Cedar Sinks Trail
Mammoth Cave National Park
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Make sure to call all your federal reps because they keep voting to sell off our public lands to the highest bidder. First on the chopping block is the lands around Zion, so Utah & Nevada get your shit together now! #resist
#silentSunday #hiking #park #NationalPark #limestone #geology #nature #outdoors
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#TranceFam #RabbitFam #PLUR #Ravers
One of those 80s tunes that was never really appreciated enough.
#MusicOfMastodon
#80sPop
#Shelter
Disillusion has an edge so sharp
It tears at your soul and leaves a stain upon your heart
I need you
To wash mine clean
You've felt it too and you need me
Let me be your shelter, shelter
From a storm outside
Let me be your Shelter
Shelter
From the endless night
"A new report has revealed that Donald #Trump’s White House is suppressing the vast majority of transcripts from his speeches and press events—because many of his remarks are simply too unhinged to publish."
dailyboulder.com/white-house-e…
White House Excludes Majority of Trump’s Remarks from Transcripts Because They Are Too ‘Unhinged’ to Publish, Report Says
A new report has revealed that Donald Trump’s White House is suppressing the vast majority of transcripts from his speeches and press events—because many of his remarks are simply too unhinged to publish.Staff Writer (The Daily Boulder)
africanews.com/2025/05/16/glob…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm on the long-term health repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic in its newly released World Health Statistics Report 2025. The report reveals a staggering decline in global life expectancy, which dropped by 1.8 years between 2019 and 2021 – the sharpest fall in recent history, effectively reversing a decade of health gains.
Global life expectancy plunges as WHO warns of deepening health crisis Post-COVID | Africanews
Furthermore, recent disruptions in international aid threaten to destabilize progress, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.Africanews
Trump claims Putin’s failure to capture Kyiv was due to terrain and tanks getting stuck in the mud, not military strategy and heroic defense.
The grift that keeps on grifting…
This is going to backfire.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
‘Very disturbing’: Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented, experts warn
White House remakes foreign policy under pay-for-access code that critics say could violate US constitutionAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
I said almost same thing a while back here.
"Antisemitism" definition police (Thanks Orthodoxy!) came at me to call me all sorts of awful names, because I was not willing to toe Orthodox line Western Left hegemonically imposes.
Orthodox Left defined this as "antisemitism"(always underlying current is implying you are Nazi if you challenge).
Unorthodox Left(like me) will push envelope till reality is prioritized over definitional games.
Facebook allegedly served beauty ads to teens after detecting selfie deletions. #BigTech #Facebook #Privacy
futurism.com/facebook-beauty-t…
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
Hanging scroll painting cut-down and framed under glass; ink, color, gold; paper
19th century
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#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
Clamoroso in Terza Categoria, il Pontecosi non si iscriverà al prossimo campionato: “È stato un viaggio bellissimo”
Il club garfagnino rende noto che "una realtà, priva di rimborsi economici, nel calcio attuale purtroppo non è riuscita a sopravvivere"
Just Enough Cryptography — Cipher Strength and Key Length
How strong are specific cipher algorithms, how long are the keys and how large is the key space? Resistance to cryptanalysis and brute-force attackBob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Zelenskyy to attend inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/18/zelenskyy-to-attend-inauguration-of-pope-leo-xiv-in-the-vatican?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Europe News @europe-news-euronews
Zelenskyy to attend inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would be happy to meet with other leaders as he did at Pope Francis' funeral.Emma De Ruiter (Euronews.com)
Voice of Korea
Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders
We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting.arXiv.org
Explosion vor Fruchtbarkeitsklinik laut FBI Terrorakt
Nach einer Explosion vor einer Fruchtbarkeitsklinik in Kalifornien gibt es ein Todesopfer. Das FBI spricht von einem Terrorakt. Details zum Täter, dem Opfer oder einem Motiv sind noch nicht bekannt.
Trump has created a permanent crisis state. Yet the real crisis began when tens of millions of Americans made the mistake of putting a fascist back in office after his first attempt to overthrow the government.
How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent
The president is declaring emergencies on everything from an “invasion” of immigrants to a mythical shortage of fossil fuel production. But it’s all just a ploy for him to act like a Roman emperor.The New Republic
It’s here! The consensus study on #CyberHardProblems is available online for free from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. While I doubt the list will surprise anyone who’s been paying attention, it was a pleasure and a privilege to work with the committee to get this down in writing.
nap.nationalacademies.org/cata…
Cyber Hard Problems: Focused Steps Toward a Resilient Digital Future
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
#photography, #365photodgraphy2025, #potd2025, #photoaday, #everydayphotographer, #photooftheday, #pad2025-137, #heron, #greatblueheron, #greatblueheron, #birds, #dinosaurbird
Mexican navy training vessel hits New York's Brooklyn Bridge
https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-bridge-collision-mexican-navy-ship-ca335dc85ebfbf981bc38516985461c8?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress
Demonstrative Einigkeit bei Merz' Antrittsbesuch in Italien
Ob in der Europapolitik, bei Migrationsfragen oder der Wirtschaft: Bei seinem ersten Italien-Besuch als Kanzler betonen Merz und Gastgeberin Meloni Einigkeit. Und auch beim Thema Ukraine verspricht Merz, Meloni stärker einzubinden. Von Lisa Weiß.
