Trump and His Allies Pave Way for Unconstrained AI Development
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-15/trump-and-his-allies-pave-way-for-unconstrained-ai-development?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Harvard president takes 25 percent pay cut amid dispute with White House
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/15/harvard-president-pay-cut-salary-trump-federal-funding/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Вже хочеться дропнути. Хто дивився далі? Є сенс перетерпіти?
The Eternaut 1x02 "Step into the Sun"
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> Salvo braves a ravaged Buenos Aires to reach Elena and Clara's apartment, discovering that human survival instincts can be as deadly as the toxic snow.
"If Ontario’s colleges and universities sector was looking for a lifeline from the province to help stabilize its financial state, the 2025 Ontario budget doesn’t contain one." — @john_michael_mcgrath
Federal data suggests the decrease in fatal overdoses is linked to changes in the drug supply and the way people use powerful synthetics like #fentanyl, along with increased funding and support for frontline harm reduction groups and health care clinics providing lifesaving services where people live. truthout.org/articles/experts-…
#ICE #border #drugs #addiction #politics #USpol #news
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths
Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.Mike Ludwig (Truthout)
Ontario to Sell More Debt Abroad as Deficit, Spending Grow
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/ontario-to-sell-more-debt-abroad-as-deficit-spending-grow?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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IPA Guide: Craft Beer’s Dominant Style Has Many Faces
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Rust! A decade of safe, fast, and reliable systems programming that reshaped how to build software.
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#rust #programming #opensource
Top Sexual Assault Hotline Bans Referrals To Resources For Marginalized Groups
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sexual-assault-hotline-bans-resources-marginalized-trump-rainn_n_68263545e4b029d8a610967d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Top Sexual Assault Hotline Bans Referrals To Resources For Marginalized Groups
RAINN's decision to stop referring callers to resources for immigrants and LGBTQ+ people reportedly comes in response to Trump's DEI-related threats.Sanjana Karanth (HuffPost)
Did you know that there is comparison chart for
- #linux distributions
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Take a look eylenburg.github.io/
it's regularly updated
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Bruce Cornwell, a coffee grower in Hawaii, “said that workers should be offered pathways to immigrate legally, rather than be rounded up.”
“If we don’t have these immigrant workers, our coffee will be hurting,” he said. “The government should make it easier for these people to come here and work.”
Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft's layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code | TechCrunch
Microsoft's Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI.Charles Rollet (TechCrunch)
Wow that headline was really all your invention and in no way supported by the article.
Was it written by AI?
Nothing in the article supports software engineers being laid off because of AI. On the contrary.
Lezione sul canto del Maggio all’Accademia Alfieri di Castelnuovo
E’ stata una lezione davvero speciale quella che si è tenuta in via eccezionale presso la sala Suffredini di Castelnuovo Garfagnana e che ha interessato gli allievi dell’Accademia Vittorio Alfieri con la compagnia Il Circo e La Luna e Sorgente d'Arte.
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Lezione sul canto del Maggio all'Accademia Alfieri di Castelnuovo - NoiTV
E’ stata una lezione davvero speciale quella che si è tenuta in via eccezionale presso la sala Suffredini di Castelnuovo Garfagnana e che ha interessato gli allievi dell’Accademia Vittorio Alfieri con la compagnia Il Circo e La Luna e Sorgente d'A…Redazione NoiTV (NoiTV)
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Analizzare i modi attraverso cui l’industria automobilistica, e in Italia dire auto nel XX secolo è dire FIAT, si è imposta a partire dagli inizi del ‘900 è emblematico rispetto alle modalità di affermazione del sistema capitalista. Il paesaggio modellato…
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"Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy presented a budget Thursday that delays once again Ontario’s path to a balanced budget until at least 2027." — @john_michael_mcgrath
Le truc qu'on vous demande de signer ces jours-ci pour interdire les thérapies de conversion dans l'Union Européenne, c'est pas une énième fucking pétition, c'est une initiative citoyenne européenne, c'est beaucoup plus utile et intéressant.
