Pfizer Races to Salvage Obesity Drugmaker Deal After Novo’s Bid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/pfizer-races-to-salvage-obesity-drugmaker-deal-after-novo-s-bid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This is Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic )at full strength & full power.
Great interview by Sarah!
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How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/809081/enshittification-cory-doctorow-platforms-ai-monopoly-big-tech-interview?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Tech News @tech-news-theverge
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
Enshittification author Cory Doctorow on how to stop platform decay and where, exactly, the internet went so wrong.Sarah Jeong (The Verge)
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Rioja lidera el ranking de James Suckling con 24 vinos entre los 100 mejores de España en 2024
Rioja vuelve a situarse en lo más alto del vino español según James SucklingVinetur
SeaweedFS is a simple, open source, and highly scalable distributed file system. There are two objectives:
1. to store billions of files!
2. to serve the files fast!
github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
GitHub - seaweedfs/seaweedfs: SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, xDC replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE
SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, xDC replica...GitHub
All’Off/Off Theatre Urbano Barberini apre la stagione
“Barbari, Barberini e Barbiturici – Tragedie ridicole di un Principe sulle spine” è lo spettacolo d'apertura [.....]
“Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.”
Free software scares normal people
Link: danieldelaney.net/normal/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney
80% of the people only need 20% of the features.danieldelaney.net
Boulos almoça no bandejão do Planalto um dia após posse como ministro
(Folhpress) – O ministro da Secretaria-Geral, Guilherme Boulos, almoçou no bandejão do Palácio do Planalto, restaurante comumente utilizado pelos servidores, nesta quinta-feira (30), um dia após sua posse oficial como ministro. No local, o Psolista almoçava com um grupo e fez fotos com as demais pessoas que almoçavam no restaurante. Ministro Boulos A pasta assumida […]
Prince Andrew To Lose 'Prince' Title, Buckingham Palace Says
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Prince Andrew To Lose 'Prince' Title, Buckingham Palace Says
The disgraced prince will also be moving out of his home, Royal Lodge.Carly Ledbetter (HuffPost)
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Avui és 5è dijous de mes i fem un taller d’expressions regulars! 🤖
Aprendrem a aplicar-les a tasques d’administració amb sed, grep,rename i per la programació en python, javascript, java, …
👾 Són difícils, però els monstres no ens fan por! 🙈
![doble vinyeta dins d'un cotxe. A dalt, una mare, etiquetada "jo", descabellada cridant desesperada: "per què no pots ser normal?!" A sota, el seu fill, etiquetat "regex", amb la boca oberta i les celles en força, en expressió diabòlica, diu: ^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/63693048 "doble vinyeta dins d'un cotxe. A dalt, una mare, etiquetada \"jo\", descabellada cridant desesperada: \"per què no pots ser normal?!\" A sota, el seu fill, etiquetat \"regex\", amb la boca oberta i les celles en força, en expressió diabòlica, diu: ^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$")
Desxifrem la regex de la vinyeta: ^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$
^: marca l’inici de línia. Fa que l’expressió que segueix sigui l’inici de línia, que no estigui per allà al mig[\w-.]+:[abc]: representa 1 sol caràcter a triar entre a, b o c.\w: equivalent aa-zA-Z0-9, és a dir, qualsevol lletra majúscula o minúscula, dígit i barra baixa. Les lletres amb accent NO estan incloses-: el caràcter guió-, no té significat especial.: el caràcter punt. Dins dels claudàtors, no té significat especiala+: una o més lletres a. Darrere d’un grup de caràcters, [abc]+ vol dir un o més de qualsevol d’aquests caràcters, en qualsevol ordre i distribució (aaa, ab, ccacbcba)
@;: caràcter literal arroba, sense significat especial([\w-]+\.)+(aaa)+Una repetició o més del grup dins dels parèntesis[\w-]+: un o més caràcters de lletres maj//min, números, guions alts i baixos\.: un punt, caràcter normal. Li hem de posar \ davant, perquè sinó vol dir “qualsevol caràcter”
[\w-]{2,4}: un caràcter alfanumèric, guió baix (inclòs a \w) o alt, i tantes vegades com el rang entre claus: entre 2 i 4: és a dir, 2, 3 o 4 caràcters de tal grup.$: final de línia. Envoltar l’expressió entre^i$fa que la línia hagi de coincidir de forma completa amb el patró, la regex. No pot representar-ne només un trosset.
