Texas Disaster Adds to US Flood Costs That Exceed $200 Billion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/texas-disaster-adds-to-us-flood-costs-over-200-billion-as-climate-risks-mount?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I’ve never had a real need for these “activity notifications” so I wasn’t sure if these were available for #Mastodon. I checked and was not surprised to see that they are indeed already there. What surprised me was that #Bluesky only added them now.
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Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
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Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Bluesky’s latest update added more notification settings, as well as activity notifications to see whenever certain accounts have a new post.Richard Lawler (The Verge)
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Play-Doh World one of four new games coming to Apple Arcade
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Play-Doh World one of four new games coming to Apple Arcade - 9to5Mac
Apple Arcade is getting four new games next month, with Play-Doh World topping the bill. Apple says this and the...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
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A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+ (Niket Nishant/Reuters)
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ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+
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“È un campo di sterminio”: ai soldati dell’IDF è stato ordinato di sparare deliberatamente agli abitanti di Gaza disarmati in attesa di aiuti umanitari
di Nir Hasson, Yaniv Kubovich e Bar Peleg, Haaretz, 27 giugno 2025. Ufficiali e soldati dell'IDF hanno detto ad Haaretz che avevano ricevuto l'ordine di sparare sulla folla...Assopace Palestina
La Bce: "Con la Cina nel Wto meno democrazia in nome del commercio, ma l'Ue ha le sue colpe"
L'analisi bella Banca centrale europea: "Arretramento di democrazia dovuto alla Cina, ma negli ultimi 25 anni sempre più accordi con autocrati e dittatori"Emanuele Bonini emanuelebonini (Eunews)
Si muove la sinistra. Due ex assessori in corsa per la Regione. Avs, ecco i primi nomi
Alleanza Verdi Sinistra sarà presente alla competizione elettorale. Sinistra Italiana sceglie Francesco Cecchetti, Valeria Giglioli. (già in giunta a Capannori e Lucca) Tiziano Nicoletti e Valentina Pieroni.
Söders Christsoziale verabschieden sich vom Rechtsstaat
Ein CSU-Politiker plädiert für die Wahl einer ultralinken Juristin zur Verfassungsrichterin – eine Frau, die sich mit den Möglichkeiten, Bürgern ihre Rechte zu entziehen, brüstet.Klaus-Rüdiger Mai (Tichys Einblick)
IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...
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"The bill includes the most aggressive assault on climate action of any legislation in history. In fact, it represents a profound shift in policy. Trump and Republicans are not just ignoring climate change — they’re actually trying to make it worse."
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The Republican budget is a climate horror
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.Paul Waldman (Public Notice)
Wimbledon crowd boos after electronic line calling ‘malfunctions’ again in Taylor Fritz match
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Wimbledon crowd boos after electronic line calling ‘malfunctions’ again in Taylor Fritz match
The controversial AI system, which has replaced human line judges, randomly called the ball ‘out’ mid-pointKieran Jackson (The Independent)
Who could have predicted that putting a vaccine denier in charge of health related issues would have consequences?
TOP ECONOMISTS IN PRAISE OF SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FRANCESCA ALBANESE’S REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS: ‘FROM ECONOMY OF OCCUPATION TO ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE’
Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson, Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter below supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine
History teaches us that economic interests have been key drivers and enablers of colonial enterprises and often of the genocides they perpetrated. The corporate sector has been intrinsic to colonialism since its inception, with corporations historically contributing to the violence against, the exploitation, and ultimately the dispossession, of Indigenous people and lands, a mode of domination known as racial colonial capitalism. Israel’s colonisation of the occupied Palestinian territories is no exception.
The recent report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, constitutes a major contribution to understanding the political economy of Israel’s Apartheid state, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and, now, their genocide. As such, we believe, it must be studied and debated widely and freely.
In view of the virulently hostile and indeed intimidating letter from the US government to the UN Secretary General demanding the dismissal of Ms Albanese and the quashing of her excellent report, we felt the need to express our strong support for Ms Albanese and to encourage the UN to dismiss the shrill demands of the US and Israeli governments.
