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Semaforo antismog rosso, da domani diesel fino a Euro 5 fermi a Torino - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
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Just installed @kde Plasma Mobile and @postmarketOS on a Poco X3 NFC
Very excited to try #Linux on a mobile phone
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This looks amacing, could you please post some pictures from the system?
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@chameleon_ninja here's some pictures of the home and app screen.
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So far #Trump's just spouting the usual bullshit about how well the US economy is doing (it isn't), how Europe is fall apart (it isn't) and how he's performing miracles (he isn't).

I feel very sorry for the people who believe this nonsense.



Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.

computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/b…

#wef #davos #technews #ai #openai #microsoft #amazon #anthropic #billgates



#OtD 21 Jan 1946 the largest strike in US history took place when 750,000 steelworkers walked out, part of a massive strike wave after World War II. Find out more in this great book about mass strikes in the US: shop.workingclasshistory.com/c…
#otd


Today's #photo: the fabulous frigidness of frost! wp.me/p2ccTX-31B #winter #photography #canada #NotAI
(Click/tap the link or picture to see the entire scene.)



Codacons, riscontrati difetti su alcuni modelli moto Honda - Due Ruote - Ansa.it
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Maltempo in Sicilia, mareggiate flagellano il litorale catanese: ristorante invaso dalle onde
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2026/01/21/video/maltempo_in_sicilia_mareggiate_flagellano_il_litorale_catanese_ristorante_invaso_dalle_onde-15476942/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Il bulletto di #Davos. Dal #Blog. #USA #Trump #UE

Davos 2026: il bullo, la Groen...


Davos 2026: il bullo, la Groenlandia e i dazi.


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#Trump a Davos ha trasformato il World Economic Forum in un'asta immobiliare da quattro soldi, piantandosi sul palco a blaterare che l'Europa è un disastro irriconoscibile – “non nella maniera positiva”, ha detto lui, dalla sua bolla svizzera blindata – e che solo gli USA possono “salvare” la Groenlandia con negoziati immediati, altrimenti via con dazi al 10-25% su acciaio, auto e tutto ciò che l'Europa produce di decente. Ha giurato che non è una minaccia per la NATO, figuriamoci: niente urla “alleanza solida” come minacciare di comprarti un territorio danese sotto ricatto commerciale, mentre difende le sue tariffe come “sicurezza nazionale”, cioè o cedete l'Artico o i vostri export diventano il mio bancomat elettorale. ​ ​L'Europa, però, stavolta non sta a guardare con la bocca aperta: il Parlamento UE ha già congelato l'accordo commerciale USA siglato l'estate scorsa, bollando le minacce di Trump come coercizione pura, e ora si parla di “trade bazooka” per ritorsioni su vasta scala. Von der Leyen e i leader tuonano contro questa “spirale pericolosa tra alleati”, promettendo risposte inflessibili, mentre a Bruxelles sale il fronte per un'autonomia strategica vera: difesa Artico con Canada e Norvegia, sovranità digitale, climatica e militare, usando Davos come alibi perfetto per dire basta al bullo a strisce e stelle. ​ Economicamente è un disastro annunciato: dazi incrociati che gonfiano prezzi, uccidono catene di fornitura e regalano caos ai mercati globali, con la UE pronta a colpire duro sui big tech USA e l'agroexport yankee. Politicamente, Trump ha appena consegnato all'Europa il regalo avvelenato che sognava chiunque voglia più integrazione: “Ecco perché serve l'UE forte”, diranno da Stoccolma a Roma, mentre il suo show da venditore di tappeti usati accelera il declino del multilateralismo che lui finge di odiare ma di cui ha bisogno per i suoi tweet. ​ ​Chiudo come farebbe “lui.” E ora, Donald, ascolta bene un continente che hai stancato: torna nel tuo bunker dorato, smettila di giocare al Monopoli con Groenlandia e dazi da due soldi, perché l' #Europa non è più la tua preda facile, siamo stufi del tuo circo da quattro soldi, e stavolta ti manderemo a casa con le tasche vuote e la coda tra le gambe, loser.