Per tant, algunes línies que coincidirien amb aquest patró són:
- una-adresa.de_mail@gmail.com
- unaaltra@molts-subdominis.dins.un.altre.net
I una adreça vàlida que no funcionaria, perquè diu que l’última part només pot tenir 4 dígits:
- admin@mastodon.online (“online” és més llarg que 4 caràcters)
Una adreça invàlida que no coincideix (està ben fet el patró:
- error@.domini.net Perquè el punt no pot anar just després de l’arroba. Si es pogués, podríem haver simplificat
([\w-]+\.)+com a[\w-.]+Fer-ho com està, fa que hi hagi d’haver almenys un caràcter abans d’un posible punt.
Dues adreces més, que farien servir dominis “locals”, de xarxes internes:
- admin@localhost seria vàlida.
- admin@lc no ho seria, perquè després de @, ha d’haver-hi 1 o més caràcters + entre 2 i 4 caràcters. És a dir, mínim 3.
Conclusió: tota regex és sempre incompleta. Buscar la regex perfecta ens condemna a escriure la biblia… en arameu i escriptura cuneïforme. Millor buscar regex prou bones per les dades que volem acceptar.
Recursos online:
- sorral de proves regexr.com/
- sorral de proves regex101.com/
- tutorial amb ordre arbitrari de dificultat luisllamas.es/curso-regex/
Si voleu els exercicis que vam fer, demaneu-nos-els, estan menys explicats però són més divertits 😉
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The Atlantic: Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers (Oct. 30, 2025)
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#fascism #politics #military #trump
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.Michael Scherer (The Atlantic)
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you are still taking precautions
show them the research
that has found
“Covid and Flu
Can Triple Your Risk
of Heart Attack,”
and after they’ve read it
ask them why
they still aren’t taking precautions.
May I present to you, the Potsdam Gravity Potato?
Areas of the earth where the gravitational field is mysteriously weaker (blue) or stronger (orange)
via @earthlymission
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The Potsdam Gravity Potato
Why do some places on Earth have higher gravity than others? Sometimes the reason is unknown. To help better understand the Earth's surface, sensitiveTamás Varga (Earthly Mission)
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Non so perché, ma avrei potuto scommetterci anche le @@ su questo risultato.
La legge, ovviamente, non è uguale per tutti.
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Archiviata l'indagine su La Russa junior per violenza sessuale: "Nessuna prova di reato"
La decisione è stata presa dal gip di Milano. I legali del figlio del presidente del Senato: "Compiuto un atto di giustizia"Tgcom24
Ford to Invest $370 Million in India Defying Trump’s Local Push
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/ford-to-invest-370-million-in-india-defying-trump-s-local-push?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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My eyesight is pretty bad and at first I thought this squiggly channel in the water was a snake.🙃
#PhonePhotography
#NotAPhotographer
#photography #creeks
#colours #colors
Serie A, il Sassuolo vince 2-1 a Cagliari. Alle 20.45 c’è Pisa-Lazio
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Serie A, il Sassuolo vince 2-1 a Cagliari. Ora c’è Pisa-Lazio
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Serie A, il Sassuolo vince 2-1 a Cagliari. Ora c’è Pisa-LazioRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Kaksi aikuisviihdefirmaa on nostanut syytteen Facebookin emoyhtiötä Metaa vastaan
Yhtiöt väittävät Metan ladanneen laittomasti tuhansia aikuisviihde-leffoja torrenttina ja käyttävän niitä tekoälynsä koulutusmateriaalina.
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#meta #aikuisviihde #oikeusjuttu #facebook #tekoäly #ai #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka
Metaa syytetään aikuisviihteen luvattomasta käytöstä tekoälynsä koulutukseen
Aikuisviihdeteollisuutta edustavat yhtiöt syyttävät Metaa yhtiöiden aikuisviihde-elokuvien lataamisesta laittomasti, käyttääkseen elokuvia Metan tekoälyn kehittämiseen.Petteri Pyyny (AfterDawn)
Machado Says Venezuela's Democracy Is Matter of US National Security
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-10-30/machado-venezuela-s-democracy-is-matter-of-us-security-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Solar Flare," 11 x 15" acrylic on paper
#MastoArt #DarkArt #Painting #TraditionalArt #AcrylicPainting #FediArt
🌍💚 Am 14. November ist globaler Klimastreik! 💚🌍
Auch in #Freiburg gehen wir mit einer sweeten Laternendemo auf die Straße!🏮
Kommt um 18 Uhr auf den Platz der Alten Synagoge und bringt mit uns etwas Licht ins Dunkle🔥
📢 Weltweit demonstrieren wir, während die Regierungschefs bei der Weltklimakonferenz verhandeln – und machen klar: Wir dulden keine Kompromisse mit unserer Zukunft!
