Per Volksabstimmung zur Erbschaftssteuer
Das reichste 1 Prozent der Schweiz besitzt fast die Hälfte des Gesamtvermögens. Das könnte sich bald ändern: Denn die Schweizer Jungsozialisten wollen per Volksabstimmung eine 50-Prozent-Steuer auf Vermögen ab 50 Millionen Schweizerfranken einführen.JACOBIN Magazin
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L'anno di Rauschenberg nel centenario dalla nascita - Arte - Ansa.it
Da Milano a Madrid, da New York a Houston e a Honk Kong sul mondo di Robert Rauschenberg non tramonta mai il sole. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Iacona, 'a Presadiretta tutta la crisi in cui viviamo' - Tv - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/tv/2025/08/30/iacona-a-presadiretta-tutta-la-crisi-in-cui-viviamo_3d02c3fb-117a-44b8-a8c4-42b0d7d9d81d.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Iacona, 'a Presadiretta tutta la crisi in cui viviamo' - Tv - Ansa.it
"I temi di cui ci occupiamo sono tutti legati alla crisi nella quale viviamo, fatta di guerre che non finiscono mai e del culto della forza che sta diventando il segno delle relazioni diplomatiche. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Xiaomi recalls 146,891 power banks over fire risk
Xiaomi announced on Friday a voluntary recall of 146,891 units of its PB2030MI power bank, produced between August 1 and September 22, 2024. The recallTechNode Feed (TechNode)
Escheresque.
#photography #urbanphotography #stairs #perspective #kindergarten #lines #geometry #japan #higashiosaka
30% of all word-based domain extensions are managed by 1 large corporation in the United States.
The biggest words based corporation was called Donuts Inc — A corporation that for the longest time went unnoticed because the name is not what it implies. They eventually became Identity Digital Inc, which is owned by Ethos Capital.
Ethos Capital is one of the larger investment and capital marketing companies in the country, which is located in my state of Massachusetts, USA.
The second-largest corporation for words based domains was Afilias Inc, which also was bought out by Identity Digital Inc. Which, once again, is owned by Ethos Capital.
Nearly every word-based domain is sponsored and governed by a corporation. The majority of those are in the United States. But Identity Digital Inc, which is owned by Ethos Capital, controls a large sum of them, and you can see the full list on Wikipedia (see URL).
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#Domain #Register #Website #Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #DgitalSovereignty
La Dette, toujours la dette...
Mais au fait, quand le banquier te file 100.000€, il les sort d'où ?
L'Argent-Dette. (2006, revisitée 2010)
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Long métrage d'animation, dynamique et divertissant, de l'artiste et vidéographe Paul Grignon.
#ArgentDette #Argent #Dette #Capitalisme #Banque #Banques #Film #Documentaire #Macron #Bayrou #10septembre
Informassue - Argent-dette, croissance, austérité
D'où vient tout cet argent ? Comment peut-il y avoir TANT d'argent à prêter ?Informassue
L’homme marque de son empreinte le territoire qu’il habite, inscrivant dans le paysage les traces de son occupation. Éléments vernaculaires de nos paysages, témoins du temps passé, révélatrices du temps présent ou supports du temps qui s’écoule, elles sont le reflet de la situation sociale, économique et politique de ceux qui vivent là. Cette série photographique, initiée en 2011, montre cela, constituant un "portrait de lieu", personnel et subjectif. Le "portrait de lieu" de la France d’aujourd’hui. D’ici et de maintenant.
Man leaves his mark on the territory he inhabits, inscribing the traces of his occupation in the landscape. Vernacular elements of our landscapes, witnesses of the past, revealing the present, or bearing the passage of time, they reflect the social, economic, and political situation of those who live there. This photographic series, initiated in 2011, shows this, constituting a "portrait of place", personal and subjective. The "portrait of place" of today’s France. From here and now.
