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After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
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Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads.
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Watch: UK surgeon shares footage from Gaza hospital after deadly Israeli strike
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Watch: UK surgeon shares footage from Gaza hospital after deadly Israeli strike
Tuesday's strike killed 28 people, the Hamas-run civil defence said. Israel says it was a precise strike on Hamas.www.bbc.com
European airlines extend the cancellation of flights to “Israel” due to the continued Yemeni operations
The Hebrew newspaper “Globes” revealed today, Wednesday, that many European airlines tend to suspend or cancel their flights to “Israel” until at least the end of the current month, following in the footsteps of the German group “Lufthansa,” which pDAILY YEMEN
Stocks, Bonds Climb as Trade-Truce Rally Holds: Markets Wrap
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Burry Bets Against Nvidia, China Stocks in Run-Up to Trade War
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Yamal helps Barcelona seal La Liga title at rivals Espanyol
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Yamal helps Barcelona seal La Liga title at rivals Espanyol
Barcelona win back the La Liga title from rivals Real Madrid with a 2-0 win at neighbours Espanyol.Kevin Hand (Al Jazeera)
Federated Geolocations?
The Social Web Foundation (@swf) recently launched places.pub, a service that ties OpenStreetMap location data into ActivityPub vocabulary. Maybe this could be used as a building block for a federated FourSquare, or event locations?
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places.pub
I’m making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network.Part of my work in the Social Web Community Group at the W3C has been participation in the GeoSocial Task Force. This is a sub-group of the SocialCG that focuses on implementing user stories in ActivityPub related to the intersection of geographical systems and social networking, for example, tagging an image with the place it represents, or checking in to a location.
One important need for geosocial software is that all objects in ActivityPub, including Place objects, need to have a permanent URL as their
idproperty, which shares the description of that object in Activity Streams 2.0 format. However, there isn’t a good dataset of geographical objects — countries, states or provinces or regions, cities, buildings, businesses, parks, streets — available in AS2 on the Web right now. That is slowing down experimentation in the Geosocial Task Force.Using the service
So, I worked on making places.pub for geosocial hackers to experiment with. It’s a service that exposes places from the amazing OpenStreetMap collection of data as AS2 objects on the Web. So, given an OpenStreetMap object like the Rogers Centre Ottawa, it provides an AS2 version suitable for use in geosocial activities in ActivityPub. It also has a rudimentary search mechanism, although I think most users will want to use the Nominatim service for searching the OpenStreetMap database, and then map the IDs onto places.pub.Once you know the places.pub ID for a place, you can use it for geotagging objects, people, activities, or using special geosocial activity types like check in, check out, and travel. There is a good list of examples on the places.pub home page, but obviously this is not an exhaustive list!
How it is built
This wasn’t my first time trying to build places.pub; I’d done two earlier versions with different architectures and the same interface. The first time out, about 7 years ago, I created a full NodeJS server that used a full mirror of the OpenStreetMap database, so I didn’t need to hit the OSM API to fetch data. It worked pretty well, but it was really expensive — hundreds of dollars per month to keep a database server of that size running and synched.I tried a second version a few months ago, which did batch generation of AS2
Placeobjects from the OpenStreetMap exports, and then uploaded them to the S3 service at Amazon Web Services. This was a whole lot cheaper, but it took a long time to download, convert, and re-upload the data.This third implementation, with source code available on GitHub, is a little bit easier than both. Instead of sloshing the huge OSM dataset back and forth, I used the version of the data stored in the Google Cloud Public Datasets system on BigQuery. This let me ignore the effort of moving data, and just focus on giving it a good ActivityPub-compatible interface using a Google Cloud Run function. It seems to work pretty nicely.
Next steps
I’d love to see some experimentation with using places.pub for geosocial activity in the social web. I’m going to work on some implementations in my own ActivityPub software. If you find problems with the software, please add an issue on GitHub or let me know on the Fediverse at @evanprodromou.GitHub - swicg/geosocial: Geosocial Taskforce
Geosocial Taskforce. Contribute to swicg/geosocial development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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I'm trying to imagine the kind of person who would think "Bolt sounds like a place I'd like to work and Breslow sounds like the kind of guy I'd like to work for" after reading this.
