Haddad sobre fraude no INSS: “Realmente enojou um país inteiro” - Gazeta Brasil- Notícias do Brasil e do Mundo
O ministro da Fazenda, Fernando Haddad, classificou como “indigna” e “repulsiva” a fraude envolvendo descontos irregulares em benefícios do INSS, reveladaGazeta Brasil
Liz Kendall, fulfilling a campaign promise will be abolishing the work capability assessment & reforming (streamlining?) applications for personal independence payment (PIP).
On the surface this looks like a good move, although much will depend on how the assessment regime is reworked.;
But, this hardly makes up for the cuts in the overall benefit.... and after Keir Starmer's announcement on migration today who'd bet on PIP being improved?
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Liz Kendall to overhaul DWP’s assessment for disability benefits
Work and pensions secretary calls for groups to engage as she scraps capability assessment and overhauls Pip applicationJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
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Ann Telnaes, who quit Washington Post in protest, wins Pulitzer for 'fearlessness' in commentary
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Pope Leo XIV didn't once urge people to 'be woke'
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pope-leo-xiv-woke-quote/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Pope Leo XIV didn't once urge people to 'be woke'
Pope Leo XIV once said: "To all who sent prayers, love, and hope as I begin this sacred journey — thank you. I accept this role not as a throne, but as a vow: To serve the forgotten, To uplift the broken, To speak plainly where others stay silent.Aleksandra Wrona (Snopes.com)
Time to put bodies on the line. Call for Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy "We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions -at the highest possible level- to accompany the aid trucks www.globalr2p.org/publications...#gaza #france #italy #norway #au #uk
Unified Call to Confront Famin...
Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted.Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Crean un #chip #cuántico sin precedentes que funciona #sin #refrigeración y acelera el futuro de la #tecnología
#Cisco #Systems presenta un prototipo de #chip para interconectar #ordenadores #cuánticos.
So, the dispute this morning about whether or not the Capitol Police blocked DOGE dudes from entering the US Copyright Office is increasingly sounding like one where there's a lot of "well, technically..." but the overall gist of it was true.
I've been following John Michael Greer since 2008. In the last couple of years, he's taken a position on Covid vaccines that I find offensively uninformed, but that's an aberration from his very cogent take on our energy future, which has proven correct as long as I've been reading him.
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The Fall and Rise of Peak Oil
It’s now been close to fifteen years since the Peak Oil movement collapsed and lost whatever temporary grip it had on public awareness. We could doubtless have an interesting conversation along the…Ecosophia
Ashley - @transashleyphil.bsky.social - a trans representative of a group of queer Ugandan refugees in South Sudan, has shared some videos over at tiktok.
Ugandan LGBTQ refugees face anti-LGBTQ policies in the countries they flee to as well.
Crean un #chip #cuántico sin precedentes que funciona #sin #refrigeración y acelera el futuro de la #tecnología#Cisco #Systems presenta un prototipo de #chip para interconectar #ordenadores #cuánticos. #tech #quantic #computerwww.20minutos.es/tecnologia/a...
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Just leaving a jazz concert by Jānis Fedotovs' quartet, aikido training buddy and excellent vibraphonist and composer. I really enjoyed it! He is a versatile and curious musician who likes to explore the full range of his instrument. I still have the air of the last piece in mind, catchy tune!
#Jazz #38Riv #Paris #JanisFedotovs
My favourite instrument is piano, I could listen to Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani, Errol Garner, all day long
This is a nice surprise. The Anarchist Library posted my extermely critical review of Amber Frost's _Dirtbag_. I like that they generated footnotes for all the embedded links.
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Dirtbag’s nostalgia for the old working class
Comrade Motopu Dirtbag’s nostalgia for the old working class Comrade Motopu finds class fetishism over class analysis in Amber Frost’s 2024 book Dirtbag....The Anarchist Library
Just launched my new #Surffeed with @surf! Populated with curated channels from @Flipboard Techmeme, and top social curators on Bluesky & Mastodon. Open Social Web FTW! #Flipboard
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Social Web Curators by Tim Chambers on Surf
Surf - Tracking Flipboard, Newsmast Foundation and other accounts curating and boosting the best of the open social web.surf.social
Il Rugby Lucca trova casa a San Cassiano a Vico in attesa dei campi dell’Acquedotto
Di nuovo fruibile dopo i lavori del Comune per rimettere a norma le strutture e gli spogliatoi e il noto contenzioso con il Real Academy
This is what it often feels like being a woman in tech. People telling you that you don’t belong here and that if they were you, they would leave. Then being forced out of spaces and erased.
This is happening at the UW Allen School right now. By the end of the year, they will likely have lost 8 women from the systems lab. They hope that no one will notice or care.
Don’t look away. It’s important to share stories like these even though they are painful.
