If there is one graph showing the effect of human activities on the atmosphere, it is the Keeling curve, which shows the concentration of CO₂ since 1958.
Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.
RT @RnaudBertrand This would be huge: Brazil and China are studying the construction of a 4,500km long South America transcontinental railway that would run from northern Brazilian state of Bahia, cross the Andes, and reach the Chancay megaport near Lima, built with BRI funding.
If built, it could shorten shipping times from Brazil to Asia by as much as 12 days compared with current Atlantic routes that pass through the Panama Canal.
Extremely telling of both countries' contrasting approach to the region, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump's special adviser on Latin American affairs, had called a few months ago for tariffs of up to 60% on any company using Peru’s Chancay port for trade with China.
One side tries to create value, the other believes that others' gains is their loss... When actually, if you think about it, the US would also gain a lot from a richer and more developed Latin America. For one it'd considerably improve their illegal immigration issues, and create wealth and infrastructure for American goods and services too.
It's like if you have a house in a village somewhere and a guy you dislike seeks to spend an enormous amount of money developing the area, and instead of recognizing that a thriving village benefits everyone - including you - you'd rather keep the whole place poor just to spite him. Pure destructive nihilism.
BREAKING: Harvard faces possible loss of accreditation after feds find ‘deliberate indifference’ to antisemitism on campus. “If a university fails to come into compliance within a specified period, accreditor are required to take appropriate action against its member institution.” #press
Per quelli cresciuti tra gli anni Ottanta e Novanta I Cavalieri dello Zodiaco sono stati più di un cartone animato, piuttosto dei compagni con cui crescere. Creato da Masami Kurumada a partire dal 1985, il manga - in originale intitolato Saint Seiya - che vede protagonisti Pegasus e gli altri cavalieri d'Atena ha venduto oltre 40 milioni di copie in tutto il mondo, trasformandosi poi in un franchise popolarissimo in tutto il mondo anche grazie all'anime arrivato quasi in contemporanea, che ho poi originato film OAV, videogame, serie revival, (sfortunati) adattamenti cinematografici, merchandising e tanto altro fino ad arrivare fino ai giorni nostri. Anche i fan più accaniti, però, forse non hanno vissuto un'esperienza dal vivo. Almeno finora, dato che nel 2026 arriverà a Milano uno speciale concerto tributo.
Intitolato Saint Seiya Symphonic Adventure, il concerto è una produzione di Overlook Events in collaborazione con SOHO Live, pensato proprio per celebrare i 30 anni dalla nascita di questa saga mitologica. Si tratta di uno spettacolo musicale animato da un'intera orchestra sinfonica, la Ensemble Symphony Orchestra, formazione italiana che ha accompagnato nella sua storia artisti del calibro di Franco Battiato, Renato Zero, PFM, Sting, Andrea Bocelli e Robbie Williams. Le note sono sincronizzate con video in alta definizione tratti dalle scene indimenticabili della serie animata. Sul palco, ospiti d'eccezione come la soprano Kazuko Kawashima, che ha cantato nella serie originale, e Kacky, cantante del gruppo Marina Del Ray e vocalist ufficiale della saga di Saint Seiya, in particolare della serie I Cavalieri dello Zodiaco: Hades.
@ka_mo1 quando ero alle elementari è stato il mio cartone preferito in assoluto per un lungo periodo. Avevo un un paio di Cavalieri come giocattolo ed ero un superfan di Cristal 😁
Milano, incontro con le famiglie dei bambini palestinesi feriti pressenza.com/it/2025/07/milan… Racconto di un giorno dove ho incontrato la sconfitta dell’umanità. E mi ha insegnato tanto…. Sono arrivati in Italia per la più dolorosa delle situazioni: cure e interventi chirurgici urgenti e ripetuti per ferite alla testa e in altre parti… Redazione Milano
Google begins rolling out Gemini for Wear OS, replacing Assistant, "over the coming weeks" to Wear OS 4+ on the Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Xiaomi, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Mastodon's server software has just been updated, it is now on all servers that have updated to the latest version 4.4.0.
The biggest change is the revamping of the mobile website interface, it now uses screen space much more effectively and has a main menu identical to the desktop site (click ☰ to see it).