#photographie #photographiecontemporaine #artistefrancais #france #paysagesfrançais #paysages #rural #architecture #petitpatrimoine #tracesdupassé #commercesdupassé #photography #artpicture #landscapephotography #frenchlandscape #ruralphotography #architecturephotography #storefronts #oldshop #dicietdemaintenant #moyenformat #sigma #sigmadp1quattro #sigmadp2quattro #sigmadp3quattro #leica #leicacamera #leicaphotography
Kallas: EU can't give back frozen assets to Russia, unless they pay reparations to Ukraine
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/30/kallas-eu-cant-give-back-frozen-assets-to-russia-unless-they-pay-reparations-to-ukraine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Kallas: EU can't give back frozen assets to Russia, unless they pay reparations to Ukraine
The EU's foreign policy chief said the bloc needs to dive deep into the issue of frozen Russian assets, to be prepared in case of an eventual ceasefire or peace deal.Sandor Zsiros (Euronews.com)
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Sommer, Sonne, Faschismus
Dass Fans des rechtsextremen kroatischen Popstars Marko Perković alias Thompson faschistische Parolen rufen, ist nichts Neues. Doch bei seinem letzten Konzert – dem größten in der Geschichte der EU – »feierten« Hunderttausende.JACOBIN Magazin
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Indonesia: manifestanti incendiano edificio governativo, 3 morti - Notizie - Ansa.it
Almeno 4 feriti. Ieri sono scoppiati violenti scontri tra manifestanti e polizia (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Do you want your brain to remain your own? Do you want your government to recognize that neural privacy is a fundamental human right?
"How to Fix the Internet" interviewed Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, and have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA.
I'm going to write to my representatives in #Georgia and encourage them to follow the lead of CA, CO, and MT.
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/podc…
Podcast Episode: Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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4/ Alors pourquoi ça râle ici ? Parce que les comptes qui râlent voient dans cette présence un projet politique ("wokisme") qui leur est insupportable. L'argument du "réalisme historique" n'est qu'un prétexte qui leur permet en fait de légitimer leur racisme.
Ah oué, c'est comme les mecs qui râlent sur la présence d'un samouraï noir dans un jeu-vidéo avec des aliens technologiquement très avancées qui créent la race humaine au cours de l'antiquité, se font passer pour les dieux des mythes européens antiques et on sait tout ça grâce à une machine qui retranscrit les souvenirs précis des ancêtres cachés dans l'ADN…
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Good morning from New Orleans
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NewOrleans #Windows #GoodMorningFromHarlem
I just tried to watch #Ronja the Robber's Daughter (made by Goro Miyazaki). I really love the book by Astrid Lindgren, so I thought maybe the show would be fun too! but I was honestly creeped out by the animation style. the CGI was not good.
also (this is very American of me but) the pacing was sooo slow. I did not make it thru the first episode.
KDE Plasma 6.5 arrivano i preferiti nel gestore degli appunti
KDE Plasma 6.5 introduce la possibilità di aggiungere elementi preferiti al gestore degli appunti, una funzione attesa da oltre 20 anni
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One thing I keep running into with any form of self-hosting:
STARTING it is every bit as easy as promotors of self-hosting claim it is. Yeah, spinning up a Wordpress instance is easy and rewarding, as is writing a bit of HTML by hand, or any other solution really.
CONTINUING to do it, while maintaining and securing whatever solution you're using, is hard.
I think writing HTML by hand is the easiest option by far. Fewest security holes. For something like a webcomic where there are a lot of similar pages, it does get incredibly tedious.
WP is never easy, and always bloated ;D
I've used Grawlix and a custom CMS for my webcomics, but for my next one I think I'm going to go for something entirely static, possibly hand-coded (unlike a massive existing archive like yours, a new webcomic allows for a comfy pace of adding pages).
@eishiya
A solution that can work reasonably well as a compromise between completely hand-coding a website and a CSM like WordPress is static site generation. This gives pretty much the same security as a static site, but it reduces the strain of replicating all the boilerplate by hand.
I'm not sure if there's SSGs specifically tuned for webcomics, though.
@eishiya I'm kind of in the same place, at least for some things. I wouldn't want to hand-code a new site for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan and started to get away from that by the time that reached 100 episodes (it's at over 1200 now); for something like that, I need automation and cross-referencing, and Wordpress* fits that need best.
But for a new project, like a gag comic with a (honestly) short life expectancy, hand-coding is a better option.
* with static exports, no live instance online.
@oblomov Pain in the ass to use on larger archives unless you pay for incremental exports, though.
Actually, that's the worst part of the Wordpress ecosystem: so many things are free-until-indispensible.
L’estate sta finendo, Edith Wharton era la lettura giusta
Gli ultimi giorni di agosto li ho passati con L’età dell’innocenza, con cui la scrittrice vinse (prima donna) il Pulitzer nel 2021. Ho poi ... Scopri di più!Beppe Cottafavi (Domani)
Es gibt noch ein bis zwei Accounts, die noch nicht umgezogen sind.
Falls es nicht anders geht, werde ich die Instanz noch 24 bis 48 Stunden laufen lassen und dann mindestens in einen Schlummermodus versetzen.
