Known as the "7 minutes of terror", landing on #Mars is one of the biggest barriers to Martian exploration. But what if we could bypass the terror by floating down on a GIANT INFLATABLE ...that we're called a RATS 🐀... opening the door to an era of micro-rover Mars infestation.. uh, exploration.
Just before lunchtime on the 14th November 2024, sounding rocket S-520-34 launched into the sky. Onboard this brief flight were experiments to test the next generation of rotating detonation rocket engines, and technology that could change the way we…
Wer solche Freunde hat … Apropos Auftritt, im Herbst 2025 bin ich mit Bernd Kissel auf Tour: Viele Städte sind schon ausverkauft (ihr seid so crazy), aber in Halle und Saarbrücken gibt's noch Tickets und Mainz ist jetzt endlich auch im Vorverkauf. Kommt vorbei! Tickets unter: www.marcuwekling.de/termine
Wer solche Freunde hat sollte inzwischen wissen, dass diese Witze außer Nüssen auch Schalenfrüchte, Obst, Gemüse und anderes Zeug enthalten können, die sich fälschlicherweise mit Nüssen verwechseln lassen.
La Asociación Española de Directores de Hotel dirigirá el próximo 20 de mayo una nueva jornada llena de actividades destinadas a pequeñas y medianas empresas del sector turístico
Blick über bewaldete Berglandschaft mit Sandsteinfelsen Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Waltersdorf, Bad Schandau Autor: Hans-Lothar Kölling Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0 landschaftsfotoportal.senckenb…
🗳️ ■ La Fiscalía ve delito en la filtración del audio entre AEMET y el 112 en la DANA que habría difundido la Generalitat ■ La agencia estatal lo puso en conocimiento del ministerio público por si dichos hechos pudieran ser constitutivos de delito. huffingtonpost.es/politica/la-…
Where every wall tells a story and every colour sings—Burano, at its most luminous. Join me for a private photography workshop where we go beyond the postcard, capturing the soul of this vibrant island, one frame at a time. #BuranoWorkshop #VenicePhotography #ColorfulBurano #PhotoWalkItaly #LeicaLife Visit https:www.msecchi.com
In a polarizing world, the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale couldn’t help but reflect the clash of opposing positions. RECORD reports back with some first impressions.
La organización de escaladores comprometidos con la defensa de los derechos del pueblo palestino pretende que los escaladores que se adhieran a la campaña…
Keir Starmer’s Reform-Lite Strategy Has Left Him Marooned on an Island of Strangers
New polling finds a collapse in support for the Prime Minister among Labour voters, as he pursues a strategy that is also failing to win over supporters of Reform, reports Adam Bienkov
Our door of the week journey to Prague continues this week. I assert that Prague is one of the best door photography cities in the world and I’ve dedicated the month of May to exploring a wide range of entrances and portals here.
Yasunao Tone, a composer and artist who bridged the gap between music and visual arts, has died at age 90. Here's @ArtNews's tribute to the cerebral, experimental and highly influential sound maker, who described his work as like "a parasite without a host," and of whom Yoko Ono once said: “I think people will be surprised to know that the usual notion of Asian music will be totally destroyed when they listen to his music or read his scores. He is not Asian. He is Martian.”
What [Ajoy] wanted to do was to extend the range of his existing doorbell so that he could hear it in his workshop. His plan of attack was to buy a new wireless doorbell and then interface its transmitter with his existing doorbell. But his approach is something others might not have considered if they had have been tasked with this job, and it’s surprising to learn that it works!
What he’s done is wrap a new coil around the ding dong doorbell’s solenoid. When the solenoid activates, a small voltage is induced into the coil. This then gets run into the wireless doorbell transmitter power supply (instead of its battery) via a rectifier diode and a filter capacitor. The wireless doorbell transmitter — having also had its push-button shorted out — operates for long enough from this induced electrical pulse to transmit the signal to the receiver. To be clear: the wireless transmitter is fully powered by the pulse from the coil around the solenoid. Brilliant! Nice hack!
We weren’t sure how reliable the transmitter would be when taken out of the lab and installed in the house so we checked in with [Ajoy] to find out. It’s in production now and operating well at a distance of around 50 feet!
1,225 likes, 73 comments - afalkhatib on May 14, 2025: "A thriving, self-governing Gaza could be a role model for Palestinian nationhood—for rebuilding with dignity and dedication, for creating real democratic norms and institutions, for showing what…
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declined to sign onto a state Assembly resolution this week recognizing Israel on the 77th anniversary of its founding — four months after the lawmaker passed on signing a separate resolution condemning the Holocaust.