If you've previously avoided the mobile website, you might want to try it again?
p.s. If you're using the desktop or mobile website and can't find an option any more, try clicking "⋯ More" on the right of the screen. A lot of options have been moved there in the new update.
p.p.s. The next update (4.5) sounds very exciting. It will apparently introduce creation of quote toots and also remote fetching of complete conversations (so that everyone can see all the posts in a conversation no matter what server they're using). This is due at the end of the year apparently.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/07/controc… In una nota anche Controcorrente Lazio ricorda Santo Della Volpe. “Da 10 anni Santo Della Volpe non è più con noi ma il suo esempio di professionalità, passione, impegno civile e rigore continua a essere per noi di ispirazione, e la
Ora via in forno Melanzane fritte, passata di pomodoro aglio , basilico e grattugiato veg. Qui abbiamo sia vegetariani che vegani che onnivori quindi si media
Stasera posso fare aperitivo con amiche e prendermela con calma, qui devono solo scaldare #mastocucina
@LasolitaLaura per chi ha problemi con l'aglio “l'ho tolto” non è che cambi la vita: le sostanze dell'aglio che danno sapore al cibo — e che causano problemi di digestione — ormai sono passate nel cibo e da lì faranno il loro effetto.
anzi, per certi casi di intolleranza anche mangiare cibo per cui sono stati usati cucchiai di legno con cui si cucina tutti i giorni con ciò che scatena l'intolleranza può essere un problema/
poi dipende da persona a persona: ad esempio io di solito evito l'aglio, ma non è che non lo posso mangiare, semplicemente lo posso mangiare solo quando il mio stomaco non sta già facendo le bizze, in piccole dosi e preferibilmente dopo il tramonto. ma se uno si basa sul modo in cui lo posso mangiare io per preparare da mangiare a @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua lo fa stare male
@valhalla poteva essere semplicemente che non gradisse il sapore, per questo ho precisato di averlo tolto. Qui nessuno è intollerante all’aglio. @GustavinoBevilacqua
"Il nostro obiettivo è fare conoscere di più la bellezza di Torino nel mondo, vogliamo fare capire che è una destinazione primaria come Milano, Venezia, Roma. (ANSA)
Traffico di specie selvatiche: la Wildlife Justice Commission rende noti i risultati del 2024
La Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) è una fondazione internazionale senza scopo di lucro, con sede all'Aia, nei Paesi Bassi, fondata nel 2015. La sua missione è contrastare e contribuire allo smantellamento delle reti criminali transnazionali organizzate che trafficano in specie selvatiche protette, legname e prodotti ittici.
La Wildlife Justice Commission: - Conduce indagini sotto copertura e basate su intelligence, utilizzando metodologie di polizia per raccogliere prove verificabili di crimini contro la fauna selvatica; - Fornisce queste prove a governi e forze dell’ordine per favorire arresti e processi contro i trafficanti di alto livello; - Supporta le autorità con assistenza operativa e crea pressione diplomatica sui governi riluttanti ad agire, anche organizzando audizioni pubbliche; - Collabora con enti governativi, organizzazioni intergovernative e ONG per rafforzare la capacità di contrasto ai crimini ambientali e promuovere soluzioni sostenibili.
Il traffico di specie selvatiche è una delle industrie criminali più redditizie al mondo, con un giro d’affari stimato di circa 20 miliardi di dollari l’anno, subito dopo il traffico di droga, esseri umani e armi. La WJC si concentra sulle specie più vulnerabili, come tigri, rinoceronti ed elefanti, e sui criminali più prolifici, mirando a interrompere le reti criminali e la corruzione che le sostiene.
Nel suo Rapporto sulla attività svolta nel 2024 la Wildlife Justice Commission segnala come quello passato sia stato trasformativo per la WJC, con risultati significativi nella lotta contro il crimine ambientale e il traffico di fauna selvatica. L’organizzazione infatti ha:
Smantellato 16 reti criminali transnazionali
Supportato 84 arresti in Africa, Asia e Sud America
Facilitato sequestri record, tra cui 12.214 kg di squame di pangolino (79% del totale globale)
Tra i Risultati Operativi Chiave vengono indicati: Nigeria: Sequestrati 11.673 kg di squame di pangolino e 25 kg di avorio. Arrestati 12 sospetti, tra cui broker e spedizionieri di alto livello. Mozambico: Condannati due noti trafficanti di corni di rinoceronte a 27 e 24 anni di carcere. Thailandia: Sequestrati oltre 1.200 animali esotici (tartarughe, lemuri) e rimpatriati in Madagascar. Sudafrica: Arrestato un trafficante vietnamita di grandi felini. America Latina: Sequestrata oltre una tonnellata di cetrioli di mare e pinne di squalo.
I progetti Speciali attivati sono stati: Project Galvanise: Rafforzata l’intelligence contro il traffico di fauna selvatica in 16 paesi. Creato l’Online Resource Center for Analysis (ORCA) per analisti di intelligence. Con riguardo alla Formazione: 16 programmi di formazione in Mozambico, Botswana, Filippine e Thailandia per rafforzare le capacità investigative locali.
La WJS ha:
Partecipato a conferenze ONU e G20.
