Trump Touts $200 Billion in UAE Deals in Wrapping Mideast Trip
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/trump-touts-200-billion-in-uae-deals-in-wrapping-mideast-trip?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New: ATmosphere Report
- @freeourfeeds.com funds $50k for independent infrastructure with IndieSky, with the relay part of the network now resilient
- @spkeasy.social is an upcoming bluesky-compatible platform
- Better account management directly on your PDS
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ATmosphere Report – #116
Resilient relays, a web interface to manage your ATProto account directly on your PDS, and a new upcoming ATProto platform with Speakeasy.fediversereport.com
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"The courtroom didn’t gasp. It didn’t need to. The air pulled back like a recoiling fist."
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Birthright on Trial: The View from Section F2
Our dispatch from inside the Supreme Court for this morning's oral arguments.Nicolae Viorel Butler (Migrant Insider)
Donald Trump: Supreme Court prüft Einschränkung des Geburtsrechts - DER SPIEGEL
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> Donald Trump will das Recht auf die US-Staatsbürgerschaft bei der Geburt per Dekret einschränken, zahlreiche Gerichte wehrten sich dagegen. Nun hat das oberste US-Gericht die Trump-Regierung dazu angehört.
Jammu & Kashmir Killings: A Depressing Tale With No End In Sight
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"The dastardly killing of 26 innocent men, 24 tourists from India (one Christian and the rest Hindus), 1 from Nepal (also Hindu) and 1 Kashmiri Muslim pony owner who worked in the tourist industry, by a group of terrorists on April 22 near the town of Pahalgam in the Kashmir Valley has been met with universal condemnation. The killings
Jammu & Kashmir Killings: A Depressing Tale With No End In Sight
The dastardly killing of 26 innocent men, 24 tourists from India (one Christian and the rest Hindus), 1 from Nepal (also Hindu) and 1 Kashmiri (…)www.alterinter.org
Wine Days DO Binissalem 2025 reunirá vino, gastronomía y cultura en su duodécima edición en Mallorca
El evento ofrecerá catas, rutas entre viñedos, música y talleres del 23 de mayo al 1 de junioVinetur
Gezicht op het Palacio de Generalife in Granada, anonymous, 1851 - c. 1890
albumen print, h 207mm × w 260mm
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#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
Trump visits mosque in Abu Dhabi, an apparent first for the president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/15/trump-mosque-abu-dhabi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the entire tracking-based advertising industry rely on the “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) to obtain “consent” for data processing. This evening the Belgian Court of Appeal ruled that the TCF is illegal. The TCF is live on 80% of the Internet.
[1]Today’s decision arises from enforcement by the Belgian Data Protection Authority, prompted by complainants coordinated by Dr Johnny Ryan, Director of Enforce at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. The group of complainants are: Dr Johnny Ryan of Enforce, Katarzyna Szymielewicz of the Panoptykon Foundation, Dr Jef Ausloos, Dr Pierre Dewitte, Stichting Bits of Freedom, and Ligue des Droits Humains.
Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft, deceives hundreds of millions of Europeans. The tech industry has sought to hide its vast data breach behind sham consent popups. Tech companies turned the GDPR into a daily nuisance rather than a shield for people."
This Belgian enforcement arises from a chain of complaints and litigation across Europe initiated by Dr Ryan in 2018 against Real-Time Bidding (RTB)."
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#EU #Belgium #AdTech #AdTracking #TCF #RTB #RealTimeBidding #DataProtection #GDPR #BigTech #Google #Amazon #Twitter #Microsoft
EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
The Internet Phone Book is out!* And I'm sure is full of friends' "addresses". I will write something about it when it's in my hands but for now I wanted to share my excitement anyway.
* store.are.na/products/phoneboo…
Internet Phone Book — Are.na Store
Issue One, 2025. By Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost. An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educa…store.are.na
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Beautiful! It used to be common practice to create these "phone books," and they remain one of the most effective ways to study the history of the web.