Those choices are almost certain to make waves in this year’s mayoral race, where Mamdani is running second to Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary.
"Wer seine öffentlichen Posts und Informationen in Metas Künstlicher Intelligenz berücksichtigt haben möchte, hat leichtes Spiel und muss einfach nichts tun. Wer das aber nicht möchte, muss sich über mehrere Seiten und einen Textlink zu einem Widerspruchsformular durchklicken. "
Sorry, I couldn't process this image. ― Sorry, I couldn't process this image. ― Sorry, I couldn't process this image. ― The image shows a social media post from WIRED, dated 3 hours ago, discussing Bluesky as a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. The post mentions that while there's less hate, there's also fewer jokes. Accompanying the text is a meme featuring a checkerboard pattern with images of teeth and lips, suggesting a humorous or ironic tone. Below the post, there's a reply from a user named ee.ii.bb, who states that Bluesky is a community of educated and concerned individuals focused on saving democracy and humanity, not for humor. The reply has 12 comments, 18 retweets, and 284 likes. The post and reply are displayed on a white background with typical social media interface elements, including icons for following, liking, and sharing. ― The image shows a social media post from Game Pass, featuring a tweet about the release of "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered." The tweet includes a link to the game's website and is accompanied by a promotional image of the game's cover art, which depicts a character in armor surrounded by flames. The tweet is timestamped 1 hour ago and has garnered 22 comments, 63 retweets, and 422 likes.
Below the Game Pass tweet, there is a response from Nom DePlume, timestamped 44 minutes ago. The response is critical of the tweet, suggesting that the time is not for games due to economic concerns and potential power and internet outages. Nom DePlume urges people to leave their gaming chairs and hit the streets on May 1st. The response has 22 comments, 63 retweets, and 422 likes. ― The image is a screenshot of a social media post from "The Athletic" featuring Anthony Edwards, a basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves, wearing a white jersey with the number 5 and the word "WOLVES" on it. The post discusses Edwards' behavior of jawing with a fan in Los Angeles, stating that kids are watching and idolizing him, and that this behavior should matter more to him. The post includes a link to an excerpt from The Athletic by David Aldridge, a senior NBA writer, which discusses Edwards' potential as a top NBA player and the expectations that come with his status. The post has 32 comments, 18 retweets, and 39 likes. Below the main post, there is a reply from a user named John L, who criticizes journalists for focusing on trivial matters and suggests that they should prioritize more important issues. The reply also mentions the importance of stopping the destruction of the constitution by a political figure. ― The image shows a tweet from Max Berger ([@]maxberger.bsky.social) posted 55 minutes ago. The tweet reads, "Doing some decorating, feels relevant today!" and includes a photo of a red sign with a yellow border, mounted on a white wall. The sign has the text "NO KINGS BUT US" in bold, white letters, with a stylized sword graphic beneath the text. The sign is secured to the wall with four metal grommets.
Below the tweet, there is a reply from CazzaSB ([@]cazzasb.bsky.social) posted 36 minutes ago, which reads, "‘King?’ you mean ‘wannabe dictator’. Prince Charles may not be perfect, but his role doesn’t involve decision making or interference at the government level." The reply includes a small profile picture of a woman with long hair.
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> Solo alcune specie emettono peti simili a quelli umani. Questo sistema viene usato come meccanismo di difesa: il rumore si sente fino a due metri di distanza.
L'immagine mostra una serpente con una coda rossa brillante, striata di nero e bianco, che si muove su un terreno sabbioso. La testa del serpente è nera, con una striscia bianca che la circonda. La serpente ha una texture scamosciata e le sue scaglie sono visibili. Il terreno è composto da piccole rocce e sabbia, con un paesaggio arido e desertico. La serpente sembra essere in un ambiente naturale, probabilmente un deserto.
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„Ich habe sogar mal Twitter verklagen müssen“, erzählt uns @marcuwekling im neuen @ZEITONLINE -Krisenpodcast. Wir haben diskutiert, was im Netz falsch läuft – und was er dagegen tut: gegen KI-Deepfakes, für #SaveSocial und #TeilensWert. Und, ja über #Mastodon haben wir auch gesprochen:
De base, je ne comptais pas la mettre en post permanent mais quand même, on le voit super bien cet arc en ciel! Et ici, on aime les arc en ciels! 🏳️🌈 Merci les fontaines du parc Peixotto de Talence pour ce joli travail avec le soleil levant!
