Apple Posts Surprise Decline in China Even as Sales Beat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-30/apple-posts-surprise-decline-in-china-even-as-sales-beat?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Now campaigners are hoping to spotlight the names of those accused and pay tribute to them with a memorial. - Jonathan Geddes
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The witches of Dumbarton - tortured, executed and falsely accused — BBC News
More than two dozen people in the town were accused and tortured in the belief that they were doing Satan's bidding.apple.news
In case you missed it, Mastodon treasure @hildabast has published a great article describing the current situation with Mastodon and #Bluesky and the relative merits of each.
What is particularly nice about this detailed essay is the conservative and learned approach she takes, and the honesty with which she recognizes deficiencies in both platforms. She also addresses how Mastodon's recent developments in usability are changing this equation.
Great job Hilda!
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Have you been noticing the flurries of new or returning people leaving Bluesky due to recent controversies?It got me thinking about how a real Bluesky exodus would play out, and digging into the studies of the 2022 Mastodon migration from Twitter. I found 14 studies. TLDR; a Bluesky flight would be different.
Here's my new post @PLOS :
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A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
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3XTE Musica, nuove uscite: Caesar, Allen e Lazlo De Simone
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/video/2025/10/30/3xte-musica-nuove-uscite-caesar-allen-e-lazlo-de-simone-1047661?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Spettacolo @spettacolo-SkyTG24
3XTE Musica, nuove uscite: Caesar, Allen e Lazlo De Simone
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo 3XTE Musica, nuove uscite: Caesar, Allen e Lazlo De SimoneRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Carl Brave racconta 'Occhiaie', il suo nuovo brano
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/video/2025/10/30/carl-brave-racconta-occhiaie-il-suo-nuovo-brano-1047660?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Carl Brave racconta "Occhiaie", il suo nuovo brano
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Carl Brave racconta 'Occhiaie', il suo nuovo branoRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Pentagon Admits It Has No Idea Who’s on “Drug Boats” Being Bombed
A Democratic lawmaker revealed the shocking detail after a Pentagon briefing for members of Congress.The New Republic
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#LibreWolf v144.0.2-1 is now available!
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No major changes from LibreWolf's end.
See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/144.… for upstream changes.
144.0.2-1 - librewolf/bsys6
## LibreWolf bsys6 Release v144.0.2-1 - Upstream release, see the [Firefox 144.0.2 Release Notes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/144.0.2/releasenotes/) (Built on GitLab by pipeline [2129982951](https://gitlab.Codeberg.org
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And BASIC, yeah
[2018]DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead
ME: Hey that rules
DUDES: It's called effective altruism
[2025]OTHER DUDES: So those EA dudes want to pave all farmland on earth for the benefit of hypothetical robots 10,000,000,000,000 years in the future
ME: Wha
[DOES THIS STORY HAVE A MORAL? I CAN'T TELL.]
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Una interesante proposta è quella della piattaforma online Evaneos, riportato in un articolo di Lifegate.
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Turismo sostenibile: la ricetta a basso impatto di Evaneos
La piattaforma ha annunciato la durata minima per i soggiorni con voli. Oltre ad aver già sospeso la vendita di destinazioni affollate in alta stagione.Alessandra Sessa (LifeGate)
WIRED Roundup: AI Psychosis, Missing FTC Files, and Google Bedbugs
4 min
Boy UK politics get spicy with all the dick swinging around. :o
Evidently, I need to investigate this phenomenon further. I would like to know more about the higher levels on this scale
#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
By Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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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
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!
https://www.adrenaline.com.br/games/lancamentos-de-jogos-em-novembro-de-2025-veja-lista/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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)
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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🇷🇺📱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! 🤔
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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📊 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
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