and human rights institutions to pressure the occupation to stop its crimes against them.

Seventh: Our inalienable national rights—foremost among them our people’s right to resist in all forms—are legitimate rights under international law and humanitarian norms, and cannot be relinquished or compromised.

Eighth: Achieving national unity and mobilizing to build a national consensus to reorder the Palestinian house according to a unified resistance strategy is the only way to confront the plans of the occupation and its supporters aimed at liquidating our national cause and preventing the establishment of our independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.

Ninth: The war of extermination and starvation perpetrated by the occupation against our people over two years—along with the accompanying horrific crimes and grave violations of the sovereignty of Arab and Islamic states—has revealed a rogue entity that now poses a real threat to the security and stability of our nation and to international peace and security. This requires international action to rein it in, stop its terrorism, isolate it, and end its occupation.

Tenth: We highly value and appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of all resistance forces and the free people of our nation and the world who have supported our people and our resistance. We call for unifying the efforts and capabilities of the nation in all fields to support our people and their resistance by all means, and to direct the compass toward the liberation of Palestine and the end of the occupation.

Eleventh: We commend the global popular movement in solidarity with our people and appreciate all official and popular positions supporting our just cause.

We call for escalating global action against the occupation and its criminal practices against our people and land, and for strengthening all forms of solidarity with our just cause and our legitimate rights to freedom and independence.

Mercy to the martyrs, healing to the wounded, and freedom for the prisoners and detainees.

It is indeed a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Sunday: 23 Jumada al-Akhirah 1447 AH
Corresponding to: 14 December 2025

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#alAqsaFlood #alQassam #gaza #guerrilla #hamas #palestine #resistance

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:

Solidarität in der KI-Ära: Das ethische Dilemma der Zivilgesellschaft
heise.de/news/Solidaritaet-in-…

Montag: Musikvideos am Ende nach MTV-Verzicht, Kritik an Bayerns M365-Auftrag
heise.de/news/Montag-Musikvide…

Mehrheit für Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige
heise.de/news/Mehrheit-fuer-So…

Spatz in der Hand
heise.de/select/ct/2018/2/1515…

#heise #Verpasstodon

Spatz in der Hand

2018 ist das Jahr, in dem ISDN abgeschaltet wird. Das schmalbandige diensteintegrierte Digitalnetz wird durch All-IP ersetzt, was einfacher zu warten ist und mit viel weniger Vermittlungsstellen auskommt.

^{Detlef Borchers (Heise)}

Geträumt, wir stünden in Tschechien an einer Tankstelle, und es gab sowohl "Diesel" als auch "Diesel >-<", zu deutlich unterschiedlichen Preisen.

Das zweite Diesel hatte ein Symbol hintendran, das aussah wie zwei spitze Klammern, mit den Spitzen zueinander, und mit einer horizontalen Linie miteinander verbunden.

Und wir haben Stunden damit verbracht, zu versuchen im Web Infos darüber zu finden, wofür das Symbol steht, und nichts gefunden.