#Blog #USA #Europa #Davos #UE #Opinioni

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The first 1993 post is now on Cybercultural and it tells the story of how the MTV website was born. Unfortunately screenshots are rare for any 1993 website, but this image from April 1994 gives you an idea of what it looked like. cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-i…

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Regaz, ho cambiato fornitore dell'energia elettrica il mese scorso. Da giovedì a oggi ho ricevuto 46 chiamate di spam (11 solo tra la mattinata e il primo pomeriggio di oggi). Non so come, ma sanno pure a che fornitore sono passato e sostengono che non sia più attiva l'offerta che ho sottoscritto (cosa falsa). Non so che fare, però è una cosa molto fastidiosa. Porcoddio è stalking proprio...

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pare sia la norma: io l' ho cambiato a dicembre e il nuovo fornitore mi ha contestualmente avvisato che avrei molto probabilmente ricevuto chiamate truffa a stretto giro...


Bold of them to name a new social media platform after a dystopian novel about a totalitarian panopticon state, and only permit users who have verified their identity. #W
#w

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Wow for some reason everyone is eager to create the Torment Nexus these days


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Le ragioni del "SI" al referendum spiegate dalla Montaruli sono come le diete vegane spiegate da Salvini.
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I shouldn't have to go to work if my cat is cozy!


Oh, great! The iPhone 18 is supposed to have a much brighter display. We’re all going blind from constantly staring at backlit devices.

#tech #failure




Netanyahu joins ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza despite earlier criticism thecradle.co/articles-id/35513


It's crazy how many anime shows in the 2010s and early 2020s had the main cast being classic Sega fans.

Just stumbled onto another one by complete accident



Shout-out to all the #blog posts we never got to write.
#blog


If you're on Fedi but haven't bought gay fox girl game yet, are you even really on Fedi?

mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/…


the gay fox girl SMB3-like is once again on sale on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/132…

also includes: aro/ace rep, kuribo shoe anywhere, accessibility options (including flying back up on a temporary cloud on death), the monty hall problem, optional minigames and kaizo levels, and more




下水から再エネ、もっと安く作れるます。東レの新技術でコスト7割減


image:generatedatwhisk温暖化対策を「もっと安く」実現する技術が、下水処理場で動き始めている…!東レが開発した「オールカーボン二酸化炭素(CO2)/メタン分離膜」が、大阪府内の下水処理場でバイオガス精製の実証に成功しました。image:東レこの分離膜、何がすごいって、CO2と水分を同時に除去できるのです。既存の技術では水分を除去するだけで高額な設備が必要だったのに、そのコストを


e #sucasalvini scappa
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Hive mind! Help!

What mundane thing annoy you? Slow drivers, over sharers, influencers?

What people annoy you? Trump, Rowling?

It's for a project I'm working on. Think "I've got a little list" from the Mikado.



Searchlight: **How purple-haired cartoon ‘Amelia’ became a far-right icon**

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Amelia was never meant to be real. She began life as a cartoon character in a government-backed game designed to help young people recognise and resist extremist ideology. But she has been reimagined online as something far darker: a far-right fantasy figure, fetishised, politicised, and repurposed by thousands of



Trump's speech at Davos this morning

He repeatedly mistook Iceland for Greenland, and mob-boss threatened NATO countries with force if they don't agree to give him the country. This is real. He is quite completely insane.

Trump threatened Canada: "They should be grateful also, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the U.S. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements."

Talking about NATO and mistaking Iceland for Greenland (he did repeatedly): "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

BTW headlines are already saying "Trump rules out force in taking Greenland" but that is not true. Trump just made a series of implicit unmistakable threats of force. He did the mob boss thing again where he makes a ton of threats but then slides in a line about "I'm not doing that" when the whole speech is about him doing that. The media is such a complicit mess.

Trump equated the U.S. with the Nazis: "No nation is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the US. We're a great power. Much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out 2 weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War 2 when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."

And just a few Republican Congress members could have stopped all of this long ago. Just a handful. But the U.S. is not their priority.



