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There is a growing global freshwater crisis. Big Tech is increasingly taking the water we need to drink and grow food. This is only the very beginning.

How water vapor is powering the next generation of soft robots

"Our innovation leverages the liquid-to-gas phase transition of water to generate mechanical motion in a way that is simple, scalable, and remarkably powerful."

techxplore.com/news/2025-05-va…



Here’s your chance to submit some comments about road/pedestrian safety in Taiwan:

focustaiwan.tw/society/2025051…

“The survey is available in English, Chinese, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese and Thai, and can be filled out anonymously”

There’s a field at the end where you can enter comments, perhaps noting issues such as poor enforcement of laws, drivers using mobile phones while driving, lack of footpaths, low penalties and repeat offenders, unsafe road design, etc.

#Taiwan #台灣 #行人地獄



Foreign media and academics should avoid amplifying Chinese propaganda narratives that war in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable and coming soon, writes J. Michael Cole

jmichaelcole.substack.com/p/is…

#Taiwan #台灣



Na quarta-feira, dia 14, vamos receber Benedito Machava (Yale University) para uma aula aberta integrada no nosso novo Joint International Workshop "Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/moralid…

#Histodons #PostColonialism #Mozambique #Moçambique #Socialism #Socialismo #Lusotopy #Lusotopia #ColonialismoPortuguês #PortugueseColonialism #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica



Yellow-rumped Thornbill. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa. Rooting around in the undergrowth on a misty morning in Queensland.
#birds #birdwatching #photography #darktable #wildlifephotography
#nature #wildlife #australia #inaturalist #ecology #biodiversity

X-posted to inaturalist.org/




Bathsheba at her Toilet, Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1594
Bathsheba bathes out of doors assisted by two maidservants. King David spies the young woman from the roof of his palace and instantly falls in love. In this painting, the king remains unseen as Cornelisz van Haarlem depicted the Old Testament story from his point of view. We, the viewers, assume the role of David spying on the three nude women.

oil on canvas, h 77.5cm × w 64cm
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/S…
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random




Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Das kannn ich vollauf bestätigen: “Staatssekretärin Jennifer Morgan, vormals Geschäftsführerin von Greenpeace International, gilt in der UN-Klimadiplomatie als sehr sachkundig und bestens vernetzt.”
Klimaschutz jetzt zurückzufahren ist unverantwortlich.
spektrum.de/news/klimapolitik-…
in reply to Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf

Auch das ist echter Trumpismus: Wenn Du keine internationale Klimapolitik willst, dann brauchst Du auch keine Beauftragte dafür und schon erst recht keine "Powerfrau" wie Jennifer Morgan.


I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN).
I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known crawlers/bots" to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
#WebDev #BBC #Bots
in reply to Neil Craig

Meta could be using residential proxies. Most scrapers (and bot nets) do.



Comitato No Bretella-Sì Mobilità Sostenibile, sostenuto da sedici tra Associazioni e Comitati Modenesi a Reggiani: “Mai così in difficoltà Autostrade per il Brennero”. La nota stampa

Mentre iniziano i primi espropri proprio a Marzaglia, come ad indicare l’imminenza dei lavori, Grande confusione in questa terra [.....].

sassuolonotizie.it/viabilitasa…






U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrough.

CNBC reports: "The deal means 'reciprocal' tariffs between both countries will be cut from 125% to 10%."

flip.it/RMhFi5

#Tariffs #TradeWar #News #Trade #China #Politics



#politics Here's something Trump-haters/dislikers/whatever we want to call ourselves need to digest. It does look like Trump is getting things done on the international stage. We'd be fools to oppose peace, wouldn't we? It's also true that few, if any recent presidents have been particularly powerful peace-brokers. So how do we juxtapose this reality with the reality of some of the atrocious things the guy's doing?Are some of these fears perhaps fuelld by fear itself? I just don't know what to think, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, I still strongly dislike Trump and haven't changed my stance on that at all. But trying to make sense of the world situation is getting exponentially harder and harder.


