Positive attitudes toward AI linked to more prone to problematic social media use

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#PRESS

Positive attitudes toward AI linked to more prone to problematic social media use

A new study suggests that people who view artificial intelligence positively may be more likely to overuse social media. The findings highlight a potential link between attitudes toward AI and problematic online behavior, especially among male users.

^{Eric W. Dolan (PsyPost Psychology News)}

Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast

gizmodo.com/lost-for-300-years…

#technology #PRESS

Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast

The vessel, seized by infamous pirates en route to Lisbon from Goa, was carrying an “eye-watering” amount of treasure, archeologists say.

^{Natalia Mesa (Gizmodo)}

Anxious Mondays Leave Lasting Mark on Stress

neurosciencenews.com/anxious-m…

#neuroscience #PRESS

Neuroscience News

Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

^{Neuroscience News}

Progetto Vacanze Sicure 2025, monitorate quasi 10.000 auto - Sicurezza - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_motori/notizie/sicurezza/2025/07/07/progetto-vacanze-sicure-2025-monitorate-quasi-10.000-auto_061ea447-47cb-42fb-90bf-6de99bdb3884.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Motori @motori-AgenziaAnsa

Progetto Vacanze Sicure 2025, monitorate quasi 10.000 auto - Sicurezza - Ansa.it

Il progetto di controllo e sensibilizzazione Vacanze Sicure, promosso da Polizia Stradale, Assogomma - Gruppo Produttori Pneumatici e Federpneus - Associazione Nazionale dei Rivenditori Specialisti di Pneumatici, per l'edizione 2025 ha monitorato cir…

^{Agenzia ANSA}

Rete Driver specialisti Pirelli sceglie Bosch per assistenza - Industria e Analisi - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_motori/notizie/industria_analisi/2025/07/07/rete-driver-specialisti-pirelli-sceglie-bosch-per-assistenza_6e401330-8b70-42a6-9baf-8f2ee4b554ad.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Motori @motori-AgenziaAnsa

Rete Driver specialisti Pirelli sceglie Bosch per assistenza - Industria e Analisi - Ansa.it

Driver Italia, la rete di 500 centri di assistenza specialisti del marchio Pirelli che in Italia sono dedicati ai pneumatici, ma anche alla meccanica, all'elettronica e alla diagnosi dell'auto, ha scelto Bosch per qualificare questo importante networ…

^{Agenzia ANSA}

Labour opens door to wealth tax
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/07/no-10-opens-door-to-wealth-tax/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-TheTelegraph

No 10 opens door to wealth tax

No 10 refused to rule out new levy on wealthy taxpayers amid pressure from unions and party figures

^{Amy Gibbons (The Telegraph)}

Il timelapse dell'inondazione improvvisa del fiume Llano, in Texas - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/timelapse-fiume-llano-texas/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost

Il timelapse dell’inondazione improvvisa del fiume Llano, in Texas

^{Il Post}

Corbyn targets Streeting’s seat with new hard-Left party
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/07/corbyn-targets-streeting-seat-new-hard-left-party/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-TheTelegraph

Jeremy Corbyn targets Wes Streeting’s seat with new hard-Left party

Former Labour leader speaks at event alongside Leanne Mohamad, who was close to defeating Health Secretary last July

^{Ben Riley-Smith (The Telegraph)}

Experiment an der FU Berlin: Ein Konzert zum Einschlafen

Beim "Lullabyte Sleep Concert" übernachteten mehr als 70 Menschen gemeinsam zu den Klängen von Live-Musik. Ziel ist, dass sie möglichst gut schlafen - das Konzert also gar nicht hören. Was steckt dahinter? Von R. Bruckmann.

➡️ tagesschau.de/kultur/schlafkon…

#Kultur #Konzert #Schlaf

Experiment an der FU Berlin: Ein Konzert zum Einschlafen

^{tagesschau.de}

"Il derubato che ride ruba qualcosa al ladro
ma il derubato che piange ruba qualcosa a sé stesso"

Pasolini e Domenico Modugno, "Cosa sono le nuvole" (1968)

Monday morning at the Internet Archive means one thing: the microfiche scanners are live! 📷️

Tune in to the scanning #livestream & start your week with some quiet, cool preservation (7:30 AM–midnight PT).

📡 youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

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#一ノ瀬瑠菜

Ça y est, ma PR a été intégrée :
github.com/msys2/MINGW-package…

Depuis ce matin, les versions de développement (dites « nightly ») de Gajim pour Windows fonctionnent enfin avec les lecteurs d'écran !