#fridaysforfuture #fff #klimaschutz #COP26
JD Vance slammed for saying he hopes his Hindu wife Usha will ‘join Christianity’ at Charlie Kirk event
JD Vance slammed for saying he hopes his Hindu wife Usha will ‘join Christianity’ at Charlie Kirk event
Vance has previously credited his wife’s faith with helping him rediscover his own connection to religionAndrew Feinberg (The Independent)
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I grew up on food stamps and free school lunches. I remember going to food pantries and walking out with peanut butter and shelf-stable cheese in stark white containers with black lettering.
I didn't always like what we had to eat (I hated peanut butter!), but I was lucky enough to never go hungry.
The Trump administration's refusal to pay SNAP benefits is galling to me on a very personal level.
I can't change their minds. I don't have billions of dollars to give to people who need help. But I can do some good. Will you join me in donating to your local food pantry?
If you want to tell me how much you've donated, J and I will contribute that amount to United Food Bank (up to $1000). We're matching $200 in donations so far!
Don't live in the US? Donate to your local food pantry anyway! I'm sure they can use the help no matter where you are.
Everyone deserves to eat.
"The founder of a startup business that helps employers and parents with parental leave is asking whether it's fair that parents are taxed as individuals.
Stephanie Pow said she regularly helped parents navigate their entitlements, including Working for Families and Family Boost.
All of these supports are assessed on the basis of household income.
But when it came to tax, that is applied on an individual basis."
#SusanEdmunds, 2025
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Benefits should be individual too.
@tim
> Either option would be better than the status quo for households
Cool. So consider the situation of a solo Dad who starts dating someone with a job. WINZ gets wind of this, declares they're now "in a relationship", and means tests his benefit entitlements against her income and assets.
Now he either has to break up with a woman he may have only just started seeing, or depend on her to support him and her kids. She has an equally stark choice.
Individual entitlements are the way.
There's something that didn't really crystallise for me for a long time, which I think I might have learned from Bob Harper implicitly, not sure.
If you like someone's research and want to emulate it, it is more important to read the things that they had *read* than to read the things that they had *written*.
Obviously you should read it all, but I often run into people who are banging their heads against something I wrote when I was just a beginner in a topic trying to understand it myself, and they would be a lot better off reading whatever I had been reading at the time. (A good way to figure out what someone had been reading is to look at the bibliography in their paper or note!)
@lindsey @slava The times I've really tried to map an area for my own interest relied very heavily on tools! Google scholar, semantic scholar, etc.
Lately I'm really enjoying inciteful.xyz -- for any given citation graph it also shows a bunch of canned derived queries: prominent authors, journals and institutions, most-cited survey papers that cover the most of the graph, key papers and recent papers, etc. etc.
4 NOVEMBRE 1918: la fine della “grande guerra”… ma non delle guerre
Nel 2018 il collettivo Wu Ming scriveva che le celebrazioni del centenario mostravano che «l'Italia e l’Europa avevano più che mai bisogno di anticorpi antimilitaristi, di diserzione e di rifiuto di ogni intruppamento. Perché quella del “continente sul cui suolo non si sarebbero più combattute guerre” era una fòla…»
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4 NOVEMBRE 1918: la fine della “grande guerra”… ma non delle guerre
Nel 2018 il collettivo Wu Ming scriveva che le celebrazioni del centenario mostravano che «l’Italia e l’Europa avevano più che mai bisogno di anticorpi antimilitaristi, di diserzione e di rif…MEZZ'ORA DI SILENZIO per la PACE e la GIUSTIZIA SOCIALE
I'm guessing that @sundogplanets is not going to be too pleased with this one-sided #BBC article which breathlessly parrots the boosterism for 40+ paragraphs before timidly suggesting that "Some, however, do not agree".
bbc.com/future/article/2025102…
I once remember the BBC being better than this.