Google Keep brings text formatting to the web theverge.com/news/664857/googl… #Google #News #Tech

in reply to Vivaldi Browser

while Vivaldi is an awesome browser that I'd like to use as my default, there are two things I use regularly that make me switch back to Safari every time for reasons of user-friendliness:

1. (less important) Open tabs that have been synchronized from other devices are displayed on the new tab page below the favorites (Safari's version of SpeedDial).

2. (most important) When I click on the address bar, the favorites and synced tabs are also displayed there, so I can easily switch between my favorite sites without having to open a new tab every time to get to SpeedDial...

It would be great if there was something similar in Vivaldi (desktop and mobile) too!

in reply to Jens Siebert 🦀🇪🇺

@jenssiebert

Interesting ideas. :tony_normal:

Please post them to our feature requests category on the Forum, so they could gather support from others.

forum.vivaldi.net/category/185…

in reply to Vivaldi Browser

a least one similar feature request is already there...

...since 2019 🤔

forum.vivaldi.net/topic/42572/…

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in reply to Jens Siebert 🦀🇪🇺

@jenssiebert

Nice! In that case, upvote 👍 the first post and leave a comment if you want to add something to the request.

in reply to Vivaldi Browser

while I really want it to make it my default on all devices. Not playing HD-Videos on Amazon prime is always the showstopper for me 🙁


All over the world, the e-waste plague is growing

"The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has warned the country is facing a growing threat to the environment and the health of its citizens due to indiscriminate disposal of electronic waste (e-waste)."

itweb.africa/article/zambia-lu…



Instagram auf dem iPad: Der ewige Treppenwitz von Meta

techupdate.io/social-media/ins…

#instagram #technews #meta #ipad #apps #meinung





Kraszna-Krausz photography book awards – longlist

'Colonial and familial archives, intergenerational storytelling and deeply personal approaches to identity, gender and sexuality are some of the themes considered among the 10 longlisted titles for the annual Kraszna-Krausz photography book award'

#photography #PhotoCompetition #KrasznaKraus

theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…





Jo, no, taky bychom si mohli vybrat v koloniálu z přehršle jiných, místních dodavatelů reaktorů, tvl... 🙄
Regulační peklo... 🤦‍♂️

#EU #Regulace




Bar-shouldered Dove, Geopelia humeralis, on a misty morning in QLD, #Australia

#birds #birdwatching #photography #darktable #wildlifephotography
#nature #wildlife #australia #inaturalist #ecology #biodiversity

X-posted to inaturalist.org/




Il nuovo post di universita-it: Università di Parma al centro del Parma Climate Neutral

Qui il post completo: universita.it/universita-di-pa…

@universitaly



I am struggling with my railway work just now. The industry doesn't want what I am saying, consultants want it for free (because I am a risk), and the political winds are cold.

What should I do from here?

#CrossBorderRail

jonworth.eu/railway-work-what-…

in reply to Jon Worth

Has big industry ever wanted reliable and independent information anyway? (I sympathise with you, but I also say this after four decades of providing science-based information to public and private "decision-makers")
in reply to Wolfgang Cramer

@wolfgangcramer Well I’m not sure the industry actually wants more trains. Which is quite a fundamental problem!


“2025年5月12日” / “投稿でのネタバレを防ぐ“テキスト黒塗り機能”をThreadsがテスト中。見たい人はタップすれば表示【やじうまWatch】” (7 users) internet.watch.impress.co.jp/d… #Threads



🚨 We’ve launched our new YouTube channel: Ethics and Critical Theories of AI!
🎥 Full lecture recordings, talks & presentations
📲 Subscribe now: youtube.com/@ECTAI_UOS

#AIethics #CriticalAI #Philosophy #AI #YouTube

in reply to Rainer Mühlhoff

wow, AIethics and Athletics look creepily similar. let's see what you are doing there.


