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Scientists Finally Reveal Why 'Hobbits' Were So Small
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-finally-reveal-why-hobbits-were-so-small?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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US DOJ seeks information on Georgia prosecutor Willis, NYT reports


The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a subpoena for records related to the travel history of Fani Willis, the Atlanta area prosecutor who charged President Donald Trump in an election interference case, The New York Times reported on Friday.


First James Comey, now Willis - we're now at the purging enemies you hate stage.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-doj-seeks-information-georgia-prosecutor-willis-nyt-reports-2025-09-27/





Amy McGrath: "Senior #military officers going to Quantico soon should take 2 minutes and review this thoughtful post":
justsecurity.org/121421/hegset…
#NationalSecurity #Hegseth #warning #lawfare #advice #politics copy: @renewedresistance


🎶 17th Century Music Computer.

The arca musarithmica, a machine to allow people with no experience to compose church music, might not fit our usual definition of a computer, but as [Levi] points out in the video below, there are a number of similarities to mechanical computers like slide rules.

youtu.be/ko3kZr5N61I

#arca #musarithmica #historical #music #artist #computer #history #tech #art #engineer #media #news

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Motori spazzatura, pantere albine e... 11!
Abbiamo fatto 11!
Be Radio torna prepotentemente (anzi no, bussando con delicatezza perché l'educazione è importante) per la sua stagione numero undici!
E quest'anno vogliamo stravolgere tutto, a partire dai nostri inviati che si sono reinventati da capo a piedi.
Sarà un bene? Sarà un male?
Intanto cerchiamo di capire come diamine ha fatto Eddie Dry a scamparla dal finale della scorsa stagione...

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This #caturday my cats are testing the Olivetti M(eow)24.

They are actually taking turns to sit on the monitor.

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What to expect from Amazon’s big fall hardware event on Tuesday
https://www.theverge.com/news/786455/amazon-fall-hardware-event-2025-what-to-expect-alexa-echo-kindle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Toyota hat eine experimentelle Stadt in Zentraljapan eröffnet, in der smarte Technologien den Einwohnern selbstfahrende Fahrzeuge und automatisierte Dienstleistungen anbieten sollen. #japan #toyota #smart cities #technologie

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I'm thinking of getting an ergonomic split keyboard (type: computer, not music) because my current ergonomic keyboard takes up way too much space, & to make it extra wanky I'm thinking mechanical. Needs to work on Linux, Windows & fruit machine 🍏, come in British or International English format, & ship to the EU.

To make it extra super-dooper wanky, I'm fine with putting it together myself so long as it doesn't involve soldering anything.

Anyone have any suggestions?

#MechanicalKeyboard

in reply to Nudeln Al Dente

No problems at all,
Actually more comfortable than "normal" keyboards.
I needed something like two-three weeks to get used to my ErgoDash, from a plain QWERTY TKL keyboard, and I'm still hacking and patching the layout through QMK after 2 years. 😇
If you have time to waste, my story with the ErgoDash is here: marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/…


Hualien flood victim found after five days; family thanks rescuers
19:55

Search and rescue personnel on Saturday recovered the body of an 87-year-old woman in Hualien County, five days after massive flooding triggered by Typhoon Ragasa inundated the area, local authorities said.
focustaiwan.tw/society/2025092…
#news #taiwan



Happy Saturday 💗💛💗

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Residents of Democratic-leaning U.S. cities have begun to push back against President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration tactics. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/… #worldnews #crimelegal #ice #immigration #us #donaldtrump



Interesting way to represent uncertain or vague information into #knowledgegraphs (as e.g. easier integration of LLM/Deep Learning Results into KGs) via "Fuzzy OWL". Paper by Fernando Bobillo & Umberto Straccia: Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2
arxiv.org/abs/1009.3391

#ontologies #owl #llms #generativeai #deeplearning #ai



#PostgreSQL 18 just landed—and I built a benchmark dashboard comparing PG versions 12–18 using pgbench mix tests:

pgbench.github.io/mix/

PG18 leads in every metric:
- 3,057 TPS
- 5.232 ms latency
- 183,431 transactions
Have you tested version 18 in production yet? Any tuning tips or surprises?
#TechNews
#PerformanceTesting

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Moos

Deze column is wat later dan jullie gewend zijn, maar we waren zo druk in de voorbereidingen voor onze nieuwe hond Moos dat ik het even vergeten was de wekelijkse column te schrijven. De laatste week hebben we diverse items moeten inkopen en opruimen voor de eerste weken veilig thuis met de pup.

