#rewatch 📲 #FrancescaAlbanese, 🔵 UN Special Rapporteur, responds to member states at the #UN Third Committee OCT-28 2025:
She rejects accusations against her and turns the focus back to the Palestinian question, saying it is “grotesque and frankly delusional that a genocidal state can't respond to the substance of my findings. And the best thing that he resorts to is accusing me of witchcraft."
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So-called AI tools are increasingly infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis. DAIR writer-in-residence Decca Muldowney joins us to discuss the need for journalists to distinguish between "AI" and reliable, verifiable research methods.
"Loneliness is the biggest disease in the world right now," founder Francesco Vitali said. "So we built a platform where human time has value again, and a place where being human is important."
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Is OpenAI worth $1 trillion? Potential IPO may reveal the answer. It could be "one of the biggest IPOs of all time," according to Reuters. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/is-…
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Here women stand in quadrants, their hair whirling in four winds, circled by a ring of scorpions.... ..
Samarra, a neolithic town created a long line of splendid painted ceramics and female figurines. The Samarran Period (6500-6000 BC) is known for its finely made pottery decorated with animals, birds, and geometric designs.
The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimbayi Kaziboni plays:
George LEWIS: Your Network is Unstable.
Jessie COX: Schattenspiel.
Hannah KENDALL: He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
LEWIS: Wea...
Not physical or political violence. Prosecution for protesting is a clear 1st Amendment violation, that's the crime committed by the prosecutor against citizens.
That's DHS & DOJ plan. Have ICE use violence against peaceful protestors and arrest them for inciting violence and resisting arrest. They don't care if charges are dropped. Their goal is to intimidate and threaten with overwhelming force. It's a warmup for 2026 election day at polling places in minority districts where they arrest 100's on suspicion of illegal voting. This is how they want to suppress minority voting.
The advocacy group, Human Rights Watch, had urged Merz to speak out against Turkey's crackdown on the opposition, including the arrest of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.
Earlier: In a state where one in ten depend on SNAP benefits, #food banks are a vital lifeline for hungry residents. And they've just lost 10s of millions in federal funding. texasobserver.org/trump-cuts-t…
While Threads already offers tools that let you limit replies to people you follow, your followers, or people you mention, the new feature allows you to keep your replies open to all without the negative consequences of having discussions derailed.
Kristina Kolar, soprano, Martina Gojceta Silic, mezzo-soprano, Filip Filipovic, tenor, Marko Mimica, bass, the Rijeka Opera Choir and the Croatian RTV Choir and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valentin Egel perform:
VERDI: Messa da Requiem....
Einige Fangschreckenkrebse nutzen Teile des Exoskeletts um explosionsartige Bewegungen mit der Wucht einer Pistolenkugel zum Töten von Beute auszulösen. Gelegentlich sollen Treffer beim Ergreifen der Tiere die Amputation von Fingern nötig gemacht haben
Mentre la Germania, ex locomotiva d'Europa, arranca alla ricerca di un nuovo modello di crescita, è tempo di prendere coscienza della drammatica inferiorità tecnologica (cioè geopolitica) del continente vecchio, in ogni senso
Mentre la Germania, ex locomotiva d’Europa, arranca alla ricerca di un nuovo modello di crescita, è tempo di prendere coscienza della drammatica inferiorità…
I assume that part of their plan is to tightly integrate Canva into the suite in some way, so having a subscription will unlock features and stock assets.
At a bare minimum, it requires a Canva account to download and use. So, that's a marketing and brand win for them, and I assume the Free part is a loss leader to grab marketshare from Adobe and appease existing Affinity users.
I also assume that they will now take a cautious and methodical approach to ensuring existing Affinity customers remain happy (enough) with the new unified version. And once they feel good about the rollout, we'll start to see Canva integrations within the suite.
@jon For what it’s worth, the regwall appears to only lead to the download links page, which itself is unblocked (loads for me in incognito mode). affinity.studio/download
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Il governo americano ha annunciato un accordo con il gruppo Westinghouse Electric Company per costruire nuovi reattori nucleari convenzionali. L'investimento si inserisce nella strategia del presidente Donald Trump di rilancio dell'industria atomica nazio
Il governo americano investirà almeno 80 miliardi di dollari (circa 68 miliardi di euro) nella costruzione di nuovi reattori nucleari. L'accordo, annunciato martedì 28 ottobre, coinvolge Westinghouse Electric Company, controllata dalle società canadesi Cameco e Brookfield Asset Management.