AI data centers demand more water

"In the previous generation, each eight-processor tray had ten 80-mm fans and a large heatsink that together required eight rack units (RUs) or a compute density of one GPU per rack unit. The next generation uses direct liquid cooling with low-profile water block cold plates, with two CPUs and four GPUs per one RU tray. This equates to a processor density of four GPUs per rack unit, a 4X increase."

electronicdesign.com/technolog…




test caricamento immagine...
(perchè anche Pleroma ha i suoi problemi ogni tanto XD)
in reply to Clever Puck

Sembrerebbe la foto di un fiume. Se volevi mandare una foto delle gatte, è andata malissimo.
in reply to Uilebheist

@Uilebheist XD

È l'Adige, ma l'ho presa a caso. Volevo vedere se prendeva un'immagine in po' pesante, perchè @matz aveva problemi a postare immagini.

Alla fine secondo me sono problemi generali di connessione e le immagini non c'entrano per niente.
Però sono problemi di connessione strani...vabbeh. Sto indagando.

Comunque è un fiume.

in reply to Clever Puck

@matz Potrebbero essere problemi di spazio. Un post richiede mezzo kilobyte e il posto si trova sempre...
in reply to Uilebheist

@Uilebheist @matz non credo perché in quel caso darebbe problemi anche a me.
Lui ha problemi a caricare immagini e a scaricare le notifiche. Sono tutte e due operazioni che richiedono almeno qualche secondo di connessione stabile.
Il server è su e non ha loggato errori.
Direi che è un problema del telefono di Matteo se non fosse che gli succede anche dal mac a casa e quindi con un'altra macchina e un'altra connessione.
Così com'è non me lo spiego.
in reply to Clever Puck

Stamattina non riuscivo a visualizzare i vostri profili.. volevo prendere l'handle per seguirvi da di quà e mi dava pagina bianca.

CC: @Uilebheist@polyglot.city @matz@y.cubalibre.social

in reply to lorenzo

@lorenzo @Uilebheist @matz dici sia il mio sia quello di Matteo?

Uhm...

(Incidentalmente ho già detto che non mi piace per niente Pleroma? Non mi piace per niente)

in reply to lorenzo

@lorenzo @Uilebheist @matz da snac mi restituisce vuoto l'elenco dei messaggi, ma lo fa con tutti e vedo il mio profilo...

Non so.
Tra l'altro adesso sono sul tablet e non riesco a fare prove. 🫤
Sta cosa è sempre più strana.

in reply to Clever Puck

@lorenzo @Uilebheist @matz ma potrebbe essere che la cartella non è direttamente users ma /Pleroma/users o /Pleroma/qualcosa/users
Questo te lo confermo facilmente...ma dopo, quando arrivo a un pc.
in reply to Clever Puck

@lorenzo @matz Non so perché da qui ha *sempre* dato uno schermo vuoto. Il profilo visto dall'istanza funziona, ma se seguio il link "apri il profilo originale" è sempre una pagina vuota.

[edit, tale link in teoria è inviato dall'istanza insieme alle altre informazioni del profilo, e quindi non ha motivo di essere sbagliato...]

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in reply to Uilebheist

@Uilebheist @lorenzo @matz

uhm...
a me apre direttamente cubalibre e il profilo di Matteo, ma non vuol dire niente perchè sono loggatə qui.
Esco e riprovo.

in reply to Clever Puck

ok, uhm... anche se mi scollego dal mio utente e provo da zero a caricare il link

y.cubalibre.social/users/matz mi restutisce il profilo correttamente.

Non è che sia un problema di javascript?
Edit: senza javascript mi presenta la pagina bianca.

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
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@gattoparlante li ristampano da qualche mese, si trovano nelle edicole nascosti, dove stanno i fumetti zozzi
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Robo
@gattoparlante sì, quella zozzeria torbida di quegli anni, assolutamente divertente


The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

Link: sigarch.org/the-academic-pipel…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…




Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 52,800 As Israeli Strikes Hit Displaced Civilians tn.ai/3310583


“I’m also learning to be okay with not being able to chew as much as comes my way, and giving myself time and space to be present with myself, to go out and do analog activities that have nothing to do with business or coding, like taking photos.”
pepicrft.me/blog/2025/05/12/na…
in reply to Pedro Piñera

Thank you for sharing this with us. I too have been learning the hard way how to untangle my sense of personal identity from what I "do" — especially whatever it is I'm doing online. That is a recipe for disaster…

I hope your foot injury continues to heal!🤞

in reply to Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)

@jaredwhite Thanks Jared, I appreciate a lot your words. I'm starting to feel something, so hopefully that's a good sign.