Following a well-trodden path of genocide denial and of bullying anyone who challenges the right of the colonial power to dispossess Indigenous peoples, the US and Israeli governments, with most European governments too timid to take a stance, demand that the international community turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide and, in particular, to the key role that multinational and national corporations are playing in maintaining the Apartheid regime and enabling the subsequent genocide.
As economists we feel the duty to highlight three key findings that Ms Albanese’s report unveils with clarity and precision.
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In a few years, almost everyone will claim they opposed this genocide. But it is now that people of good conscience need to take a stand. As economists we stand, today, with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur under attack by the US and Israeli governments because her recent report throws indescribably important light on the political economy of Israel’s occupation and genocide.
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EXCLUSIVE: Top Economists Back Francesca Albanese's Report on the 'Economy of Genocide' in Gaza
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, and others join open letter supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine.Team Zeteo (Zeteo)
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Diogo Jota: Speeding likely cause of footballer’s car crash, police say
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/7/8/diogo-jota-speeding-likely-cause-of-footballers-car-crash-police-say?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Diogo Jota: Speeding likely cause of footballer’s car crash, police say
The Liverpool player is believed to have been driving at high speed when he and his brother Andre Silva died last week.Al Jazeera
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Dopo il successo di Barbie, Mattel punta in alto con un nuovo film dedicato alle Hot Wheels. Ma chi sarà il regista chiamato a dare vita a questo universo in espansione? La risposta potrebbe cambiare ...
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Hot Wheels come Barbie: annunciato il regista del film sull’iconico gioco Mattel
L'universo cinematografico Mattel è pronto ad espandersi: dopo Barbie, è in arrivo il film sulle Hot Wheels. Ecco chi sarà a dirigerlo.Simona Ciccarini (HyNerd)
Ny nyhetsartikel: EU kan börja skanna dina chattar redan i oktober (teknikveckan.se/eu-kan-borja-s…).
Följ bevakningen av Chat Control 2.0 på chatcontrol.se/coverage/.
#ChatControl #SVpol #EUpol #EUvsChildSexualAbuse
Rapporterat om Chat Control 2.0
Samling av allt som skrivs i svensk media om förslaget som i folkmun kallas Chat Control 2.0.Allt om Chat Control 2.0
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Russia testa un nuovo drone kamikaze con intelligenza artificiale Nvidia
La Russia testa droni kamikaze autonomi con chip Nvidia Jetson Orin: nonostante le sanzioni USA, l'AI bellica continua a volare.Umberto Stentella (Lega Nerd)
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'Artiesten en schrijvers zijn opgeschrikt door onderzoek van Henk Willem Smits en Remy Koens. Wat is er aan de hand: het Amerikaanse private equity-bedrijf KKR heeft zich zonder ruchtbaarheid ingekocht in festivals en uitgeverijen. Hoe is dat gegaan? En is er nog een uitweg?'
#FrederiqueVraagtDoor Podcast | Hoe festivals en uitgeverijen stilletjes zijn overgeleverd aan het grote geld
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Xi inspects manufacturing company in Shanxi
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday afternoon inspected a valve manufacturing company in Yangquan City, north China's Shanxi Province, where he learned about the province's efforts to promote the…en.qstheory.cn
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[CNCF TOC] Archive Pravega Project
It looks like work on the Pravega project decreased considerably in March, 2024. Please confirm Pravega's current status by October 25, 2024. At that time the project will be moved to a vote to arc...angellk (GitHub)
What's the biggest CNCF project, by far? Kubernetes!
What do they complain about in thousands of issues and pull requests?
"The Kubernetes project currently lacks enough contributors to adequately respond to all issues and PRs."
ARCHIVE Kubernetes immediately!