Column >> mijnamstelveen.nl/moos/

#Moos #Benji #puppy #hond #AustralianLabradoodle #dogsofmastodon #dogsofpixelfed #column #blog @mijnAmstelveennieuws #MorpurgoMedia



Jens #Spahn als stellvertretender Vorsitzender der CDU/CSU ist wie ein Bild von der Tschernobyl Ruine als Werbung für sicheren Atomstrom...



#Hamburg ist das einzige B-land, in dem der #NSU mordete, das keinen parlament. U-Ausschuss eingerichtet hat… Das könnte die Aufarbeitung des Handelns der Justizbehörden & des VerfSchutzes im Zusammenhang mit der Ermordung von Süleyman Taşköprü beeinträchtigen<taz.de/NSU-Aufklaer... #rechtsterror

NSU-Aufklärung ausgebremst: Ha...





#PennedPossibilities 796 — Have you had to cut anything significant from your WIP?

Plenty of times! But as I do this for a living, wasted words are wasted work, so I try to get everything right first time round.

(One of my two current WIPs is a problem child, and is now on the third re-write. If I can't stick the landing this time round, it's getting dumped: obviously I was over-ambitious, and the sunk cost fallacy applies.)




L'Italia è in finale ai Mondiali 2025 di volley!
I ragazzi di De Giorgi hanno sconfitto la Polonia 3-0 al termine di una grandissima prestazione.
sport.sky.it/volley/2025/09/27…

#vollyball #volley #itavolley

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Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani topped MLB's jersey sales for a third straight season, the league said on Friday, confirming that the Japanese sensation remains the game's biggest draw. japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/0… #baseball #mlb #shoheiohtani #losangelesdodgers


Deutsche Gruppen fordern von VW: Urteil in Brasilien anerkennen pressenza.com/de/2025/09/deuts…






営利企業と違って、生活協同組合はどこぞのCEOに豪邸を買えるほどの給料は払わない。真っ当な品質のものを真っ当な価格で供給するので、そんなに高い給料は払わない。組合員みなで支えていくのが生活協同組合だ。そして生活協同組合の職員は生活協同組合の組合員みなで「組合の細々としたお仕事よろしく!」って言われる立場の組合員だ。なので、生活協同組合の店舗で組合員が品出しを手伝うのは(極めて原理的には)十分あり。現代ではさすがに雇用契約は結ばなければならないが、しかし今でもある共同購入という形態では皆で買って皆で分けるということが実際に行われていて、これぞ協同組合の原点と言える。


A REST API is now available for the #Gaza archive project archive.gaza.onl/swagger - the source code is at git.fabiomanganiello.com/_/gaza-archive if anyone wants to contribute.

The archive of static media is still browseable at archive.gaza.onl.

Still to do:

  • [ ] Free search capabilities
  • [ ] RSS feeds
  • [ ] Index hashtags, profile fields and profile pictures too
  • [ ] A nice UI
  • [ ] CSV output for the tables of accounts, posts and media metadata
  • [ ] Export the whole archive as zip

@aral

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Digital Preservation Coalition: Archiving Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn . “After publishing Archiving Facebook, Right Now we got quite a lot of comments, feedback and ideas (LinkedIn, Mastodon). I was rather hoping someone would appear and say ‘You’ve got it all wrong, it’s easy!’ and outline the workings of some suitable solution. But so far everything I’ve seen boils down to either […]

rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/digi…



the key I miss the most on new keyboard is insert. thinking of remapping home key, since I never use home :thinking_cirno:
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NumLock off and 0 on the keypad should be Insert
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@arichtman sorry man, I was born in the 80s and my first IBM PC compatible keyboard only ever had 10 F keys on the side, the alphanumeric block, and the numpad, none of those other fancy buttons. And I never ever ever ever spent days doing data entry, so the numpad was for arrows, home/end/pgup/pgddn/ins/del. Or diagonal motion when playing 8-D
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@oblomov here it seems to switch into insert mode, not be the insert key :akko_thonk:
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well, shifted or not depends on the status of the numlock toggle.