#Facebook のAIツールに偽装し、ユーザーを #マルウェア の罠に誘い込む - Vietnam. vn
多くのFacebookユーザーがAIツールを装ったマルウェアをダウンロードするように騙され、 #個人情報 や #暗号通貨ウォレット が気づかれずに盗まれている。
vietnam.vn/ja/doi-lot-cong-cu-…
FacebookのAIツールに偽装し、ユーザーをマルウェアの罠に誘い込む
多くのFacebookユーザーがAIツールを装ったマルウェアをダウンロードするように騙され、個人情報や暗号通貨ウォレットが気づかれずに盗まれている。Báo Khoa học và Đời sống (vietnam.vn)
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Attached: 2 images hello from Leiden (colors are not adjusted, this was exactly how it looked to the naked eye)Infosec Exchange
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The bully has lifted US sanctions against Syria. I think this is the right thing to do, given the new government made up of those who fought Assad. Of course, we can't be sure how much this government will respect human
Trump meets Syria’s ‘attractive, tough’ president after lifting US sanctions
US president talks to Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia as lifting of sanctions is met with jubilation in DamascusWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
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Maria met Kind en de H. Dominicus en Catharina van Siena, Cornelis Galle (II), 1638 - 1678
Gift of G.J. Boekenoogen, Leiden
engraving, h 92mm × w 134mm
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/R…
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
#ESC #EurovisionSongContest #Israele #genocidio #Gaza
Microsoft says it provided AI to Israel for Gaza war but denies use to harm Palestinians
Microsoft acknowledged its deep involvement in the Gaza war for the first time, but did not directly address questions about precisely how the Israeli military is using its technologiesThe Associated Press (Haaretz)
Google Restores Nextcloud Users' File Access on Android - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "regain control over your data," has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from…tech.slashdot.org
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For a big player in #Australia's energy #market, #AGL has a lot of questionable, dodgy #business practices to screw their #customers.
"Under a demand tariff, consumers are charged according to their single greatest half-hourly period of electricity use from the grid across an entire month."
AGL also drained a #VPP participant's battery at times, forcing him to buy power from the grid at peak prices.
😡 😡 😡
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ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Daniel Mercer (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The endgame of the #agriculture industry, with all its "innovations" and "disruptions", is playing out in #Kenya, where the debt-ridden government was successfully bullied into banning the sharing of climate change-resilient indigenous seeds.
First you insert yourself into agriculture and introduce commercial seeds, then you "lobby" the government to force a legal end to seed sovereignty and sharing, and hurray - a subscription model for seeds! So what if the crops are less resilient and less nutritious? Quarterly profits! 📈🎉
Of course capitalism has not spared agriculture that accounts for 30% of Kenya's #GDP, but it's great to see folks fight back!
minorityafrica.org/kenya-outla…
Kenya outlawed the sharing of indigenous seeds; an unlikely village choir is fighting back - Minority Africa
As a Kenyan law cracks down on centuries-old farming traditions, the Eden Indigenous Seed Farm Choir is using song to defend seed sovereignty and preserve indigenous crops.Ruth Nganga (Minority Africa)
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#SkyNews mutes the word ‘FAMINE’ while quoting the #UN ’s humanitarian chief condemning Israel’s actions in #Gaza.
#FreePalestine
#GazaGenocide
on the way to the train station.
#landscape #blackandwhite #shotwithfairphone #silentsunday #lonelytree
【ルポ】クレカ不正利用。"補償対象外"と言い張るカード会社から、いかに「全額返金」を勝ち取ったか? (Business Insider Japan)
クレジットカードを不正利用された筆者の妻は、約8万円の被害額についてカード会社から返金拒否された。 憤りを感じた2人は、次の一手として公的機関への相談を決断し、なんとか「全額返金」を勝ち取る。 今回頼った、金融庁、警察、日本クレジット協会、国民生活センター、それぞれの役割と使い方を共有する。 補償され...www.smartnews.com
China respects Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy use
The Chinese official said that Beijing seeks a political and diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue.IRNA English
Easy Coffee Chocolate Truffles
Are you obsessed with chocolate? Do you enjoy a fresh cup of coffee every morning? Then these Coffee Chocolate Truffles are just the treat for you!!!Dedra | QueensleeAppetit (queenslee appetit)
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Tyrion is in a cone to protect his eyes, which is why he’s giving me that judgmental stare.



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