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This Bird of Paradise is going out to anyone who has a tough time today.

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Core Lithium ( #CXO ) has released " Settlement of Yahua Offtake Agreement " on Mon 12 May at 09:04 AEST #Mining #Australia #media #ltd #ASX
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I'm running out of news networks and shows that I can watch, but I'm having a tough time stomaching what MSNBC has done to Ayman Mohyeldin...after what they did to Joy-Ann Reid, after what they did to Mehdi Hasan, after wh...

#journalism #politics



Love, Death & Robots, Premonição 6 e mais! Os lançamentos de filmes e séries da semana (11/05)
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/minha-serie/601236-love-death-robots-premonicao-6-e-mais-os-lancamentos-de-filmes-e-series-da-semana-1105.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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La luna mi entra in camera
dalla finestra,
mi ci bagno come i gatti
nei ritagli di sole.


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Truths of adopting a dog
#Dogs #DogCare #TailWagWisdom
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in reply to 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

comrade this is true, capitalist markets exist in China. But the extent of the reforms seem exaggerated. The second volume and fourth volume of xi jinpings 'the governance of china' explain new market normality and the push for more quality, less quantity labor.

When the state leases land to capitalists, when it owns majority share in production for nearly every industry, this is a far cry from capitalism.

Perhaps you're conflating the increased productivity under socialism with the GDP gains of a capitalist nation? Even still GDP is a different definition in socialist economies.

The stark difference can be seen during times of weal and woe as comrade xi jinping states it. Covid and the 2008 collapse were slight impacts to china, whereas it was ruination for most western capitalist nations. This is due to competent central planning and good socialist praxis, features absolutely truant from capitalism.

Please do not fall into the pit of leftist communism. Chinas central party does not retreat from marxism, Leninism, and Maoist thought.

in reply to crispy branzino ☭ (skin)

@Nimbius666
My argument is that China is more than able to transition into socialism without Chinese (capitalist) characteristics and that they should. I could understand the justification for capitalist reforms in the 80s when China was suffering economically, but that clearly isn't the case anymore.

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Si spegne ai supplementari il sogno promozione del Corsagna: passa lo Jolo
Sul neutro di Monsummano i pratesi vincono all'ultimo tuffo dopo una partita ricca di occasioni. Ko nel triangolare di Seconda il Chiesina

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The latest regarding REI — a company which has proven so dissapointing in recent years regarding unionization efforts.

cascadepbs.org/news/2025/05/re…

h/t @cascadepbs @BakerRL75 @leapingwoman @wendinoakland

#union

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in reply to Jeri Dansky

Some of the organizing of REI members to vote with the union was done right here on Mastodon (I'm sure lots of other places too but I heard about it right here from @Eliot_L and then voted according).
in reply to soaproot

The #REI #union has another action they would like us to take! They would like us to write a letter to REI's new CEO and let her know what we think about their union busting tactics. Please join me!

ourrei.com/letter

Edit: There's also a petition for the board:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te…

#Unions #Labor

@soaproot @jeridansky @cascadepbs @BakerRL75 @leapingwoman @wendinoakland @Mikal @EverydayMoggie






Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that Republicans in Congress are on track to lose the midterms—because they’re not adhering strictly enough to the MAGA agenda. trib.al/HALVbzH


What sort of criminal regime attacks food distribution centres? that'd be fascist #Israel, which is deliberately starving the people of #Gaza to death. dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-unrwa-… #GazaGenocide #IsraelFascism #ICJ4Israel


Hackaday Links: May 11, 2025


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Did artificial intelligence just jump the shark? Maybe so, and it came from the legal world of all places, with this report of an AI-generated victim impact statement. In an apparent first, the family of an Arizona man killed in a road rage incident in 2021 used AI to bring the victim back to life to testify during the sentencing phase of his killer’s trial. The video was created by the sister and brother-in-law of the 37-year-old victim using old photos and videos, and was quite well done, despite the normal uncanny valley stuff around lip-syncing that seems to be the fatal flaw for every deep-fake video we’ve seen so far. The victim’s beard is also strangely immobile, which we found off-putting.

In the video, the victim expresses forgiveness toward his killer and addresses his family members directly, talking about things like what he would have looked like if he’d gotten the chance to grow old. That seemed incredibly inflammatory to us, but according to Arizona law, victims and their families get to say pretty much whatever they want in their impact statements. While this appears to be legal, we wouldn’t be surprised to see it appealed, since the judge tacked an extra year onto the killer’s sentence over what the prosecution sought based on the power of the AI statement. If this tactic withstands the legal tests it’ll no doubt face, we could see an entire industry built around this concept.