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archive.org/details/hotweb
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Alternatives Sites Zip : Archivio Grafton9 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
ZIP per l'autonomia in rete.Breve guida ai siti web alternativi, alla ricerca di isole nella rete che comunicano liberamente.Internet Archive
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This could be anywhere, but it’s not !
[2025].
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Original photo, no AI. Every moment has been lived.
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[Fujifilm digital camera X10]
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#fujifilm #fujifilmx10 #fujijuice #olddigitalcamera #vintagecameras #fujifilm_nordic #shotonfuji #streetphotography #fujifilmnederland #streetizm #streetleaks #photography #digicamlove #travelphotography #wearethestreets #dutchurban #uncoolsimple #photooftheday #streetphoto #streetphotographers #photoderue #fujiframez #fujix #x10 #picoftheday #fujixseries #streets_storytelling #responsephoto #urbanphotography #fotografie #lensculture #photographie
"A poor original is better than a good imitation."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#photography #nature #flower #spring #monochrome #blackandwhite #digicam
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
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"The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime disguised as a “duty of care,” and it will do what previous versions threatened: suppress lawful, important speech online,
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
rambo.codes/posts/2025-05-12-c…
#cybersecurity #hacking #security #technology #hacker #infosec #ethicalhacking
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Appello di Menesini al Comitato europeo delle Regioni: “Garanzie ed equità per sanitari ed agricoltori”
Due prese di posizione del capogruppo del Pse per sostegni e aiuti per due settori cruciali e che hanno necessità di sostegno
SafeLine Is A Beautiful Open Source WAF For Your Web App
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are important pieces of software that stand between the application and the outside Internet. By doing so, they shield it from hackers and other malicious entities trying to break the application and access user data.FOSS Post Team (FOSS Post)
on course to break the 1946 record high by 2029
Trump’s Tax-Cut Draft Masks the True, Giant Threat to US Debt
The cost of Republican lawmakers’ draft plan for sweeping tax cuts weighed in at $3.8 trillion over the next 10 years in one official estimate, a lowball projection that independent analysts say masks the true fiscal hit.Enda Curran (Bloomberg)
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The enshittification continues at breakneck speed.
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Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026
Netflix is trying to grow ad revenue quickly.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
io avevo assistito alla scena di due merli che si rotolavano sull'asfalto (e avevo intimato loro di abbozzarla, passandogli accanto in macchina)
"Meta did have more work to do on “child grooming,” as we saw in a June 2019 deck titled, “Inappropriate Interactions with Children on Instagram.” An early page called out that “IG recommended a minor through top suggested to an account engaged in groomer-esque behavior.” Grooming refers generally to the tactics a child predator might use to gain trust with potential victims to sexually abuse them. Subsequent pages gave some broader data: “27% of all follow recommendations to groomers were minors.” There’s a lot we don’t know about this statement: how did Meta track accounts that were “groomers” or “engaged in groomer-esque behavior”? And why were those accounts allowed at all? How did they generate that statistic? And it’s important to caveat as well that perhaps Meta didn’t know that any potential groomers were actual criminals. But by any measure, the headline is troubling.
There was more data than that. 33% of Instagram comments reported to Meta as inappropriate were reported by minors, the deck said of a three-month period. Of the comments reported by minors, more than half were left by an adult. “Overall IG: 7% of all follow recommendations to adults were minors,” the deck concluded.
The presentation also noted that during a “3-month period”—presumably in 2019—2 million minors were recommended by Instagram’s algorithm for groomers to follow. 22% of those recommendations resulted in a follow request from a groomer to a minor. Doing some back of the envelope math, that’s approximately 440,000 minors over just a three-month period who received a follow request from someone Meta labeled as a “groomer.” That number is shocking even before being annualized."
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#SocialMedia #USA #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #CyberSecurity #WhatsApp #Antitrust #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition
Instagram's Algorithm Recommended Minors to Putative Pedophiles
In Week 4 of FTC v. Meta Platforms antitrust trial, shocking statistics about Meta's failure to address known security risks, plus one more look at WhatsApp.Brendan Benedict (Big Tech on Trial)
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Wie nog mocht twijfelen aan de intenties van Israel.