De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen wil in 2030 digitaal onafhankelijk zijn. Er zijn al diverse initiatieven in gang gezet, maar er is nog veel werk aan de winkel.💪🏼

Lees meer hierover in het artikel van de Ukrant 👉🏼 edu.nl/hjkxt

#digitalesoevereiniteit #digitaleautonomie #OpenScience

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Cannot be emphasized enough that the US-led global order has been to America’s advantage.

Trump’s complaint is basically this: You all accepting that we’re on top, with international institutions and conventions tilted in our favor—because you benefit from this system too—was, like, really unfair to us, so let’s make it worse for everyone, especially ourselves.





RE: layer8.space/@Sammy8806/115933…

Just in case, you want your #Mastodon IMG ALT TXT MouseOver #tooltips back → THIS #GitHub Issue seems to be the target for your complaints! (Sammy doesn't process issues, you need to click-through to GitHub, btw. That's where the developers live.) 🖖


Yeah, no.

This is coming from upstream.
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Cory Doctorow es un tecnófilo neoliberal con un discurso con bonitas palabras pero sin cuestionar el capitalismo de base.

No es nuestro referente y tenemos reticiencias del concepto "enmierdificación" (enshittification).

Parte de su análisis es acertado, pero sus conclusiones dejan mucho que desear.

En frases como "Es la burbuja lo que apesta, no sus aplicaciones"* o "la IA es el amianto en las paredes de nuestra sociedad tecnológica"* se filtra cómo entiende una neutralidad tecnológica capitalista.

Dwayne Monroe, un analista tecnólogo, explica bastante bien el problema del discurso de Cory Doctorow**.

Primero presenta las tres etapa de "enmierdificación" presentadas por Cory:

Etapa 1. Las empesas tecnológicas, como Google, una vez fueron "buenas con les usuaries finales" y utilizaron el poder del mercado que esto les dio para dominar varios sectores.

Etapa 2. Empresas tecnológicas abusan de les usuaries para atraer publicistas.

Etapa 3. La empresas tecnológicas extraen valor tanto de usuaries como de publicistas para maximizar beneficios, por lo que la calidad del servicio decae pero la dominación del mercado previene cualquier otra alternativa a estas empresas.

El flujo de acontecimientos se puede presentar de forma simplificada como:
Empresas daban buen servicio o eran "buenas" -> Empresas abusan de usuaries -> Servicios enmierdificados

Este discurso cala porque parte de él corresponde con nuestra experiencia personal, pero presenta muchas asunciones que impiden una crítica mucho más profunda.

Esta línea temporal de cómo ha evolucionado internet no corresponde tanto con una crítica capitalista:
- La idea de que "internet antes era mejor" no solo es una afirmación abstracta, muchas veces nostálgica, sino que suele significar "mejor" para grupos privilegiados
- Las empresas en ningún momento fueron buenas, siempre han actuado acorde a la búsqueda de beneficios, por lo que nunca existió la primera etapa.
- Pensar que "abusar de les usuaries" es algo excepcional es ignorar que es el funcionamiento normal de las empresas
- El proceso que describe Cory Doctorow es simplemente la evolución del capitalismo, llamarlo "enmierdificación" implica que debemos desear volver a la primera etapa donde parece ser que no había capitalismo??

La explicaciones que ofrece Cory Doctorow sobre cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí no responden al problema sistemático del capitalismo tecnológico, sino que es una explicación neoliberal donde se mira con nostalgia una época de competición de mercado como muestra de lo que deberíamos aspirar.

Al final de la entrevista, Dwayne Monroe comenta las soluciones que propone Cory Doctorow:
- Estimular la competición de mercado
- Aplicar regulaciones para impulsar la competición
- Asegurar inter-operabilidad entre plataformas (lo cual es interesante pero esto no ataca al problema de base)
- Poder para les trabajadores tech (tampoco resuelve mucho cuando no hay un movimiento sindical fuerte y les trabajadores de sillicon valley - y en general - han sido acomodades y alienades en la industria)

Os animamos profundizar más en los discursos en contra del tecnocapitalismo, ir más allá que Cory Doctorow cuestionando también los supuestos momentos de gloria de Internet, que nunca dejó de ser un proyecto financiado militarmente fruto del capitalismo, cuestionar la industrialización, el racionalismo ilustrado y el pensamiento mecanicista, el colonialismo sin el cual NADA de esto sería posible y muchísimo más.