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Exploring the future of voice AI with Mati Staniszewski at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/exploring-the-future-of-voice-ai-with-mati-staniszewski-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Exploring the future of voice AI with Mati Staniszewski at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, joins the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 in San Francisco. Register now.TechCrunch Events (TechCrunch)
Opere di difesa esonerate da valutazione Via in 30 giorni - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2025/07/08/opere-di-difesa-esonerate-da-valutazione-via-in-30-giorni_a5082fc5-8f6a-4a7c-a3a6-52dfdfcc7f8b.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Opere di difesa esonerate da valutazione Via in 30 giorni - Notizie - Ansa.it
Arriva la semplificazione in materia di valutazione di impatto ambientale (Via) per i progetti infrastrutturali "con unico obiettivo la difesa nazionale". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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Yes, a journalist who worked on the Panama Papers investigation was murdered with a car bomb.
Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist, was killed by a car bomb on October 16, 2017. She was a prominent investigative journalist in Malta and had reported extensively on corruption, including stories related to the Panama Papers. Her murder sparked international outrage and investigations.
The Panama Papers led to:
- Over 82 countries launched investigations based on the revelations.
- By 2021, governments had recovered more than $1.36 billion in back taxes and penalties. icij.org/investigations/panama…
- Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson resigned.
- Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office.
- Multiple countries implemented stricter financial transparency laws.
- The European Union created blacklists of tax havens.
Panama Papers revenue recovery reaches $1.36 billion as investigations continue - ICIJ
Five years after the Panama Papers were first published, authorities are still clawing back lost tax dollars and prosecuting wrongdoers exposed by the global investigation.Sean McGoey (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
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Israel was compelled to admit it had shot a convoy of Palestinian medics, but still has recourse to false facts and irrelevancies to defend it. Whether some or all of the medics in a team are related to an enemy force is irrelevant as long as they act as medics are supposed to act, and these did so. The army's own
New details on killing of paramedics in Gaza appear to contradict IDF’s account
Haaretz report comes as supreme court gives Israeli PM more time to respond to affidavit from fired Shin Bet chiefBethan McKernan (The Guardian)
Trump’s Big Bill Saves a NASA Rocket Detractors Longed to Kill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/trump-tax-bill-gives-4-1-billion-to-maligned-nasa-rocket?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Epitaffio per Emilio Molinari, un'intelligenza bene comune - Sbilanciamoci - L’economia com’è e come può essere. Per un’Italia capace di futuro
Operaio e poi tecnico della Borletti, tra i fondatori dei Cub e di Avanguardia Operaia, passato in Democrazia Proletaria, quindi attivista ambientalista fino al referendum sull’acqua, Emilio ha sempre cercato di capire, studiare, per cercare soluzion…Rachele Gonnelli (Sbilanciamoci - L’economia com’è e come può essere. Per un’Italia capace di futuro)
Le migliori insalate del mondo, lista 2025: solo una è italiana, ecco quale
https://www.lacucinaitaliana.it/article/le-migliori-insalate-del-mondo-lista-2025-cnn/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Le migliori insalate del mondo, lista 2025: solo una è italiana, ecco quale
24 ricette delle migliori insalate del mondo per scoprire modi diversi di preparare questo piatto così amato e così diverso a seconda di dove venga preparatoFabiana Salsi (La Cucina Italiana)
Rubio Impersonator Uses AI, Signal to Contact Foreign Officials
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/rubio-impersonator-uses-ai-signal-to-contact-foreign-officials?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Moonvalley’s ‘ethical’ AI video model for filmmakers is now publicly available
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/moonvalleys-ethical-ai-video-model-for-filmmakers-is-now-publicly-available/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Moonvalley’s ‘ethical’ AI video model for filmmakers is now publicly available | TechCrunch
Moonvalley's Marey AI video generation model is open to the public. The monthly subscription is available for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
Teen dazzles prom in full drag as teachers & peers cheer him on: “I love this side of myself”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/teen-dazzles-prom-in-full-drag-as-teachers-peers-cheer-him-on-i-love-this-side-of-myself/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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