I didn't write this specifically about Bolt's Ryan Breslow, but it very much applies to him and guys like him. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...
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The Necessary Virtue of Not Being an Asshole
No matter what you tell yourself, you can't be a moral person if you're an asshole.Aaron Ross Powell
Opinion | House Republicans are about to wreck Trump’s nuclear-powered dream
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Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America
Many people have decided a trip to the US isn’t worth the risk after recent border detentions. But if you are going, what do you need to know? Immigration lawyers explain it allArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
Bridgit Mendler: We're Aiming to Build a Global Network
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Bridgit Mendler: We're Aiming to Build a Global Network
Bridgit Mendler, Northwood Co-Founder and CEO speaks with Romaine Bostick about their recent $30M funding round for creating infrastructure for the space era. (Source: Bloomberg)Bloomberg
#Walmart's announcement today that it plans to raise #prices is expected to open the floodgates for #retail price hikes.
The world's largest retailer—whose brand is inextricably linked to low prices & affordability—said despite the #China #trade deal earlier this week it is too late to avoid higher #costs for #consumers.
#Trump #tariffs #inflation #recession
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FDA to Expand Review of Chemical Preservatives Used in Food
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FDA to Expand Review of Chemical Preservatives Used in Food
The Food and Drug Administration is planning to expand its review of food additives beyond artificial dyes, targeting preservatives and chemicals used as whitening agents and dough conditioners.Rachel Cohrs Zhang (Bloomberg)
Rep. Malliotakis on Tax Bill Progress, SALT Cap At $30K
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Rep. Malliotakis on Tax Bill Progress, SALT Cap At $30K
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R) New York discusses the timeline of the GOP's Trump Tax Bill and whether or not the bill will be ready to go around Memorial Day.Bloomberg
I am honored to share that I’ve been nominated for an Emmy as host of PBS’s Serving Up Science - a series funded by the National Science Foundation.
This recognition is a testament to what federal science funding & public media can achieve when we invest in #science, education & evidence-based storytelling.
And it’s a reminder that curiosity matters & there is value in making science understandable & available to all.
If this resonates with you, I hope you’ll support science agencies & PBS.
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Philippine Court Voids Acquittal of Duterte Critic on Drug Case
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/philippine-court-voids-acquittal-of-duterte-critic-on-drug-case?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Philippine Court Voids Acquittal of Duterte Critic on Drug Case
A Philippine court has nullified an earlier decision of a lower court to acquit former Senator Leila de Lima on a drug case, a fresh setback for one of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics who just won a seat in Congress.Manolo Serapio Jr (Bloomberg)
米国向けスマホ出荷、3月は30％増 関税警戒し駆け込み | ロイター - WACOCA NEWS
調査会社カウンターポイント・リサーチが１４日発表したデータによると、３月に外国から米国向けに出荷されたスマートフォンの台数は前年同月比で３０％もの増加となった。米政府による輸入関税の大幅引き上げを警戒してメーカーが駆け込みで出荷した。WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
Here are the best Apple Watch deals available right now
Shopping for an Apple Watch? Whether you’re looking for the Ultra 2 or hoping to save money with the latest Apple Watch Series 10 or SE, we’ve found the best deals.Brandon Widder (The Verge)
TikTok will show teens guided meditation after 10PM
TikTok’s “wind down” prompts will now include guided meditations for users under 18. The prompts will appear if a teen is still using the app past 10PM.Emma Roth (The Verge)
US would make Gaza a freedom zone: Trump
Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas-led attack on southern Israeli communities in 2023.
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Military commanders will be told to send transgender troops to medical checks to oust them
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With 'basketball mortality' in mind, Stephen Curry looks to the near future for another title chance
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Catalyst Metals share price
Catalyst Metals (ASX:CYL) is an asset listed on the ASX, and part of the Materials sector. Grafa’s asset page shows Catalyst Metals’s share price, chart, trading volume, earnings per share, dividends per share and P/E ratio.Catalyst Metals
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It's obvious that he doesn't even listen to himself!
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