This is the opening page of Christiaan Huygen's 1659 book "Systema Saturnium" -- or "The System of Saturn", his description of Saturn's rings

would you LOOK at that magnificent dropcap!

nobody does dropcaps like that any more

when my next book comes out with Penguin I am going to fight for an opening-page dropcap in precisely this style

i will lose

but I will fight

loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_04…

I never ask for money, and even now, this isn’t for me. It’s for Alaskan’s with HIV/AIDS and those about to experience homelessness due to the hateful Trump administration. Their attack on the LGBTQIA+ community has spilled over into all of those with HIV/AIDS. Without support, we cannot provide services. Services that keep people undetectable, HIV free, housed, and with health insurance.

Please donate what you can, if you can. The government is not going to help us now, it’s up to us to help one another.

alaskanaids.org/donate

Thank you ♥️

Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association» Donate

Consider making an impact in the communities and lives impacted by HIV/AIDS with a donation to Four A's. Targeting programs helping with housing, medication, treatment, and prevention. It's all about life.

^{Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association}

Three-tim MVP Nikola Jokic will delay signing extension with Nuggets this summer, AP source says
https://apnews.com/article/nikola-jokic-nba-nuggets-b2ed11f0bc251a516993cae691db82b6?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sports @sports-AssociatedPress

I'm really getting sick of companies forcing their will on the people!

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

#Android #Google #Gemini #AI #Tech

commondreams.org/newswire/oxfa…

Oxfam supports the initiative of Spain. Brazil and South Africa to tax the super-rich globally.

Oxfam reaction to Spain, Brazil and South Africa launching a new coalition to tax the super-rich

None

^{newswireeditor (Common Dreams)}

Marks and Sparks hack kicks of ransomware turf war...

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

“No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war

A clash between criminal ransomware groups could result in victims being extorted twice.

^{Financial Times (Ars Technica)}

China Bans Dual-Use Exports to Eight Taiwan Defense Entities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/china-bans-dual-use-exports-to-eight-taiwan-defense-entities?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-bloomberg

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Terremoto di magnitudo 5.7 in Guatemala, due morti - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/07/09/terremoto-di-magnitudo-5.7-in-guatemala-due-morti_9bddd88c-02ff-4d11-ade1-bac694f5dd34.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa

Terremoto di magnitudo 5.7 in Guatemala, due morti - Ultima ora - Ansa.it

Le autorità locali danno notizia di due morti in seguito a una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 5.7 registrata alle 15:41 di ieri ora locale (le 23:41 in Italia) nel sud del Guatemala. (ANSA)

^{Agenzia ANSA}

For 10 years now, Unicorn Riot has been on the frontlines covering social & environmental movements often ignored by legacy news. 🦄

Help us continue providing an unfiltered, nonprofit platform for diverse communities, storytellers & media makers.

Donate Now: unicornriot.ninja/10years/

10 Years of Telling Your Stories. 10 Years of Unicorn Riot. - UNICORN RIOT

For over a decade, Unicorn Riot has been on the frontlines of social and environmental movements covering stories that are often ignored in mainstream discourse, including alternatives to conventional normalcies.

^{UNICORN RIOT}

Our AI has access to everything — and I do mean everything.

If you’re using any Meta product or service, there’s no escaping the AI.

#AI #Meta #Facebook #Threats #Instagram #WhatsApp

South Korea repatriates six North Koreans picked up at sea
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/9/south-korea-repatriates-six-north-koreans-picked-up-at-sea?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Asia Pacific News @asia-pacific-news-AlJazeera

South Korea repatriates six North Koreans picked up at sea

North Koreans’ repatriation comes as South Korea’s newly-elected president is working to improve inter-Korean ties.

^{Al Jazeera}

It appears that Google has discovered bookwyrm.social (a Fediverse version of Goodreads, ICYDK).

I have alerts set up for various words and terms, and over the last few days I've been receiving notices for the books I just reviewed. As well as, the ones I reviewed on Goodreads in 2013, which were imported into Bookwyrm 5months ago.

BTW, I almost never get alerts for my posts on Mastodon, Friendica, Lemmy, Pixelfed, or another other places on the Fediverse, despite being much more active there. I don't even get alerts for my blog posts anymore, since Google devalued blogs. They barely index them now.

