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?
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism #AnarchoCommunism #Activism
#Cinéma #Gaza Au Festival de Venise, documentaires, manifestations et déclarations publiques ont exposé les contradictions du monde artistique face à la tragédie palestinienne.
✍️ Un article de Marco de Vidi à retrouver sur notre site. 🔽
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#mostra #Venise #Cinéma #Gaza #Palestine
Gaza s'invite à la Mostra - Le Courrier
Plusieurs jours déjà avant l’ouverture officielle, il était clair que le génocide en cours à Gaza deviendrait le thème central de la Mostra de Venise.Clara Rutz (Le Courrier)
Lo spread Btp-Bund chiude in calo a 85 punti base - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2025/09/04/lo-spread-btp-bund-chiude-in-calo-a-85-punti-base_1de87fdf-a1a6-48c4-a2ea-8592dc587537.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Lo spread Btp-Bund chiude in calo a 85 punti base - Notizie - Ansa.it
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)Agenzia ANSA
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Drive to Monza, Leclerc e Hamilton accendono Milano
https://www.gqitalia.it/article/drive-to-monza-leclerc-e-hamilton-accendono-milano?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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.
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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.
Hidden Mental Health Risk of AI Apps #ai #mentalhealth #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #algorithms #chatbots #addiction
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Hidden Mental Health Risk of AI Apps - fullSTEAMahead365
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.Bill Loguidice (fullSTEAMahead365)
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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/duckduckgo-adds-access-to-advanced-models-to-it-subscription-plan/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan | TechCrunch
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.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Sumud Flotilla, alla Sapienza bruciati i volti di Ben-Gvir, Meloni, Salvini e Bernini
@scuola
corriereuniv.it/sumud-flotilla…
“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
Sumud Flotilla, alla Sapienza bruciati i volti di Ben-Gvir, Meloni, Salvini e Bernini
"Se bloccano la Flotilla siamo pronti a bloccare le scuole e le università". Con questo slogan, al grido Palestina liberaMarco Vesperini (CorriereUniv)
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#ScribesAndMakers 9/4 Talk about the book that got the fewest votes yesterday or about them all.
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The book starts off with an absolutely gut-wrenching description of a devastating heatwave which sets up the rest of the narrative about how the world tries to deal with the climate crisis. The writing is patchy and initially I felt it was not good. I dunno the intention of the author, but in hindsight I found the patchiness to be the point.
Call for consultants: Technologies that impact science systems | deadline: 28 September
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Call for consultants: Technologies that impact science systems | deadline: 28 September - International Science Council
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.isc (International Science Council)
Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links | TechCrunch
Meta says says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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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.
A small history – Russia
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.
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Almost in #Zurich for #NixCon2025 🇨🇭
And DB was on time so it all went smoothly without having to change trains in Basel.
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Bananen-Split (1 Portion) | Bunte Küchenabenteuer
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.Martha (Bunte Küchenabenteuer)
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VSP Vision in Advanced Talks to Buy PAI-Backed Eyewear Firm Marcolin
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/vsp-vision-said-in-talks-to-buy-pai-backed-eyewear-firm-marcolin?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"One of the world’s oldest affirmative action efforts is coming under fresh criticism — including from many of its former proponents."
From @KeithRichburg: wapo.st/427DNG6
UCLA’s Payments to Athletes Already Nearing $5 Million
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-09-04/ucla-s-payments-to-athletes-already-nearing-5-million-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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.
#repair #retrocomputing #electronics
FOR WANT OF A NAIL
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.
Certainly a necessary aspect of dealing with the housing crisis but not (I think) sufficient
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
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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.
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@palestine #BigTech #hasbara #genocide
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Dear US citizen
Your taxes are paying for this.
(billions per annum given to Israel by you)
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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.
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#Cookies #Datenschutz #Google #IT #Netzpolitik #news
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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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