Criminal investigation opened in rape and sexual assault allegations against Smokey Robinson
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Herder en herderin met vee bij avondlicht, Jan van de Velde (II), 1622
D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet
engraving, h 170mm × w 229mm
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This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon on a small, distant world.
It was captured from a range of about 18 000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward #Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015.
#astrophotography #astronomy
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APOD: 2025 May 15 - A Plutonian Landscape
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
#Musk's election #PAC sued over alleged failure to pay $100 to petition signers
#ElonMusk's political action committee failed to pay registered swing state voters as promised during last year's US election in return for signing a petition or referring other voters, acc/to a proposed federal #ClassAction lawsuit.
Article: The Ancients Prophesied Dystopia Before the Apocalypse
Languages: Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hindi,Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Urdu, Chinese
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Mulher se divorcia pós ChatGPT “revelar” traição em leitura de borra de café - Gazeta Brasil- Notícias do
Uma mulher na Grécia pediu o divórcio após o ChatGPT “revelar” que seu marido a estava traindo. O episódio inusitado começou com uma xícara de café grego,Gazeta Brasil
RBA Urged to Defy Expectations And Keep Rates on Hold
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How redefining just one word could strip the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat
The public has until May 19 to weigh in on a Trump administration plan that would leave many endangered species at much greater risk.The Conversation
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The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
: Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-wasteLiam Proven (The Register)
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Attached: 1 image Many Christians in the world today are allowing this to happen so that Israel can steal Palestinian land, homes and lives in #gazamastodon.ie
⚡️ Brick-Hartz: Since the cabinet approved plans to expand army operations in the #Gaza Strip, critical questions are automatically emerging about the catastrophic consequences expected:
1- Our living prisoners may die in the tunnels.
2- Many fighters will be killed, others will be seriously injured, and funerals will continue as we were in the past year and a half.
3- We will not defeat #Hamas, because the army is unable to resolve the battle.
4- With our failure, their heads will be raised more forcefully by both the #Houthis, the Turks, the #Syrians, #Hezbollah, and #Hamas, and we will find ourselves in a devastating displacement war.
5- We will lose our relations with most countries of the world, which will continue to accuse us of committing war crimes.
6- We will lose our economic capabilities. There will be no money to rehabilitate the army in light of growing threats.
7- In our weakness, we will lose President #Trump's interest in us as is already happening now, but he may stop aid for us.
8- Social deterioration inside #Israel will rise to a new level. All this is expected to happen because our leaders are not rational, they are separate from reality, and they are using the army as a tool to serve their interests.
Unfortunately, today's army is headed by a weak Chief of Staff, who does not have the courage to confront them with truth and explain to them the real and fragile situation of the army, which continues to collapse.
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Ireland Fails to Qualify for the Eurovision final.
Key Takeaways From Trump's Visit to Abu Dhabi
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Our planet has seen 5 mass extinctions so far...and we could be well underway to see No. 6.
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Paws and Relax: How to do Easy At-Home Dog Massage - Tail Wag Wisdom
Dog massage therapy at home sounds relaxing and like something dog parents would like in on as well, right? What are the benefits of dog massage …tailwagwisdom.com - Terri Rodefer
Ex-Goldman Banker Leads China’s Push to Revive Hong Kong Finance
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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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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
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in reply to Dipper • • •By every definition we already are well into a mass extinction event.
For some background we are currently 100x to 10,000x the background extinction rate (typically its 0.1 to 1 species per million per year, and we are currently seeing 100 to 1000 extinctions per million per year). The proper units for this is E/MSY so we are seeing 100 to 1000 E/MSY right now compared to a background of 0.1 to 1 E/MSY.
If we compare that to the rate during the big-5 mass extinctions it is as high, or significantly higher. The late devonian extinction rate (the slowest) was 70 E/MSY, meanwhile the end-permian extinction rate (the highest of the 5) was ~300 E/MSY.
Yes we are **well** within a mass extinction, and if we do not correct things immediately after 100 years at the current rate we will see the same overall extinction as these mass extinction events.
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