A lot of conservative and centrist Democrats do not like that a young, charismatic person, Zohran Mamdani, has won the democratic primary for NYC mayor. The New York times is completely freaking out ...
#Gaza City building completely flattened during mass bombing
An estimated 20 bombs were dropped by Israel’s army on an area best known as Jaffa Street in the densely populated Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.
These were “quake bombs”, they shook the buildings. There are reports of damage and devastation to many buildings in that area.
Civil defence workers and paramedics are unable to reach the scene to help victims as Israeli quadcopter drones continue to hover in the sky.
Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
Tschetschene (14) und Afghane (13) überfallen Zugpassagiere mit Softgun apollo-news.net/tschetschene-1… In Österreich kam es am Wochenende zu zwei aufmerksamkeitserregenden Verbrechen. Am Samstagabend ereignete sich in einem Regionalzug nach Pamhagen, einem ... The post Tschetschene (14) und Afghane (13) überfallen Zugpassagiere mit Softgun appeared first on Apollo News. #news #press
In Österreich kam es zu zwei schweren Gewalttaten am Wochenende. Ein Afghane und ein Tschetschene raubten unter Drohung mit einer Fake-Pistole Zugpassagiere aus. In Kärnten setzte eine Gruppe bei einem Streit Messer und eine Armbrust ein.
Nah, this makes sense. Asian sizes are small - even when I was underweight I was an L in Asian clothing because I'm 5'9" so my frame is different. Small, Medium, Large are relative. What gets me in women's sizing is I can be a "28" when no part of me measures 28". Or an 8, what even is that?
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“The colossal buildup of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will create the largest domestic police force in the US; its resources will be greater than those of every federal surveillance and carceral agency combined; it will employ more agents than the FBI. Ice will be bigger than the military of many countries. When it runs out of brown and Black people to deport, Ice – perhaps under another name – will be left with the authority and capability to surveil, seize and disappear anyone the administration considers undesirable.”
It's about to become The State, they have just created a golem and there is no turning back, it will eat and destroy anything that is against it, even the government itself...
I think the Senator is correct on this. As I said on the show today, I think Jackson’s dissents have the vibe of Blackmun throwing up his hands and saying “I will no longer tinker with the machinery of death,” because it’s a moral and intellectual charade. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qqixz…
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This one Florida crew I was on had a rotating cast of 19yo weed & Xbox kids who'd been caught on minor drug charges.
They were harmless. And also, clumsy af. Big kids who had no idea where their feet were. They kept stepping on the blueberry transplants we'd just planted.
Another crew was a bunch of minors who were working as "community service" for juvie.
They all smoked, bc juvie. Tobacco is packed with plant viruses that are super contagious; can be spread just by touch. So "don't smoke in the fields" is a key farm rule.
@rysiek Yes, thank you for this thread & for kicking off such a great discussion on the basics of what it takes to do agricultural work well. 🙂
Points to a wider issue: complete divorce & chasm between real world & wherever it is Thump & his billionaire backers live. Similar to the growing gap between real value (things in the real world) & share market 'value'. 😐
I think EVERYONE should have to detassel corn for a DAY. As farm work goes, its probably the easiest, and to learn, but its still hard work - the (seed) corn is only 1-2 ft tall so bending; your hands get shredded; you're in the middle of a massive flat corn field in 30C+ weather in the sun.
I did corn for six summers; its seasonal, pays pretty good but I could not imagine doing tobacco, any field produce, berries - absolute nightmare food. Back hurts just thinking.
I'd rather be executed than do detasseling again. Not only did it suck with the sweltering heat and humidity that makes you feel like you can't breathe (corn sweat!), but the constant cuts from corn leaves.... and I was highly allergic and my face swelled up like a balloon and I could barely see
As a kid that grew up on a farm this needs to be said louder. AG labor not only takes real skills and knowledge but also a dedication to work long hours when the weather is right for planting/harvesting and the endurance to do it. It also can be a job with zero days off. Ask the average dairy farmer what the weekend or a vacation is and they'll look at you cross-eyed.