Avant seul le nom de la fenêtre été lu par les lecteurs, aucun élément interne à l'application n'était accessible. Depuis l'intégration d'AccessKit (un nouveau backend a11y) à GTK 4.18 c'est enfin possible. Ainsi les prochaines versions stables de Gajim (et toute app GTK4 sous Windows qui prend un peu l'accessibilité au sérieux) sous Windows seront accessibles.

J'ai pu tester sous Windows avec le lecteur d'écran NVDA, si vous êtes utilisateurice de Gajim sous Windows n'hésitez pas à remonter tout soucis que vous pourriez rencontrer.

#XMPP #a11y #accessibility

[gtk4] Enable accesskit during build phase by codeurimpulsif · Pull Request #24736 · msys2/MINGW-packages

Goal Since GTK 4.18, AccessKit a11y backend is available (blog post about it). This PR enable accesskit during build of GTK4 so GTK4 applications can now have accessibility in Windows. Information ...

^GitHub

When you plan for 90 deals in 90 days, nothing screams Art of the Deal quite like ZERO DEALS in 89 days!

#ZeroDeals #LoserTrump #Tariffs #Trade #Economy #USPol

EEP. You might just recognise this voice on the IGN YouTube. 14 minutes of guided gameplay, exclusive for IGN

youtube.com/watch?v=0iXUTZ6Jjn…

#IndieGame #Gaming #VideoGames #Gamer

« #Geany 2.1 Open-Source #IDE Released with Improved UI and File Type Support »

｢ Adds support for CIL, Dart, Dockerfile, LESS, SCSS, Nix, Prolog, Raku (Perl 6), SystemVerilog, Terraform HCL, TOML, and Zig file types ｣

› 9to5linux.com/geany-2-1-open-s…

Geany 2.1 Open-Source IDE Released with Improved UI and File Type Support - 9to5Linux

Geany 2.1 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with new file type support, UI enhancements.

^{Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)}

TapTrap: Animation-Driven Tapjacking on Android

@informatica

Scopro da GrapheneOS questa tipologia di attacco su Android.

Loro dicono di aver pronto un fix che verrà incluso nel prossimo update mentre Google nonostante ne sia a conoscenza da ottobre 2024 non lo ha ancora sistemato.

Date un occhio al video su: taptrap.click/ perché è un attacco molto interessante e particolare.

GrapheneOS

2025-07-07 14:58:34

After our Android 16 port was completed yesterday, we started fixing an Android tapjacking vulnerability disclosed last month:

taptrap.click

We have a fix implemented and it will be included in our next release, likely with the monthly Android 16 update tomorrow.

TapTrap: Animation‑Driven Tapjacking on Android

^{taptrap.click}

AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published

One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to be working toward making openSIL production-ready for next-generation Zen 6 platforms but some of their proo…
phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-…

globalist.it/culture/2025/07/0…

Molto bene

"Di là dal fiume e tra gli alberi" finalmente nelle sale italiane

Tratto dal romanzo-testamento di Hemingway. La regista Paula Ortiz dirige Liev Schreiber e Matilda De Angelis.

^{redazione (Globalist.it)}

25 years ago today one of the best entries in the Final Fantasy series was released. At first glance, it's easy to consider Final Fantasy IX as a light and whimsical title, especially in the shadow of FFVII. But anyone who has played the game knows that beyond its colourful characters and gorgeous scenery, it explores themes of existentialism, identity, finding your chosen family, finding love and acceptance as you are, and also finding yourself and what it means to carve your own path and to make the choices that define you, despite your past or what inner or outer darkness you are fighting against.

It's a story that asks some very deep questions about dealing with depression, the meaning of life, and the fear of death and loss, that ultimately rejects nihilism by emphasising how even the realisation that existence is temporary and mortality is inevitable doesn't diminish the importance of connecting, loving, sharing, hoping, experiencing the little moments, and fighting for a better world. It's one the most beautiful and hopepunk games to have come out in the last few decades that remains more relevant than ever, and is well worth discovering even today.

(25th anniversary Illustrations by Yuya Ishihata and Toshiyuki Itahana)

#FinalFantasyIX #FinalFantasy #OTD #OnThisDay #Gaming #VideoGames #Games #RPG #HopePunk

'Het was de week van Wilders. Na een blamage op links kreeg de PVV-voorman zijn twee veelbesproken asielwetten erdoor én een amendement waardoor statushouders geen voorrang meer krijgen bij woningtoewijzing. Hoe heeft dit kunnen gebeuren en wat zijn de gevolgen? De kamer van Klok neemt het door.'

#DeVolkskrantElkeDag De kamer van Klok: Wilders heeft deze week iedereen weggespeeld

open.spotify.com/episode/3e3Z8…

What Scottish Independence Could Deliver For The Welfare State

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” – Marcus Aurelius

This blog post previously appeared in The National as part of Common Weal’s In Common newsletter.
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Back in the early days of Common Weal, while we were still finding our feet and building our reputation, we had an informal rule when it came to policy-making. We had to be able to show the policy working somewhere else.