The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts


On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New

On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify a ramping up of the Trump administration’s voter-suppression agenda in the wake of similar lawsuits the department filed last week against Maine and Oregon.

Thelawsuits may seem unrelated to Comey’s indictment, but both developments show how the DOJ has been weaponized in an unprecedented way to target Trump’s political opponents and retaliate against those who resist his extreme MAGA agenda.

The DOJ has demanded voter registration lists, which include sensitive personal information like driver’s license and Social Security numbers, from at least 27 states, and is reportedly attempting to build a national voter database, which has never been done before. This could endanger voter privacy and become a prime target for hackers, while the DOJ could abuse such a list to retaliate against voters based on party affiliation and promote Trump’s debunked claims of widespread voter fraud.

I explained the risks in a recent article:

In particular, the DOJ appears eager to share state voter data with the Department of Homeland Security, in orderto comb through federal immigration databases to search for cases of ineligible voting or noncitizens on the voter rolls. Such databases are not designed for those purposes and will likely produce inaccurate results, especially becausesuch fraud is also exceedingly rare. Nonetheless, this will give them an opportunity to trumpet fake claims of fraud in order to advance Trump’s lies about the voting process.

“My guess is they want the voter files to be able to say we have the voter files and we know there are x or y fraudulent people on it,” says Justin Levitt, who served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division under President Obama. “It will be fiction, but now they’ll say it because they have them. Even if they find an infinitesimal number of wrong people on the rolls, they will lie about the numbers. This administration cannot be trusted. They have an enormous problem with credibility and an even bigger problem with data.”


Both red and blue states have resisted sharing their voter data with the Trump administration. A similar demand during Trump’s first term from his “election integrity” commission sparked a national outcry, but the responses this time have been more muted. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “few states have sent the DOJ their voter files, and those that did—at least 11—seem to have provided only the publicly available versions of their voter files.”

“The Justice Department’s demand for voters’ personal information, including driver’s license numbers and Social Security numbers, is unprecedented and unlawful, and we will vigorously fight the federal government’s overreach in court,” Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania’s Republican secretary of state, said in a statement. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, called the DOJ lawsuit “a fishing expedition and pretext for partisan policy objectives.”

The demand for sensitive data is but one aspect of the Trump DOJ’s assault on voting rights. The department alsofiled a brief this week in a Louisiana redistricting case, urgingthe Supreme Court to dramatically gut the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

Under a court order, Louisiana drew a second majority-Black congressional district in advance of the 2024 election, which the Supreme Court allowed, despite legal challenges, at least for the time being. The state, which is about one-third Black, has six congressional districts. In its brief, the DOJ called the new map “a form of electoral race-based affirmative action” and urged the Court to make it far more difficult to draw districts that would allow voters of color to elect their candidates of choice, essentially dealing a death blow to the VRA. “Effectively, this is asking SCOTUS to gut the VRA without saying you are gutting the VRA,” Michael Li, a redistricting expert at the Brennan Center, wrote on Bluesky.

The DOJ has already weaponized the VRA to boost Republican gerrymandering efforts. In early July, the department sent a letter to Texas alleging that four congressional districts, all represented by Black or Hispanic Democrats, were “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cited that letter as a justification for redrawing the state’s map this summer, on Trump’s orders, to give Republicans five more US House seats.

But in court documents filed this week, Texas threw the DOJ under the bus, denouncing its “ham-fisted legal conclusions,” which “apparently sought to provide political cover for Texas to engage in partisan redistricting.” The disavowal of the DOJ’s argument is particularly notable given how closely Texas worked with the Trump administration to redraw its map.

