Small Cyprus faces Europe’s big moment
https://www.politico.eu/article/small-cyprus-faces-europe-big-moment-eu-presidency-council/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Small Cyprus faces Europe’s big moment
Nicosia has the unprecedented task of helming EU affairs at a time when the continent faces multiple crises, but has ramped up to meet the moment.Gabriel Gavin (POLITICO)
How to navigate Cyprus’ EU presidency policy agenda like a pro
https://www.politico.eu/article/navigate-cyprus-eu-presidency-policy-agenda-like-a-pro/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How to navigate Cyprus’ EU presidency policy agenda like a pro
Cyprus takes over the Council leadership as budget talks gather momentum.POLITICO
My sick husband couldn’t bear the harsh weather inside our flooded tent, and his condition has worsened painfully.
No heating, no comfort, and not enough medicine to ease his suffering.
I watch him in pain,
I write this as a worried wife, and a mother trying to hold on to hope in a time when everything feels heavy and harsh.
Any kind of support emotional or financial can make a huge difference.
#freepalestine
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Allied concern over neutral Cyprus taking over the EU presidency
https://www.politico.eu/article/allied-concern-neutral-cyprus-eu-presidency-turkey-nato-integration-defense/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Allied concern over neutral Cyprus taking over the EU presidency
The tangled relationship between Cyprus and Turkey will cast a shadow over Nicosia’s efforts to steer defense issues.Jacopo Barigazzi (POLITICO)
Utter madness
#RobReiner and His Wife Are Found Dead
Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles confirmed their deaths. The Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating “an apparent homicide” at the Reiners’ home.
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#RobReiner initially rose to fame playing Meathead, #ArchieBunker’s son-in-law, on the sitcom “All in the Family” in the 1970s. He then went on to become a remarkably versatile director and a force in California and national Democratic politics.
Reiner was the son of a pioneering television comedian who became a popular sitcom actor himself before directing a slate of beloved films including “This Is Spinal Tap,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “The Princess Bride.”
Moin Bande 💚
Ich war schon beim Kiosk, hab mir frische Brötchen geholt und jetzt gibt's ein Deluxe Frühstück ☺️
Danach dies und das erledigen, aber insgesamt piano, schließlich habe ich frei 😅
Habt's hübsch heute 💚
L'attivista di Hong Kong Jimmy Lai è stato dichiarato colpevole - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/12/15/verdetto-colpevolezza-jimmy-lai-hong-kong/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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L’attivista di Hong Kong Jimmy Lai è stato dichiarato colpevole
Di aver violato la legge sulla "sicurezza nazionale", in un processo diventato emblematico della repressione cinese sulla cittàIl Post
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Jansens-Pott: Wochen-Tagebuch-Dings KW 50/2025 jansens-pott.de/wochen-tagebuc…
#Blog
Wochen-Tagebuch-Dings KW 50/2025
Wieder eine Woche rum, Zeit für einen Rückblick. KW 50/2025 Termin beim Hautarzt, habe ein Ekzem im Gesicht. Salbe drauf und abwarten, kann dauern. Das ist ja was für mich, mit meiner Geduld.Herr Tommi (Jansens Pott)
Uma fotografia mostra um gato deitado de costas em uma cama. O gato tem pelagem longa e listrada em tons de marrom e creme. O gato está com as patas dianteiras dobradas perto do corpo e as traseiras esticadas. Uma mão vestindo uma manga preta está estendida em direção ao gato. O gato está localizado no canto inferior direito da imagem. No canto superior esquerdo, há um objeto preto retangular com um adesivo que diz "TRACKER" e "COMME DES GARÇONS" em letras brancas. A cama tem um lençol bege e piso de madeira escura é visível em torno da cama.
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Uma fotografia mostra o interior de um espaço pequeno e fechado, possivelmente um armário ou depósito. Uma bicicleta azul, com detalhes pretos e brancos, está no lado esquerdo do quadro. Um gato cinza com manchas está sentado no assento da bicicleta. Do lado direito da bicicleta, há um conjunto de cabides de roupa, alguns com roupas penduradas. No canto direito do quadro, há uma estante com vários objetos empilhados, incluindo caixas e pastas. A iluminação é fraca e o espaço parece estar um pouco desorganizado.
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Uma foto tirada de cima mostra um gato dentro de uma caixa de papelão. A caixa de papelão está em um piso de madeira. Há mais caixas de papelão espalhadas ao redor. No canto inferior esquerdo da imagem, há um objeto preto, possivelmente uma lixeira ou outro contêiner. A imagem também mostra outros materiais como plástico bolha.
Alt-text: Uma caixa de papelão com uma abertura no topo contém um gato. A caixa está em um piso de madeira com outras caixas e materiais de embalagem espalhados ao redor. Um objeto preto está no canto inferior esquerdo.