Si sabéis inglés, os recomendamos ver la entrevista entera.

* Fuente: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
** Fuente: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=s1yrKiP…

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sobre lo mencionado sobre google recalcar que siempre fue el mal.

La historia del garaje siempre es mentira.

El garaje existió pero se usó unos pocos meses. Google realmente empezó en la universidad de Stanford con $100.000 dólares.

En 2 años (2000) ya tenían el sistema de publicidad Adwords y en 8 años comprarían youtube por 1650 millones.

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Are search engines garbage now, or is the internet at large garbage now? Could be both. We'll never know. (It's probably both)



Keep Big Tech Accountable! | WeMove Europe

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Jabra announces its new Evolve3 headset series

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#technews

Jabra has announced its new Evolve3 headset series, with two new models designed for today’s hybrid work professionals.



Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty


"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

The Belarusian government is threatening three ham radio operators with the death penalty, detained at least seven people, and has accused them of “intercepting state secrets,” according to Belarusian state media, independent media outside of Belarus, and the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna. The arrests are an extreme attack on what is most often a wholesome hobby that has a history of being vilified by authoritarian governments in part because the technology is quite censorship resistant.

The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” Authorities there said they seized more than 500 pieces of radio equipment. The men were accused on state TV of using radio to spy on the movement of government planes, though no actual evidence of this has been produced.

State TV claimed they were associated with the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR), a long-running amateur radio club and nonprofit that holds amateur radio competitions, meetups, trainings, and forums. WhatsApp and email requests to the BFRR from 404 Media were not returned.

On Reddit, Siarhei Besarab, a Belarusian amateur radio operator, posted a plea for support from others in the hobby: “MAYDAY from Belarus: Licensed operators facing death penalty.”

“I am writing this because my local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide,” Besarab wrote. “They have detained over 50 licensed people, including callsigns EW1ABT, EW1AEH, and EW1ACE. These men were paraded on state television like war criminals and were coerced to publicly repent for the "crime" of technical curiosity. Propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as a front for a ‘massive spy network.’”

“State propaganda unironically claims these men were ‘pumping state secrets out of the air’ using nothing more than basic $25 Baofeng handhelds and consumer-grade SDR dongles,” he added. “Any operator knows that hardware like this is physically incapable of cracking the modern AES-256 digital encryption used by government security forces. It is a technical fraud, yet they are being charged with High Treason and Espionage. The punishment in Belarus for these charges is life in prison or the death penalty.”

The Belarusian human rights group Viasna and its associated Telegram channel confirmed the detention and said that it spoke to a cellmate of Andrei Repetsi, who said that Repetsi was unable to talk about his case in jail: “The case is secret, so Andrei never told the essence of the case in the cell. He joked that his personal file was marked ‘Top secret. Burn before reading,’” Viasna wrote.

Most hams operate amateur radios for fun, as part of competitions, or to keep in touch with other hams around the world. But the hobby has a long history of being attacked by governments in part because it is resistant to censorship. Amateur radio often works even if a natural disaster or political action takes down internet, cell, and phone services, so it is popular among people interested in search and rescue and doomsday prepping. Amateur radio has been used to share information out of Cuba, for example, and in 2021 the Cuban government jammed ham radio frequencies during anti-government protests there.

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Eat when you're hungry. Sleep when you're tired. Fart when you're gassy.


Overall I still massively prefer full time WFH, but even 10+ years later I remember the names and faces and personalities of some two dozen people I used to work in the office with. My job I had even just 3 years ago, I kinda remember three other people in the whole security org. And two of them were trans pals.
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Similar experience here. I've been working fully remote for several years now and it's nice in many ways, but it's also extremely alienating and isolating.




Livestream von Trump in Davos, er labert dermaßen zusammenhangslose Scheiße, dass der Dolmetscher sich das Lachen nicht verkneifen kann. Weltpolitik, ein einziger Prank.

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@cozypufferfish
Wer nicht klatscht, wird geklatscht..

