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Boy UK politics get spicy with all the dick swinging around. :o
#ScribesAndMakers 30 Oct: How do you feel about conceptual art?
It is art and I am totally okay with it. If it works for me, I will recommend it to someone else.
#linuxnews #linuxjournal #opensource
Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people
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Robię upgrade pmOSa na pinephonie. Poprzednio mi się popsuł tak, że nie potrafiłam naprawić. Teraz nie miałam żadnych dziwadeł więc może będzie lepiej.
I przy okazji odkryłam, że klawiaturka bow na bt działa dużo lepiej, niż ostatnio, czyli wtedy gdy jej potrzebowałam, bo nie miałam laptopa. I to lepsze działanie widać na każdym pine-cosiu, no ale teraz mam laptopa...
O, i tak długo się zastanawiałam pisząc tego tootka, że mi się skończył upgrade robić...
I się znowu zjebał...🤦♀️
A comparecencia de Sánchez no Senado evidencia a tensión política no Estado
Funky Cafè Noir
Dalle note Funky al Jazz riarrangiato al nostro stile.
Piano, basso, tromba, batteria e voce.
Sul progetto musicale
"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.
Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.
I componenti del quartetto:
Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.
Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.
Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.
Fabio Ruggieri (🥁 batteria) – Batterista preciso e creativo, Fabio dà ritmo e dinamismo a ogni performance, valorizzando ogni brano con il giusto groove
Coppa Toscana Prima e Seconda, si completa il quadro del secondo turno
Avanti, fra le lucchesi Ghivizzano e New Team, già protagoniste in campionato: vittorie nel derby con A.Castiglione e Borgo a Mozzano
A paragraph I never in a million years would have ever expected to read in a legitimate news source. (And yes, I do consider @404mediaco a very good news source - better than the tech desks at every mainstream newspaper combined...)
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Perplexed by all this, I reached out to Cuomo’s campaign for an explanation. I wanted a response to the ad and to get his thoughts on AI-generated political content. More importantly, I needed to know their opinion on the pregnancy. “Does that bill look pregnant to you?” I asked. “I think it looks pregnant, but my editors are split. I would love for the Campaign to weigh in.” Out of journalist due diligence, I also reached out to Mamdani’s press office. Neither campaign has responded to my request for it to weigh in on the pregnancy of the AI-generated cartoon bill.
Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas
I am haunted by a pregnant bill in Andrew Cuomo’s new AI-generated attack ad against Zohran Mamdani.Cuomo posted the ad on his X account that riffed on the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song “I’m just a bill.” In Cuomo’s AI-generated cartoon nightmare, Zohran Mamdani lights money on fire while a phone bearing the ChatGPT logo explains, apparently, that Mamdani is not qualified.
The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash: weird artifacting, strange voices that don’t sync with the mouths talking, and inconsistent animation. It feels both surreal and of the moment and completely ancient.
🎶“I’m Just A Shill” (FT. Zohran) pic.twitter.com/ga3JxnYO7B
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) October 30, 2025
And then there’s the pregnant bill.The Schoolhouse Rock! Bill is an iconic cartoon character that has been parodied by everyone from The Simpsons to Saturday Night Live. There are thousands, perhaps millions, of pictures of the cartoon bill online, all available to be gobbled up by scrapers and turned into training data for AI.
For some reason, the bill in Cuomo’s ad has thick red lips (notably absent in the original) and appears to be pregnant. Adding to the discordant AI jank of the image, the pregnancy is only visible when the bill is standing up. Sometimes it’s leaning against the steps and in those shots it has the slim figure characteristic of its inspiration. But when the bill stands it looks positively inflated, almost as if the video generator used to make Cuomo’s ad was trained on MPREG fetish art of the bill and not the original cartoon itself. The thick and luscious red lips are present whether the bill is leaning or standing.
Towards the end of the ad, an anthropomorphic phone with a ChatGPT logo wanders into the scene. Standing next to the pregnant bill, I could not but help but think that the phone is the father of whatever child the bill carried.
