It's been less than a week since Donald Trump signed his big ugly megabill into law, and already Democrats are making Republicans pay for screwing over their own voters. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…
Good. Because I'm tired of the Dems bailing them out and then in 4 years everyone is like, "see that wasn't as bad as those mean old snowflake Dems wanted you to believe" and then everyone forgets the attacks on everything it means to be American and act like GOP isn't a basket of deplorables, again.
Will the democrats be able to make their positions on the Right's most vilified topics, such as Immigrants' rights, health care, and LGBTQ rights palatable to an angry Republican electorate that only knows Fox News' propaganda? Yes, these people are angry at MAGA's theft, but it may not be enough for them to accept evil demon-crats.
LM Studio is now free for commercial use, removing prior license barriers for teams. New updates enable free Hub organizations and simplified team collaboration alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/…
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Abu Obeida: It is the resilience of our people and the bravery of our courageous resistance that alone shape the equations and define the features of the coming phase. english.alahednews.news/fastne…
Alahednews - Fastnews - Abu Obeida: It is the resilience of our people and the bravery of our courageous resistance that alone shape the equations and define the f...
🇵🇹 A small taste of the beauty of the town of Sintra framed within the elaborate decorative window arches of the National Palace of Sintra, Portugal Komeil Karimi_20230623_K012288 #Portugal #Sintra #window #arch #landscape #travel #architecture #Photography
Climate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway.
According to a report out today from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), copper mines require a steady water supply to function, and many are situated in places around the world that face a growing risk of severe drought due to shifts in climate.
Copper is almost ubiquitous in IT hardware because of its excellent electrical conductivity, from the tracks on circuit boards to cabling and even the interconnects on microchips. PwC's report focuses just on chips, and claims that nearly a third (32 percent) of global semiconductor production will be reliant on copper supplies that are at risk from climate disruption by 2035.
If something is not done to rein in climate change, like drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, then the share of copper supply at risk rises to 58 percent by 2050, PwC claims. As this seems increasingly unlikely, it advises both copper exporters and semiconductor buyers to adapt their supply chains and practices if they are to ride out the risk.
If a "follower-only" toot asks a question, how do you answer?
Reply at "follower-only", and most others who also interact with the original toot will not see that reply. This creates an overall awkward experience. Dupes+stuff.
With the usual "public but not advertised" distribution, you publicize at least the existence of the original toot. This is unfriendly to the original poster.
Maybe people shouldn't ask questions in "followers only" toots to begin with?
Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.
Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
I feel that not too long ago, this would have been a bigger story. Are we just so desensitized to everything now that a Nazi chatbot doesn't even register as news anymore?
so this must be last straw that broke the proverbial camels back right, like all media & corporations & democratic governments - including ars & its parent will now leave twitter right.. Right?
The replies to this post are an absolutely insane collection of all the garbage the insane people left on his hellhole of a platform like to believe. Holocaust denial, dangerous lies about various minorities, life-threatening pseudomedicine, and lots of overt racism of course.
#OtD 8 Jul 1867 Käthe Kollwitz, socialist and anti-war German Expressionist artist and sculptor was born. Forced to resign by the Nazis, they threatened to send her to a concentration camp, but fortunately she was spared stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Con i suoi omologhi greco e maltese e il commissario Ue Mark Brunner avrebbe dovuto incontrare il presidente e il governo per chiedere maggiori sforzi nel bloc…
AKA Wes Craven's New Nightmare AKA Nightmare on Elm Street 7.
Probably the most interesting film in the series? That doesn't mean it's the best, though. There's a lot here that's real good, but unfortunately all the main important stuff for something like this is kinda weak.
Extremely rare case where going full meta works. Probably because it's taken seriously while not thinking that doing this is making it very smart. Just playing it very straight.
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Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli far-right ministers have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “immediately” withdraw from the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks, “conquer” the Palestin
If step 1 & 2 are required then I doubt step 3 is going to happen...
Step one is explaining what a resistor is. Step two is explaining how to buy a power cord(!) and explaining what a breadboard is. Step 3 is hooking up an oscilloscope & signal generator
Inductance is the ability of a coil to stop an electrical current from flowing through it. An inductor coil can stop one current so a different one is able to flow. TVs and radios, for instance, use inductance to receive and tune into...