Last week, we warned about the impending return of Kosmos 482, a Soviet probe that was supposed to go to Venus when it was launched in 1972. It never quite chooched, though, and ended up circling the Earth for the last 53 years. The satellite made its final orbit on Saturday morning, ending up in the drink in the Indian Ocean, far from land. Alas, the faint hope that it would have a soft landing thanks to the probe’s parachute having apparently been deployed at some point in the last five decades didn’t come to pass. That’s a bit of a disappointment to space fans, who’d love to get a peek inside this priceless bit of space memorabilia. Roscosmos says they monitored the descent, so presumably they know more or less where the debris rests. Whether it’s worth an expedition to retrieve it remains to be seen.

Are we really at the point where we have to worry about counterfeit thermal paste? Apparently, yes, judging by the effort Arctic Cooling is putting into authenticity verification of its MX brand pastes. To make sure you’re getting the real deal, boxes will come with seals that rival those found on over-the-counter medications and scratch-off QR codes that can be scanned and cross-referenced to an online authentication site. We suppose it makes sense; chip counterfeiting is a very real thing, after all, and it’s probably as easy to put a random glob of goo into a syringe as it is to laser new markings onto a chip package. And Arctic compound commands a pretty penny, so the incentive is obvious. But still, something about this just bothers us.

Another very cool astrophotography shot this week, this time a breathtaking collection of galaxies. Taken from the Near Infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope with help from the Hubble Space Telescope and the XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory, the image shows thousands of galaxies of all shapes and sizes, along with the background X-ray glow emitted by all the clouds of superheated dust and gas between them. The stars with the characteristic six-pointed diffraction spikes are all located within our galaxy, but everything else is a galaxy. The variety is fascinating, and the scale of the image is mind-boggling. It’s galactic eye candy!

And finally, if you’ve ever wondered about what happens when a nuclear reactor melts down, you’re in luck with this interesting animagraphic on the process. It’s not a detailed 3D render of any particular nuclear power plant and doesn’t have a specific meltdown event in mind, although it does mention both Chernobyl and Fukushima. Rather, it’s a general look at pressurized water reactors and what can go wrong when the cooling water stops flowing. It also touches on potentially safer designs with passive safety systems that rely on natural convection to keep cooling water circulating in the event of disaster, along with gravity-fed deluge systems to cool the containment vessel if things get out of hand. It’s a good overview of how reactors work and where they can go wrong. Enjoy.

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Trump’s $400M luxury jet from Qatar sparks outrage. Rep. Schiff calls it “brazen corruption.” Rep. Raskin warns it violates the Constitution’s ban on foreign gifts without Congressional permission. #press

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The Israeli who invented the 7 October "burned babies" lie, with David Sheen #Palestine


Journée des prisonnier·es palestinien·nes : L’expérience de la lutte à l’intérieur des prisons – Wael Jaghoub #Palestine samidoun.net/fr/2025/05/journe…


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Orthocell ( #OCC ) has released " Remplir Approved to Commence Sales in the Hong Kong Market " on Mon 12 May at 08:56 AEST #ClinicalTrials #Australia #media #Strategy #ltd
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Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander will soon be released in Gaza, a move key Arab mediators see as a step towards a return to ceasefire talks. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/… #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us



#Linux 6.15-rc6 is now available for public testing at kernel.org and Linus Torvalds says that "everything still looks fairly normal." Happy testing!

#LinuxKernel #OpenSource

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I thought the USSR was long gone, but Trump just revived it: Say hello to state planned pricing.

And I thought it was the Republicans who always accused everyone else of being communist… hmm.

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in reply to Randahl Fink

lowering drug prices (which in principle is not a bad thing) will mean nothing if not accompanied by increasing healthcare coverage for all. If he truly succeeds in “saving trillions of dollars”, he cannot say no to then spending those trillions in universal healthcare (since it would be “more affordable “ now that drug prices are lower). But that would imply lowering costs in healthcare from other causes, which they aren’t doing. Therefore this is populism at its finest
in reply to Randahl Fink

Every accusation is an admission of guilt, from them .


Transcription et traduction de la Déclaration du Président de la Russie aux médias : samedi 10 mai 2025
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"En clôturant les célébrations dédiées au 80e anniversaire de la Victoire dans la Grande Guerre patriotique, Vladimir Poutine a fait une déclaration aux représentants des médias, dans laquelle il a dressé le bilan des travaux des 7 au 10 mai. V. Poutine :


"When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy.

By that measure, America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism."
#authoritarianism #freedom #democracy
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C29 Metals ( #C29 ) has released " Multiple New Multi-Commodity Targets " on Mon 12 May at 08:53 AEST #Commodity #Mining #Gold #Australia #media
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