L'investimento rappresenta uno dei piani più ambiziosi per l'energia nucleare americana degli ultimi decenni. Il governo si occuperà di organizzare i finanziamenti e di ottenere i permessi necessari per i reattori Westinghouse. In cambio, riceverà il 20% dei profitti futuri una volta che Westinghouse avrà distribuito 17,5 miliardi di dollari a Brookfield e Cameco. Il governo potrà convertire questa quota in una partecipazione azionaria fino al 20% e richiedere una quotazione in borsa di Westinghouse entro il 2029 se il valore dell'azienda supererà i 30 miliardi di dollari.
L'accordo dà seguito a un decreto firmato dal presidente alla fine di maggio, intitolato "rivitalizzare il parco nucleare industriale". Il decreto fissa l'obiettivo di avere dieci reattori convenzionali in costruzione entro il 2030. A maggio l'amministrazione Trump aveva anche ordinato alla Nuclear Regulatory Commission di ridurre le regolamentazioni e accelerare le licenze per i nuovi reattori, con l'obiettivo di ridurre un processo che dura diversi anni a soli 18 mesi.
Il ritorno del nucleare negli Stati Uniti è trainato principalmente dalla domanda crescente di energia elettrica dei giganti tecnologici. I loro centri dati, necessari per elaborare l'intelligenza artificiale, richiedono quantità enormi di elettricità. Google, Microsoft e Amazon hanno già firmato accordi per rifornirsi da tecnologie nucleari di nuova generazione. Lunedì NextEra Energy e Google hanno annunciato un accordo per riavviare una centrale nucleare inattiva in Iowa, che tornerà operativa nel 2029.
L'interesse rinnovato per il nucleare arriva dopo oltre un decennio di abbandono di questa fonte energetica. Gli Stati Uniti non hanno avviato la costruzione di nuove centrali dal 2009. L'impopolarità del nucleare era dovuta a una serie di incidenti - Three Mile Island nel 1979, Chernobyl nel 1986 e Fukushima nel 2011 - e alla reputazione di costi eccessivi e ritardi nei tempi di realizzazione.
Gli ultimi due reattori messi in servizio negli Stati Uniti, nel sito di Vogtle in Georgia nel 2023 e 2024, sono costati oltre 35 miliardi di dollari, più del doppio dei 14 miliardi preventivati, e sono stati completati con circa sette anni di ritardo. I problemi nella costruzione di quei reattori furono così gravi che Westinghouse dichiarò bancarotta nel 2017, prima di essere acquisita da Brookfield.
Tuttavia, l'invasione dell'Ucraina da parte della Russia ha stravolto gli equilibri del mercato energetico, spingendo gli Stati a diversificare gli approvvigionamenti. A questo si è aggiunta l'accelerazione del consumo di elettricità causata dalla crescita dei centri dati con l'espansione del cloud e dell'intelligenza artificiale.
Oltre ai nuovi reattori, gli operatori energetici e i gruppi tecnologici stanno riavviando centrali esistenti. Alla fine di giugno la governatrice di New York, Kathy Hochul, ha annunciato il progetto di una nuova centrale, quattro anni dopo la chiusura del sito di Indian Point. Constellation Energy e Microsoft hanno stretto un accordo per riattivare un'unità della centrale di Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania per alimentare i centri dati di Microsoft.
L'accordo include anche la partecipazione del Giappone, che martedì ha annunciato investimenti fino a 332 miliardi di dollari per sostenere le infrastrutture negli Stati Uniti, inclusa la costruzione di reattori Westinghouse. Le aziende giapponesi Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toshiba e IHI potrebbero essere coinvolte nella costruzione di reattori per un valore fino a 100 miliardi di dollari.
Westinghouse propone due modelli di reattori: gli AP1000 e gli AP300. Gli AP1000 sono reattori ad acqua pressurizzata con una potenza di poco superiore a un gigawatt, già validati dall'autorità di regolamentazione americana e utilizzati nelle due unità di Vogtle. Gli AP300 sono piccoli reattori di nuova generazione da 300 megawatt, ancora in fase di omologazione.