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L'initiative citoyenne, c'est un mécanisme prévu par la constitution européenne qui permet aux citoyens de proposer une loi ou une modification de la loi existante à la commission européenne et au parlement européen.
Concrètement, ça veut dire que si l'initiative aboutit, la proposition législative sera examinée par la commission et présentée devant le parlement par le comité à l'origine de l'initiative.
Le dispositif de l'initiative citoyenne européenne existe depuis 2012. C'est pas un dispositif très utilisé, notamment parce qu'il est assez lourd : le comité qui propose l'initiative doit être composé de citoyen-nes d'au moins 7 états-membres, l'initiative ne doit pas être contraire aux valeurs de l'union Européenne, etc. Depuis 2012, seules quelques dizaines d'initiatives citoyennes européennes ont été lancées, et seules 7 ont obtenu le nombre de signatures nécessaires. Si l'initiative pour interdire les thérapies de conversion aboutit, ce sera la huitième ! 🥳
Et après, qu'est-ce qui se passe ? Eh bien honnêtement, la commission européenne peut tout à fait décider de répondre "Vu et s'en tape". C'est ce qui s'est passé par exemple en 2014 lorsqu'une initiative anti-avortement, l'initiative "un de nous", a obtenu les signatures nécessaires (la honte), et que la commission et le parlement ont poliment répondu qu'iels n'allaient pas donner suite.
Mais les mêmes peuvent également décider après examen qu'en effet, le problème soulevé par l'initiative justifie une modification de la législation. Par exemple, les propositions d'une initiative contre la souffrance animale qui a aboutit en 2018 sont en train d'être intégrées au droit européen.
L'ICE c'est un mécanisme qui n'est pas sans défaut, mais qui permet aux citoyens européens d'apporter des propositions devant les législateurs, et donc de faire évoluer la loi.
Bref, si vous êtes citoyen-ne de n'importe quel pays de l'UE, signez l'initiative ! 🙏
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[Edit : il n'y a pas besoin de résider actuellement dans l'UE pour signer, la citoyenneté suffit.]
The text you are being asked to sign these days about banning conversion therapies in the European Union is not just one more petition: it is a European Citizens' Initiative, which is far more potent and relevant.
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A European Citizens' Initiative is an instrument defined in the European Constitution, allowing citizens to submit a law or amendment to an existing law to the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Concretely, this means that if the Initiative succeeds, the legislative proposal will be examined by the Commission and submitted to the Parliament by the committee that launched it.
The European Citizens' Initiative system has existed since 2012. It is a relatively rarely used system, notably because it is rather demanding: the committee that authors the Initiative must comprise citizens from at least 7 Member-States, the Initiative must not infringe on the values of the European Union, etc. Since 2012, only a few dozen European Citizens' Initiatives have been attempted, and only 7 of these have succeeded in gathering the required number of signatures. Should the Initiative banning conversion therapies succeed, it would be the eighth to do so.
And after that, what next? Quite honestly, the European Commission could very well decided to answer "thank you, we don't care". This happened in 2014 after an anti-abortion Initiative, the "One of Us" Initiative, managed to gather the required signatures (shame!), and both the Commission and the Parliament politely declined to follow suit.
But the very same institutions can decide upon examination that, indeed, the question of the Initiative warrants modifying the law. For instance, the proposals from an Initiative against animal suffering, which succeeded in 2018, are currently being integrated into European law.
The European Citizens' Initiative is not without its weaknesses, but allows European citizens to bring proposals to their lawmakers, and thus to improve the law.
Anyhow, if you're a citizen of any country in the EU, do sign the Initiative!
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
[Edit: You can sign if you're a citizen of the EU, even if you currently live outside the EU.]