Elon Musk said that he would "fix" his AI chatbot Grok, which he thought was too liberal. Whatever he did turned Grok into a Nazi — approvingly invoking the name of Adolf Hitler and suggested the need for a second Holocaust. Here's @Gizmodo's story.
Since my older students have taken their exams, I'm more flexible with my schedule - so I could enjoy a special tour along the canal in Lübeck today. Temperature was ok again, yesterday's heat is gone. #Nordicwalking #walking #gettingfitter
From a 50-foot Native American monument overlooking the Missouri River to a surreal hammock strung across a border fence, these sculptures push the boundaries of form, meaning, and public space. Whether constructed from stone, steel, wire, or illusion, each work defies convention — and chances are, you haven’t seen them before. Locations span from Barcelona to Philadelphia, from South Dakota plains to Turkish landscapes.
1. Melancholy — Albert György in Geneva, Switzerland
This bronze sculpture of a seated figure appears hollowed out from within, forming an arched void from chest to head. The minimalist facial features and slumped posture evoke absence and loss, using emptiness as its central element.
2. Window and Ladder – Too Late for Help — Leandro Erlich in Montevideo, Uruguay
A fragment of brick wall with a single window floats mid-air, supported by a ladder that leads nowhere. Placed in an empty lot, this illusion-based sculpture alters space and challenges logic.
3. Border Hammock — Murat Gök in Istanbul, Turkey
Two fence poles curve inward to cradle a man resting in a hammock made from the fence itself. By bending an otherwise rigid border element into a place of rest, the sculpture offers a quiet yet clever political statement.
4. Freedom — Zenos Frudakis in Philadelphia, USA
This bronze wall shows four human forms in various stages of breaking free, culminating in a fully emerged figure stepping into open space. It explores transformation and personal liberation.
5. Giant Slingshot Bench — Cornelia Konrads in Germany
A wooden bench is suspended by two long red straps tied to a massive Y-shaped branch. The setup mimics a slingshot ready to launch, blending utility with playful imagination.
6. Dignity — Dale Lamphere in Chamberlain, South Dakota, USA
Standing 50 feet tall, this stainless steel monument honors Native American women. The figure wears a star quilt composed of blue diamond shapes that shimmer in the wind.
7. The Kiss of Death — Unknown Artist in Barcelona, Spain
This marble sculpture in Poblenou Cemetery shows a skeleton with wings gently kissing the forehead of a lifeless young man. Created in 1930, it’s both romantic and haunting.
8. The Weight of Grief — Celeste Roberge in Portland, Maine, USA
A crouched human form is constructed from a metal frame filled with smooth river stones. The heavy material and posture communicate emotional burden through literal weight.
9. UMI — Daniel Popper in Lisle, Illinois, USA
This monumental figure is composed of sculpted wood and branches shaped into a female form. Her hands and body are formed by intertwining tree limbs, suggesting organic unity.
When street art meets nature, the results are stunning. Some artists blend their murals seamlessly with the landscape, while others use real plants to bring their work to life.
After Musk said Grok was improved "significantly", Grok wrote numerous antisemitic posts, sometimes without any clear prompting; some posts were later deleted (NBC News)
Last week, the Senate passed the largest cut to America’s welfare state in modern history. President Donald Trump’s inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill” would take health insurance from 11.8 million Americans and slash food assistance to low-income families by about $100 a month. In the face of this unprecedented setback, some progressives argue that […]
The Ikedaya incident pitted rōnin employed by the Chōshū and Tosa clans against the Tokugawa shogunate's special police force OTD in 1864 at the Ikedaya Inn in Kyoto cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan… #travel #Japan #history
In Putin's Russia, a dead soldier is worth more than a living one. Discover how death has become the country’s fastest path out of poverty — and its biggest economy.
I have signed decrees today awarding the titles of Hero of Ukraine to Nazarii Hryntsevych and Dmytro Fisher. The nomination and all relevant documents for Vitalii Karvatskyi have also been prepared.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
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"The Trump administration is once again putting its thumb on the scale to help old, dirty power sources at the expense of air quality, public health, and higher energy bills," said one opponent.
L'essere umano non è al centro del mondo, è solo una specie tra milioni ma ha costruito un'intera civiltà sulla convinzione patologica di essere il protagonista del pianeta.