Contributo a 5 politiche internazionali e alla nuova Convenzione del Consiglio d’Europa.
Promosso il riconoscimento del traffico di fauna selvatica come crimine organizzato grave.
Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades it’s been the subject of one of my projects. The Raspberry Pi on my shelf runs my word trend analysis tool for news content, and since my journey from curious geek to having my own large corpus analysis system has taken twenty years it’s worth a second look.
How Career Turmoil Led To A Two Decade Project
This is very much a minority spelling. Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the middle of the 2000s I had come out of the dotcom crash mostly intact, and was working for a small web shop. When they went bust I was casting around as one does, and spent a while as a Google quality rater while I looked for a new permie job. These teams are employed by the search giant through temporary employment agencies, and in loose terms their job is to be the trained monkeys against whom the algorithm is tested. The algorithm chose X, and if the humans also chose X, the algorithm is probably getting it right. Being a quality rater is not in any way a high-profile job, but with the big shiny G on my CV I soon found myself in demand from web companies seeking some white-hat search engine marketing expertise. What I learned mirrored my lesson from a decade earlier in the CD-ROM business, that on the web as in any other electronic publishing medium, good content well presented has priority over any black-hat tricks.
But what makes good content? Forget an obsession with stuffing bogus keywords in the text, and instead talk about the right things, and do it authoritatively. What are the right things in this context? If you are covering a subject, you need to do so using the right language; that which the majority uses rather than language only you use. I can think of a bunch of examples which I probably shouldn’t talk about, but an example close to home for me comes in cider. In the UK, cider is a fermented alcoholic drink made from apples, and as a craft cidermaker of many years standing I have a good grasp of its vocabulary. The accepted spelling is “Cider”, but there’s an alternate spelling of “Cyder” used by some commercial producers of the drink. It doesn’t take long to realise that online, hardly anyone uses cyder with a Y, and thus pages concentrating on that word will do less well than those talking about cider. We Brits rarely use the word “soccer” unless there’s a story about the Club World Cup in America. I started to build software to analyse language around a given topic, with the aim of discerning the metaphorical cider from the cyder. It was a great surprise a few years later to discover that I had invented for myself the already-existing field of computational linguistics, something that would have saved me a lot of time had I known about it when I began. I was taking a corpus of text and computing the frequencies and collocates (words that appear alongside each other) of the words within it, and from that I could quickly see which wording mattered around a subject, and which didn’t. This led seamlessly to an interest in what the same process would look like for news data with a time axis added, so I created a version which harvested its corpus from RSS feeds. Thus began my decades-long project.
From Project Idea, To Corpus Appliance
In 2005 I knew how to create websites in the manner of the day, so I used the tools I had. PHP5, and MySQL. I know PHP is unfashionable these days, but at the time this wasn’t too controversial, and aside from all the questionable quality PHP code out there it remains a useful scripting language. Using MySQL however would cause me immense problems. I had done what seemed the right thing and created a structured database with linked tables, but I hadn’t fully appreciated just how huge was the task I had taken on. Harvesting the RSS firehose across multiple media outlets brings in thousands of stories every week, so queries which were near-instantaneous during my first development stages grew to take many minutes as my corpus expanded. It was time to come up with an alternative, and I found it in the most basic of OS features, the filesystem. I have no idea why British news has more dog stories than cat stories. Casting back to the 1990s, when you paid for web hosting it was given in terms of the storage space it came with. The processing power required to run your CGI scripts or later server-side interpreters such as ASP or PHP, wasn’t considered. It thus became normal practice to try to reduce storage use and not think about processing, and I had without thinking followed this path.
But by the 2000s the price of storage had dropped hugely while that of processing hadn’t. This was the decade in which cloud services such as AWS made an appearance, and as well as buying many-gigabyte hard disks for not a lot, you could also for the first time rent a cloud bucket for pennies. My corpus analysis system didn’t need to spend all its time computing if I could use a terabyte hard drive to make up for less processor usage, so I turned my system on its head. When collecting the RSS stories my retrieval script would pre-compute the final data and store it in a vast tree of tiny JSON files accessible at high speed through the filesystem, and then my analysis software could simply retrieve them and make its report. The system moved from a hard-working x86 laptop to a whisper-quiet and low powered Raspberry Pi with a USB hard disk, and there it has stayed in some form ever since.
Just What Can This Thing Do?
No prizes for guessing what happened this week. So I have a news corpus that has taken me a long time to build. I can take one or more words, and I can compare their occurrence over time. I can watch the news cycle, I can see stories build up over time. I can even see trends which sometimes go against received opinion, such as spotting that the eventual winner of the 2016 UK Labour leadership race was likely to be Jeremy Corbyn early on while the herd were looking elsewhere. Sometimes as with the performance of the word “Brexit” over the middle of the last decade I can see the great events of our times in stark relief, but perhaps it’s in the non-obvious that there’s most value. If you follow a topic and it suddenly dries up for a couple of days, expect a really big story on day three, for example. I can also see which outlets cover one story more than another, something helpful when trying to ascertain if a topic is being pushed on behalf of a particular lobby.