Space power: The dream of beaming solar energy from orbit
Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could make it a reality.Jonathan O'Callaghan (BBC)
Camera obscura.
camera-obscura-muelheim.de
#photography #cameraobscura #mülheim #optical #notpinhole #projection
Camera Obscura | Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films
Spannendes Ausflugsziel im Ruhrgebiet: die Camera Obscura Mülheim 🗸 weltgrößte begehbare Camera Obscura 🗸 Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films 🗸 Fotografie-Ausstellungenwww.camera-obscura-muelheim.de
Il nuovo video di Pasta Grannies: youtube.com/shorts/v_iBNrEDrWg
@Cucina e ricette
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I'm weirdly resigned to the US having a major financial meltdown—stock market crash, bank runs, liquidity crisis, AI bubble pop,maybe all that&more!
If not now, in the middle of the shutdown & Trump-caused hunger crisis, then soon.
I can't see us destroying fascism before they crash...everything.
I'm ready to #FAFO on that. The current shutdown is good training -- we're going to have to support each other during the meltdown.
More Occupy. Less Tea Party racism.
I agree that all of this is good "training"—the word I would use is "opportunity"
Use the SNAP cutoff to lay the foundation of connection between neighbors, building community, building social agreement about feeding everyone.
We'll need that consensus when we have people in power who will implement universal right to food (because of public demand).
Many of the mutual aid networks deployed rn were built off the early part of the pandemic.
I've been saying this from the jump:
Toyota створила автомобіль-конструктор для сільської місцевості
Toyota представила на Japan Mobility Show 2025 в Токіо новий позашляховик IMV Origin, який компанія навмисно залишила недобудованим.Володимир Коломінов (Gagadget.com)
I'm thinking about changing how the "Reveal" system works in #TiledWords and I could use your feedback!
Currently:
- You get 3 reveals per puzzle
- Clicking the (?) next to a clue reveals the entire word
This is useful as an escape hatch but is "all or nothing" and not very fun.
I'm considering increasing the number of reveals (to 4 or 5) but making them less powerful. Here are a couple of options:
1. A reveal exposes the first and last letter. Revealing the same word a second time exposes the whole word.
2. A reveal exposes every other letter. (Second reveal shows everything.)
What do y'all think? How should reveals work? Thanks!
Trump agita l’atomica: «Ora nuovi test». Una strategia per distrarre dal flop con Xi
Il presidente americano dichiara che gli Usa riprendono «immediatamente» gli esperimenti atomici per coprire l’assenza di un accordo-quadro con ... Scopri di più!Michelangelo Cocco (Domani)
Caposaldo E-020 據點 stronghold - Kinmen Rising Project
kinmen.altervista.org/e-020_fo… #金門 #Kinmen #JīnMén #Quemoy
Caposaldo E-020 據點 stronghold - Kinmen Rising Project
Il caposaldo difensivo E-020 si trova nella zona di Mǎshān – 馬山區. Attualmente vi è stato installato un radar controllato dalla Guardia Costiera.kinmen (Kinmen Rising Project)
Another ray of sunshine
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#blip of a bright yellow #flower.
#blipfoto #gimp #rawtherapee #Photography #france #garden
Thursday 30 October 2025
Another so-so day. I was able to walk the dog before and after work in the dry which is good. At work I had a couple of meetings and a new...Blipfoto
LinkedIn Highlights Thought Leader Ad Opportunities in Campaign Manager
Another step towards creator monetization in the app,Andrew Hutchinson (Social Media Today)
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Heute stelle ich euch meine erste Messeneuheit vor. Nocturnis von Maxine Metzger.
Das tollste vorweg, es kann solo gespielt werden. Dafür ein extra dickes Danke an Maxine.
Nocturnis ist wohl in die Kategorie Draft-and-Write Spiel einzuordnen. Mensch muss eine Habitatkarte ziehen und die Form des Habitats auf dem Block einzeichnen. Kommen die für den Falter passenden Pflanzen in dem so gezeichneten Habitat vor, zieht der Nachtfalter dort ein.
Es ist ein bißchen wie analoges Tetris mit Motten. Ich hab Tetris geliebt, ich liebe Nachtfalter und ich mag lila.
Klasse Spiel, das werde ich noch öfter Spielen. Es gefällt mir um längen besser als ihr, auch wunderbar gezeichnetes , Erstlingswerk Witchcraft.
Das kleine Spiel ist rundum gelungen. Ich freu mich schon auf eine Erweiterung mit mehr Motten .