Nonostante l'entusiasmo, restano dubbi sulla realizzabilità del progetto. La costruzione di nuovi reattori nucleari negli Stati Uniti si è rivelata difficile a causa dei costi crescenti e delle preoccupazioni pubbliche per possibili incidenti. I critici sottolineano che le fonti rinnovabili come il solare e l'eolico sono molto più economiche del nucleare. Inoltre, rimane il problema delle scorie radioattive, che restano pericolose per migliaia di anni e vengono attualmente conservate nei siti delle centrali.
Le azioni di Cameco sono salite di oltre il 25% martedì dopo l'annuncio dell'accordo. Il ministro del commercio Howard Lutnick ha dichiarato che il partenariato "incarna la visione del presidente Trump di riconquistare la sovranità energetica, creare posti di lavoro ben retribuiti e collocare gli Stati Uniti in prima linea nella rinascita del nucleare". Il segretario all'energia Chris Wright ha aggiunto che Trump aveva promesso una rinascita dell'energia nucleare "e ora la sta realizzando".
you may want me dead and sundered into pieces smaller than grains of sand but you’ll never tell and I will never know
such is the punishment for twenty hours of touch that is torture in hindsight such is the punishment for shattering a fragile peace and believe me, if I could destroy myself that utterly don’t you think I would have already?
surely you also know the hell I’ve seen?
is it strange that I can still see her face in nearly perfect detail square jaw and blue hazel eyes I rewind the tape again and again –
how do you not get what you want when it is offered freely before you even ask? before you even consider what it is you want?
you only wanted security and safety and the comfort of routine I wanted her and I wanted you, too, once or twice – now I hold in the pain you wish you could see.
someday you might get your wish. someday I might be broken into twenty six billion pieces just like I did to my dreams
like you did to my trust and faith in a found home
and I will go my fate head unbowed still wondering if I deserved it
but still I carry on intact on the outside I find my strength in brokenness
do I leave a piece of me in everything I leave behind?
Halloween is rapidly approaching, and with it comes a sense of haphazard openness—a sense that anyone can present how they want to, that we can celebrate the things that frighten us, that any costume or event is possible with a little DIY ethos.
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Nessuna reazione dei mercati azionari del Vecchio continente alla decisione della Bce di lasciare i tassi invariati: le Borse hanno chiuso senza una direzione precisa, con la peggiore che è stata Madrid in calo dello 0,7%, seguita da Parigi in ribass…
Zoe Williams on the gaslighting of the voting public:
no, its not immigration that they/we are really concerned about, its the continuing cost-of-living crisis, its associated processes of enshitification of consumer goods & shrinkflation.
ReformUK may have managed to convince the political class that all we really care about is immigration (and the 'small boats'), but at home what most people are really worried about is rising prices & stagnant wages!
Talk of ‘small boats’ may dominate politics and the media, but the cost of living crisis is what most adults spend their time worrying about, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
I really want to agree, but sadly that's not what I am seeing in England. I keep on finding that people I know in Yorkshire who are really feeling the pinch are raging about the small boats, as if the Pennines was awash with overcrowded rubber dinghies 😞
I'd like to point out that in my "common man view" "stagnant wages" would not be a big problem IF ( and only IF ) the prices ( of everything else ) would NOT be raising ! Otherwise we are stuck in a loop of 'price raises, people complain a lot, some wages raises a bit, prices raises even MORE, rinse and repeat !" .. Where are we going to ?
Yes, there its always necessary to make the distinction between nominal & real wages... and this is a distinction that workers are all too well aware of, even if they don't use the terminology
87% de las bases de #Junts han validat el trencament del pacte d'investidura amb el PSOE. Això és bo o dolent? notarem alguna diferència els catalans? 🤔
Have downloaded and installed and it feels quite a bit different but the same. No issues opening my v2 files. Interesting that Serif kind of had some integration between the three tools before and having them all in the same interface makes massive sense. Will use but will keep my v2 just in case!