Damals ging ein Einzelner der den rechten Arm nicht hob noch in der Masse unter, heute filtern die KI den ganz fix aus dem Bild raus. 🤷‍♂️
@ralphruthe





Reminder (or new info, maybe, for people who are new here):

You can follow people and put them on a list that's muted on home. You know, if they're interesting but you don't want to see their stuff all the time. Maybe they post stuff that stresses you out and you only want to look when you're mentally prepared. Maybe you feel it's polite to follow back but they post boring stuff. Etc

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@MartinaNeumayer
true, good observation. For me, that's a plus. But I can see it being a negative for other people.

A plus because, e.g., maybe I still want to see their #mosstodon posts, but not their rage bait political posts.

But of course people can abuse the hashtags and we should be able to choose which rule takes preference.

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Parola filtrata: nsfw



Weitere Verknappung: Weltmarktführer verringern angeblich NAND-Flash-Produktion

Die Speicherriesen Samsung und SK Hynix könnten 2026 weniger NAND-Flash-Wafer belichten als bisher. Das verschärft möglicherweise den Mangel.

heise.de/news/Weitere-Verknapp…

#IT #FlashSpeicher #Samsung #Hynix #Speicher #SSD #Wirtschaft #news



Bessent Warns Taiwan Chip Reliance Risks "Economic Apocalypse"

Bessent Warns Taiwan Chip Reliance Risks "Economic Apocalypse"

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on Jan. 20 that the world economy faces a single, outsized systemic vulnerability because advanced semiconductor production remains overwhelmingly concentrated in Taiwan, saying a blockade or destruction of the island’s manufacturing capacity could trigger an “economic apocalypse.”

“I would say that the single biggest threat to the world economy, the single biggest point of [...] failure is that 97 percent of the high-end chips are made in Taiwan,” Bessent said during youtube.com/watch?v=7PI8uCTV34…
at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 20. “If that island were blockaded, that capacity were destroyed, it would be an economic apocalypse.”

The Trump administration is pushing to accelerate the reshoring of critical supply chains—especially semiconductors and critical minerals like rare earths—amid ongoing tensions with China and concerns over potential disruption to global trade routes in the event of a major military conflict in Asia.

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In Davos, Bessent said Washington was working to relocate more semiconductor manufacturing to the United States, describing the effort as a national security and economic stability priority.

“So, we are reshoring the semiconductor industry to the U.S. with the defense contractors,” he said.

Bessent characterized major U.S. defense contractors as critical industry players akin to systemically important banks, which enjoy special protections like Federal Reserve backstops that prevent their potential failure from throwing the entire financial system into chaos. He urged defense contractors to prioritize building domestic production capacity over returning capital to shareholders.

“The defense contractors are no different than the systemically important banks,” Bessent said, adding that they benefit from government support and oversight much like large financial institutions. He said contractors have fallen behind in meeting obligations and should scale up U.S.-based industrial investment.

“They have let down the American people. They are five, six, seven years behind on fulfillment of their contracts.” Bessent said. “So I do not think it is unreasonable to tell them that until further notice, you need to build more factories and buy back less stock.”

‘Test Run’ During COVID-19

Bessent also described the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as a warning sign of what could happen if supply chains were severed by a major geopolitical conflict.

“I think the only good thing that came from COVID was it was a test run for what would happen if our supply chains were ever broken due to a kinetic war,” Bessent said.

He said the disruption revealed that there are about a half dozen industries that are essential to U.S. economic resilience and national security.

“So we saw that there are five, six, seven key industries that we have to reshore,” he said. “Rare earth magnets. We’ve got to get out from under China’s grasp. The semiconductors.”

Critical Minerals Alliance

Bessent said the United States was moving to coordinate with allies and partners to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals and mineral processing, warning that Beijing has used pricing power to undercut American and allied industrial projects.

“We have seen what happens when the free markets get kind of perverted,” Bessent said, describing cases in which companies attempted to launch critical mineral facilities in the United States only to be undercut by cheaper Chinese supply.

“The Chinese come, lower prices, undercut them, and then they’re bankrupt.”