#nocturnis #gesellschaftsspiele #cardgames #kartenspiele #boardgames #brettspiele #essen2025 #maxinemetzger #flintagames #brettspiele
Hier ist eine Alt-Text-Beschreibung für das Bild:
Das Bild zeigt ein durchsichtiges, rechteckiges Overlay, das auf einer Oberfläche liegt. Auf dem Overlay befinden sich mehrere kleinere, rechteckige Aufkleber, die in einem Gitter angeordnet sind. Jeder Aufkleber hat ein unterschiedliches grafisches Motiv, darunter abstrakte Formen, Blätter, Blumen, Sterne, und geometrische Muster. Einige der Aufkleber weisen Farbverläufe auf, während andere mit einfachen Farben und Konturen gestaltet sind. Ein Aufkleber hat eine kleine Zahl "3" in der oberen rechten Ecke. Der Hintergrund ist nicht sichtbar, da der Aufkleber transparent ist.
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Das Bild zeigt eine Collage aus verschiedenen Elementen auf einem helllila Hintergrund. Im Vordergrund befindet sich ein Porträt einer Schmetterling, das die obere Hälfte des Bildes einnimmt. Unterhalb des Schmetterlings befindet sich eine Reihe von bunten Aufklebern, darunter Äpfel, Blätter, Sterne und ein Kaktus. Ein gelber Bleistift liegt horizontal im unteren Bildbereich. Die Aufkleber und der Bleistift sind durch die Form von Rechtecken abgerundet. Darüber befindet sich der Text "Hyalophora Cecropia".
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Dieses Bild zeigt drei Aufkleber auf einer schwarzen Oberfläche. Der erste Aufkleber auf der linken Seite zeigt einen Schmetterling mit scharfen, schwarzen Flügeln mit blassrosa und türkisfarbenen Akzenten. Der mittlere Aufkleber zeigt einen Schmetterling mit blauen und weißen Akzenten auf seinen Flügeln. Der rechte Aufkleber zeigt einen Schmetterling mit orange- und purpurnen Akzenten auf seinen Flügeln. Alle drei Aufkleber haben einen dezenten Hintergrund mit floralen Mustern.
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Das Bild zeigt eine Schachtel mit dem Titel "NOCTURNE" mit einem großen, bunten Schmetterling darauf. Der Schmetterling ist im Profil dargestellt und hat Flügel mit einem Muster aus Lilatönen, Blau- und Grüntönen. Der Hintergrund der Schachtel ist dunkelblau und mit kleinen, goldenen Sternen verziert. Der Name "Maxine Metzger" steht auf der rechten Seite der Schachtel. Der Text auf der Schachtel gibt eine Liste von Inhalten, Regeln und Informationen an, darunter "INHALT" und "REGELN".
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Nigeria's petrol import tax risks new inflation spike
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Nigeria’s petrol import tax risks new inflation spike
Fuel price rises have spiked inflation in Nigeria in recent years.Alexander Onukwue (www.semafor.com)
Ein bisschen Street Food skizziert, bevor Tochter es verschlungen hat.
Aarhus Street Food ist definitiv ein Spot, der sich für alle lohnt. Man bekommt ein breites Angebot an sauleckeren Mampf.
#daniiduna #photography #handmade #kunst #sketch #sketchbook #aarhus
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For anyone who does not want to use Vispero Accounts:
1. if needed, uninstall JAWS 2026 without removing shared components.
2. Create a new file named AdditionalSettings.ini in the same folder where you saved the setup package containing data starting from the ;.
3. launch the setup. 1/2
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Che succede a Prysmian in borsa? - Startmag
Prysmian, società che realizza cavi per le telecomunicazioni e per l'energia, ha pubblicato i risultati del terzo trimestre del 2025.Marco Dell'Aguzzo (Startmag)
Che succede a Prysmian in borsa? - Startmag
Prysmian, società che realizza cavi per le telecomunicazioni e per l'energia, ha pubblicato i risultati del terzo trimestre del 2025.Marco Dell'Aguzzo (Startmag)
Que carai faig cantar per nadal en english a la meva xavalada qje no sigui ultra hortera i sigui mitjanament assequible de cantar i de lletra?
No és gaire original, ho sé...
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Against all odds : In support of the comrades of the CNT-AIT against the CNT-CIT's attacks !
Lyon, 21th August 2025
As militants of the french speaking Anarchist Federation (Fédération Anarchiste, FA), we denounce the scandalous attacks, in Spain, of the CNT-CIT against the CNT-AIT.