If we want a 100% US AG Workforce than let's create a path to citizenship for the people that want to do the work. The immigrant harvesting the fields or working a meat packing plant is not a threat to our nation but not having them is.
And while we're at it let's break up the big AG monopolies so that small family farms and small AG businesses can compete.
A few years ago there was a story about vineyard owners who couldn't find workers, because there was no affordable housing near the fields and people in nearby cities couldn't afford cars to commute to the vinyards on the wages offered. But yeah, people just don't want to work these days 🤦🏽♀️
@JosephMeyer Unfortunately I think there are plenty of people who will see footage of food rotting in the fields and say it's because the poors are lazy & only want handouts.
@rejinl This week I heard a piece on our local NPR station where a potato farmer was interviewed; he said he can't get local workers at $17/hr.
Of course, that's just a seasonal job doing heavy physical labor outdoors in the heat, and the housing and transportation issues are real barriers. And I think his is a small farm, so not necessarily representative of the big ag operations.
Indeed, "people don't want to work" doesn't seem like a satisfactory explanation.
@rejinl We turned a bunch of the best near-urban farmland in the world into suburbs, kicked the farms out so far that few people can commute there, and now complain that there aren’t enough farmworkers.
A planned economy would have easily avoided this. The free market has now rendered a lot of the best farmland in the world unusable for growing crops, to build housing, and also nobody likes living in suburbs and we still have a housing crisis.
@alienghic @ufwupdates The part of this that you are missing is that there is no such thing as "able-bodied people on Medicaid" who aren't employed.
That's federal law, since the Clinton Administration, over 30 years ago. ABAWDs (able-bodied adults aged 18-64 without dependents) do *not* qualify for Medicaid, at all, unless they are employed, period.
Only children, disabled people, people with dependents who are full-time caregivers, and the elderly get a free pass.
@gcvsa @alienghic @ufwupdates Thank you! I did say this in another thread about this topic. My stepbrother is 50+ years old, has cerebral palsy, can't speak well and is blind. Yes his care requires Medicaid. But sure they can have him out there harvesting crops 🙄
@Star12Mt @alienghic @ufwupdates I know all this, because I have been an ABAWD on Medicaid, and the restrictions only get lifted under particular economic downturn conditions, and even then, only when the Governor of a state requests the waiver, which they don't always do.
ABAWDs do not get public assistance without employment. Period.
Most recently, waivers were granted during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but all those have since expired.
@gcvsa I remember being in my teens and learning someone I knew was on Medicaid, disability, and also worked odd jobs (which they very bluntly told me was less pay than a normal job, but a normal job would report their pay and then they would lose their benefits, and they needed medicaid). I was amazed, because I didn't realize how little disability paid - that people are basically forced to game the system just to make rent, basically. Even back then, $300/mo total wasn't enough.
@alienghic This doesn't even begin to address the fact that even if these putative 34 million people existed, most of them almost certainly do not exist in places where they can be employed as farm labor, because they are mostly not in locations that are suitable for modern agriculture.
We can dispense with the notion that this fascist regime is suddenly going to start providing public housing in farming communities for farm laborers.
Everything she's saying is an obviously blatant lie.
@gcvsa @alienghic to me this clearly states that the administration wants to gather up people on Medicaid into on-site forced work camps (not that would be able to do this physically taxing and skilled work). Sounds familiar somehow...
Plus, that work is hugely physically demanding. (Duh, right?) Sometimes meaning plain strength, always meaning enormous levels of stamina and endurance. Without practice, you're toast. It's like going up against a rowing athlete when all you've done is puddle about on the lake a few Sundays.
Just one example, watching the cabbage harvest. Heft an ordinary white cabbage. About 3-4 lbs? The pickers would run, _run_, with carefully packed flats holding 12 heads, drop that off at the central collection tractor, and run back to continue picking.
They'd do that, starting at 5 or 6 in the morning, one early 15 min break, lunch 30 min or an hour, one later 15 min break, and then home after 8 solid hours of work around 3pm. (And then my neighbor would get the kids sorted out, cook dinner, and deal with errands. She was probably typical in having two actual jobs.)
