Video game performers vote on contract that could end nearly three-year-long battle over AI
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Death toll from Kenya’s latest anti-government protest surges to 31
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Death toll from Kenya’s latest anti-government protest surges to 31
Monday’s demonstrations, which were met with police roadblocks preventing access to downtown Nairobi, were planned to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the historic Saba Saba pro-democracy protests.Euronews.com
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'Every Single Republican': Top Dem Reveals Plan To Use Trump To Beat GOP In 2026
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'Every Single Republican': Top Dem Reveals Plan To Use Trump To Beat GOP In 2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said they plan to "tattoo" Trump's unpopular bill onto every single Republican who supported it.Ed Mazza (HuffPost)
Column | Carolyn Hax: Gay man avoids homophobic brother-in-law. But at what cost?
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Asian American, Pacific Islander comics are the main event in an LA comedy and cuisine festival
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Trump faces MAGA meltdown over Epstein reversal
The shutting down of conspiracy theories surrounding a purported client list of the notorious sex offender has sparked backlash from the U.S. president's support base.Frankie Taggart (The Japan Times)
Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.
Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers
"They're like cartoon villains," remarked Bloomberg political columnist Patricia Lopez.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
[Article] Watch this cucumber squirt out its seeds at ballistic speeds
Many factors must interact perfectly to disperse the seeds efficiently without destroying the plant too early.
The Saxtronauts play a Räihälä and a Moilanen world premieres, Luoto and more in Viitasaari - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
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I'm disappointed to read Peter Jackson is spending millions pretending you can bring an extinct species back from the past, rather than using that same money to support struggling conservation efforts working to stop living species from becoming extinct in the first place.
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Sir Peter Jackson backs project to de-extinct moa, experts cast doubt
Any end result of a new NZ-US project "cannot be a moa", a zoology professor says.Middayreport, Morningreport (RNZ)
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Russians Storm Novoekonomicheskoe in Pivotal Push To Mirnograd-Pokrovsk Agglomeration
Russian troops have launched a decisive assault on the strategically vital town of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd on the Pokrovsk...Anonymous103 (South Front)
#ToruTakemitsu (武満徹, #TakemitsuTōru) 1930 – 1996
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✅ Trained on 150k samples
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From #code headers to docs, Cavil's here to help! #openSUSE #AI news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/s…
SUSE Refines, Releases Open-Source LLM to Fuel Community Collaboration
Today, SUSE has released a new fine-tuned version of the language model, Cavil-Qwen3-4B, as open source on openSUSE’s Hugging Face in order to make legal com...openSUSE News
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UN passes climate change motion after Marshall Islands drops fossil fuels focus
The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a motion on climate change and human rights on Tuesday after the Marshall Islands withdrew a divisive amendment that called on states to recommit to a phase-out of fossil fuels.
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In San Micheletto il convegno sulla violenza di genere della Filctem Cgil Lucca
Venerdì (11 luglio) dalle 9,30 in collaborazione con il Centro Antiviolenza Luna e con il supporto della Fondazione Crl
'An Arsenal of Profiteering': Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020
A new report reveals major Pentagon contractors received $2.4 trillion in DOD contracts from 2020-24, highlighting a massive transfer of taxpayer dollars and industry influence over U.S. military spending.
'An Arsenal of Profiteering': Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020
"These figures represent a continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing," said the project's director.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
The image depicts a futuristic scene with two astronauts in orange and white space suits walking on a grassy path. They are heading towards a large, imposing structure with a distinctive "H" shape, painted in shades of orange and gray. The structure appears to be part of a larger complex, with additional buildings and a flying vehicle visible in the background. The sky is a clear blue, and the landscape is dotted with greenery and wildflowers. The astronauts' suits are equipped with backpacks, and they are wearing white helmets. The scene is set in a vast, open area with a hazy atmosphere, suggesting a distant or otherworldly location.
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Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
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SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Les votes des députés alsaciens sur la loi favorisant l’agriculture industrielle
L'Assemblée nationale a adopté le projet de loi visant à "lever les contraintes à l’exercice du métier d’agriculteur" mardi 8 juillet. Conspuée par les écologistes qui y voient un recul majeur, elle prévoit de réautoriser un pesticide interdit, de restreindre les prérogatives de l'Office français de la biodiversité et de favoriser les fermes usines. Voici ce qu'ont voté les députés…
Une association célèbre 50 années de soutien aux femmes victimes de violences conjugales
Depuis 1975, l'association Solidarité Femmes 67 accueille, écoute, et héberge les femmes victimes de violences domestiques. Un travail d'accompagnement sur le temps long, qui doit composer avec la saturation des services sociaux et l'imprévisibilité des financements. Ce vendredi après-midi de juin, Naïma (prénom modifié) est de passage au Centre d'hébergement et de réinsertion…
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This is a really great read by the @bonfire team. As someone who has done all kinds of experiments with long-form articles and publishing directly on the #Fediverse, there are a number of headaches and hurdles we still need to figure out.