My experiment in text analysis then turned into something much more, even dare I say it, something I find of help in figuring out what’s really going on in turbulent times. But from a tech point of view it’s taught me a huge amount, about statistics, about language, about text parsing, and even about watching the number of available inodes on a hard drive. Believe me, many millions of tiny files in a tree can become unwieldy. But perhaps most of all, after a lifetime of mucking about with all manner of projects but generating little of lasting significance, I can look at this one and say I created something useful. And that is something to be happy about.
Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.
CRIMINI CONTRO L’AMBIENTE: IL CRIMINE MINERARIO E L’ESTRAZIONE ILLEGALE DELL’ORO
In un periodo in cui si parla molto di “terre rare” e “minerali critici” appare di interesse il documento redatto nel maggio 2025 dal Research and Trend Analysis Branch dell’United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), ovvero l’Ufficio delle Nazioni Unite contro la Droga e il Crimine dal titolo Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment – Part 2b: Minerals Crime: Illegal Gold Mining.
Questo rapporto fa parte di una serie di analisi globali sui crimini che colpiscono l’ambiente. In particolare, la Parte 2b si concentra sul crimine minerario, con un focus sull’estrazione illegale dell’oro. Il documento è stato redatto in risposta alla crescente preoccupazione per:
l’aumento della domanda di minerali critici per la transizione energetica,
l’infiltrazione di gruppi criminali organizzati nelle catene di approvvigionamento minerario,
i gravi impatti ambientali e sociali dell’estrazione illegale,
e le lacune normative e di enforcement a livello globale.
Il documento si basa su:
una revisione di oltre 160 fonti aperte,
analisi di dati commerciali (UN Comtrade),
casi giudiziari,
e contributi di esperti internazionali.
Il rapporto analizza i crimini legati al settore minerario, con particolare attenzione all’estrazione illegale dell’oro. Questi crimini includono attività illecite lungo tutta la catena di approvvigionamento dei minerali: dall’esplorazione all’estrazione, raffinazione, commercio e produzione finale. L’obiettivo è comprendere le dinamiche criminali, i danni ambientali e sociali, e proporre risposte politiche efficaci.
In particolare:
Domanda crescente e vulnerabilità: la transizione energetica globale aumenta la domanda di minerali critici (rame, litio, cobalto, ecc.). Questa pressione crea opportunità per attività criminali, corruzione e instabilità nelle catene di approvvigionamento.
L’oro come caso emblematico: l’oro è particolarmente vulnerabile a traffici illeciti per via del suo alto valore, facilità di trasporto e difficoltà di tracciabilità dopo la raffinazione. Le raffinerie internazionali sono punti critici per l’intervento normativo.
Attori coinvolti: gruppi criminali organizzati (OCGs), aziende legittime coinvolte in pratiche illecite, commercianti, raffinerie e minatori artigianali. Le OCGs usano l’oro per finanziare altre attività criminali e mantenere il controllo territoriale.
Impatto ambientale e sociale: uso di mercurio e sostanze tossiche, deforestazione, inquinamento di acqua e suolo.
Violazioni dei diritti umani: lavoro forzato, sfruttamento sessuale, lavoro minorile, violenza e sfollamenti.
Corruzione e riciclaggio: frodi documentali, concessioni ottenute illegalmente, uso di società di comodo per riciclare proventi illeciti. Le lacune normative e la scarsa trasparenza facilitano l’infiltrazione criminale.
Dall’analisi emergono alcune Raccomandazioni Politiche:
Transizione energetica giusta: risposte mirate per ogni tipo di minerale e contesto geografico.
Due diligence e trasparenza: rafforzare i controlli nelle raffinerie e nei centri di commercio. Sistemi di tracciabilità, audit indipendenti e divulgazione pubblica dei dati. Risposte adattate al contesto locale
Distinguere tra attività illegali e informali: incentivare la formalizzazione dei minatori artigianali.
Responsabilità aziendale: le aziende devono garantire il rispetto dei diritti umani e ambientali lungo tutta la catena.
Rafforzare l’applicazione della legge: maggiore cooperazione internazionale, uso di tecnologie (droni, AI, blockchain), formazione e risorse per le forze dell’ordine.
Migliorare la raccolta dati: standardizzazione dei dati, criminalizzazione uniforme dei reati minerari, cooperazione tra Stati.