‘Israël is bezig het zorgsysteem in Gaza systematisch te ontmantelen’, zeggen artsen op het Zorgcongres Gaza’ nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/05/15/op-he…
Op het congres over de zorg in Gaza gaat het over verwoeste levens en ziekenhuizen, maar ook over medische ethiek. ‘Onafhankelijke en onpartijdige hulp bestaat nu niet’
Gezondheidszorg Gaza: Het universele recht op zorg staat meer dan ooit onder druk, vinden Nederlandse artsen die een zorgcongres voor Gaza organiseerden. Zeker nu geen paracetamol de grens met Gaza nog binnenkomt.Karlijn Saris (NRC)
El festival Txin Txin Fest llevará el txakoli y la gastronomía vasca al centro de Bilbao
El evento reunirá catas, música, cultura y actividades familiares para celebrar la identidad y sostenibilidad del sector vitivinícola localVinetur
Your right to know deserves a plan. We just published ours.
Read our 2025-2026 strategic plan:
freedom.press/about/announceme…
Freedom of the Press Foundation’s 2025-2026 Strategic Plan
Press freedom in the United States is under attack like never before — reporters arrested by law enforcement, news media openly vilified by political leaders, the First Amendment sidelined by courts.Freedom of the Press
![The image features three rows of emoji faces, each labeled with text. The top row is labeled "Mexican People" and includes a variety of faces with different skin tones, hair colors, and styles, representing diversity. The middle row is labeled "Mexican people on TV" and shows a more limited range of faces, predominantly with lighter skin tones and blonde hair, suggesting a lack of diversity. The bottom row is labeled "Mexican people not on TV" and displays a wider range of faces, including darker skin tones and diverse hair colors, highlighting the underrepresentation of certain groups in media. The background is black, and the text is white, making the emojis stand out. The image is credited to "[@]SoMexican" at the bottom.](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/46189547 "The image features three rows of emoji faces, each labeled with text. The top row is labeled \"Mexican People\" and includes a variety of faces with different skin tones, hair colors, and styles, representing diversity. The middle row is labeled \"Mexican people on TV\" and shows a more limited range of faces, predominantly with lighter skin tones and blonde hair, suggesting a lack of diversity. The bottom row is labeled \"Mexican people not on TV\" and displays a wider range of faces, including darker skin tones and diverse hair colors, highlighting the underrepresentation of certain groups in media. The background is black, and the text is white, making the emojis stand out. The image is credited to \"[@]SoMexican\" at the bottom.")
The image features three rows of emoji faces, each labeled with text. The top row is labeled "Mexican People" and includes a variety of faces with different skin tones, hair colors, and styles, representing diversity. The middle row is labeled "Mexican people on TV" and shows a more limited range of faces, predominantly with lighter skin tones and blonde hair, suggesting a lack of diversity. The bottom row is labeled "Mexican people not on TV" and displays a wider range of faces, including darker skin tones and diverse hair colors, highlighting the underrepresentation of certain groups in media. The background is black, and the text is white, making the emojis stand out. The image is credited to "[@]SoMexican" at the bottom.
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in reply to Anja • • •Das Bild zeigt eine Gruppe von Menschen, die an einer Demonstration teilnehmen. Im Vordergrund steht eine Frau, die ein Schild mit der Aufschrift "PROTECT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP" hochhält. Sie trägt ein schwarzes T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift "I STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS". Hinter ihr sind weitere Demonstranten zu sehen, die ebenfalls Schilder halten. Ein Schild in der Nähe trägt die Aufschrift "HANDS OFF THE 14". Die Demonstranten scheinen sich in einem öffentlichen Raum zu befinden, möglicherweise vor einem Gebäude, das von Bauarbeiten umgeben ist. Der Himmel ist blau mit einigen weißen Wolken. Die Atmosphäre wirkt entschlossen und friedlich.
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