My observation led to an argument in the 404 Media Slack channel and opinions were split. “It does not seem pregnant to me,” said Emanuel Maiberg.
Jason Koebler, however, came to my defense. He circled the pregnant belly of the cartoon bill and shared it. “Baby is stored in the circle area,” he said.Perplexed by all this, I reached out to Cuomo’s campaign for an explanation. I wanted a response to the ad and to get his thoughts on AI-generated political content. More importantly, I needed to know their opinion on the pregnancy. “Does that bill look pregnant to you?” I asked. “I think it looks pregnant, but my editors are split. I would love for the Campaign to weigh in.” Out of journalist due diligence, I also reached out to Mamdani’s press office. Neither campaign has responded to my request for it to weigh in on the pregnancy of the AI-generated cartoon bill.
This is not the first time the Cuomo campaign has used AI. An ad in early October featured a deepfaked Cuomo working as a train operator, stock trader, and a stagehand. A week ago, the Cuomo campaign released a long, racist video depicting criminals endorsing Mamdani. Critics called the ad racist. The campaign deleted it shortly after it was posted and blamed the whole thing on a junior staffer.
It is worth noting that Cuomo's AI slop is being deployed most likely because the candidate has been utterly incapable of generating any authentic excitement about his campaign in New York City or on the internet, and he is facing a digitally native, younger candidate who just seems effortlessly Good At the Internet and Posting.
This is, unfortunately, how a lot of politics works in 2025. Desperate campaigns and desperate presidents are in a slop-fueled arms race to make the most ridiculous possible ads and social media content. It looks cheap, is cheap, and is the realm of politicians who are totally out of ideas, but increasingly it feels like slop is the dominant aesthetic of our time.
AI-generated imagery takes New York politics by storm
Andrew Cuomo's AI campaign ad sparked criticism.Bobby Cuza (Spectrum News NY1)
Russia, Reality, and the Bureaucratic Degeneration of the West
A philosophical and moral comparison between modern Russia and the West shows that Russia remains a bastion of realism, strength, and self-sacrifice,Брайан Энтони Рео (New Eastern Outlook)
Lançamentos de jogos em novembro de 2025 – veja lista!
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Lançamentos de jogos em novembro de 2025 - veja lista!
Confira a lista de jogos lançamentos de novembro de 2025 que conta com Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Kirby Air Riders, A.I.L.A. e maisJuliano Aires (Adrenaline)
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G é o AM5 pra começar? (testes com e sem GPU)
https://www.adrenaline.com.br/nvidia/amd-ryzen-5-8500g-e-o-am5-pra-comecar-testes-com-e-sem-gpu/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G é o AM5 pra começar? (testes com e sem GPU) - Adrenaline
Um dos AM5 mais baratos, e com gráficos, é o lugar pra começar na plataforma da AMD? Vamos testar em um gameplay AO VIVO!Diego Kerber (Adrenaline)
UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Sudan's al-Fashir after mass killings
https://www.africanews.com/2025/10/30/un-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-sudans-al-fashir-after-mass-killings/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Sudan's al-Fashir after mass killings | Africanews
The Assistant Secretary-General for Africa told the Security Council that the situation has also deteriorated elsewhere across the country.Africanews
Roteadores TP-Link podem acabar sendo banidos nos EUA
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Roteadores TP-Link podem acabar sendo banidos nos EUA - Adrenaline
Agências do governo estariam "preocupadas" com vínculo que a TP-Link já teve com a ChinaJoão Gabriel (Adrenaline)
Inktober
jour 23, luciole
(Bon ben du coup j'ai piqué ton idée, @NemoJmeno@piaille.fr !)
#inktober #inktober23Luciole
#DelphineÀLatelier
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You can ✨Always✨ boost my nudes 💜
Project Nimbus is the ultimate end goal of imperialism from a tech perspective.