Il crimine minerario, in particolare l’estrazione illegale dell’oro, rappresenta una minaccia globale che richiede risposte coordinate e multisettoriali. È essenziale garantire catene di approvvigionamento trasparenti e responsabili per sostenere una transizione energetica equa e sostenibile.
@sjwrenlewis explores some reasons the Labour Govt. has not been doing so well.... including an unwillingness to say, outright, that Brexit has been a failure.
But, as he also notes, in opposition & now it 'was never realistic to think that better management could bring Western European levels of public service provision with substantially lower than Western European levels of tax'!
Well, Rachel Reeves looks likely to have to grasp that nettle pretty soon!
Really? The supposed "U-turn" on #disability #benefits is just a tactical retreat until Timms delivers his Review, & the cut to the health element of UC is going ahead. Furthermore, the Govt. plan to cut the legal entitlement of #disabled #children to #SEND #education. Starmer has reiterated his opposition to a #wealth tax. There's plenty of money for nuclear warheads, though!
@rmblaber1956 yes, SWL's point is really that they need to be thinking about how to balance tax & borrowing better & then to also make the case for higher rates of taxation, if they are going to retain (lower) borrowing... its a Q. of political leadership on running a 'proper' welfare state
"In political terms Farage is Brexit, and the failure of Brexit should sink Farage, but only if government politicians are prepared to label Brexit a failure." /Nods.
Ah, i see the problem here. The presumption that they are capable of 'better management'.
Any attempt at management is going to fail if it is based on dogma rather than facts and practicalities, let alone the actual abilities of the people involved.
Samsung unveils the $899+ Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, with a smaller cover screen than the Galaxy Z Flip 7, a smaller battery, no telephoto, Android 16, in two colors (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
The Register: Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs . “Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump’s tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on ‘big-ticket’ items, despite the looming end of Windows 10 support.”
Hello @GrapheneOS ! In order to flash a Pixel 6 Pro, can I use web installer on a Fedora KDE 8GB/256GB laptop ? I don't see Fedora listed as officially supported, only Ubuntu, Mint and Arch mostly.
I also have an ooooold 4GB/1TB HDD Asus laptop running Linux Mint Debian Edition 6, but I bet this one would be sluggish...
You can do it from Fedora but you'll need to deal with adding udev rules for fastboot mode to support connecting to a USB device providing fastboot as non-root. The need for these rules is a deficiency in traditional desktop Linux distributions. There should be no need to for a user with physical access to need to change configuration files as root to enable connecting to USB devices. It's the wrong approach to USB security which should be granting access to sandboxed apps, not yourself.
You should try to clear as much disk space as possible since browsers limited the disk space a site can use to a small fraction of the overall disk space. 4GB memory may not be enough in practice but you could add a swapfile if you don't have a lot of swap.
Bear in mind you can use an Android phone or tablet to run the web installer. It tends to take a bit longer because mobile CPUs tend to be weaker. Android's USB secuirity model also requires reauthorizing access after each reboot.
Despite rising tension in the regional flash point of the South China Sea, the Philippines' top defense official also dismissed fears that conflict was on the horizon.
The future we got was brought to us by racist wealthy men whose arrested development peaked at 19 years of age. Zero self-reflection. No empathy because they are surrounded by sycophants and 'line go up' financial bros looking for money at any cost. Their fart huffing is a gateway drug to ketamine abuse and destruction of democracy. And of course the temporarily embarrassed hayseed billionaires in flyover country nod along while a banjo twangs in the background #musk #x
"According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 1,580 doctors and medical personnel have been killed by Israeli fire since October 7, 2023. Several of them were killed while carrying out their duties: The best-known cases are the death of 15 paramedics in Rafah in March, and the killing of an ambulance crew that tried to rescue 6-year-old Hind Rajab in January 2024.
But many medical personnel have been killed along with their families in their homes or displaced persons tents. The IDF rejects the claims of deliberately harming healthcare workers, calling it "collateral damage." Nonetheless, the army is not offering alternative explanations for its multiple strikes on hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel.
There is a disagreement over the exact number of casualties. Over a year ago, Reuters reported that Israel had killed 55 specialist doctors in Gaza. In October, Healthcare Workers Watch – Palestine reported that it had documented the death of 587 medical personnel and that hundreds of other cases were being checked. It said that the rate of deaths had increased in recent months, claiming that in the past 50 days, Israel had killed 70 doctors and medical personnel. It said that in the wave of strikes on June 5-6, nine medical personnel were killed in IDF strikes.
Of all the damage the war has caused Gaza's health system, the killing of senior doctors appears to be the hardest to cope with. Following the death of the Indonesian Hospital's Al-Sultan, Aseel Aburass, the managing director of the Occupied Palestinian Territory Department at Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, said, "Medications can be imported, doctors cannot. He was killed, and we'll have to wait 30 years until a specialist can be replaced.""