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🚜Opinión| Protestas agrícolas y presión corporativa: el plan del lobby de los pesticidas para recortar la seguridad
✍️Nina Holland
elsaltodiario.com/agrotoxicos/…
Protestas agrícolas y presión corporativa: el plan del lobby de los pesticidas para recortar la seguridad
Los lobistas de pesticidas en el barrio europeo de Bruselas trabajan a destajo para debilitar aún más las evaluaciones de seguridad en la UE y proteger los beneficios de sus clientes.Nina Holland (El Salto Diario)
Aya Nomura Steps Up Heat on Fuji Media With Bid for 33.3% Stake
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/aya-nomura-steps-up-heat-on-fuji-media-with-bid-for-33-3-stake?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Palm Oil Free Soap
Here are some palm oil free soaps that do not contain rainforest-destroying palm oil. If you are ever in doubt look for the prefixes: LAUR, STEAR, GYLC and PALM in the ingredients list on packaging…Palm Oil Detectives
centralbylines.co.uk/politics/…
Photonic chips are real, not a dream. A startup in Europe is already making prototype GPU’s with them. Comes with a SPIR-V compiler.
youtube.com/watch?v=9tqOPS6x9l…
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
QANT photonics accelerator does FP16.
Multiplies and adds aren’t converted to microinstructions, but they just happen in one element.
Photonics does the actual math cmos emulates.
And the companies building the best chips are European.. You don’t need 3nm foundries to build these.
You wanted a European technological revolution. Here it is. Now don’t fuck this up @EUCommission
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Giorgia Meloni strumentalizza persino il caso Garlasco
Giorgia Meloni ha concluso il suo comizio di Atreji invitando i suoi discepoli a votare la sua riforma contro la giustizia.Gayburg
Hasselhorn and Bushakevitz perform Schubert in Vilabertran - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Vilabertran Schubertiade. Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone, and Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano, perform: SCHUBERT: 'Des Sängers Habe', lied, D 832/ 'Die Junge Nonne', lied D 828/ 'Auflösung', lied, D 807/ 'Die Allmacht', lied, D 852/ 'Siebzehn L...www.worldconcerthall.com
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Dumping full sack of picked pears to lug box, which will be trucked to the packinghouse. Note design of picking sack which opens from bottom. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34
#Washington #YakimaValley #DorotheaLange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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Does anyone have a copy of the following paper:
doi.org/10.1016/0167-4048(82)9…
Robert H. Courtney, Jr., "A systematic approach to data security", in Computers & Security Volume 1, Issue 2, June 1982 (pgs. 99-112)
I have tried Sci-Hub and Anna's but no luck 
(it is paywalled at sciencedirect.com/science/arti… for $30 which seems criminal)
*ID* –> “Synthesizer”
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Very little motivation for this one.
I took some liberties with the set and the clothes but I don't think that's important.
Have a nice week Mastodon.
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this is for illustrationday.com
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arainfo.org/la-muela-villamayo…
La Muela y Villamayor de Galligo necesitarían más de 500 años de IBI e IAE para cubrir la no recaudación del ICIO de Microsoft
Estos dos impuestos, alabados por Azcón como fuente de financiación “exponencial” para los pueblos en los PIGA, serán en Zaragoza cuatro y ocho veces superiores, respectivamente, a los de estas dos poblacionesALONSO LLORENTE (AraInfo · Diario Libre d'Aragón)
Leo en el titular: Villamayor de Galligo
Yo pensaba que era "Villamayor de Gállego".
¿Es otra forma de decirlo?
I libri di saggistica da scoprire a dicembre 2025
https://www.wired.it/gallery/migliori-libri-saggistica-dicembre-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Cultura @cultura-WiredItalia
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Borse: l’Asia chiude in calo, si guarda all’economia cinese
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/principali-borse-asiatiche-tutte-negative-AIztTlP?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Borse, Europa parte cauta nella settimana delle banche centrali. Asia in calo con freno economia ...
(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Le Borse europee cominciano caute la nuova settimana, in attesa delle d ecisioni di politica monetaria che saranno ...Paolo Paronetto (Il Sole 24 ORE)
Lately I’ve been studying Gnosticism.
To be blunt, most of it reads like total hokum. The cosmology is absurd. And despite what modern Gnostics insist, Nicene Christianity didn’t win solely because of persecution. State backing mattered, but so did the fact that “salvation by faith” is simple, portable, and easy to teach. A maze of demiurges, pleromas, and aeons is not.
And Nicenes weren’t the only critics. Pagans attacked Gnostics too. Plotinus wrote an entire treatise arguing that their “gnosis” was confused and philosophically incoherent—an awkward problem for a movement built on the claim that it possessed superior knowledge.
Neo-Gnostics still say the Church wiped them out. But that’s not quite true.
The Mandaeans still practice. Estimates range from 60,000 to 100,000 worldwide. Their historic homelands are Iraq and Iran, where baptism remains central to their rites, though many members now live in diaspora.
But out of 30+ ancient Gnostic sects, only the Mandaeans remain recognizably Gnostic. Why? Because their system is relatively clear. One God. The power of Light. The immortality of the soul. A cosmology structured in threes—three emanations, three worlds. It’s coherent enough that you can explain the scaffolding without a dissertation.
