The BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro symbolizes a geopolitical shift away from the West
In the heart of Rio de Janeiro, the 17th BRICS summit propels the Global South to the forefront of the international stage and challenges WesternМохамед Ламин КАБА (New Eastern Outlook)
TSA Set to Let Travelers Keep Shoes on Through Airport Security
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/new-tsa-rules-would-allow-travelers-to-keep-shoes-on-through-airport-security?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-bloomberg
Indian Rupee Underperforms Most Emerging Asian Currencies on Tariff Worries
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/india-market-buzz-retail-traders-bleed-as-jane-street-faces-ban?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg
Russia’s ex-Transport Minister Roman #Starovoit was found dead from a gunshot wound near Moscow, in what authorities say was likely suicide. His death came as Putin dismissed him amid growing transport chaos linked to Ukrainian drone attacks.
politico.eu/article/roman-star…
Russian minister fired by Putin shoots himself dead, authorities say
Former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit was at the helm as Ukrainian drone attacks crippled the aviation sector over the weekend.Elena Giordano (POLITICO)
Admiring Colorado's wildflowers in places famous and foreign | Lifestyle - All For Gardening
Where the masses continued toward one of Colorado’s most iconic scenes, the Maroon Bells, Christian Murdock veered off for an unfamiliar road. There, nearGardening (All For Gardening)
Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop
Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem. Calling loneliness an epidemic transforms a feeling into a pathology to be cured, creating a loneliness economy. Reframing a universal human experience like loneliness as a medical diagnosis creates a market opportunity to manufacture, sell and buy treatment. The prescription given for loneliness is connection, and Big Tech has found a way to seize the vulnerability of lonely people eager to escape their predicament.Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, argues that A.I. companions can help fill what he sees as a friendship gap. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, is developing an A.I. “companion” that will live with users and, the company claims, be capable of sensing their surroundings. Replika, a generative A.I. chatbot, touts customer claims like “I love my human-like A.I. companion” and “Replika understands me better than any real guy ever did.” “Friends come and go, but GalaxyAI has your back,” another ad reads. Social media, dating apps and A.I. companions won’t alleviate loneliness; they will make it worse by giving people a way to avoid their aloneness.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opinion/loneliness-ai-social-media.html
Trying out Surge.sh
Getting back into web design, so I'm also trying out hosting options for static HTML sites.
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First time trying out TOMORO COFFEE.
It's single origin from Neyid Pilimue Colombia.
DING DONG. Helter skelter, in a hasty disorderly manner.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
Thailand Confident of Securing Lower US Tariff With Trade Offers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/thailand-confident-of-securing-lower-us-tariff-with-trade-offers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg
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Here's a photo I took recently! Photosynthesized oxygen from moss got trapped under surface tension of the puddles, it created this fantastical microlandscape 😀
Are hashtags a thing here? #photography #botany #landscape #art
3-year-old dies after shooting in D.C., police say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/07/07/toddler-shot-died-southeast-dc/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Local @local-WashPost
When tech hardware becomes paperweights
Now I have this blood pressure monitor device that doesn't work without a logged in app and is a paperweight. I'm lucky I never invested into their ecosystem of health products. Lesson is no matter how popular a brand is, there is no guarantee they will be around. I've lost all my health data and there is no way to get it back.
When tech hardware becomes paperweights
Today I was taking my blood pressure with a device I've owned for several years. The app logged me out and I couldn't sign in. The error was no internet conn...Welcome To My Blog
America’s Copy-and-Paste Tariffs Will Rile ‘Mr. Japan’
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-08/trump-s-copy-and-paste-tariffs-will-rile-mr-japan?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Opinion @bloomberg-opinion-bloomberg
Not a fan of the peekaboo apps that appear off screen on iPadOS after you switch away from them. They even show motion effects like video in the apps and content updating off screen.
Russian air travelers faced disruptions over the past three days due to the threat from Ukrainian drones, resulting in 485 flight cancellations and 1,900 delays. Costing the airlines $254 million.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Yet to my knowledge no attacks on any civilian aircraft, no civilian deaths or injuries.