🇷🇺 Kremlin to state media: "Prepare the audience for failure." Ahead of Istanbul talks, pro-Kremlin outlets were told to downplay expectations, blame sanctions, and avoid discussing Putin’s absence or Russia’s negotiation stance.
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Традиционный жанр: методичка Кремля. На этот раз — о том, как правильно писать о переговорах в Стамбуле
Из нее следует, что Путин туда и не собирался, а Кремль понимает, чем могут закончиться такие переговорыMeduza
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"An anonymous employee at one of the three establishments told the Nashville Scene that the restaurant was 'already understaffed' on Saturday 'because of the ICE raids.'"
“‘It was crazy busy, but there was no one in the kitchen to cook the food,’ they said.”
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Kid Rock’s Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump’s ICE Raids
Kid Rock’s Big A-- Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Tennessee shuttered reportedly closed on Saturday to avoid being caught by ICE.Lauren Lewis (The Daily Beast)
Trump’s Greenland fixation—and his love of the glories of the nineteenth century—has something important to tell us about Trump’s brain, and possibly about the direction of the United States.
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession
An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.The New Republic
Filing: Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
An IR shot at the Hall of Springs complex in the Spa State Park.
#irphotography #infraredphotography #photography #blackandwhitephotography
UK doctor suspended over Gaza posts
Dr. Nadeem Haddadin-Crowe discusses witch hunts in the National Health Service prompted by politicians and Israel lobby groups.The Electronic Intifada
Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog
The LibreOffice Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2025. Adam Seskunas – Implement Report Builder in C++: replacing the current Java-based Report Builder with a new solution will improve maintainability and remove one of the last r…Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
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Episode 459: Opus D.E.I. | TrueAnon
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We’re joined by Gareth Gore, author of the book Opus, to talk about Opus Dei, the secretive Catholic society with deep links to the current U.S. government.
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artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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Marktbericht: Wall Street ohne klare Richtung
In New York haben die großen Indizes heute keine gemeinsame Richtung gefunden und schlossen uneinheitlich. Derweil setzte sich der freie Fall einer etablierten Aktie aus dem Dow-Jones fort.
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Marktbericht: DAX setzt Verschnaufpause fort
Der DAX wird leicht im Minus erwartet. Auch am Aktienmarkt stehen die Verhandlungen zwischen Russland und der Ukraine heute im Fokus. Dazu kommen zahlreiche Unternehmenszahlen und Konjunkturdaten.tagesschau.de
🔗 Is "ethical AI" an oxymoron? via @hdv #Ai #Tech
It depends on who you ask. But the current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects that are hard to ignore: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias.
Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron?
The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.Hidde's blog
I swear I like trains more than cars, but the c15 is a staple around here.
#gameboycamera #gameboy #gameboycameraclub #nintendo #retrophotography #retro #photography #cars
A5: It depends on what the source material is like. Usually that means yes, I am striving for symmetry.
HOWEVER
After I made my tassets for Théodred, it was pointed out to me that the originals are NOT symmetrical as I had assumed. The attached photo is the best reference to show this, and it's actually Théoden, but it's the same. The asymmetry is best observed on the curved left and right edges, and how the leather horses do or don't follow the curve. I did not adjust my armor or pattern, nor do I intend to.
#Makershour @makershour@a.gup.pe @MakersHour@cupoftea.social
Argh! That's just not fair to have them asymmetric and not tell you! 😉
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Program for JC Williamson's production of 'The Merry Widow', Theatre Royal, 26 April, 1930
A paper covered pamphlet featuing the text 'THEATRE ROYAL' and a drawing against a yellow background of a woman reclining against a background of blac…
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Ma Cristo il signore mi posso essere tagliato con le chiavi di casa?
