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IKEA Ditches Zigbee For Thread Going All In On Matter Smart Homes mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/0…

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Disabilità e inclusione. Premio per Pieve Fosciana: "Pronti a fare sempre di più"
Il Comune si è aggiudicato il premio nazionale "Piccolo Comune amico". Domani si terrà la presentazione a Roma alla quale sarà presente la consigliera comunale Manetti.

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Dedollarization: The BRICS Are Completely Changing Course infobrics.org/post/51881/


Dan Osborn Is Ready to Mount an Even Bolder Campaign thenationmagazine.substack.com… #Nebraska



How US Spends Funds Allocated For Ukraine sputnikglobe.com/20250709/how-… Recent reports indicate that a significant portion of U.S. appropriations designated as aid to Ukraine is being allocated to domestic defense industrial base projects. #news #press


Bald große Ferien! (Symbolbild) spaet-nachrichten.de/2025/07/b… So gut wie den Kindern (75 Tage Ferien im Jahr) geht es nur den Bürgergeldempfängern und den Parlamentariern. Und wie bei den Kleinen lässt sich auch bei den Abgeordneten der Pausenhof kaum vom Klassenzimmer unterscheiden. Fritz Merz gibt den unbeliebten Klassensprecher: „Ich weise Ihre Herabwürdigung der Arbeit der neuen Bundesregierung mit aller Entschiedenheit zurück.“ Wahrscheinlich hielt



Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (The Information)

theinformation.com/articles/nv…
techmeme.com/250709/p49#a25070…



#iceblock

ICE Block--A new app designed by Joshua Aaron to let you know when #ICE is operating nearby **through anonymous pins of sightings** so you can make #goodtrouble or protect yourself as needed.

Noem and Trump are in meltdown over this. Trolls with 12 followers are already trying to start conspiracies that its "a front for ICE" to scare people off.

Check it out before you use it, as always. Good stuff. 🙌

youtu.be/U9wHdhhqkFs?si=sjMjQ_…

#protest #stoptrump #stopfascism #USPolitics #nokings

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You Deserve a Lil' Treat, Like One of These 25+ Amazon Prime Day Deals for Under $50
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Meta offered Apple’s head of foundation models more than $200M to jump ship
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/09/meta-offered-apples-head-of-foundation-models-more-than-200m-to-jump-ship/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Fascist Barbie Noem held back FEMA search/rescue assistance in Texas for 3 full days after flooding began.

Always remember that cruelty and indifference to suffering are, in a big way, what motivates this regime.

cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/fe…

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Kristie Noem really has a bloodlust. This woman loves being a murderer.
in reply to Dan Gillmor

I think she is not pretty enough to be called barbie. But puppy shooter works, also better displays her character right away.


Almost every interview I've given since October 7 has to begin with "do you condemn?" Are you out of your minds? Yeah I condemn. I condemn the aparteid state, that has been engaged in a sadistic type of genocide for almost eight decades, that's what I condemn. You want me to condemn the people that are subjected to these crimes when they stand up?


--- Miko Peled, speaking at the Palestine Museum

#MikoPeled #Palestine #genocide



Rep. Randy Fine responds to Democrats calling him out and asking him to apologize for calling Rep. Ilhan Omar a "terrorist" is somehow even more obnoxious?





My latest project is to check an old cedar fence nearby, which is already decaying, for lichens.
I have found some really beautiful lichens, one of which is this Common Clam lichen (Hypocenomyce scalaris).
This lichen consists mainly of small lobes (squamules) that look like clams, very rarely this lichen produces apothecia.
On the second photo you can even see these apothecia (black round dots with grey rims).

#lichen #lichensubscribe #nature #closeup #fence

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Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – Politico


A rocket lifting off from a launch pad on a clear day, with smoke trailing behind it and a calm body of water in the foreground.The losses are spread across each of NASA’s 10 regional centers, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and will impact everything from planning astronaut missions to the moon to sending out deep space probes. | Aubrey Gemignani / NASA via Getty Images
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
A rocket takes off.

By Sam Skove, 07/09/2025 01:14 PM EDT

At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.

The 2,145 employees are those in GS-13 to GS-15 positions — senior-level government ranks that are typically reserved for those with specialized skills or management responsibilities. The losses are particularly concentrated at higher levels, with 875 GS-15 employees set to leave, according to the documents.

Those 2,145 employees, in turn, make up the bulk of the 2,694 civil staff who have agreed to leave NASA under a slate of offers that fall within broader administration efforts to trim the federal workforce, according to the documents. NASA has offered staff early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.

Many of those leaving also serve in NASA’s core mission sets, according to the documents. Those leaving include 1,818 staff serving in mission areas like science or human space flight, with the rest performing mission support roles like IT, facilities management or finance.

“You’re losing the managerial and core technical expertise of the agency,” said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society. “What’s the strategy and what do we hope to achieve here?”