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NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
"It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."Josh Dinner (Space)
Apple could use AI to help your iPhone save battery
Apple is planning to launch a new AI-powered battery management tool in iOS 19, according to Bloomberg. The feature will reportedly analyze your phone to adjust how much energy specific apps and features use.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Palio dei Barchini: ipoteca Viani – Cinquini
Per la sesta volta l'equipaggio Cinquini - Viani si è aggiudicato il palio dei barchini della Madonna del Lago, giunto alla sua 57 esima edizione. Per Viani - forse - l'ultima partecipazione al palio.
From 2021: “Brownsville is an area that’s been colonized and recolonized and has done so much to benefit people who come from somewhere else but not the people from here.”
Elon Musk as a modern day colonizer of South Texas ...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Mission Takes Flight in South Texas
Elon Musk wants to go to Mars with SpaceX. Money, regulations, and public beaches in South Texas are no object.Gus Bova (The Texas Observer)
Philips will let you fix your trimmer with 3D printable parts and accessories
Philips Fixables is a new initiative that lets consumers 3D print their own parts and accessories like cutting guides for a beard trimmer.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
China Tariff Relief Spurs Shipping Rush, U-Turn on Price Hikes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/us-china-trade-deal-has-american-businesses-restarting-operations?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Transatlantic Summer Travel Expected to Fall Near Double Digits
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/transatlantic-summer-travel-expected-to-fall-near-double-digits?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Amazon, FedEx Reach Agreement for Large Package Delivery
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/amazon-fedex-reach-agreement-for-large-package-delivery?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#MsRachel on why she is so outspoken about #Gaza. Such a huge and kind heart. Kudos to @mehdihasan for an amazing interview. Top tier journalism
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EXCLUSIVE: The One and Only Ms. Rachel Opens Up to Mehdi on Her Advocacy for Gaza's Kids
The global YouTube star and educator says “silence wasn’t a choice” for her when it came to speaking out against the killing and maiming of Palestinian children.Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)
E-commerce logistics startup Cart.com says it raised $50M, is now valued at $1.6B, is on track to cross $500M in revenue this year, and plans more acquisitions (Colin Campbell/Axios)
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E-commerce logistics startup Cart.com says it raised $50M, is now valued at $1.6B, is on track to cross $500M in revenue this year, and plans more acquisitions
By Colin Campbell / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
A reminder about canoeing in alligator-infested waters...
A canoeing trip turned deadly in Florida when an 11-foot alligator flipped a couple’s canoe, killing a 61-yo woman. Her husband tried to save her, but the gator pulled her underwater. Very sad.
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Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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The image is a meme divided into two sections, each with a distinct visual and text. The top text reads, "There are two types of Prestidigitation users:".
On the left side, there is an illustration of an anime-style character with purple hair, wearing a maid outfit, holding a broom. The text overlay on this image reads, "I need to stay clean to keep myself presentable."
On the right side, there is an image of a robotic figure with a red glowing sword. The text overlay on this image reads, "I'M GOING TO SHIT YOURSELF."
The background of the left side is light and bright, while the right side has a darker, more industrial background. The overall theme of the meme humorously contrasts two different approaches to the use of Prestidigitation, a spell from the Harry Potter series, with one being more mundane and the other more dramatic.
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Render a Guitar Pro Score in Real Time - Fedora Magazine
Guide to setting up and using Tuxguitar for rendering a score in real time using Fluidsynth or MIDIYann Collette (Fedora Project)
Coinbase will join the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services, effective before trading on May 19; COIN jumps 7%+ after hours (CNBC)
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Coinbase will join the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services, effective before trading on May 19; COIN jumps 7%+ after hours
From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
When I started working as a climate scientist back in 2010, the world had warmed by around 0.9C compared to the preindustrial (1850-1900) period.
Today, 15 years later, we are at ~1.4C with no signs of slowing down...
Back in 2010 there was a pretty outspoken cohort of climate skeptics arguing that natural cycles would lead to warming slowing down or stopping.
While its nice to be proven correct, I wish for all our sakes that we had been wrong! realclimate.org/index.php/arch…
RealClimate: Don’t climate bet against the house
RealClimate: Decades ago (it seems) when perhaps it was still possible to have good faith disagreements about the attribution of current climate trends, James Annan wrote a post here summarizing the thinking and practice of Climate Betting.Gavin (RealClimate)
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Google Updating Its 'G' Icon For the First Time In 10 Years - Slashdot
Google is updating its iconic 'G' logo for the first time in 10 years, replacing the four solid color sections with a smooth gradient transition from red to yellow to green to blue.tech.slashdot.org
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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.www.youtube.com
New #Blender project: The Meteor.
I almost fried my laptop while rendering this, but I think it turned out nicely.
The aurora is done with a procedural volume shader I wrote for a Nodevember project two years ago, the clouds are from the Real Sky addon and the foreground assets from Botaniq (except the boat, which I modeled from scratch. The meteor itself is simulated with #EmberGen.
#3DArt #B3D #DigitalArt
Photos prises au Jardin botanique de Montréal.