The partisan legal advocacy, meddling in state affairs, and similar actions by the DOJ have made it increasingly clear that the department, and the administration, intend to turn civil rights laws on their head, using them to target the very communities they were designed to protect.


This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.



In 1914, Beatrice Blore Browne was 1st woman to drive a car up 1 in 3 gradient of Great Orme, Llandudno N #Wales, undertaking feat in Singer 10 car whilst 6 months pregnant. New #Wikipedia page for her on incorrect date on her amazing gravestone. Not #OTD 26 Sep 1887 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice…
@CarveHerName @histodons


I'll just leave this here.

"One of the world’s most powerful technology leaders [Peter Thiel] has reportedly warned that regulating artificial intelligence risks hastening the coming of the Antichrist."

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Do these people really believe such … strange world views? Or do they just believe that they can sell that to public and politics? And which of the two is scarier?
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“Yes”

In labeling Greta Thunberg as antichrist, he is definitely allies himself with big oil wealth without stating climate denial because tech billionaires don’t roll that way. he’s found another way to get out the most closely held trope of the superrich that public outcry is a plot for one world government.

Never mind that the super rich work diligently to have too totalitarian control over everything

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"Fidèle parmi les fidèles d’Emmanuel #Macron, Sébastien #Lecornu poursuit la politique en faveur des plus riches engagée depuis 2017. Le 1er ministre écarte d’emblée la taxe #Zucman, pourtant plébiscitée par une écrasante majorité de Français (86%), ainsi que le retour de l’#ISF, dont le rétablissement est souhaité par 77% des Français. Minoritaire, le locataire de Matignon refuse également toute remise en cause de la réforme des #retraites, rejetée par 93% des actifs." début; suite en alt


New Hampshire and Vermont Could be Next to Introduce “Balcony Solar”


This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Small solar-panel kits that can be assembled as easily as an Ikea bookcase and plugged into a regular residential outlet could be coming

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Small solar-panel kits that can be assembled as easily as an Ikea bookcase and plugged into a regular residential outlet could be coming soon to New Hampshire and Vermont. Lawmakers and advocates in both states are preparing legislation that would make these plug-in solar systems accessible to residents who don’t have the space, money, or inclination to install a larger, conventional rooftop array.

“It’s really about energy affordability,” said Kevin Chou, cofounder of Bright Saver, a nonprofit that advocates for the adoption of plug-in solar. ​“It’s about access for people who wanted solar but haven’t been able to get it.”

These systems—also called ​“portable” or ​“balcony” solar — generally come in kits that even a novice can put together at home. They plug into a standard outlet, sending the power they generate into a home’s wires, rather than drawing electricity out.

Unlike rooftop arrays, plug-in systems don’t generate enough power to meet all, or even most, of a household’s needs, but they offset enough consumption to pay for themselves within four or five years, even without incentives like tax credits or net metering, Chou said. Models now on the market start at about $2,000. If the equipment becomes more popular and prices come down, the payback period could get even shorter.

“You don’t need any subsidies to make this work,” Chou said. ​“The pure economics are so attractive, it’s one of the best investments you can make.”

These systems have taken off in Germany, where more than a million have been deployed, but have been much slower to catch on in the United States.

DIY solar “seemed like something that would fit into the ethos of people being able to make individual choices.”


Recently, though, the idea has gained traction in the US. In March, Utah lawmakers, working with Bright Saver, unanimously passed a law authorizing and regulating the equipment, making it the first state to lay out the welcome mat for plug-in solar. Last month, a Pennsylvania state representative announced plans to introduce a similar law, and Bright Saver is having conversations with lawmakers in about a dozen additional states about possible legislation, Chou said.

All of the legislative proposals follow the same principles as Utah’s law: They would define a new class of small, portable solar systems, and establish the right of households to use the systems without submitting applications or paying fees to the state or utilities. They also define safety standards for the systems, including that they be certified by Underwriters Laboratories, or UL, a company that sets standards and provides safety certifications for a wide range of products.