Alle Accounts, die bereits umgezogen sind, werden morgen vormittag gelöscht, damit sie nicht unnötigen ActivityPub Traffic verursachen, der dann ins Nichts gehen würde.
L'immagine mostra un gruppo di attori in un teatro, vestiti in costumi medievali colorati. Al centro, una donna in un abito verde e oro si sta avvicinando a un uomo in un abito rosso, con le braccia tese verso di lui. Sullo sfondo, altri attori in abiti scuri e colorati osservano la scena. La scena è ambientata in un palazzo medievale, con archi e finestre illuminati. L'atmosfera è vivace e teatrale, con i colori vivaci dei costumi che si riflettono sulla scena.
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L'immagine mostra un gruppo di attori in un teatro, rappresentando una scena di un'opera o di una commedia storica. Al centro della scena, una donna in un abito verde con dettagli dorati e una donna in un abito verde più scuro sono coinvolte in un gesto drammatico, con le mani alzate. Un uomo in un abito rosso e giallo, probabilmente un personaggio di rilievo, è al centro dell'azione, mentre un uomo calvo in abito scuro interagisce con loro. Sullo sfondo, altri attori in costumi medievali osservano la scena. La scena è illuminata da luci colorate, con un set che rappresenta un edificio con finestre e una porta. L'atmosfera è vivace e teatrale, con i personaggi in posizioni dinamiche che suggeriscono un momento di tensione o di dramma.
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L'immagine mostra un gruppo di giovani attori in un teatro, eseguendo una performance su un palco. I bambini indossano abiti colorati e elaborati, che sembrano ispirati a diverse culture e epoche storiche. Alcuni indossano abiti tradizionali, come gonne lunghe e cappotti, mentre altri hanno vestiti più moderni ma con dettagli ricercati. I bambini sono in posizioni dinamiche, con le braccia alzate, suggerendo un momento di danza o di espressione teatrale. Sullo sfondo, c'è una scenografia che rappresenta un edificio con archi gotici, che potrebbe essere un palazzo o una chiesa. In primo piano, si intravede un'orchestra che suona, con i musicisti visibili solo parzialmente. L'atmosfera è vivace e piena di energia, con i bambini che sembrano completamente immersi nella loro performance.
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Flowers for West Town by Ouizi in Chicago ❤ When Houses Become Beautiful (8 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2025/08/29…
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Zero-Click-Angriff auf Apple-Geräte via WhatsApp
WhatsApp meldet eine geschlossene Lücke, über die anfällige iOS- und macOS-Geräte ohne Bestätigung des Nutzers per Spyware angegriffen werden können.
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#Apple #iOS #IT #macOS #Security #Sicherheitslücken #WhatsApp #news
🚗 Scopri i migliori adattatori Android Auto wireless, per mantenere le tue mani sul volante! 📱 #AndroidAuto #Tech2025
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Migliori adattatori Android Auto wireless (settembre 2025)
In questa guida vi presentiamo i migliori adattatori wireless per trasformare Android Auto cablato in wireless, rendendo l’uso in auto più comodo e sicuro.Carla Cigognini (Tom's Hardware)
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“capitalism is 1 pound one vote”
He is so very good stripping away all the political clutter modern political discourse in this day, breaking that situation down to its essence.
Wealth determines economic and political decision-making power.
@normjess
The very fact of a system of exchange system privileges whomever is most able to say no. Max Weber and others have pointed out that this inherently exacerbates economic inequality, ultimately leaving workers destitute while a few get rich.
Admittedly, Weber attributed this to capitalism, but the logic of his argument applies to *any* market system.
The only way to avoid it is to start with a perfectly level playing field and somehow--impossibly--to keep that field level.
Economics that works, then, applies the maxim from the Communist Manifesto: To each according to their need, from each according to their ability.
@benfell @normjess
It is extremely interesting stuff because it makes it brutally and very simply clear what is necessary to create and defend an equal society.
Socially it hinges on a moral system. And if you notice the moral system of capitalism is mercenary, it’s psychopathic. Every man seeks mastery in the world of slaves.
Our morning walk plan for the state park trails was spoiled as a hundred cars were already there at 7am. No way we could have had a quiet walk. So, we just had a quiet walk around the lake.
📍 George H. Sparks Reservoir, GA
#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm #park #lake #birds #ducks #geese #sunrise
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Il boom dell'eteropessimismo, perché le donne non riescono più a fidarsi degli uomini
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/08/30/video/il_boom_delleteropessimismo_perche_le_donne_non_riescono_piu_a_fidarsi_degli_uomini-15288865/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il boom dell'eteropessimismo, perché le donne non riescono più a fidarsi degli uomini
«E dalle macchine per noi i complimenti dei playboy. Ma non li sentiamo più, se c'è chi non ce li fa più. Cambia il vento ma noi…La Stampa
Sports holidays have ended, so the struggle of #F1Segreta may start again!