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#photo #photographie #photography #PhotoScape #gratuiciel #logiciel #diaporama #animation #fleurs #botanique #tutoriel #guide #jardin
Créer un diaporama avec PhotoScape
La création d’un diaporama de photos avec le gratuiciel PhotoScape est facile et rapide. Comme premier essai, pour vous familiariser avec la...cltr.blogspot.com
Multiple security issues in Screen
The SUSE Security Team has published an article detailing several security issues it has uncove [...]LWN.net
GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as VP of global product and chief product officer, a newly created position at GM, starting on June 2 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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GM taps Aurora co-founder for new chief product officer role | TechCrunch
General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered andKirsten Korosec (TechCrunch)
Revolut°Permanente🚩 Négociations directes avec le Hamas : Trump double Netanyahou et fait pression sur Israël 🚩RP #Hamas #Trump #Netanyahou #Israël #Palestine
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Négociations directes avec le Hamas : Trump double Netanyahou et fait pression sur Israël
Alors que Washington a négocié directement avec le Hamas pour obtenir la libération de l'otage israélo-américain Edan Alexander — contre l'avis de Tel-Aviv —, ce geste est un nouveau signal des tensions entre États-Unis et le gouvernement Netanyahou.Wolfgang Mandelbaum (Revolution Permanente)
The ASUS DriverHub driver management utility was vulnerable to a critical remote code execution flaw that allowed malicious sites to execute commands on devices with the software installed.
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Report: Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General Who Defended Trump in Hush Money Trial Named Acting Librarian of Congress; Paul Perkins Named Acting Register of Copyrights and Director of the Copyright Office
UPDATE May 12, 2025 (5pm Eastern): Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library (via Rolling Stone) An expert on the Library of Congress tells Rolling Stone that Trump’s takeover attempt is “dangerous,” given that the Library’s sub…Library Journal infoDOCKET
Federal Investigations Into Musk Businesses All Go POOF!
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Federal Investigations Into Musk Businesses All Go POOF!
In more than 40 other federal agency matters, regulators have taken no public action on their investigations for several months or more.Susie Madrak (Crooks and Liars)
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Butterfly 2020-45
False optimism may give way under duress.
But hope will remain eternal.
#butterfly #butterflies #monarch #monday #macro #photography #beauty #nature #insect #photodaily #photos #thephotohour #mramsdellpics
Donald Trump is once again trying to defend accepting bribes from foreign figures.
In an angry post on Truth Social Sunday night, Trump claimed he’d done nothing wrong by accepting a $400 luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to replace Air Force One.
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Trump Melts Down Over Damning Report on Qatar Giving Him a Private Jet
Donald Trump reportedly plans to use the luxury jet for Air Force One.The New Republic
#News #Endemic #SystemicRacism
#USA
Chris Van Hollen, a senator for Maryland, told an audience at the Center for American Progress thinktank in Washington: “To watch the Trump administration apply what I call their global apartheid policy by providing asylum or refugee status to some Afrikaners – white South Africans – while they shut everybody else out is just an outrageous insult to the whole idea of our country, and the whole idea of Dr King that at the end of the day it’s character that counts.”
“We have to call it out for what it is: it’s an application of the global apartheid policy by the Trump administration.”
Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, said in a statement: “It is baffling as to why the Trump administration is admitting Afrikaners for resettlement while continuing an indefinite suspension for thousands of legitimate asylum seekers who have fled persecution, often because their lives were at risk.”
Last year, the UN found no South Africans were eligible for refugee status. The decision by this administration to put one group at the front of the line is clearly politically motivated and an effort to rewrite history.”
A nearby runestone that I made a stop by while driving the other day. Not sure if this is the original place of it, but it has definitely been reinforced with some concrete or cement.
Also seen in the picture are a few light-leaks that I caused by being too tired to remember to rewind the film properly. Oh well.
#filmphotography #nikonfm #nikkor50mm #hc110 #fomapan100 #iso400
Kurdish militant group PKK agrees to disband in Turkey
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Kurdish militant group PKK agrees to disband in Turkey
The PKK has led a 40-year insurgency against the Turkish government, which has seen tens of thousands of people killed.Paige Bruton (www.semafor.com)
"The new pope, like the old pope, does not support MAGA’s christofascist nationalism. MAGA, confronted with the fact that they do not control everything or everyone, responded in their usual fashion — by wailing and gnashing their teeth."
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The new pope is latest sign that the world rejects Trumpism
From Vatican City to Canada, Trump increasingly represents everything people of goodwill oppose.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
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This, is the problem with governmental consultation in any society; who do they listen to, to garner views on the impact of policy changes? Certainly representative groups are often used, but often (as you suggest) these are only partially able (or willing) to convey the interests of specific groups. But then when consultations are open to all, individual voices often (also) get lost in the masses of responses. It been a vexing problem for democracy for a long time.