He said that the Trump administration plans to intervene with pricing mechanisms to bolster domestic production.

“We are going to put in a system, price floor, price ceilings,” he said.

An AI server assembly station is displayed at the Century Trading Corporation booth during the Semicon Taiwan exhibition in Taipei on Sept. 10, 2025. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images

Bessent also said the Treasury Department was helping assemble a new coalition he described as a “critical minerals block” involving the G7 nations plus additional partners, including Australia, India, Mexico, and South Korea.

“We are working at warp speed to create a critical minerals block where we can mine, process, and refine critical minerals, and China won’t have this sword over our heads,” he said.

When asked when the United States could become independent in terms of refining critical minerals, Bessent estimated the timeline at “18 to 24 months,” pointing to early progress in domestic rare earth magnet manufacturing.

“I went down about two months ago to my home state of South Carolina, and in South Carolina for the first time in 25 years, there’s a producer there who made rare earth magnets,” he said.

Rare earth magnets are displayed in the showroom at Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co. in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, on May 5, 2010. Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bessent said producers believed that they could fulfill most of the rare earth magnet needs for the United States within two years.

“And then we also want to help our allies, because the supply chain is important,” Bessent added.

Bessent’s Davos comments echoed warnings he has x.com/stevehou/status/20034725…
previously about Taiwan’s dominance in high-end chip manufacturing.

In an appearance on the All-In Podcast in December, Bessent said he viewed the concentration as the top economic risk to the United States and the global economy.

His latest warning comes days after the U.S. Commerce Department theepochtimes.com/china/us-tai…
a major U.S.–Taiwan chips deal intended to expand manufacturing and supply chain investment in the United States.

The Trump administration’s push to reshore manufacturing and coordinate supply chains has unfolded alongside broader U.S.–China tensions over semiconductors, technology exports, and industrial subsidies.

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Trump’s 'Board of Peace' for Gaza faces scrutiny

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#SouthKorea #politics #CulturalHeritage

'The complaint stems from a special audit launched by the agency last November to investigate matters related to state heritage involving the former president and his spouse.'

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Belarusian government persecutes radio amateurs and sentences operators (life sentence or death penalty is at stake). Andrey Repetiy (EW1ABT) and Nikita Krasko (EW1AEH) were forced to publicly repent for the "crime" of technical curiosity and international communication. They were coerced on TV to renounce their own technical expertise as something harmful. Vyacheslav Benko (EW1ACE) remains behind bars alongside them.

Lukashenko's propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as nothing more than a front for a "massive spy network" designed to "pump state secrets from the air." Propagandists claim that over fifty people have already been detained and more than five hundred units of radio equipment have been seized. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

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Jesus Christ, he’s still fucking talking. Without the United States they wouldn’t be doing anything. Just everybody get up and walk out that would be the fucking most humiliating thing that you guys could do to that fucking asshole.
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He's got some sort of dementia, and he's being enabled ... the world is going to burn because of a crazy old man and his team.


Some weeks ago I was in a town in Portugal under threat of being destroyed by a lithium mine. After two round of prospects it turns out it has the largest amount of lithium in the ground in all of Europe. In covas de Barroso, there is still common land. The area is very rural and most people their don’t depend on a wage job, but they depend on the land. They make their own wine, share veggies, and have livestock. The people in the area have been fiercely fighting the mining company. One person told me: whatever money they give me, I will never sell my land. Money will run out but what we have here has been like this for generations, and I intend to pass it on to my grandkids. Money will run out, the land will not.

do you want to know more? I wrote a article on my patreon that you can read if you like!

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Journalists have identified russian surgeons who may be responsible for leaving the inscription “Glory to russia” on the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war.

In the summer of 2025, images circulated worldwide showing a burned inscription and the letter “Z” on the body of Ukrainian serviceman Andrii Pereverziev after his return from russian captivity.

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I went to a rough school in the 90s. Before smartphones , social media and online gaming I can assure you teenagers were not all doing safe and wholesome activities. #offlinesafety #socialmedia


Op het moment dat ik dit schrijf zijn er al ruim 116.000 handtekeningen binnen! Geweldig resultaat.
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