The fact is that the CNT (National Confederation of Labour) known as "AIT", a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist organisation affiliated with the International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT), is currently being dragged before the bourgeois courts by another parent syndicalist organisation: the CNT-CIT, affiliated with the International Labour Confederation (ICL-CIT) which it co-founded after being excluded from the IWA-AIT in 2016 and split, as a result, from the CNT-AIT.
It turns out that the CNT-CIT has gone to war, not against the State and Capitalism, but against... its counterpart: a truly anarchist syndicalist organisation with which, less than ten years ago, it formed a single structure! If the situation were not already far-fetched, the means implemented are, themselves, quite simply delirious.
In essence, the CNT-CIT accuses the CNT-AIT of usurping an identity that belongs to them and of seeking to deceive syndicalists. It intends to force the CNT-AIT to stop using the name "National Confederation of Labour", the acronym "CNT", its distinctive signs (flags and logos) and its historical emblem (Hercules fighting the Nemean lion). But there is no "amicable resolution" there.
To this end, the CNT-CIT invokes "private property" after having registered everything as "national trademarks" with the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. To enforce this "right", it appealed to a bourgeois court (the National Court) to bring a lawsuit against the CNT-AIT, which would allow it to claim up to €50,000 in damages from more than thirty unions accused of alleged "moral damages".
Needless to say, none of the various CNT-AIT unions is in a position to pay such a colossal sum.
This affair, which threatens to decimate the organisation, could even see fellow union members sentenced to extremely heavy fines or even imprisonment. Right now, our comrades in Madrid are even facing eviction from their historic premises in Tirso de Molina Square, in the centre of Madrid!
And this is only the beginning of the offensive...
It is clear that these legal maneuvers are not only aimed at depriving the CNT-AIT of its assets and heritage. They are also intended to bury it under enormous compensation and, ultimately, to make it disappear completely, requisition its premises and impose themselves — in a manner as hegemonic as it is fallacious — as the only "anarcho-syndicalist" organisation in the country.
We would not even have to take a position on the ideological differences that separate the two organisations, so absurd is the situation! The reason for our support is self-evident: whatever arguments the CNT-CIT may put forward, nothing could justify resorting to bourgeois justice to extort money from the CNT-AIT by invoking its right to private property. This is the height of irony, for an organisation that claims to be “anarchist”! This is political and economic violence that we cannot condone, neither in substance nor form.
We must nevertheless distinguish between the responsibility of the leadership of the CNT-e and the CIT on the one hand, and that of the activists who are members of these organisations on the other. Nevertheless, who else but file-and-rank militants, in their company branches, local unions, and respective trade unions and federations, could prevent their leaderships from engaging in such folly?
Some may prefer not to take sides in what they may see as a mere “turf war”, or may even feel unconcerned by this “Spanish problem” — despite the internationalism that has moved us since the very beginnings of our movement.
Yet, this situation seems to us to be of a certain gravity. These attacks by the CNT-CIT, in total contradiction with the anarchist principles by which it claims to be animated, are not only an affront to the history and heritage of the Spanish CNT. Even more vile, these maneuvers, barely worthy of the worst collaborationist unions, driven by the thirst for power and the greed of the leadership, end up playing the game of the State and Capital: hand in hand to bring to their knees both the CNT-AIT and union activists sincerely and resolutely involved in economic and social struggles.
That is why we hope that these attacks against the comrades of the Spanish CNT-AIT will cease, and we criticise those who continue to condone or justify the absolutely indefensible actions of the Spanish CNT-CIT.
Let us not turn a blind eye to this grim situation and show the mutual aid and solidarity that is called for, especially towards an organisation that is resolutely anarchist and a legitimate heir to the CNT of the Spanish Revolution!
We therefore call on all organisations, groups and individuals, anarchists and syndicalists alike, to express a firm and resolute support for our comrades of the Spanish CNT-AIT, so that the odious attacks by the CNT-CIT cease once and for all!
We invite, even more so, our fellow comrades from the French-speaking CNT-f to join us in denouncing these openly anti-anarchist actions by the main organisation of the CIT, a structure which they have just joined.
Solidarity with the anarchist comrades of the Spanish CNT-AIT!
Long live anarcho-syndicalism!
(In case of discrepancy between the English version of this text, the French text will be the authoritative version.)
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