Ukraine may be onto something here
Until Putin orders a false flag attack on Russian civilians, of course
爬蟲盜資料重判／七法當庭坦承法源資料完整才去爬 「法學版Google」遭重判揭密
知名法學資料庫業者法源資訊公司，指控有「法學版Google」之稱的七法公司透過爬蟲程式，抓取法源資料庫中的數十萬筆法規沿革及附件後，供檢索查詢方式營利，被告當庭坦承法源「法規沿革」資料內容豐富完整才會去爬取，新北地院痛批業者「昧著良心與事實」，明明公司有被起訴，負責人卻發公告稱公司「沒有被起訴」來誤導消費者，日前依違反著作權法，分別重判七法創辦人郭榮彥與謝復雅4年及2年有期徒刑，且須與七法連帶給付法源1億0545萬餘元，引起各界矚目。
mirrormedia.mg/story/20250706i…
爬蟲盜資料重判／七法當庭坦承法源資料完整才去爬 「法學版Google」遭重判揭密 - 鏡週刊 Mirror Media
知名法學資料庫業者法源資訊公司，指控有「法學版Google」之稱的七法公司透過爬蟲程式，抓取法源資料庫中的數十萬筆法規沿革及附件後，供檢索查詢方式營利，被告當庭坦承法源「法規沿革」資料內容豐富完整才會去爬取，新北地院痛批業者「昧著良心與事實」，明明公司有被起訴，負責人卻發公告稱公司「沒有被起訴」來誤導消費者，日前依違反...鏡週刊 Mirror Media
根據判決書指出，該起官司最大爭點在於「法規沿革資料」，因為法官認為法源耗費大量心力、時間與金錢找人逐筆整理編輯的「法規沿革資料」屬於《著作權法》所保護的「語文編輯著作」。
判決書直指，法源對法規制定、修正發布日期、發文字號、沿革序號等12點特色均有其獨創性的編排方式。對於政府「公文」或「編輯物」，必須進一步審閱法規條文、主管機關嗣後之施行命令或其他與法令異動有關之內容，整理出其整部法令或不同條文之脈動，尤其涉及法令之施行、替代、廢止、合併、移轉管轄…等特殊情事。此均有賴精準之文句，詳述其變動狀況，更顯示其必須具備專業法律知識之高度「原創性」。
其中更有很多資料幾乎在全國法規資料庫與司法院法規查詢系統中都無法查詢到，法源為了建立資料庫，不惜砸大錢、找人從舊書攤買書比對文件核實、一字一句輸入並印出校對，長年投入龐大心血才能在司法圈累積信譽，七法利用多隻爬蟲程式每天爬走法源資料，已明顯侵害其著作權
Hangar Bicocca: mostre di luglio 2025
@milano
Quella di Tarek Atoui non l'ho proprio capita: quella di Yukinori Yanagi è invece molto bella.
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I think Fedora patched for this:
Several major Linux distros hit by serious Sudo security flaws | TechRadar Several major Linux distros hit by serious Sudo security flaws | TechRadar share.google/VNlARPh9ItAE4HQYv
Several major Linux distros hit by serious Sudo security flaws
Two flaws allow local users to run arbitrary codeSead Fadilpašić (TechRadar)
President Donald Trump said he’d ship more weapons to Ukraine.
Trump didn’t specify what the US would provide except to say the armaments would be “defense weapons primarily.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
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Trump Issues New Tariff Rates, Says US Still Open to Talks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-07-08/trump-issues-new-tariff-rates-says-still-open-to-talks-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg
Tom Barrack's project to destabilize Lebanon
Washington has dispatched a billionaire Lebanese-American proxy to Beirut with a plan to force Hezbollah's disarmament and unravel the last standing pillar of the Axis of Resistance. The price? Total submission, with nothing in return.thecradle.co
GitHub - menloresearch/jan: Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer - menloresearch/janGitHub
Russia's budget deficit reached 3.69 trillion roubles ($46.89 billion), or 1.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), in the first half of the year, the same as expected for the full year, the finance ministry said.
reuters.com/markets/europe/rus…
RateGain Launches AI Employee: REMO
Read: gadgetsgadder.com/news/rategai…
RateGain Launches AI Employee: REMO
In this news we coverd about RateGain Launches AI Employee: REMO in the simplest way possible.GadgetsGadder (GadgetsGadder News)
Getting up to YVR for a bit tonight really hit the spot.
#aviation photo of the day:
Air Canada Airbus A320 | Vancouver YVR | 2025
La Commissione rilancia i crediti natura per sostenere la green-economy (e salvare sé stessa)
L'iniziativa sui crediti natura nel giorno del dibattito sulla fiducia alla Commissione, a caccia dei voti di S&D e RE, scontenti per le scelte sul greenwashingEmanuele Bonini emanuelebonini (Eunews)
I looked into this, too. It is a lot to take in. It almost feels like I have to rewrite me entire site/processes to support it. So, I just post to my site, then cross post to Mastodon. See these posts as examples:
- mastodon.social/@readbeanicecr…
- mastodon.social/@readbeanicecr…
I know it's not the same, but it's the closest that I can come to it for now.
💭️ Small Web July | July 05, 2025 - 8:30 p.m.Since I have seen a few posts and comments about Small Web July, I think I will give it a shot. So for my Small Web July, my plans are:
readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chat…
Chatter RSS: readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chat…
Main RSS: readbeanicecream.surge.sh/feed…
#indieweb #smallweb #smallwebjuly
Thanks to the Netflix Danish show "Equinox" I've just discovered the art of Anne Laddon.
Wow! Just wow!
Mathijs Booden
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