This was because we felt that Scotland simply wasn’t ready for some of the radical ideas that we wanted to implement so being able to show it already working was a good way of building confidence in a nation too often told “we cannae dae it” (by which our opponents often mean “we shouldnae dae it” which is a different thing entirely).

We’ve since dispensed with that rule and we sometimes broke it even then (one of Common Weal’s very first policy papers, “In Place Of Anxiety”, was an advocacy for Universal Basic Income (UBI) long before it became one of the “cool” policies) but this isn’t to say that we can’t learn lessons from elsewhere.

Just this week, I was asked by a researcher which of our neighbour nations I’d like Scotland to copy if I could. My answer was that we shouldn’t copy any one but that I take a lot of inspiration from Germany on local democracy, from Denmark on energy strategy and from Norway for public ownership. Somewhere else we could do with taking inspiration from our neighbours is on social security.

The scenes this week from the UK’s attempts to hammer the poor and disabled and only backing down after shambolic chaos in the Parliament should be a lesson not just in humanity but in policy-making as well. Never fight a battle you haven’t won in advance. Never assume a large on-paper majority means certain absolute power.

With many of our neighbours basing their politics on proportional representation and coalition politics, this kind of legislation would have undergone a lot of negotiation and compromise long before arriving at the voting chamber.

The way that many of our neighbours deal with the issue of social security is markedly different from the UK in several ways. The first is that the systems are a lot more generous in general. Norway, Denmark and Sweden rank in the top three OECD nations for spending on disability protections at above 3% of GDP while the UK is well below the OECD average at less than 2%.

Many more social securities like unemployment protections follow a different model from the UK when they are calculated. In particular, instead of the flat rate paid under the UK’s Universal Credit, many countries follow a model where the protection you receive is based on a percentage of your previous income.

There are consequences to each of these models. A flat rate tends to be more redistributive if it is generous enough (which Universal Credit isn’t) whereas a proportional rate tends to be less disruptive to an individual who is already going through the shock of losing their job while still having bills to pay.

We’ve seen these impacts in the UK too. During the pandemic, the Covid furlough scheme was paid at a proportional rate to people who were employed but was often paid at a flat Universal Credit rate to self-employed people. This exposed a lot of people who were previously on the side of denigrating poor and vulnerable people as lazy slackers to just how meagre and cruel the UK “benefits” system is.

We had an opportunity then to get some serious change off the back of that and maybe we still see echoes of it in this week’s chaos but largely the Powers That Be wanted to make us forget that moment of reflection as quickly as possible.

On the other side and as tempting as it might be to copy a European-style unemployment insurance based on previous income, and as beneficial that would be to people in well-paid but otherwise insecure jobs, we have to remember that many people are not in well-paid jobs and that wage suppression has been rife in the UK for decades. Receiving 60% of your previous income when you were being paid poverty wages won’t protect you from poverty in unemployment.

So maybe rather than Scotland – particularly an independent Scotland – copying existing social security policies from our neighbours, we need to look to them for inspiration in another way and look back at that paper I mentioned at the start of this column.

Last year, the EU think tank the Coppieters Foundation published a paper called “A European Universal Basic Income” which found that a UBI sufficient to eradicate poverty across the entire union could be entirely paid for by relatively modest changes to income tax and the savings found from the reduction of poverty itself.

Its model called for a UBI of €6,857 per year for adults and half that for children under 14. This is the equivalent of £113 per week for adults and £57 per week for children. The paper claimed that the increase in income taxes to pay for this level of UBI would themselves be relatively modest and the “breakeven” point for people who’d pay more income tax than they’d receive in UBI would be at around the 80th percentile.

In other words, eight out of 10 people would be directly better off with the UBI. And, to repeat, while this is still a relatively small sum per person if you have no other income, it would be enough to eradicate poverty across the entire EU and would be cheaper overall – after the health, crime and social inequality costs of poverty are factored in – than the current systems.

When this paper came out I argued that this meant a UBI was now a moral imperative because it was cheaper than the cost of poverty, but there’s clearly a financial imperative too. Whether we’re discussing an independent Scotland seeking to create a better country for all of us or even just a cynical UK trying to save money in the face of a humiliating attempt to crush the poor, here is a solution we should all support. Eradicate poverty, save money, implement a Universal Basic Income.

#politics #ScottishPolitics #SocialSecurity #UBI #UKPolitics

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Me, an intellectual:

Ludicrous speed GOOOOOOOO!

#Fediverse #Tech #Stream

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