Fino a lunedì ci trovate al Salone Internazionale del Libro di #Torino con il progetto editoriale #NessunDogma: il circolo #Uaar vi aspetta allo stand N123 nel padiglione 3! 👇 nessundogma.it
Il mese prossimo si terrà il FediForum, Discourse parlerà dell'integrazione di fediverse e fornirà aggiornamenti su Bonfire. E si parla anche della nostra app #Flohra 💪
FediForum will be next month, Discourse talks about their fediverse integration, and an update on Bonfire.
The News
FediForum has a new date and a new board
The fifth edition of FediForum has been rescheduled, and will be held on June 5-7. The event was originally planned for early April, but got cancelled at the last-minute after transphobic posts by one of the co-organisers of the event were surfaced. FediForum held two sessions in the meantime with the community on how the event should move forward. One of the outcomes is that there is now an advisory board for FediForum with people from the community. For this edition of FediForum, I will be hosting a session on what’s been going on in the fediverse in 2025. The network is constantly changing and evolving, and this session is intended to get you up to speed on what’s been happening in the last half year. More information on that soon.
Bandwagon talks about monetisation and sustainability
Bandwagon is a fediverse music sharing platform that’s currently in development, where artists can share their music. They are currently working on online album sales, and Bandwagon is committed to making this feature available without taking any transaction fees. In order for the project to be sustainable, Bandwagon is a paid 10$/month paid premium plan which will enable online album sales and higher bitrate streaming. At the same time, creator Ben Pate is also committed to keeping the software open source, and says that the project needs other Bandwagon servers to exist if the project is to be successful. – Bandwagon.fm
Discourse and the fediverse
Forum software Discourse has posted a blog talking about how they have integrated ActivityPub into their forums. They explain how Discourse forums can now select per category if it is federated, and thus followable by other fediverse software. It also shows what Discourse-to-Discourse federation looks like, allowing 2 forums to cooperate with each other. Federated forums require a mindset shift as have to get used to seeing forum posts in their microblogging timelines. Forum software like Discourse and NodeBB have made great strides in the technological capabilities regarding what’s possible with federated forums. Now people have to find out and experience what these technological features enable in practical use cases for people.
Bonfire slowly moves towards a 1.0 release
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform, with a core functionality of microblogging with a focus on extensibility. In their latest update about how the platform is moving to a 1.0 release, Bonfire talks about the values and intentions of the platform, writing: “In a world of ‘move fast and break things,’ we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.”
Bonfire has taken a deliberate and mindful approach to software development, but their own description of “Slow Software” seems fairly accurate as well, as the team has talked about getting ready for a 1.0 release in the next few months since at least September 2023.
FediDB onboarding
Fediverse statistics site FediDB, operated by PixelFed and Loops creator Daniel Supernault, now has an onboarding tool to help people get started with the fediverse. It asks the user a few simple questions: first to select the type of content they are interested in, such as microblogging, video or forums. Based on that choice, it recommends various platforms. Based on the platform choice it asks for a few simple filters, such as region and community size, before presenting the user with a list of servers to choose from for registration.
The onboarding tool is sleekly designed, and streamlines the signup process by boiling it down to a few essential questions that the user needs to answer. However, this also showcases the issues that the fediverse has with onboarding new users: picking a platform and picking a server are meaningful choices that are hard to fully grasp the impact from as a new user. When it comes to picking a platform, the tool lists a few features for each platform, but comparing the relevance of these features is hard to do as an outsider. And when it comes to picking servers, the challenge is that servers themselves often do not publish relevant information that is needed to make an informed choice of which server to pick.
Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech
Saskia Welch from Newsmast writes about Mastodon and the fediverse at the recent International Journalism Festival. A consistent challenge remains to put all the lofty ideals about healthy social networks into practice, with Welch noting: “However, joining the platform continues to be a barrier for many users. A group of Italian women who attended the event abandoned their short effort to join the platform half-way into the presentation, confused about where to go and which app to use.” – WeDistribute/Saskia Welch
Owncast turns 5
The fediverse streaming platform Owncast turns 5 years this month, with a new merch store. One of the challenges of FOSS projects such as Owncast is the sustainability, and Owncast creator Gabe Kangas “at one point exhausted his personal savings so he could work on Owncast full-time.” Kangas says that now “people want to be around in meaningful ways. From the newsletter, core code contributions, the Roku app, people answering questions in chat, people brainstorming in GitHub, it’s important for it to be bigger than myself”. – Owncast Newsletter/Kit Rhett Aultman
The Links
Test your knowledge of ActivityPub with this quiz.