(Sì, sono vanesio e volevo mostrare il bellissimo cerotto)
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Telegram Bans $35 Billion Black Markets Used To Sell Stolen Data, Launder Crypto - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Telegram announced it had removed two huge black markets estimated to have generated more than $35 billion since 2021 by serving cybercriminals and scammers.yro.slashdot.org
#️⃣ #Google #GoogleChrome #GAFAM #Privacy #RGPD #GDPR #Google
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Mettez Chrome à jour d'urgence : Google corrige une faille critique pour vos données
Google corrige en urgence une faille critique dans Chrome. La vulnérabilité pourrait permettre à des sites malveillants de récupérer des données sensibles, comme des identifiants, à l'insu des internautes.Florian Bayard (01net)
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
I licenziamenti di Microsoft hanno colpito soprattutto i programmatori, poiché l'IA scrive fino al 30% del suo codice.
Per Bloomberg, tra i 2.000 dipendenti licenziati il 40% lavorava nell'ingegneria del software, il che la rende di gran lunga la categoria più numerosa, secondo quanto rilevato da Bloomberg sulla base dei documenti ufficiali. Sono state colpite relativamente poche posizioni di vendita o marketing, ha aggiunto Bloomberg
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Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft's layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code | TechCrunch
Microsoft's Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI.Charles Rollet (TechCrunch)
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@alessandro_g "mi piacerebbe vedere gli effetti a lungo termine per potermi lamentare in anticipo"
Bellissimo! Ma sai che ciò causerebbe la rottura del continuum spazio-tempo creando un buco nero nel quale saremmo tutti risucchiati... Vero?
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HUGO UPDATE:
Rebecca, his carer wrote:
"10 days after his surgery, Hugo is doing well and has upgraded from a plastic cone to a much more comfortable donut 🤍 If his progress continues he will be ready to return to the office and start greeting guests this weekend [at The Pines Cottages, Asheville]."
Here's how Hugo greeted me at check-in (February). ❤️
Why haven’t any of his aides schooled him on this?
#Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
#IdiotInChief #idiocracy #grocery #groceries #moron
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The conversation would go like this:
Uh, Donald, everybody knows what groceries are. You should stop saying that.
No. I invented it. No one knew about groceries before me. No one was talking about it. Now everyone is talking about it because of me. No one has seen anything like it. I won because of groceries. They were up, but now they're down. Even eggs. Eggs are part of groceries you know. I invented eggs too. Before there were eggs there were only chickens.
But why do we call the store where we buy food a grocery store?
Really? They changed the name of the store because grocery was trending? See, I told you. Groceries are really popular. I made them popular. Before me no one talked about them. I'm going to put tariffs on them. Big tariffs, you'll see. Biggest tariffs ever. We'll be rich!
But won't that make groceries more expensive?
You should be ashamed, saying that. Who do you work for again?
I work for you Donald! White House staff!
Don't talk about groceries anymore. You don't get it. Everyone around here is dumb. Nobody gets it.
Yes, sir.
Was Frau v.d.Leyen versucht an der Öffentlichkeit vorbeizudrücken ^^ ....
#neoliberalismus
#Urteil
#eu
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Gerichtsurteil zu Pfizergate: Von der Leyen hat bei der Transparenz geschummelt
Während der Covid-Pandemie verhandelte EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen per SMS mit Pfizer-Chef Albert Bourla. Journalisten forderten Transparenz, doch die EU-Kommission weigerte sich, die Nachrichten offenzulegen.netzpolitik.org
🏛️ ■ Eco de una amistad rota: el duelo legal entre Juan Carlos I y Revilla llega al acto de conciliación ■ Dicen que del amor al odio hay un paso, que el tiempo no evita traiciones o desencuentros, que la amistad tan solo es la otra cara de la moneda de la rivalidad. Este viernes 16 de mayo ambos podrían encontrarse en los tribunales.
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Eco de una amistad rota: el duelo legal entre Juan Carlos I y Revilla llega al acto de conciliación
Dicen que del amor al odio hay un paso, que el tiempo no evita traiciones y desencuentros, que la amistad sólo está en la otra cara de la moneda de la rivalidad.Diego Alonso Peña (El HuffPost)
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