Google and Amazon's Israeli cloud contracts reportedly require them to sidestep legal orders
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#Google #Amazon #Israel #Palestine #ProjectNimbus #Cloud #AI #Tech
Google and Amazon's Israeli cloud contracts reportedly require them to sidestep legal orders
It's said to demand that the companies to communicate through code about data requests tied to gag orders.Will Shanklin (Engadget)
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Automated Sociopathy by the brOligarch's Managerial Class. Proving a higher seat at the table of an unjust system, diversity among the ruling class is NOT progress; it is a bribe!
The CEO of Waymo is asked, " Will society accept a death potentially caused by a robot?"
She responds, "I think that society will."
#US #Culture #Capticalists #Economics #Politics #Ai #AutonomusVechicals
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La situazione in cui mio fratello grande mi scrive ex abrupto, senza nemmeno salutare (non è che ci sentiamo tutti i giorni) né un minimo di chiacchiera di cortesia,
unicamente per sapere se può appropriarsi di roba mia (che ho lasciato dai miei solamente perché attualmente vivo in 48 mq senza spazi di stoccaggio),
rappresenta per me un TRIGGER.
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China’s ‘Scrapitalism’ Pushes Back on Mining Giants
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-30/china-s-scrapitalism-pushes-back-on-mining-giants?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🇷🇺📱Ruští operátoři blokují ověřovací SMS pro Telegram a WhatsApp
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🇷🇺 📱 Russian operators block verification SMS for Telegram and WhatsApp
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🇷🇺📱Российские операторы блокируют проверочные SMS для Telegram и WhatsApp
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#Russia #TelegramBan #Telegram #WhatsApp #Censorship #tech
Ruští operátoři blokují ověřovací SMS pro Telegram a WhatsApp | Infoek.cz
Cenzura a omezování práv v Rusku letos dále narůstá. Kvůli nespolupráci s tamními orgány je funkcionalita populárních komunikačních aplikací Telegram a What ...Adolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
Ponte sullo Stretto, separazione delle carriere e tasse: la destra si è fermata a Berlusconi
Forza Italia ha celebrato l’approvazione della riforma con le foto di Berlusconi, la figlia Marina: «È la vittoria di mio padre». L’opera per ... Scopri di più!Stefano Iannaccone (Domani)
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I finished #TheWarOfTheWorlds last night. A good story and written in a very familiar manner for my sensibilities. What struck me was how familiar the geography described was, i.e. the boroughs of #London, particularly of the west and south west, with which I was familiar when i was at #ImperialCollege, which incidentally was also where Wells went too (although it was not called that then).
I also dusted off my #CD of #JeffWayne's musical version of the book and listened to it recently. It occurred to me how strange it was to pick 19th century work of #fiction for a #RockOpera. But, then again, why not? Great voice performance by #RichardBurton and contributions by musicians #DavidEssex and #PhilLynott, among others.
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Somehow or other having become a $billionaire selling a shit operating system makes him a climate scientist.
The world is better off for Bill Gates, the climate debate may not be
Bill Gates has raised eyebrows with a blog post professing an optimistic outlook on climate change.Nick O'Malley (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Yes, he splashes his ill gotten gains around as though he was some sort of saint.
His 'foundation' is proof of how faulty the tax system is.
Charity is an admission of government failure.
Resources for #OccupiedCities: including #KYR Materials
Basic constitutional rights are under attack. We need to educate, agitate and organize quickly, deeply and strategically. This document is a shared resource for organizations and leaders who are stepping up to meet this moment.
GoogleDoc:
docs.google.com/document/d/17E…
#USPol #PosseComitatus #PosseComitatusAct #InsurrectionAct #KnowYourRights #OccupiedCities #SilencingDissent #NationalGuard #NationalGuardReactionForces #DHS #ICE
Resources for Occupied Cities
Resources for Occupied Cities Basic constitutional rights are under attack. We need to educate, agitate and organize quickly, deeply and strategically.Google Docs
#ukpolitics
Window shutters (if they exist at all) in the US are often non functional and decorative. But shutters are really useful!