My overall philosophy is this: rather than adapting existing content management systems to use ActivityPub federation, it’s preferable to build a CMS for the Fediverse, with explicit considerations for how the instance and the network should interact with each other. Everything, from the dashboard to side-effects of interaction, should be designed with federation considerations in mind.
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Long-form content in Bonfire: Part 1
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Make no mistake, I really love what Ghost is doing with publishing. I’m a happy customer, and intend to stay there for the time being. But Ghost’s current ActivityPub offering is ultimately very limited, even when compared to Mastodon.
I think Bonfire could provide the building blocks to make something similar to Ghost, but with a far more robust amount of features under the hood.
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@ozoned The way I understand Bonfire, it’s almost like a framework for building different Fediverse apps using modular pieces. It can almost be understood as being like Ruby on Rails, but for Fediverse applications that can all be wildly different.
Not a perfect analogy, but their “Apps” are almost like distributions built on top of the core framework. There’s a lot of cool things that could be built with this.
Yeah, I was hoping Ghost would develop a full micro-blogging tool in addition to its regular blog/newsletter, but now I'm not sure it's going to happen. Which is sad.
And yes, I've been testing Bonfire on their demo instance and it's quite impressive. I hope to be able to have an actual account soon.
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streams
Consent based public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.Codeberg.org
Someone did a writeup of a bunch of "AI-powered" startups attending a pitch competition, and it:
a ) is fucking hilarious
b ) involves one of the startups accidentally screen-sharing that their patentable technology appears to just be forked from an academic's work with no credit
3) further includes a radiology company admitting they haven't consulted any radiologists lmao
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OS-Specific Cybersecurity Issues
Operating-system-specific security tools: Linux, Windows, macOS, Cisco IOS, HP/UX, Solaris, Ultrix, Tru64, IRIX, AIX, AS/400, Novell, VMS.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
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Wir bekommen unsere Werte nicht so oft verkauft und das ist leider entscheidend.
Ah, look, the Thousand Oaks City Council meeting is streaming right now.
#ThousandOaks #CivicLife #CityCouncil
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Non sò se quel sorriso' /Primo Libro della Musiche, No 28, 1618/
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David Suzuki says we lost the fight for climate, says things are going to get a lot harder, that now is the time to prepare, and to do this together:
"For me, what we’ve got to do now is hunker down. The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together."
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While the bullshitter is the enemy of trust, the muskrat is the enemy of empathy.
Thunderbird 140 has been released.
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#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
Welcome to Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” - The Thunderbird Blog
Our future's so bright, we need ISO-approved shades. Find out what's shiny in our new Extended Security Release, Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse."Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
"Los pedazos de leña diferentes, si trabajan en conjunto, siempre haran un fuego más fuerte" - Mago Alexander del Rainbow Clan
La imagen muestra un brasero circular de metal con un diseño ornamentado, ubicado en un entorno al aire libre. El brasero está lleno de leña que arde, con llamas vivas y brillantes que emergen del centro. La estructura del brasero es de color oscuro, posiblemente negro, con detalles en relieve que le dan un aspecto elegante. Está situado sobre una capa de piedras grises, lo que sugiere un patio o un área de jardín. Al fondo, se puede ver un poco de césped verde, lo que indica que el brasero está en un espacio exterior. La imagen transmite una sensación de calidez y confort, ideal para reuniones al aire libre.
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Goodbye to Twitter - Alberta Views
Twitter kept assuming that I was a bot, and putting me in Twitter jail. I had to beg for my verification just so I could stay online.Paula Simons (Alberta Views)
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Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government
The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro OrellanaThe Popehat Report
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They also demanded that he be detained pre-trial on the grounds that no combination of conditions could protect the community from the danger of someone distributing face masks or assure that he would appear for trial:
Oh yes, the most dangerous type of "criminal"...
The Cybersecurity Tarot - The White Hat Hacker
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Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
Khan's announcement of the now-vacated rule said that too many "businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription. The FTC's rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want."
Good thing representatives only have to tell their constituents why this is bad. No need to take it all the way to voters.
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
FTC failed to follow rulemaking process required by US law, judges rule.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
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KLWX Marine Warning #145
Tidal Potomac from Cobb Island MD to Smith Point VA, Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point MD to Smith Point VA, Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Islandmesonet.agron.iastate.edu
These malicious VSCode add-ons need to stop. It's a hard set of problems because those add-ons have to hold pretty broad authorization to be useful at all.
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