The departures follow a proposed White House budget for 2026 that would slash NASA’s funding by 25 percent and cut over 5,000 staff. The cuts, if enacted by Congress, would force the agency to operate with the smallest budget and staff since the early 1960s.

The losses are spread across each of NASA’s 10 regional centers, where much of the agency’s work is done and which focus on everything from planning astronaut missions to the moon to sending out deep space probes.

The Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is set to lose the most staff at 607; Johnson Space Center in Texas will lose 366 staff; Kennedy Space Center in Florida will lose 311; and NASA headquarters in Washington will lose 307. Langley Research Center in Virginia will lose 281, Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will lose 279, and Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center will lose 191 staff.

Read more: Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – PoliticoSource Links: Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – POLITICO

#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NASA #NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration #Politico #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates



Nein, Ausländer sind nicht generell krimineller als Deutsche – aber die Ausländer, die sich Deutschland ins Land holt, sind es ansage.org/auslaender-sind-nic… Neues Normal: Eingewanderte Gewalt und Barbarei (Symbolbild:Pixabay) Auf Anfrage des AfD-Abgeordneten Martin Hess zur „Tatverdächtigenbelastung“ von nichtdeutschen Gruppen teilte das Bundesinnenministerium mit, dass Tatverdächtige mit

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The image features a political-themed graphic with a yellow background. In the center, there is a large sign with the word "TRUMP" in bold blue letters, accompanied by the slogan "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" in smaller blue text. The sign is framed with a red border and stars at the top and bottom, resembling a campaign banner.

On the left side of the image, there is a silhouette of a person in a suit, facing the sign. On the right side, there are two silhouetted figures wearing red caps, with one figure appearing to bow and pray, while the other stands beside them. Below the figures, there are two raised hands, suggesting a gesture of supplication.

The image includes text at the top and bottom. The top text reads, "AND THE IDIOTS BOWED AND PRAYED," and the bottom text states, "TO THE ORANGE GOD THEY MADE." The text is in white, with a shadow effect, making it stand out against the yellow background. The overall composition of the image conveys a critical message about the political figure represented by the sign.

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title: Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821-1875) was a United States Senator, a United States Congressman and a Union Army major general during the American Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was active in preventing the state of Missouri from being absorbed into the Confederacy at the beginning of the war.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_….
and: wikitree.com/wiki/Blair-3655

#history #ushistory #genealogy




Can anyone see HDR screenshot displaying alright?

#Gaming #HDR

  • Yes (HDR monitor) (0%, 0 votes)
  • Yes (No HDR, just an regular monitor) (100%, 1 vote)
  • No (HDR monitor) (0%, 0 votes)
  • No (No HDR, just an regular monitor) (0%, 0 votes)
1 voter. Poll end: mai

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For me, Firefox doesn't display it properly (darken and dull visual) and while using Chromium browser does on Windows 11 with HDR enabled. My phone (Pixel 7a) can display it in HDR and works flawlessly.



globalist.it/world/2025/07/10/…

Purtroppo sì (oltre che in assassini)



Wann ist das Internet denn jetzt endlich tot? (mit Franziska Bluhm)


TikTok bekommt eine amerikanische Schwester: M2 ist der Arbeitstitel, der Rest ist Spekulation. Aber hey! Für Spekulationen sind wir immer zu haben.
Leider gilt das auch für KI-Bots - denn Grok 4 steht vor der Tür und lässt schon jetzt seine Wahrheitsverzerrung durchschimmern.
Und dann gibt’s da noch das Problem mit dem fehlenden Traffic, seit Google Übersichten erstellt.

➡️ Die Recherche von Lars Wienand zu Fakepromis auf Social Media: t-online.de/nachrichten/panora…

Kapitelmarken, KI-generiert:

00:00 Hallo Franziska!
01:37 TikTok und M2
06:14 Grok 4
12:02 Wie die Wissenschaft KI hacken will
19:16 Nick Clegg über KI
24:18 Google vs. Publisher
27:55 Identitätsdiebstahl im Internet
35:40 Funktionen und Emotionen
40:14 Versöhnlichkeit des Tages

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There is “something” deviously wrong with mainstream media. It’s “like” they don’t care about Women and democracy or anything but money.

In Mexico, a coalition of catholic young Women and boys elected a Jewish socialist who identifies as a Woman.

Seems like something “american” Women would be interested in, but who am I to say?