And politicians think they can get disabled Medicaid people or prison labor to work to that level?
riiight - let's take arguably the hardest manual-labour jobs there are and push the most fragile members of the population into those roles. Many of whom have already been excluded from even sedate air-conditioned office jobs due to health problems. Implausible and potential performative cruelty.
@JessTheUnstill @JosephMeyer Can't help but think that's the ultimate goal. Especially since I read yesterday that ICE (or DHS?) claim no responsibility for the prisoners in Florida's new death camp, & I imagine Desantis doesn't (yet) have authorization to deport people. So what is the plan for those detainees?
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Su_G It’ll end up being like a game of Kerplunk: one by one they peel off every class, creed and faith until the whole house of cards collapses [to mix my metaphors].
È vero che non avrò mai più sei anni e non starò mai più in veranda col Game Boy ad asciugarmi sulla sediolina di plastica mentre mamma prepara il pranzo dopo il mare. Però è estate, quindi è ora della mia periodica partita a Pokémon Rosso.
>>We mentioned the case of the bookseller in a branch of WH Smith who was asked if there was any Chaucer in stock (April 25). ("I'm sorry", was the reply, "we don't have a crockery department.") But the customer isn't always so very right himself, you know. Rupert Marlow writes from Turnastone in Herefordshire with word of an incident at Hatchards: one day a man, presumably given a shopping list by his wife, walked in and asked for a copy of Night Cream by Elizabeth Arden ...<<
"Public facing." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, June 6th, 2025.
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Troppi non comprendono un testo e non sanno far di conto. Una tragedia sottovalutata. Scuola, Invalsi: scende la dispersione, ma gli studenti peggiorano in Italiano e Matematica - la Repubblica Scuola, Invalsi: scende la dispersione, ma gli studenti peggiorano in Italiano e Matematica - la Repubblica share.google/Do3mrX4SdXnLd9CTP #scuola #Invalsi #Valditara
Un terzo degli alunni di seconda elementare non raggiunge il livello base. Alle superiori metà non governa i calcoli. Buone le competenze digitali. Il ministro…
'Eeuwenlang plaatsten we in het Westen de mens naast en boven de natuur: de mens als rationeel wezen tegenover een grillige, onvoorspelbare wereld die getemd en geëxploiteerd kan worden. Maar is die scheidslijn zo scherp? De mens is ook natuur en daarmee onderhevig aan bepaalde natuurwetten, maar welke?'
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Turkey blocks Grok over offensive responses about President Erdogan and Ataturk; Poland plans to report Grok to the EU for offensive posts about Donald Tusk (Elçin Poyrazlar/Politico)
Learning to solder can help you fix your stuff and take on new DIY projects, but it can seem a little scary. Here are five tips to help stay safe around that hot stick! 🧵 — #iFixit #Repair #Soldering
Soldering can create fumes, mostly from flux. Work in a well-ventilated area and use a fume extractor. If you don't have a fume extractor, you can make your own!
Always wear safety glasses when soldering. You don't want a hot glob of solder in your eyes! Also tie back long hair and make sure loose clothing is out of the way.
Reminds me that I still don't know what I messed up that caused the last soldering iron I touched to stop working completely. When I turned it on it would get hot, but could not melt solder anymore. My best guess: I forgot to clean the tip?
@qgustavor Could be! The tip will oxidize over time, especially if it isn't maintained. Here's our guide on cleaning and tinning the tip, which should extend the life of your next one: ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Clean+…
I always were my normal glasses, so I wouldn't know - but is this really an issue? I've like in 50 years never had a solder-splatter towards my face...
@thor Yes. While I don't think the actual solder is gonna splatter, the flux definitely will.. It happens to me from time to time. I guess normal glasses make you 99% safe. I also wear them so i've never had any issue. @iFixit
@nekayee nooo... I've not have flux splattering or spluttering in that manner either. Neither the flux infused solder nor the massive amounts of flux I use when using the hot air or the tweezer soldering iron. 🤷♂️
Could it be dirt reacting with the flux? I tend to clean the circuits before working on them..