This week a little less painful for the return of #f1academy in a nice track AND even better for us Tifosi Maya Weug got 1st in the Race 2 Quali, definitely making her the only Ferrari to score a pole this weekend (and year). Yay!
Today at 17:00 CET we'll have Race 1 and we'll see how much of my #malocchio will go to her, I pray not too much. #DutchGP
LIVE: Race 1 | Zandvoort 2025 | F1 Academy
It's time for the Reverse Grid race around the dunes here in Zandvoort. Who will take the victory?For more F1® Academy, visit https://www.f1academy.com/Follo...YouTube
Cat holes or wag bags? Researchers studying human waste in parks and protected areas outline options for responsible pooping outdoors to minimize environmental impact and protect public health.
US appeals court finds Trump's global tariffs illegal
The American president reacted, saying that he would fight back "with the help of the United States Supreme Court"
Case file: storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
A Trip to Stockholm - Walking Through the City 1
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So...coming out of my patch test, the big change is that I need to remove amidoamine from my products.
In combination with my fragrance allergy, this is proving to be very difficult.
Amidoamine is pretty much everything in the ingredient list that is "...amine" or "...betaine" and more.
Doc gave me a special app to help.
I have to replace a lot of stuff *again*.
In just a few years I have gone from being a beauty junkie with no fewer than 4 shampoos and conditioners in my shower and up to 7 products in my hair on any given day to being grateful to continue to have *A* hairspray that I can use.
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BYD exports its Thai-made electric vehicles to Europe
(Xinhua) BYD announced on Monday that its Thailand plant has officially exported the first batch of BYD DOLPHIN electric vehicles (EVs) to t...www.technologynewschina.com
Milán, il cane che sfidò il vuoto e la drammatica scena catturata in un video
https://www.lastampa.it/la-zampa/2025/08/30/news/cane_balcone_paura_caduta-424816395/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Milán, il cane che sfidò il vuoto e la drammatica scena catturata in un video
Segui La Zampa su Facebook (clicca qui), Instagram (clicca qui) e X (clicca qui) - Non perderti le migliori notizie e storie, iscriviti alla newsletter settima…La Stampa
UN experts denounce enforced disappearances of Palestine civilians seeking aid
UN human rights experts condemned the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at aid distribution sites on Thursday, urging Israeli authorities to halt the targeting of the starving Palestinian population.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/jurist.org/n…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
UN experts denounce enforced disappearances of Palestine civilians seeking aid
UN human rights experts condemned the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at aid distribution sites on Thursday, urging Israeli authorities to halt the targeting of the starving Palestinian popula...Sabine Haddad | New York Law School, US (- JURIST - News)
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Wil je weten waar Abraham de #mosterd haalt?
#doesburg #gelderland #toerisme #tourism #fotografie #photography
#ACDSee
@Kat :glassesdog: I think that a seamstress that does custom garments could also do something like this
I have no idea how easy finding a seamstress would be where you live
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Wer kommt bei der Nahost-Berichterstattung zu Wort? Eine exklusive Auswertung von 5.000 Schlagzeilen deutscher Leitmedien zeigt: Israels Militär und Regierung dominieren. Unabhängige Quellen werden kaum genutzt.JACOBIN Magazin
@libri
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"Le correzioni", pubblicato nel 2001, è il romanzo che ha consacrato Jonathan Franzen come una delle voci più potenti della narrativa contemporanea americana. Al centro ci sono i Lambert, una famiglia borghese qualunque: genitori e figli che si inseguono, si deludono e si giudicano, intrappolati tra aspettative, rancori e
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A Trip to Stockholm - Into Stockholm 40
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#urban #cruiseship #sweden #stockholm #photography #snapshots
Poc s'està parlant d'això... 😢
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Moren més de 140 migrants en el pitjor naufragi de la ruta cap a les Canàries :elperiodicocat: https://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/politica/20250830/moren-mes-140-migrants-pitjor-121068589Masto.news
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #Photography #Northumberland #SheepOfMastodon #Defaidodon
"In the nearly two years since Israel’s assault on Gaza began, at least initially in response to the Hamas attack on 7 October, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed. Entire cities lie in ruins, starvation is widespread, and a growing chorus of international legal experts warn of a looming genocide. Despite this, the European Union continues its preferential trade and research partnership with Israel under the EU–Israel Association Agreement — an agreement that is conditional on respect for human rights. Calls to suspend it are growing across Europe, yet EU institutions have so far declined to act.