✌️❤️ 🤦🏻‍♂️

#Politics #USpol #USPolitics #YodaMode #Feminism



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A imagem é uma ilustração em estilo cartunizado de um personagem masculino com cabelos grisalhos, vestindo um terno preto e gravata. Ele tem uma expressão de admiração e rubor, com as bochechas coradas e um olhar fixo, sugerindo que está olhando para algo que o impressiona. O personagem tem um dedo na boca, como se estivesse pensativo ou surpreso. Ao fundo, há estrelas brilhantes, indicando um momento de inspiração ou admiração. Há um balão de fala com a frase "EU GOL PARA S...", que é cortada, sugerindo que o personagem está falando algo importante. A imagem é acompanhada de uma legenda em português que diz: "Bolsonaro olhando pra tela do celular, vendo notícias do tarifão, ruborizado e ofegante sussurrando 'Tru... Trump-kun...' 👍👉". A imagem é uma sátira política, com o personagem representando Jair Bolsonaro, e a legenda faz uma referência humorística à admiração de Bolsonaro por Donald Trump.

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wayback is now fully on freedesktop: gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback…

thanks to @neal for driving this, and @mupuf for doing the sysadmin work on freedesktop gitlab!

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Being a non-native English speaker, I get hung up on some weirdness the others say or write. This has been bugging me for a long time, but no one seems to care.
It should be either "1 - 3 pm" or "from 1 to 3 pm," don't you think?
Not saying that I never make grammatical errors; I do all the time. But this is more about logics. "from 1 - 3 pm" doesn't make sense.

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This is A16Z's "American Dynamism" project at work. Writing bills to make sure taxpayer money can only go to one of their companies.
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bd4js…


In 20 minutes, #Smetana #Adamo with Segev and #Debussy from #Chicago worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch


I'm confused, in the most recent Mastodon update what do Trending and Live feeds in the web app do?

#mastodon

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live feeds is the local timeline and the federate timeline


It is really sad that a #disabled man exists in #poverty and has to beg for help to buy #food but instead goes hungry because people are to heartless to help. $5-10-15-25-50-100, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…




Linda Yaccarino tritt als CEO von X zurück de.rt.com/international/250266… Die Chefin von X, Linda Yaccarino, hat überraschend ihren Rücktritt erklärt. Die 61-Jährige war vor zwei Jahren von Elon Musk an die Spitze der Plattform geholt worden, nachdem dieser das damalige Twitter übernommen und in X umbenannt hatte. Ihren Rückzug begründet Yaccarino mit persönlichen Gründen. #news #press


From a filing today, the State Department intends to revoke and replace transgender people's passports that are changed under a current court order if a higher court reverses the order. This would be a major problem for trans people traveling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...


How To Train A New Voice For Piper With Only A Single Phrase


[Cal Bryant] hacked together a home automation system years ago, which more recently utilizes Piper TTS (text-to-speech) voices for various undisclosed purposes. Not satisfied with the robotic-sounding standard voices available, [Cal] set about an experiment to fine-tune the Piper TTS AI voice model using a clone of a single phrase created by a commercial TTS voice as a starting point.

Before the release of Piper TTS in 2023, existing free-to-use TTS systems such as espeak and Festival sounded robotic and flat. Piper delivered much more natural-sounding output, without requiring massive resources to run. To change the voice style, the Piper AI model can be either retrained from scratch or fine-tuned with less effort. In the latter case, the problem to be solved first was how to generate the necessary volume of training phrases to run the fine-tuning of Piper’s AI model. This was solved using a heavyweight AI model, ChatterBox, which is capable of so-called zero-shot training. Check out the Chatterbox demo here.
As the loss function gets smaller, the model’s accuracy gets better
Training began with a corpus of test phrases in text format to ensure decent coverage of everyday English. [Cal] used ChatterBox to clone audio from a single test phrase generated by a ‘mystery TTS system’ and created 1,300 test phrases from this new voice. This audio set served as training data to fine-tune the Piper AI model on the lashed-up GPU rig.

To verify accuracy, [Cal] used OpenAI’s Whisper software to transcribe the audio back to text, in order to compare with the original text corpus. To overcome issues with punctuation and differences between US and UK English, the text was converted into phonemes using espeak-ng, resulting in a 98% phrase matching accuracy.

After down-sampling the training set using SoX, it was ready for the Piper TTS training system. Despite all the preparation, running the software felt anticlimactic. A few inconsistencies in the dataset necessitated the removal of some data points. After five days of training parked outside in the shade due to concerns about heat, TensorBoard indicated that the model’s loss function was converging. That’s AI-speak for: the model was tuned and ready for action! We think it sounds pretty slick.

If all this new-fangled AI speech synthesis is too complex and, well, a bit creepy for you, may we offer a more 1980s solution to making stuff talk? Finally, most people take the ability to speak for granted, until they can no longer do so. Here’s a team using cutting-edge AI to give people back that ability.


hackaday.com/2025/07/09/how-to…



Umfrage: 95 Prozent lehnen muslimischen Bürgermeister ab exxpress.at/politik/umfrage-95… Das ist deutlich: In einer aktuellen Umfrage bei exxpress live gaben 95 Prozent der Teilnehmer an, sich keinen muslimischen Bürgermeister in ihrer Stadt vorstellen zu können. #news #press