"The most advanced AI models are becoming bigger, reaching up to 1 trillion parameters and 15 trillion tokens. As a result, model training is taking more time and resources (up to 100 days and 38 billion petaFLOPS, or PFLOPS), while training costs continue to rise (up to $192 million). What about the power required to train one of these models? More than 25 million watts."

electronicdesign.com/technolog…



Αυτό το Σάββατο, συνεχίζουμε με Grim Machine, H.C.N., Threads και Putsum από Αθήνα, σε ένα αυτοοργανωμενό live, κινούμενο προς πιο ηλεκτρονικούς και noise ήχους. Από τις 21:00.
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The image is a vibrant poster for a live noise event featuring Grim Machine Threads. The background is a mix of pink and yellow, with a brick wall and a framed picture. The central illustration shows a person with a duck head wearing a green shirt and a black apron with the word "PUTSUM" on it, injecting a syringe into a person's arm. The person is wearing blue gloves and is positioned next to a large industrial machine. Above the illustration, the text "GRIM MACHINE THREADS" is prominently displayed. Below the illustration, the event details are written in Greek: "ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 17 ΜΑΙΟΥ 2025 ΟΡΑ 21:00 LIVE NOISE." The bottom of the poster features hazard symbols and the text "ΤΑ ΕΣΟΔΑ ΟΑ ΔΙΑΤΕΟΟΥΝ ΓΙΑ Η ΣΤΗΡΙΘΕΝ ΤΗΣ ΥΠΟΓΑΣ." The overall style is graphic and edgy, with a comic book aesthetic.

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今朝の散歩: 裏寺通、宝蔵寺
小さなお寺なのに思いのほかいろいろ花が咲くらしいことを知った。
本堂の手前右手に小さな池があるんだけど、キショウブとカキツバタが咲いていた。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部




Ciononostante, legami tra il servizio segreto del Viminale e l’Organisation Gehlen vi furono, sebbene per vie traverse casamaini.altervista.org/ciono…
Nel corso dei primi anni Cinquanta, l’attività dell’UAR [Ufficio Affari Riservati, servizio di spionaggio del Ministero degli Interni della Repubblica Italiana, istituito da Mario Scelba] nei confronti di Johannes [Gehlen] sarebbe


Unmasking Vulnerabilities: The MCP Protocol and Its Security Risks

A recent investigation into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has revealed alarming security vulnerabilities that could expose sensitive systems to attacks. This article delves into the technical intri...

news.lavx.hu/article/unmasking…

#news #tech #Cybersecurity #MCP #AIExploits



Emerging Tech Titans: UK Scaleups Compete for the TECH5 Crown

Five innovative scaleups from the UK are set to compete in the prestigious TECH5 tournament, showcasing their prowess in fintech, AI, and health tech. With a focus on solving real-world problems throu...

news.lavx.hu/article/emerging-…

#news #tech #HealthTech #AI #Fintech



Trump revives failed drug price plan with promised executive order


Trump revived a failed effort from his first term on an issue he's talked up since even before taking office.

Donald Trump says he’ll sign an executive order on Monday that, if implemented, could bring down the costs of some medications — reviving a failed effort from his first term on an issue he’s talked up since even before becoming president.

Under the planned order, the federal government would tie what it pays pharmaceutical companies for those drugs to the price paid by a group of other, economically advanced countries — the so-called “most favored nation” approach.

It was a rule that Trump tried to adopt during his first term, but could never get through. He signed a similar executive order in the final weeks of his presidency, but a court order later blocked the rule from going into effect under the Biden administration.



What's New in Wagtail is streaming live TOMORROW! There's still time for you to sign up and see Wagtail's newest features demoed by the experts who built them!