The ones on our Airbnb in Roma were clearly regularly used - moved easily, no more dirty than I’d expect. People next door clearly opened and closed theirs each night as well.
So I was surprised when I reached out to close the ones in Firenze to block the morning light, only to discover that they were creaky, filthy, and almost no one nearby was using theirs either! 🤔
Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)
Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by a wine and women–loving Zen monk.The Public Domain Review
Here's the documentary on it:
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#Capa
10 mil soldados ucranianos estão cercados em Pokrovsk e Kupiansk, anuncia a Rússia
O presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, confirmou que as tropas russas cercaram as forças ucranianas em duas cidades-chave para a libertação completa da República Popular de Donetsk, no Donbass, e chamou Kiev a negociar um acordo para sua rendição.Hora do Povo
“Viviamo in un mondo dove tutto è costruito per farci dormire. Lavori finché non muori, ti tengono buono con un po’ di intrattenimento, un po’ di cibo spazzatura e la convinzione che sei libero. Ma non lo sei. Loro controllano tutto: ciò che vedi, ciò che pensi, ciò che desideri. E tu sorridi, grato, mentre ti tolgono tutto.”
- Essi vivono (They Live, 1988)
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LWDW #Linux fun this week!
😂💖🐧🐧🐧
Big magical D20, thank you @Mirppc 🤗,
Hands-on Orange Pi 6 Plus,
Ubuntu Certs: Canonical Academy 🎉,
Microsoft Recall for Linux,
Desktop sync for System76 COSMIC @system76 🚀,
Radxa Dragon Q6A SBC ✨
#SwitchtoLinux #FOSS
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En Nueva York está habiendo una campaña fuerte de resistencia contra una IA en forma de collar que promete ser "tu amigo".
Esta campaña está siendo desplegada en el metro de NY, y la gente está pintando cosas como "la ia no es tu amiga", "a la IA no le importas", "la conexión humana es importante"...
La idea es que te graba 24/7, a ti, y evidentemente a tu entorno.
Esto parte de que muchos adolescentes están utilizando la IA para contarles cosas personales, o consejos de salud mental...
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📊 Halloween Axes of Evil Warning.
👹 Don't let any of these cross your threshold.
Cartoon by Grant Snider:
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Mutual Aid! [225/600]
Big news: I finally landed a job! I’ll be starting on November 1st, which means my first paycheck won’t arrive until December. Until then, I have no other income -- the donations I receive here will be the only money I have to get by.
I’ve been scraping through ever since losing my last job two and a half months ago, and your support so far has genuinely kept me afloat. You’ve helped me make it this far -- and I’m endlessly grateful.
Now I just need to hang on a little longer. The future is finally looking up, but right now I still need a bit of help to bridge the gap. If you’re able to chip in -- even a few euros or dollars -- it makes a huge difference.
Every boost and donation helps me stay safe, fed, and stable until that first paycheck comes through. Thank you all so much for your kindness and support. Genuinely. You're all THE BEST.
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(Circa 2019, Denver, Colorado)
NEW SAINTS OF ANTINOUS FOR 2025
NEW saints of Antinous were announced by the Hollywood Temple of Antinous tonight during Foundation Day ceremonies shared globally with wor...antinousstars.blogspot.com
Unpatched Bug Can Crash Chromium-Based Browsers in Seconds - Slashdot
A critical security flaw in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can crash billions of browsers within seconds.it.slashdot.org
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Una pila de tres rocas se encuentra sobre un montón de piedras cubiertas de musgo. La roca de arriba es más pequeña que las otras dos. La roca de arriba es de color marrón claro con una textura rugosa. Las dos rocas de abajo son más grandes y de color marrón oscuro, y también tienen una textura rugosa. En el fondo, hay un follaje verde brillante y ramas de árboles. El cielo es azul claro. La escena es iluminada por la luz del sol.