That clarity helps. So does the fact they’re an ethno-religious community that traditionally rejects conversion and discourages marrying out.
There’s one other “survivor,” though it barely counts: Manichaeism.
It was once a genuine rival to Christianity. Augustine himself spent years as a Manichaean. And a Manichaean temple still exists in China, though most worshippers treat it as a Buddhist site. Syncretism kept it alive by blurring its identity.
That exposes the core problem. Gnosticism begins as syncretism, and syncretism dissolves what makes a religion distinct.
But even that isn’t the whole story. Gnosticism’s real competitor wasn’t Christianity—it was Hermeticism.
Hermeticism also promised salvation through knowledge, but inverted the cosmology. The world wasn’t a trap. The world was good. Ordered. Lawful. Worth studying. Governed by a higher power whose workings could be uncovered.
Hermeticism survived because it was useful. It claimed we perceive reality through altered modes of consciousness, and that these modes can be accessed through repeatable techniques. Alter the state, alter the perception—predictably.
That predictability fed straight into early natural philosophy, back when science and magic were still interwoven.
Gnostics, by contrast, dismissed the material world. When you write off the world, you don’t bother studying it. Hermetic thinkers did. Which is why Hermetic ideas fed into early astronomy, alchemy, and experimental method.
This is why Hermeticism shaped the world, while the only surviving Gnostic sect sits at the margins.
iRobot files for bankruptcy
The Roomba vacuum maker will be bought by Picea Robotics and plans to continue operating.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)
iRobot ist insolvent, chinesischer Zulieferer Picea übernimmt Geschäft
Der Staubsaugerroboterhersteller iRobot hat Insolvenz angemeldet. Retten soll ihn der chinesische Zulieferer Picea, der das Unternehmen vollständig übernimmt.
We'd love it if you'd take a few minutes to respond to the 2025 BastilleBSD annual user survey.
Your feedback helps us continue to shape the future of the project and better understand our community.
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BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey
Bastille wouldn't exist without our community of users. This survey helps us better understand who that community is and how the project is being used.Google Docs
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Sebago si racconta in un nuovo libro: il Yearbook Vol. III
https://www.esquire.com/it/stile/moda-uomo/a69709043/sebago-libro-yearbook-vol-iii/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sebago si racconta in un nuovo libro: il Yearbook Vol. III
Un progetto editoriale, visivo e culturale che esplora l’identità di Sebago tra menswear, cultura americana, heritage sportivo e nuove narrazioniTiziana Molinu (Esquire)
RE: mastodon.social/@touaregtweet/…
What a legend. Waits for the gunman to start changing mag, then jumps him.
Touaregtweet (@touaregtweet@mastodon.social)
"The parents of a fruit shop owner who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach attackers have called their son a hero.Touaregtweet (Mastodon)
Attentato Sidney, condanna ferma comunità internazionale
https://tg24.sky.it/mondo/video/2025/12/15/attentato-sidney-condanna-ferma-comunita-internazionale-1059799?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Attentato Sidney, condanna ferma comunità internazionale
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Attentato Sidney, condanna ferma comunità internazionaleRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Sieben runde Aufkleber liegen auf einer grünen Oberfläche. Jeder Aufkleber hat einen schwarzen Rand mit der Aufschrift "ANTIFASCHISTISCHE KIRCHEN" in Weiß. In der Mitte jedes Aufklebers befindet sich ein stilisierter roter Faust in einer geballten Hand, die aus einem Hintergrund mit den Farben des Regenbogenbanners ragt. Die Aufkleber sind im Kreis angeordnet, wobei einige überlappen. Oberhalb der Aufkleber steht folgender Text: "IST DAS NEU?". Direkt darunter steht: "Ne, das hab' ich gekauft!".
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South Korea's ousted president Yoon plotted martial law to eliminate rivals, probe finds
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-unification-church-9633799e697bb2cdb38b43911705f886?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Strage festa Hanukkah a Sydney, 15 morti. Cosa sappiamo
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Strage festa Hanukkah a Sydney, 15 morti. Attentatori erano padre e figlio. Cosa sappiamo
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Strage festa Hanukkah a Sydney, 15 morti. Attentatori erano padre e figlio. Cosa sappiamoRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
One of the best reports about #Ukraine infantry I’ve seen in a while - long read with many photos and personal accounts that highlights the difference between the technological war we see in the drone videos, and the incredible sacrifice of people who sit in mud holes and cold, ruined cellars for hundreds of days to defend their country.
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…
‘What choice do we have?’: no end in sight for Ukraine’s war-weary frontline troops
As peace hopes falter, infantry soldiers face more long deployments risking their lives against Russian attacksDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
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@zvavybir your point about not everyone coming out the other side is a valid point. But I’m not sure what it has to do with survivorship bias, let alone being literally that by definition.
In any case, I have many battle scars from my journeys in dark places. So I empathetically understand your sentiment about survival. But it’s okay to be encouraging. And that’s the sole intent of this message.
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