Dass #Mastodon eine überwiegend linke & im Selbstverständnis „progressive“ #Blase bildet - ok. Was mich aber immer wieder schockt, ist der hier massive #Sexismus.
Viele Macker hier halten andersdenkende Männer für gefährlich & andersdenkende Frauen für inkompetent.
Während etwa #FriedrichMerz immer wieder ausgeschrieben oder allenfalls zu „Fritze“ #Merz verballhornt wird, werden Christdemokratinnen in Namens-Hashtags kleingemacht, verhöhnt, erniedrigt.
Du hast nicht verstanden, wovon ich jetzt geschrieben habe. Stimmt das? Oder täusche ich mich?
Ich möchte lernen, besser zu argumentieren. Denn mich nervt das Mastodongedöns und das Selbstverständnis von Mastodonis... und ich möchte gerne besser aufklären. So wie ich es bisher gemacht habe, ernte ich nur Unverständnis...
kann schon sein, ich kenn den Fall nicht, oft wird andersdenkenden Frauen auch die Authentizität und ihre Leistung abgesprochen und sie werden als "Token" hingestellt.
Frauen in einer konservativen Partei haben kein Erfolg, sie biedern sich dem Patriarchen an. Der Patriarch ist ein Mann, das Patriarchat das System. Es dient aber eigentlich häufig zur Externalisierung bzw. als Feindbild.
Im Gespräch mit unserer Zeitung warnt der langjährige Unionsfraktionschef im Bundestag, Volker Kauder, seine Partei vor einer Abkehr von den christdemokratischen Wurzeln.
@Michael Blume @Lykanthrop_ Wenn ich mir - erlaube mir - Fritze und seine Mischpoche so ansehe, und die Vorgänger und Mittäter die nach wie vor im Amt sind so ansehe, dann sind die Christdemokraten weder christlich noch demokratisch. Sie sind auch nicht Konservativ sondern reaktionär. Nicht fortschrittlich sondern wissenschaftsfeindlich.
Und die paar Ausnahmen machen das Kraut nicht fett.
Für mich sind die Christdemokraten (Ob jetzt CDU oder CSU oder die ÖVP in Österreich) die größte und ungustiöseste Mogelpackung seit der Erfindung der Mogelpackung.
I'm developing a new form of reasoning called polyductive reasoning. In it there are multiple truth values in the conclusion and it can be visualized on a multidimensional graph. One dimension is true while the other two dimensions are false or something like that. That's the idea anyways. I might actually split this up into multiple different forms of reasoning based on interpretation and use. #philosophy #reason #logic
@licho It's different because the truth values can be 0 or 1 but the difference is that there are 3 (or possibly more) of them. The conclusion would be true in one dimension while being false in the other two dimensions or something like that.
Scalzi Reviews Grokipedia ...by reading his own biography. Not surprisingly, it gets a lot of things wrong even when the correct information is available, and it puts a lot of emphasis on the decade-old Sad Puppies kerfuffle because apparently right-wingers are still obsessed with it or something. Some choice excerpts: > fundamentally LLMs aren’t built for accuracy, they’re built for statistical probability, and these really are two separate things. > Having used Wikipedia for a while now, I feel reasonably sure that its biases are not “liberal,” they’re “pedantic,” > Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by a, insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire who sprints to reprogram that LLM every time it shares a fact that makes that billionaire angry or sad, or doesn’t fit into his Playskool Machiavellian ambitions and plans. In this particular case, a thousand pedantic nerds is much better than a single rich one.
What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…
New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, has declared a state of emergency to raise $65m to help food banks as federal funding for the national food stamps program is set to expire on Saturday due to the government shutdown.
The move comes after Oregon and Virginia also declared emergencies to make funds available to cover the anticipated short fall in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), which provides food aid to nearly 42 million people.
New York receives nearly $650m a month in federal funding for Snap benefits, according to Department of Agriculture figures.
Oregon governor Tina Kotek on Wednesday pledged $5m to food banks and declared a 60-day food security emergency. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has said the state will draw on surplus funds to pay for up to a month of Snap benefits.