@thor It only happens when i feed large amounts of my leaded solder into my iron. So it all depends. But i definitely recommend wearing any glasses. Eyes are not as easily fixed as electronic circuits 😀 @iFixit
@nekayee @thor Flux splatters more violently when the iron is too hot, which might be why it only happens to you when using leaded solder. When you solder next, see if you notice splatters of flux on your work surface. It tends to happen normally, though to a lesser extent.
"We do not understand a way of thinking that would spend hundreds of millions on Elwha River restoration but continue to industrially log in that same watershed. We do not understand a way of thinking that takes too much and says it is never enough; that would disrespect a River that gives us so much life and now hope.
Our ancestral knowledge and sacred obligation to the natural world teaches us a different path. We have inherent and treaty protected rights in these lands as our usual and accustomed gathering areas. Together, we call for the protection of the Elwha Watershed as a commitment to our mutual future and to the wellbeing of all who depend upon it. We ask you to stop these planned timber sales and heed our call to be guided by principles of respect and reciprocity in caring for the watershed."
After years of dominance in #ESET’s top #infostealer statistics, the era of #AgentTesla has come to an end. It finished H1 2025 in fourth place, its numbers having decreased by 57%. The reason? It is no longer under active development. The threat actors behind Agent Tesla have reportedly lost access to the servers with the malware’s source code. A successor appeared almost immediately – another #MaaS threat, known as #SnakeStealer or #SnakeKeylogger, has claimed the number one spot. Recommended as a suitable replacement directly in Agent Tesla’s Telegram channel, SnakeStealer now takes up almost a fifth of all infostealer detections registered by ESET telemetry. Between H2 2024 and H1 2025, its detections more than doubled. If you want to find out more information about this changing of the guard in the infostealer threat landscape, head on over to #ESETThreatReport: welivesecurity.com/en/eset-res…
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Here's the announcement from Mastodon's blog for people who wants more information about this upcoming feature (Mastodon 4.5) and safeguards: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…
"In order to mitigate these issues, we plan to include several features in our implementation:
● You will be able to choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.
● You will be notified when someone quotes you.
● You will be able to withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time."
For everyone wondering how to consent in or out of the upcoming Quote Post feature, I wrote a little Mastodon tip for you: infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…
If your instance is already running the newly released version Mastodon 4.4,
Know that in preparation for the full implementation, the team has included a consent setting for the upcoming Quote Post feature.
While quoting a post will not be available as a native feature until Mastodon 4.5 later this year, it's wonderful that you can adjust if you want in or not before it even arrives!
HOW TO❓
1. From the web interface, go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu. Then click on "Other" under the "Preferences" section
2. If your instance was newly updated, you should now see an option in "Posting Defaults" for "Who can quote" (see image below) 👇
Note: If the option isn't there, your instance has not updated to the version including it yet. Be patient, it will likely be added in the weeks to come.
3. From the "Who can quote" drop-menu, you can choose either "Everyone", "Followers and mentioned users", or "Only mentioned users"
4. Once the next version is released, you will be ready for Quote Posts! No matter your choices 💪
5. Enjoy the freedom of choosing the features you wish to participate in (or not)! 😌✨
For more information on Quote Posts, you can read Mastodon's announcement blog about it here: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…
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Il leader e cofondatore del Pkk Abdullah Öcalan ha diffuso un video-messaggio storico dall'isola di Imrali, dov'è detenuto dallo stato turco dal 1999. È la prima volta, da quando è stato arrestato...