At the moment, two manufacturers make plug-in solar systems with inverters that have been certified as complying with safety requirements, Chou said. Because the market for portable solar is so new, however, UL has not developed standards for entire systems. Bright Saver and other plug-in solar supporters have been working with the company on this issue and expect a standard to be released in the next month or two, Chou said.

Other startups are waiting in the wings, hoping to launch their own products next year, once the questions about UL standards are resolved, he added.

“Bottom line: Once Vermont’s legislation passes, there will be existing manufacturers ready to sell into the state immediately, along with new entrants waiting for additional UL clarity, who are also preparing to launch,” Chou said.

Supporters hope the benefits of plug-in solar—lower electricity costs, freedom to make personal energy choices—will help the idea gain support even in states not known for their embrace of renewable energy, and despite federal efforts to slow or stop renewable energy progress. The early and robust acceptance of the technology in deep-red Utah has bolstered this vision.

“I am optimistic that, as in Utah, it’s going to be seen as a commonsense way to just get out of the way and let people do good things,” said Ben Edgerly Walsh, climate and energy program director at the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, an organization backing Vermont’s expected plug-in solar bill.

“This creates access for folks who might otherwise not have the authority to put something on their roof.”


In New Hampshire, a swing state known for its ​“live free or die” libertarian streak, Democratic state Sen. David Watters also thinks this dynamic might work in the technology’s favor, despite the state’s historical lack of support for measures boosting solar use.

“We’re really kind of stuck in a rut with anti-renewable-energy sentiment in the House,” Watters said. ​“This seemed like something that would fit into the ethos of people being able to make individual choices.”

Watters, a member of the state Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, worked with local advocacy group Clean Energy New Hampshire to author a rough draft of a plug-in solar bill based on Utah’s new law. It will be refined in the coming months and formally introduced in the legislature in January.

Notably, Watters said, his proposal would not stop homeowners associations or landlords from imposing their own rules on members and tenants.

“Their authority is not taken away,” he said. ​“For this state, that’s crucial.”

In Vermont, two Democratic state legislators—Sen. Anne Watson, chair of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, and Rep. Kathleen James, chair of the counterpart committee in the House—are championing a plug-in solar bill based on model legislation drafted by Bright Saver. Watson is particularly excited for the potential of plug-in solar to reach low-income residents and renters.

“This creates access for folks who might otherwise not have the authority to put something on their roof, or who might need something a little more flexible,” she said.

Vermont, a decidedly left-leaning state, has long welcomed renewables. The state’s governor, Phil Scott, however, is a Republican who has shown reluctance to spend public money on clean energy. Further, the legislature lost its veto-proof Democratic majorities during the last election, so prospects for forward movement on energy and climate issues have been dimmed this year.

However, Watson has already heard a lot of positive feedback from her fellow lawmakers, even though the bill won’t be taken up until the legislature reconvenes in January. Indeed, several colleagues came to her with similar proposals before learning she was already working on it. She has also had initial conversations with the Scott administration and found it willing to consider the idea, she said.

“While I can’t say they are necessarily for it, the reception I’ve received so far is that they are open and interested in learning more,” she said. ​“I am hoping for broad support.”


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Unions, activists and other civil groups gathered in Paris yesterday to support the Global Sumud Flotilla.

humanite.fr/monde/aide-humanit…

#AllEyesOnSumud #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine



The Portal to Wonderland.

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Il genere musicale più odiato da internet

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visto che @itanglese apprezza le mie raccolte di inglese usato "a cazzum", se vuole troverà pane per i suoi denti sul Blog, nella Categoria: #dilloinitaliano

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US postpones imposition of sanctions against Serbian NIS at least until October 8 — TV - Business & Economy - TASS

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated that Belgrade was becoming collateral damage in the US-Russia standoff and warned that the cost for Serbia would be extremely high

tass.com/economy/2022103

#US #Serbia #Economy #Russia #politics