Voor Teamleader mocht ik een stuk schrijven over AI. Voor hun papieren Agency Life-magazine. Het werd een soort afrekening met de bovengemiddelde middelmatigheidsmachine die AI is. Een bedreiging is voor iedereen. Voor mensen die aanmodderen. Maar ook voor de makers van kwaliteit. Het stuk kan je hier lezen. (En de PDF downloaden, of een gratis fysiek exemplaar bestellen.) frederikdb.com/agency-life-ai/
First run in nearly four weeks, finally had time between travelling, working and low temps. Lungs still there, legs a bit stiff, I so need to remember to stretch even when I don't run.
Paddy the Irish mutt was also happy to be out in temps that is more normal for us northern souls. Though there talk about 26c on Friday, in Denmark, that's that's like 40c for a French person in French Pyrenees in France ;)
25°C here in the North of France today. And sunny since yesterday afternoon. Since last weekend it's been raining and never above 20°C, like a true Danish typical summer. We're competing with Brittany on the weather front. Not that I'm complaining. I feel like I hit the jackpot moving here 😄!
Bastille 1.0.20250714 Release Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Bastille 1.0, which includes
many enhancements and bug fixes since the previous release (0.14.20250420).
This re...
In un periodo in cui si parla molto di “terre rare” e “minerali critici” appare di interesse il documento redatto nel maggio 2025 dal Research and Trend Analysis Branch dell’United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), ovvero l’Ufficio delle Nazioni Unite contro la Droga e il Crimine dal titolo Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment – Part 2b: Minerals Crime: Illegal Gold Mining.
Questo rapporto fa parte di una serie di analisi globali sui crimini che colpiscono l’ambiente. In particolare, la Parte 2b si concentra sul crimine minerario, con un focus sull’estrazione illegale dell’oro. Il documento è stato redatto in risposta alla crescente preoccupazione per:
- l’aumento della domanda di minerali critici per la transizione energetica,
- l’infiltrazione di gruppi criminali organizzati nelle catene di approvvigionamento minerario,
- i gravi impatti ambientali e sociali dell’estrazione illegale,
- e le lacune normative e di enforcement a livello globale.
Il documento si basa su:
- una revisione di oltre 160 fonti aperte,
- analisi di dati commerciali (UN Comtrade),
- casi giudiziari,
- e contributi di esperti internazionali.
Il rapporto analizza i crimini legati al settore minerario, con particolare attenzione all’estrazione illegale dell’oro. Questi crimini includono attività illecite lungo tutta la catena di approvvigionamento dei minerali: dall’esplorazione all’estrazione, raffinazione, commercio e produzione finale. L’obiettivo è comprendere le dinamiche criminali, i danni ambientali e sociali, e proporre risposte politiche efficaci.
In particolare:
Domanda crescente e vulnerabilità: la transizione energetica globale aumenta la domanda di minerali critici (rame, litio, cobalto, ecc.). Questa pressione crea opportunità per attività criminali, corruzione e instabilità nelle catene di approvvigionamento.
L’oro come caso emblematico: l’oro è particolarmente vulnerabile a traffici illeciti per via del suo alto valore, facilità di trasporto e difficoltà di tracciabilità dopo la raffinazione. Le raffinerie internazionali sono punti critici per l’intervento normativo.
Attori coinvolti: gruppi criminali organizzati (OCGs), aziende legittime coinvolte in pratiche illecite, commercianti, raffinerie e minatori artigianali. Le OCGs usano l’oro per finanziare altre attività criminali e mantenere il controllo territoriale.
Impatto ambientale e sociale: uso di mercurio e sostanze tossiche, deforestazione, inquinamento di acqua e suolo.
Violazioni dei diritti umani: lavoro forzato, sfruttamento sessuale, lavoro minorile, violenza e sfollamenti.
Corruzione e riciclaggio: frodi documentali, concessioni ottenute illegalmente, uso di società di comodo per riciclare proventi illeciti. Le lacune normative e la scarsa trasparenza facilitano l’infiltrazione criminale.
Dall’analisi emergono alcune Raccomandazioni Politiche:
Transizione energetica giusta: risposte mirate per ogni tipo di minerale e contesto geografico.
Due diligence e trasparenza: rafforzare i controlli nelle raffinerie e nei centri di commercio. Sistemi di tracciabilità, audit indipendenti e divulgazione pubblica dei dati. Risposte adattate al contesto locale
Distinguere tra attività illegali e informali: incentivare la formalizzazione dei minatori artigianali.
Responsabilità aziendale: le aziende devono garantire il rispetto dei diritti umani e ambientali lungo tutta la catena.