Marc Botenga, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) and Vice-Chair of the Left group in the European Parliament, has been a leading critic of the EU’s response to Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian territory. In April 2025, he proposed a resolution on the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement with a group of fifteen MEPs. Recently, he spoke with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Alexandra Gerasimcikova about his views and the next political steps the Left in Europe can take."
rosalux.de/en/news/id/53698/ch…
#EU #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Boycott #BSD #Genocide
Challenging the EU’s Deadly Partnership with Israel - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Belgian Workers’ Party MEP Marc Botenga on how Europe’s inaction on Gaza amounts to legal and moral complicitywww.rosalux.de
China’s server, chipmakers enter ‘super cycle’ as AI computing capacity mushrooms
China’s AI hardware-related companies have become the new darlings for Chinese onshore stock investors.Coco Feng (South China Morning Post)
Sono due click per provare a farci sentire su una cosa importante come la sicurezza digitale.
Chiedo di passati una mano sulla coscienza e di inviare le e-mail. Non cambierà nulla, ma almeno ci abbiamo provato.
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Can I port C64 Commando music to arcade hardware?
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#Commodore #C64 #chiptune #sid #arcade #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) networks
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36577114
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) networks
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36577114
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
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Libertarians must be obsessed about liberty now.
Talk to people everywhere. Pass out flyers. Print out business cards. Make a website. Start a newspaper. Rent a billboard. Make songs and movies about freedom.
You might be the last one defending freedom, but you must live with your conscience.
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Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" protests will be held across the US for Labor Day to protest the Trump administration's attacks on workers' rights and safety net programs relied on by millions.
Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
"This is about workers showing up and demanding what workers deserve all across the country," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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I’d love to see their evaluation of how much this will save, plus their evaluation of what the costs would be to switch to another system if it all goes pear shaped. Plus of course data privacy etc etc.
(Councils are marks for these sharks)
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Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services
Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’Robert Booth (The Guardian)
This frightens the hell out of me.
Social work already was under invested in and I grew up not trusting social workers.
Anyone who remembers various social work decisions that turned into a scandal will I suspect, be incredibly worried about this becoming a norm.
@onepict
Presumably by the time something goes wrong with local government decisions, the people responsible have moved on? (In some cases with brown envelopes to fall back on...)
Is there any precedent for holding government decision makers legally responsible after they've changed jobs?
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in reply to GenomInc • • •Das Bild zeigt ein Screenshot eines Threads auf einer Social-Media-Plattform, vermutlich Twitter, mit einem schwarzen Hintergrund. Oben links steht "Thread" und rechts sind ein Alarm- und ein Menü-Symbol zu sehen. Der erste Beitrag stammt von "withvision" und wurde vor 18 Stunden veröffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Anleitung zur Erstellung eines Dialogflow-Projekts in Google Cloud, einschließlich der Definition von Intents und Entities, der Integration mit Twilio und der Implementierung von Anruf-Logik. Der Beitrag hat 49 Likes, 1 Kommentar und 3 Retweets. Darunter befindet sich ein Kommentar von "chatsanniemanden" mit 70 Likes, 1 Kommentar und 3 Retweets. Der Kommentar erwähnt die Warteschlange und die Verbindung von Anrufen.
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Das Bild zeigt einen Screenshot eines Threads auf einem sozialen Medien- oder Foren-Plattform, auf dem ein Benutzer namens "withvision" über seine Erfahrungen mit einem KI-Anrufbeantworter berichtet. In seinem ersten Beitrag, der vor 22 Stunden veröffentlicht wurde, beschreibt er, wie er einen kleinen KI-Anrufbeantworter entwickelt hat, um Spam-Anrufe zu reduzieren. Er erwähnt, dass eine Firma aus Aachen mit einer Telefonnummer aus Dortmund einen KI-Kaltakquise-Anruf gemacht hat, und dass der KI-Anrufbeantworter 30 Minuten lang mit der KI diskutierte. Der Beitrag hat 499 Likes, 25 Kommentare und 5 Teile. In einem weiteren Beitrag, der vor 18 Stunden veröffentlicht wurde, teilt "withvision" seine Schritte zur Entwicklung des KI-Anrufbeantworters, einschließlich der Erstellung eines Dialogflow-Projekts, der Definition von Intents und Entities, der Integration mit Twilio und der Implementierung der Anruf-Logik.
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