Sign up here 👉 wagtail.org/blog/whats-new-in-…

#Wagtail #Django #Content #Programming



Happy Women in Maths Day! 🥳 🎊 🙌 Today we celebrate all the incredible women like Maryam Mirzakhani that paved the way for new generations and everyone who supports women in maths today!
Here we‘ve got six tips for you how to spend the day reading about inspiring women:
1. Check out this Plus magazine article about Maryam Mirzhakani's work - plus.maths.org/content/mm
2. Mathematical Association of America News on the European Girls' Math Olympiad - maa.org/news/us-team-earns-2nd…
3. Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician from Duke University offered special tours of "Mathemalchemy", a traveling multimedia math-meets-art installation - nytimes.com/2025/03/14/science… (mathemalchemy.org/about/)
4. Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize 2025 awarded to 3 outstanding women mathematicians, Si Ying Lee, Rajula Srivastava and Ewin Tang - breakthroughprize.org/News/91
5. International prize in Statistics awarded to Grace Wahba this year - imstat.org/2025/04/02/2025-int…
6. Science News Explores covering the fascinating math journey of Angela Tabiri (Her Maths Story, Alumni) on becoming 2024's world's most interesting mathematician - snexplores.org/article/worlds-… (also check out her story on our website)
#womeninmaths #womeninstem #celebratewomen #mathsisbeautiful #womeninscience #hermathsstory

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Guile Debugger and Stack Inspector project[1] progress, new Scheme Testing Library[2] and Shepherd<->nREPL integration are just a few of the things we showcase and discuss this Thursday on RDE Meetup #5.

Everyone is welcome. Please, register for the event[3]. It's not required, but it will let us know that you come and help to plan accordingly.

[1]: codeberg.org/cons-town/guile-d…
[2]: git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs…
[3]: lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announc…

#scheme #guile #guix #rde

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Les araignées rouges à six pattes ont toujours soif d’exploration et de découvertes
(Et j’en profite pour vous souhaiter à toutes et à tous bon courage pour cette nouvelle semaine)

#MastoArt #fediart #dessin



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Sources: SoftBank and OpenAI's $100B Stargate investment hits snags over tariffs fears; talks with dozens of lenders starting earlier in 2025 yielded no deals (Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
techmeme.com/250512/p7#a250512…




[Taiwan's president] "Lai is not a provocateur. He's not wrong about China -- they are an enemy. They are undermining Taiwan. They are a danger. They are threatening war and annexation. He's simply not wrong, and China is the bad guy here. All they have to do is stop. Taiwan has done nothing wrong; there is nothing for Taiwan to change. Or is it wrong to call out Chinese warmongering for what it is?"
laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/05…


看到吵休假立法程序的敘事很頭痛

當在野黨修改法案和否決大法官任命癱瘓憲法法庭,有沒有獲得同等程序關注目光?
還是我們終得承認民主就是利益交換,價值主張只是次要產物?

bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c0lz…
引文:
在執政黨同時掌控總統與國會「完全執政」時,可能導致15名大法官均由同一位總統提名。國民黨馬英九與民進黨蔡英文在第二任期末期均曾出現這情況,引發憲法法庭過度集中於執政黨的疑慮
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修法後,加上「不得低於10人」門檻,現有8名大法官就無法開會..12月24日,立法院舉行新任大法官人選投票,朝野無法達成共識,7位被提名者全被否決
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立法院剛通過憲訴法修正案,大法官人事案就遭藍白陣營全面否決,兩起事件被反對修法者認為「是有計劃的佈局」,讓憲法法庭因大法官人數不足無法召開。
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經濟民主連合(經民連)召集人賴中強舉例指,這些法案包括修正《兩岸人民關係條例》,將中國籍配偶取得身分證的年限從6年縮短為4年;《離島建設條例》修法,擬在離島設立自由貿易示範區、國際醫療特區,恐讓離島地區成為「一國兩制的實驗區」
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違憲宣告需要9人的新規定,一兩位就可以否決所有大法官的決定

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The Rise of AI-Driven Scams: How Technology is Shifting the Landscape of Digital Fraud

As AI technology advances, so too do the tactics of digital scammers, leading to an alarming increase in sophisticated impersonation schemes. Professionals are now forced to adopt rigorous verificatio...

news.lavx.hu/article/the-rise-…

#news #tech #AIinCybersecurity #DeepfakeDetection #IdentityVerification