Rafforzare l’applicazione della legge: maggiore cooperazione internazionale, uso di tecnologie (droni, AI, blockchain), formazione e risorse per le forze dell’ordine.
Migliorare la raccolta dati: standardizzazione dei dati, criminalizzazione uniforme dei reati minerari, cooperazione tra Stati.
Il crimine minerario, in particolare l’estrazione illegale dell’oro, rappresenta una minaccia globale che richiede risposte coordinate e multisettoriali. È essenziale garantire catene di approvvigionamento trasparenti e responsabili per sostenere una transizione energetica equa e sostenibile.
You can partition an axis-aligned d-cube in R^d into d! congruent simplices that are defined by each permutation of the coordinates. For example, in R^3, the simplices are:
x ≤ y ≤ z
for all 6 permutations of x, y, z.
For the continuous case, the overlaps between the simplices have measure zero, but if you try to do this for a discrete cube of n^d points in Z^d with this scheme, you will have some points in more than one simplex.
We can resolve this by changing the ≤ to a < whenever the consecutive coordinates are out of order. We then have d! disjoint simplices. In Z^3, these are:
1 case with no pairs of out-of-order coords
x ≤ y ≤ z
4 cases with 1 pair of out-of-order coords
x ≤ z < y y < x ≤ z y ≤ z < x z < x ≤ y
1 case with 2 pairs of out-of-order coords
z < y < x
The counts of the different cases are the Eulerian numbers, by definition!
But then the number of points in each simplex are the d-simplicial numbers for simplexes whose size depends on the number of strict/non-strict inequalities, and these d-simplicial numbers correspond to the binomial coefficients in Worpitzky's identity.
Edited to add: For anyone who prefers to go straight to the binomial coefficients without talking about simplicial numbers, you can count a set like the subset of {1,...,n}^d satisfying:
x_1 < x_2 ≤ x_3 ... < x_d
where there are k non-strict inequalities by taking all the subsets of size d of the union of {1,...,n} and k “coordinate equality tokens” like x_2=x_3. Given such a subset, you can get an ordered d-tuple that satisfies the conditions by putting all the numerical elements in ascending order, then using any tokens like x_2=x_3 to fill it out to d coordinates.
@johncarlosbaez My favorite appearance of Worpitzky's Identity is in the original proof that there are 𝑏ⁿ periodic juggling patterns with period 𝑛 using at most 𝑏 balls.
Juggling Drops and Descents, by Joe Buhler, David Eisenbud, Ron Graham and Colin Wright, American Mathematical Monthly 101#6 (1994), offprint at mathweb.ucsd.edu/~ronspubs/94_…
After the original Buhler et al. paper came out, there was a mini-industry of combinatorics people figuring out other ways to prove the 𝑏ⁿ count, eventually including a very simple encoding using length-n strings on a size-b alphabet. That turns into a nice back-door proof of Worpitzky's Identity, if you need another one.
(I don't know a canonical citation for the simple argument. There's a nicely-illustrated version in the slide deck at faculty.washington.edu/etou/do…, the sides about "Juggling Cards" and "Counting With Cards", but ignore the incorrect attribution of the modern argument to the original Buhler et al. paper.)
Ik took me a while to figure out what you were talking about, but I think I get it now. If you split a "discretized" cube into 6 tetrahedra, the cubes on the inner boundaries of tetrahedra have to decide in which tetrahedron they should be if we do not want to double-count cubes.
Pretty amazing that the number ways of double counting a sub-cube for an N dimensional cube is related to the Eulerian numbers!
@johncarlosbaez So there are 6 tetrahedral numbers, which is computed by this expression binomial(n+2,3) + 4*binomial(n+1,3) + binomial(n,3), which equals n^3. Nice.
For 2-D case (square), it would be binomial(n+1,2) + binomial(n,2), which equals n^2.
It would be interesting to see a general expression for d-dimensional hypercubes of sums of m d-simplex numbers, which would result in n^d.
"Wie die Nationalsozialisten mit angeblich "Arbeitsscheuen" oder "Asozialen" umgingen, ist bislang nur wenig erforscht. Der Stuttgarter Historiker Sebastian Wenger hat dazu eine umfassende Studie verfasst – und erklärt im Kontext-Gespräch, warum das Thema hochaktuell ist."
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Trotz der Unsicherheiten um die US-Zollpolitik bleibt der DAX auf Rekordkurs. Die Ironie dabei: Vor allem von den Anlegerinnen und Anlegern aus den USA kommt das Geld derzeit an den heimischen Markt.
Unbeeindruckt von der Zoll-Politik des US-Präsidenten dürfte sich der DAX heute in Richtung Rekordhoch aufmachen. Die Anleger blenden die fortwährende Hängepartie im Zollstreit mit den USA weiter aus.