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Das Bild zeigt einen Fuß einer Person, der auf einem Sandstrand liegt. Der Fuß ist barfuß und hat rote Nagellack auf den Zehen, die mit Sand bedeckt sind. Neben dem Fuß liegt die Pfote eines schwarzen und weißen Hundes, die ebenfalls mit Sand bedeckt ist. Die Person trägt blaue Jeans, die bis zum Knöchel reichen. Der Strand ist sandig und weist einige Spuren von Fußabdrücken auf. Die Szene vermittelt ein Gefühl von Ruhe und Nähe zur Natur, mit dem Hund, der sich nahe an der Person befindet. ― Eine Frau mit kurzen, grauen Haaren steht auf einem sandigen Strand, begleitet von einem schwarzen und weißen Border Collie. Sie trägt eine weiße Jacke über einem dunklen Oberteil und blaue Jeans, und sie ist barfuß. In ihrer linken Hand hält sie eine grüne und schwarze Sporttasche. Der Himmel ist bedeckt mit grauen Wolken, und das Meer im Hintergrund zeigt sich mit welligen Wellen. Der Hund steht neben ihr, mit dem Maul leicht geöffnet, als ob er atmet. Die Szene vermittelt ein Gefühl von Ruhe und Freiheit am Strand. ― Das Bild zeigt eine Reihe von Pfotenabdrücken im Sand, die auf einem Strand liegen. Die Abdrücke sind relativ frisch und deutlich sichtbar, was darauf hindeutet, dass sie in der Nähe des Wassers entstanden sind. Die Abdrücke sind unterschiedlich groß und haben eine klare Form, die typisch für die Pfoten eines kleinen Tieres ist, möglicherweise eines Hundes oder einer Katze. Die Sandkörner sind fein und gleichmäßig verteilt, was auf eine feuchte Umgebung hinweist. Einige der Abdrücke sind deutlicher als andere, was auf die Bewegung des Tieres hinweist. Die Pfotenabdrücke sind in verschiedenen Richtungen angeordnet, was auf eine spontane Bewegung des Tieres hinweist. Der Hintergrund ist ein einheitlicher Sand, der die Abdrücke gut hervorhebt.
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Kontrafunk – Die Stimme der Vernunft journalistenwatch.com/2025/07/… Der bürgerlich-konservative Internetradiosender „Kontrafunk“ „Kontrafunk. Die Stimme der Vernunft“ tritt laut dem Gründer des Senders, dem Autor und Journalisten Burkhard Müller-Ulrich, für „eine freiheitliche, rechtsstaatliche, demokratische, bürgerliche Gesellschaft“ ein und versteht sich dezidiert als liberal-konservativ und mittelstandsorientiert. Zu hören ist „Kontrafunk“ über diesen
With more than 20 Matter-over-Thread smart devices set to launch next year, Ikea is switching things up as it looks to make the smart home simpler and more affordable.
Donald Trump wants to end the public conversation about Jeffrey Epstein as quickly as he can. The Republican's efforts appear to be failing spectacularly.
Almeno 105 palestinesi, inclusi sette in cerca di aiuti, uccisi e 530 feriti in attacchi israeliani a Gaza in 24 ore, secondo il ministero della Sanità.
I'm happy to see Ikea move away from more closed protocols in their line of networked devices. They've had zigbee in some devices which I'm sad to see go but they're moving everything to Matter and Thread with eventual Matter over Wifi and they've expressed intent to have all of their devices work with hubs other than their own, which for me means more options for Home Assistant! theverge.com/smart-home/701697… home-assistant.io/ #vanLAN
With more than 20 Matter-over-Thread smart devices set to launch next year, Ikea is switching things up as it looks to make the smart home simpler and more affordable.
I saw several red-wings at my first bird watching experience near my home in Tennessee. And last week I was visiting my parents in Colorado, and was surprised to see them there, too. The only difference between them regionally was that the TN birds had the red covered more by their wings until they flew, and the CO birds had their red more exposed when not in flight. Pretty neat to see the subtle differences.
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Netanjahu schlägt Trump für Friedensnobelpreis vor tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/aus… Netanjahu lobte Trumps außenpolitisches Engagement, insbesondere im Nahen Osten: „Sie führen ein Streben nach Frieden und Sicherheit an – in vielen Ländern, aber gerade jetzt in unserer Region“, so der israelische Premier. Donald Trump schaffe es, „Frieden zu schmieden, von einem Land zur nächsten Region“. Trump zeigte sich sichtlich bewegt von der
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