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La imagen muestra una estructura de concreto con una serie de arcos sobre un terreno rocoso y una costa al fondo. La estructura, aparentemente un acueducto o puente, tiene varios arcos de tamaño similar, conectados por una sección superior de concreto. El terreno debajo de la estructura es irregular y está cubierto de roca y vegetación, con un color predominante entre el marrón y el gris. En la distancia se puede ver una costa accidentada y el mar azul oscuro. El cielo es de un color grisáceo uniforme. La imagen está tomada desde una perspectiva ligeramente elevada, que proporciona una vista general de la estructura y su entorno.
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La imagen es una vista aérea de un terraplén con un canal de agua. La parte inferior de la imagen muestra un canal de agua que serpentea a través de un paisaje rocoso y cubierto de hierba. El canal está parcialmente rodeado de vegetación. En el centro de la imagen hay una estructura de hormigón curva que forma una presa. En la parte superior de la imagen, la tierra sube en una pendiente empinada cubierta de hierba seca y rocas. En la parte superior derecha de la imagen, hay una pequeña casa de piedra. El cielo azul está visible sobre el terreno. La luz del sol está presente.
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bad cattitude: rethinking the way you think about money distribution (el gato malo)
and why we should give billionaires more money
the most reliable donor and voting blocks are those whose industries and lifestyles cannot exist without subsidy.the crony predators conjure them into existence, hook them on largesse, then use them to accumulate treasure and power.
here’s the perspective shift one needs to understand this:
from the politician’s viewpoint, the fact that none of these people or industries are self-sustaining is a feature, not a bug.
if your existence is predicated upon them and impossible without them, you are bound to them.
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Film: Kodak Ektar 100 06 Fade Warm x Kodachrome Generic v4 muted
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #Kodachrome #AutumnPhotography #FallPhotography
*Fratello, inviandomi la foto di roba mia rimasta a casa dei miei, probabilmente con l'intenzione di appropriarsene*
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Ciao fratello, sì, tutto bene, grazie. Dimmi pure.
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Boh, Slow Horses S5 è un po' sciacquatura di piatti, ma oggi sono talmente poco ispirato per fare cose creative che credo farò il consumatore di contenuti.
O magari contiunuo a leggere l'autobio di Gabo Marquez.
Who knows, potrei anche lavarmi i denti e dormire diretto...
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to HarriettMB • • •I have no idea. I figured you might have better knowledge about it, but I think the most important thing about it is the utter lack of respect everyone has for Farage.
All of his moralizing was simply laughed at
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in reply to HarriettMB • • •Onslow Poly
in reply to HarriettMB • • •It's nothing but theatre, and everyone knew that going into it. Farage wants his moment in the sun and to play martyr, which his base will lap up, as they don't know the processes.
Basically, he introduced a bill to leave the ECHR through the Private Members Ten Minute Bill Rule, which allows any backbencher to try and introduce legislation, or bring an issue to light.
They rarely pass.
Anyway, whoever introduces the bill gets 10 minutes to waffle on. Then some other parliamentarian stands opposed. There is no debate, which is why when Farage yammered about the level of debate in this house, the LibDems basically told him to shut up and read from his piece of paper, as there isn't one.
There is no formal division, as such, and the vote is generally verbal.
He mustered as many votes as he could, and Ed Davey, who stood against, mustered as many as could be arsed to vote it down.
He was defeated by 154 votes to 96. So he was defeated at first reading. The bill is now considered dead for this session.
Even if it had passed, it would've dropped to the back of the order paper and been unlikely to have been read again, unless Keir Starmer wanted to pick it up as a hill to die on.
As everyone who is an actual politician knows this, the LibDems took it as an opportunity to heckle with questions like, "is that why you love Hitler?" and "when are you going to do 'Rivers of Blood?'", and to call him "Putin's patsy".
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I love the British Parliament from a distance. It’s so much more rhetorically entertaining.
I guess this is why the parliamentarian couldn’t be assed to put down the heckling. I would’ve wanted a camera trained on her face.
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Unknown parent • • •Evidently, I need to investigate this phenomenon further. I would like to know more about the higher levels on this scale
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Unknown parent • • •My goodness this is turned into the most delightful education!