Grant Park Music Festival. Inbal Segev, cello, and the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Nicole Paiement play:
SMETANA: The Moldau.
Mark ADAMO: Last Year, Cello Concerto.
DEBUSSY: La Mer.
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Apple richiede a corte d'appello USA di ripristinare la funzione di misurazione ossigeno nel sangue sui suoi Watch. La società sostiene che milioni di utenti sono stati privati di questa tecnologia, mentre Masimo difende la decisione dell'ITC. I giudici valutano il caso. #AppleWatch #TechNews #Innovazione
L’ondata di calore di fine giugno, intensificata dalla crisi climatica, ha causato almeno 1500 decessi in più in 12 città europee greenpeace.org/italy/storia/28… #Denuncia #Clima
L'ondata di calore che ha colpito l'Europa tra il 23 giugno e il 2 luglio, intensificata dalla crisi climatica, ha causato un preoccupante picco di mortalità.
"Given what we now know, it’s clear that Donald Trump and his regime are actively covering up the Epstein files—likely due to Trump’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein."
"You don’t have to be the renowned Inspector Poirot—of Agatha Christie fame—to get that Donald Trump does not want the Jeffrey Epstein files released because he will be personally incriminated."
"Common sense tells us that if Trump is willing to piss off his base to keep the information about him in the Epstein files from seeing the light of day it’s really bad for him. That means we really, really need to see it!"
… Trump held another insane Cabinet meeting today in front of the press where he and his most senior appointees took questions on a variety of topics, followed by a series of batshit crazy responses.
"Even Peter Doocy from Fox 'News' confronted Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the scandal. Doocy asked: 'So, what happened to the Epstein client list that the Attorney General said she had on her desk?'
Leavitt responded by trying to lie about what Bondi said. Doocy interrupted, saying: 'I’ve got the quote. She said "it’s sitting on my desk right now to review."' Leavitt then abruptly changed the subject."
Noting how Trump blew up yesterday when asked about the Epstein cover-up, Marcy Wheeler writes,
"I can think of no moment in his ten year political career where Trump so obviously lost his cool because he was helpless to direct attention where he wanted it.
And it’s likely to only keep Epstein at the center of attention."
More than perhaps any moment of his ten year career, Trump just lost his cool -- about a Jeffrey Epstein question -- because he is helpless to dictate the focus of attention.
"La frattura più profonda oggi non si manifesta tra categorie professionali o livelli di istruzione, ma tra chi dispone di una rete di protezione patrimoniale, familiare, relazionale e chi invece no. Per queste persone, un solo evento può compromettere l’equilibrio di vita: una separazione, una malattia, una causa legale, anche se vinta. Sono esposti in modo assoluto al rischio e al ricatto.
[...]
Questo squilibrio patrimoniale non si traduce solo in differenze di consumo o risparmio, ma in asimmetrie radicali nella gestione dell’imprevisto e in una diversa attitudine al rischio. Chi ha capitale può assorbire uno shock. Chi non ce l’ha, è razionalmente subordinato, come mostra anche la teoria dei giochi: non può permettersi conflitti o scelte rischiose."
Google adds new AI and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Note-taking app Bear’s web version is now available in public beta, letting users browse, search, and edit Markdown notes from any web browser. Some features, like export and encryption, are not available yet, but improvements are expected. alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/…
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Trasformano gli scarti alimentari in cibo stampato in 3D notiziescientifiche.it/trasfor… Dal sito #notiziescientifiche @scienza Uno studio pubblicato su Nature Food[1] mostra come gli scarti alimentari possano diventare una risorsa preziosa grazie alla stampa 3D, che li trasforma in alimenti personalizzati e sostenibili attraverso bioinchiostri [leggi tutto]
Uno studio pubblicato su Nature Food[1] mostra come gli scarti alimentari possano diventare una risorsa preziosa grazie alla stampa 3D, che li trasforma in alimenti personalizzati e sostenibili attraverso bioinchiostri a base di biopolimeri.
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Cardiac surgeon and punk rocker Dr. David “Cutter” Peters mistakenly left a pack of cigarettes inside patient Dwight Holcomb during a heart transplant.
With Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers. That means:
If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.
They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. metalhead.club). No information about the user!
I've enabled this setting, because I am sure that it will increase awareness of Mastodon's existence. 💪
Edit: (in previous versions, Mastodon did not send referrer-Headers)
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) La human vulnerability è una nuova frontiera della cyber. Ecco perché la disinformazione rappresenta una minaccia diversa, silenziosa e subdola, che non agisce direttamente sul codice o sui dispositivi, ma riesce a minare la sicurezza in modo altrettanto dirompente,
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