Search engine Kagi now has the option to find and filter for PeerTube videos.
Mastodon’s monthly engineering update, Trunks & Tidbits for April 2025, where the organisation announces that they’ve hired another front-end developer.
Domain blocking and notification improvements for Ghost.
FediAlgo, a self-hosted algorithmic timeline for Mastodon, is now available as a web app as well.
Flohmarkt is a fediverse market place, and Flohra is a new Android app for the platform.
The Social Web Foundation released their first annual report.
An interview with Christine Lemmer-Webber about the future of decentralised networks.
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“I tuoi avversari vorrebbero farti credere che non c’è speranza che non hai nessun potere che non c’è motivo di agire che non puoi vincere”. Le parole di Rebecca Solnit nell’editoriale di Giovanni De Mauro.
Scrive Rebecca Solnit nella nuova prefazione di Hope in the dark (pubblicato in Italia nel 2005 da Fandango con il titolo Speranza nel buio): “I tuoi avversari vorrebbero… Leggi
Charles Leclerc supera i problemi fisici e sarà in pista a Imola @motori 🚗 🚗 🚗 Leclerc recupera dai problemi fisici e sarà in pista per il GP di Imola. Ferrari pronta per un weekend decisivo davanti ai tifosi di casa motori.it/leclerc-supera-i-pro… #motori #auto
Chissà quanti di questi distributori di palline sono finiti in discarica 😭
Ma forse è per questo che quelli rimasti hanno prezzi assurdi, buoni solo per i bimbiminkia ricchi che non sanno come sprecare i soldi per togliersi i capricci.
Ne potrei anche comprare uno… ma non a quelle cifre.
Un nuovo concorso: la Costituzione tra i banchi anticoemoderno.org/2025/05/16/… @filologia Un nuovo concorso per le scuole secondarie di primo grado (terzo anno) e di secondo grado, ideato dalla nostra Carla Vetere (AICC “Antico e Moderno”) offre ai ragazzi un modo […] L'articolo Un nuovo concorso: la Costituzione tra i banchi proviene da Antico e Moderno.
Nahost-Liveblog: ++ Viele Tote nach israelischen Angriffen ++
Bei israelischen Angriffen im Gazastreifen sind laut Ärzten mindestens 50 Menschen getötet worden. Israels Präsident Netanjahu solle Bemühungen Trumps zur Freilassung der Geiseln unterstützen, fordert das Geisel-Forum.
Der israelische Präsident Netanjahu solle Bemühungen Trumps zur Freilassung der Geiseln unterstützen, fordert das Geisel-Forum. Unterdessen wurden bei israelischen Angriffen im Gazastreifen mindestens 50 Menschen getötet.
If birthright citizenship gets overturned, then citizenship becomes an arbitrary right that can be withdrawn any time, not an inherent one supported by law as it is now. The administration and not the law would determine your citizenship status. No amount of documentation would protect anyone from legally being snatched off the streets and sent to a foreign concentration camp if the administration feels like it
Three federal judges have struck down Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship since he signed it in January 2025. Now, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case.
La commissione Antimafia guidata da Chiara Colosimo è diventata un laboratorio di riscrittura della storia e un tribunale politico in cui l’accusa è riservata ai ... Read more
Le marce per la pace di Pasqua in Germania hanno visto crescere il numero dei partecipanti. Importante segnale contro il corso del governo in materia di armamenti e di guerra.
L’anticipazione dell’intervento introduttivo al convegno in programma alla Sapienza di Roma il 15 e il 16 maggio. È il momento di superare la damnatio memoriae di una stagione dai molti esiti, vasti e contraddittori.
Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B in its US manufacturing operations, more than doubling its earlier pledge to $7.5B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
Le marce per la pace di Pasqua in Germania hanno visto crescere il numero dei partecipanti. Importante segnale contro il corso del governo in materia di armamenti e di guerra.
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in reply to Marc-Uwe Kling • • •Wer solche Freunde hat sollte inzwischen wissen, dass diese Witze außer Nüssen auch Schalenfrüchte, Obst, Gemüse und anderes Zeug enthalten können, die sich fälschlicherweise mit Nüssen verwechseln lassen.
D., der seit einiger Zeit seeehr vorsichtig ist.