The declarations come amid an ongoing standoff between the Trump administration and the Republicans, on one side, and the Democrats, over a federal government funding package. Neither Congress nor the White House has acted to fund November Snap benefits, which cost around $8bn a month.
today i found out that our caching-problem i #flohmarkt has multiple intertwining causes and i finally un-fuddled everything necessary to know. reasons are: 1.) we need to make sure that the reverseproxies in our deployments do not cache 2.) a bug in starlette that can get the cache-validation confused if files change but their modified-timestamps stay the same.
After an update of muc.deals, I realized that involved assets (basically all changed .css, .js and .svg files) are still cached in the browser resulting in a broken site.
Current workaround for the user is to hard reload the page (STRG+F5).
The ICC plans to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, amid concerns about public bodies' reliance on US tech companies (Maximilian Henning/Euractiv)
i would prefer let the space for entreprise that wonder if it's fit them.
My company still wonder (as your sync on mobile do not work properly), but they know if it work it's interesting.
for picture management tough your webapp is not well done (not show picture by date, no settings) and awfully slow preview generation (alternative go much faster but if we need 2 pictures app to do the job (as many alt do not support album without the native one)) and no proper mobile version.
we closed our corporate account since we run @forgejo internally and do not intent to personally accept their crappy TOS so i would like if you could open it yourself (thanks)
How does leadership in an industry that’s based on ethics even have this POV. Some people eat plant-based foods for health. But I—like so most vegetarians/vegans—don’t eat animals for moral reasons.
Their veggie burger isn’t the best, anyway. They try too hard to make it emulate meat.
I can’t believe this unethical shit stain runs a plant-based foods company. What a dick.
North Dakota judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit | AP News October 29, 2025
A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago.
The new amount is roughly half the $667 million that a jury had awarded to the pipeline company that brought the claims, Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access.
Jacquelyn Wagner, soprano, Valentina Farcas, soprano, Live Redpath, soprano, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, mezzo-soprano, Jasmin Jorias, mezzo-soprano, David Butt Philip, tenor, Christoph Pol, baritone, David Steffens, bass, the Copenhagen Boys' Choir, the BBC Si…
Writing about why the existence of Bounce is so personal for me, and it's been tough to relive memories of the communities I've lost.
The web is a beautiful place, but it's always at risk of being stolen from us. I feel so fortunate to be a part of a coalition of builders + users fighting for it. #Fediverse Threads
Also realizing how many times I was willing to try new spaces not owned by me to build communities. Fooled me far too many times before I realized what was missing.
On another note, it's a good feeling to see all the users who have already Bounced, or just used Bounce to see what their multi-protocol graph looks like. We don't expect folks to use this every day, but it's serving the purpose it was built for, and that gives me a lot of hope.
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FYI - quote boosts can be used to try to create mobs to harass people to force them off the platform, for not supporting trans folk too.
we can't have a #SocialWeb where bad opinions are not allowed, or where abuse towards people expressing those views is allowed. well not if we care about a big fedi. we actually don't need federation at all if we'd like everybody with conflicting views to be on separate platforms anyway.
![How To Be Punk:
FIG. 1: (comic book style image of a punk girl with identifying markers pointing to "punk" style) Dyed Hair, often spiked, Listens Exclusively to Punk Music, Piercings, Vintage band shirt, often home made, tattoos, spiked jewelry, Bondage pants, patches, combat boots, A belief in punk values & community, Confidence in themselves, Dresses for themselves, anti-fascist.
FIG. 2: (A second comic book style image of a "normie" girl, [w/ a free palestine shirt]) Listens to Punk Music as well as other genres, A belief in punk values & community, Confidence in themselves, Dresses for themselves, anti-fascist.](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/63688378 "How To Be Punk:
FIG. 1: (comic book style image of a punk girl with identifying markers pointing to \"punk\" style) Dyed Hair, often spiked, Listens Exclusively to Punk Music, Piercings, Vintage band shirt, often home made, tattoos, spiked jewelry, Bondage pants, patches, combat boots, A belief in punk values & community, Confidence in themselves, Dresses for themselves, anti-fascist.
FIG. 2: (A second comic book style image of a \"normie\" girl, [w/ a free palestine shirt]) Listens to Punk Music as well as other genres, A belief in punk values & community, Confidence in themselves, Dresses for themselves, anti-fascist.")
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