I have always appreciated and agreed with @bert_hubert a lot on policy and "Cloud" and all this.
This piece from him is totally on point regarding needs, reality of opensource and ways we could go forward.
I, being a pessimist, see no way this vision would happen, I do not think we have the policymakers, organizational knowledge or even ambitions and vision for it in our industry.
But damn do I want to be wrong. And if I am, what he offers is probably our best chance out of this mess.
Read it and come help us. Happy to help you figure it out, if you are one of the people interested in it. Even just as an expert that help you navigate this mess.
Advanced cloud services are based on good hardware, decent software, and surrounding infrastructure that combines these both into solid solutions that can be provided as a business activity.
Europe is good with operating the hardware.
I read this wonderful piece as a lay person; I beg your pardon for the ignorance that I'm sure shines from my question.
This sounds to me like needing Infrastructure As A Service (or Platform As A Service). Am I right to say it's the sort of thing for which SlapOS could be used?
I only ask because I've been trying to understand available open-source ERPs recently and am in the (long, for me) process of trying to grok slapOS, and it sounds - again, to my mean understanding - like it could be the sort of thing that contributes to a European solution.
not really. I mean sure, it could be "used" as a tool in the whole mix, but it is not really attacking the problem we are talking about here. Making sure that the machines are running and that they are networked is something all of our hosting providers and infrastructure providers know how to do already.
The problem is the UX.
Basically, here is the problem to solve, for one of these modules that @bert_hubert talk about.
I need to be able, in a couple of API calls, to get a managed postgres database, with good default, provisionned under 5min, with a read-replica, a write replica, enough storage, automatic updates in defined weekly windows, easy and downtime free path to update to new version at an API call, with managed IAM access, on the networks, with a dns address I can use in my app, with accounts, passwords, etc, with logging and monitoring, billed by the hour, and in my existing networks. Oh and I need an automatic snapshot every day, that I can recover also with a single API call. Encrypted while you are at it, using a managed service for the keys and HSM, that you also manage, that can also have all these things and more, also in a single API call/push of a button.
And my devs need to be able to demand that, and I
Right now, only AWS can do it. Even GCP and Azure offer only subpar version or partial version of this.
And I need near 100% uptime for it. That I can trust, not just written on a contract.
And I am not being a prick here. This is *literally* the tableskate minimum that I need to be able to recommend you to my employers.
And this is the _minimum_. Once we start leaving just the database layers, I have a lot more demands. And there are a lot of "nice to have but also kinda mandatory" things I have not put there, because once again. What I ask is the *bare minimum to have a seat at the table*
Ahh, roger, thank you! That's a really useful explanation; yes, I see why slapOS in and of itself won't cut the mustard. Gosh, I can see why we need this capability from a strategic/geopolitical point of view. Indeed not just Europe; any competent government should want to make sure feedback-loops were set up so that they did not inadvertently lose "digital sovereignty" in such a manner here illustrated.
too late. We already lost it. At this point the question is if we actually are serious about taking it back. So far, I am not seeing it. Partially because people do not want to see the size of the risk (too scary) and partially because people really do not want to accept the size of the work needed.
Truth. We are probably not serious about taking back our digital sovereignty at the moment. You know how it is. Bureaucracies gonna' bureaucrate. I.E.: find the lowest bidder, or someone who takes them out to dinner, or someone who is willing to train their staff on proprietary systems. Or all three. If I see anyone trying to steer the ship toward the right direction I will point them in the direction of Hubert's manifesto.
My money, for where that leadership comes from if & when we see it, is on #Norway or #Finland, but I'm just guessing.
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I struggle to believe that in a civilized country a federal fund that provides broadband Internet connection to schools and libraries needs to be put in discussion, all the way up to the Supreme Court, by a bunch of sociopaths who believe that providing fast Internet to students who can’t have it at home is unconstitutional.
Amongst all of the terrible and regressive decisions and shadow docket orders the Supreme Court spewed forth this term, there was a rare, small win for libraries and schools. The story got a little…
Things are bad in the world outside the gate, but in the garden I have also noticed more fireflies than usual. "Seeing More Fireflies in New York City This Year? You’re Not Alone." #NYC thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/firefli…
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in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Yes, these people are angry at MAGA's theft, but it may not be enough for them to accept evil demon-crats.