It's very weird.

#Bookwyrm #GoodReads #Google #Fediverse

BookWyrm

Social Reading and Reviewing

^{bookwyrm.social}

Luna piena di luglio 2025: calendario, riti e cucina
https://www.lacucinaitaliana.it/article/luna-piena-di-luglio-2025-calendario-riti-cucina-orto/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Ambiente e sostenibilità @ambiente-e-sostenibilit-CucinaItaliana

What Trump's big tax law could mean for the youngest Americans
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-medicaid-snap-baby-bond-25c03837e9b2a0a4d6f60384ec5d0677?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress

Rivolta nel carcere minorile di Torino, 9 condanne per oltre 35 anni: contestata la “devastazione”
https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/07/09/news/rivolta_carcere_minorile_torino_condanne-424719510/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Cronache italiane - La Repubblica @cronache-italiane-la-repubblica-repubblica

Rivolta nel carcere minorile di Torino, 9 condanne per oltre 35 anni: contestata la “devastazione”

La sentenza pronunciata poco prima di mezzanotte per evitare la scadenza delle misure cautelari. Nel 2024 fu sventata un’evasione di massa

^{la Repubblica}

Das kleine Eureka! Frühstücksrätsel:

eurekaapp.de/kreuzwort/Yxv3

Gerne Repost 😉 #EurekaRätsel
1. Rätsel in der Eureka! Kreuzworträtselapp öffnen (Link klicken)
2. Mit Lösungscode ("KOPIEREN" Knopf r. unten) antworten
Unter allen Teilnahmen wird wöchentlich ein Fragenpaket verlost.

'At one point, an ICE agent addressed a protester, saying “Just keep a distance. We get it alright, we get it.” A protestor responded, “If you get it, why are you doing this.”

“You know that’s not what I meant,” the agent said.'

missionlocal.org/2025/07/video…

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

^{Frankie Solinsky Duryea (Mission Local)}

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register

Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto.
Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.

This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.

And this interesting bit.

Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.

#Mozilla #Firefox #TESCREAL

Silicon Valley’s Obsession With AI Looks a Lot Like Religion

The tech world’s obsession with artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

^{The MIT Press Reader}

Moin! ☕️☕️☕️😊
Ich: Mit zwei schweren Einkaufskörben stehen bleiben, bis das Rotkehlchen in der Pfütze, mitten im Weg, fertig gebadet hat.

#moin #gutenmorgen #fotografie #photography #photo #quote #myphoto #natur #nature #birds

Reeves Should Brave Markets and Swap UK Fiscal Rules, Study Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/reeves-should-brave-markets-and-swap-uk-fiscal-rules-study-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg U.K. @bloomberg-u-k-bloomberg

Vannacci e le favola della sinistra: ''I migranti non ci pagano la pensione''

@
se non li mettete in regola con salario minimo no' ...

anche le prostitute non vi pagano le pensioni se non le mettete in regola come in austria e germania ...

ma se si vuole essere sfruttatori e bigotti, no' ...
@

iltempo.it/personaggi/2025/07/…

Vannacci e le favola della sinistra: ''I migranti non ci pagano la pensione''

L'ennesimo teorema della sinistra.  Smontato pezzettino per pezzettino. Per anni l'universo progressista che ha portato avanti le deliran...

^{Il Tempo}

Terremoto di magnitudo 5.7 in Guatemala, due morti - America Latina - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/americalatina/2025/07/09/terremoto-di-magnitudo-5.7-in-guatemala-due-morti_d9bc3a16-caf9-4321-aafa-2f01e36e9dc4.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa

Terremoto di magnitudo 5.7 in Guatemala, due morti - America Latina - Ansa.it

Le autorità locali danno notizia di due morti in seguito a una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 5.7 registrata alle 15:41 di ieri ora locale (le 23:41 in Italia) nel sud del Guatemala. (ANSA)

^{Agenzia ANSA}

New #blogpost!

#Casio's website was a bit borked when I ordered from there, but things ended up well for me! I think.

This is day 94 of #100DaysToOffload

joelchrono.xyz/blog/casio-didn…

Casio didn't let me type my address

When I ordered some watches from Casio's official website, things didn't go well, so I ended up exchanging emails with their staff and worrying too much about it

^{joelchrono.xyz}

New Trump Tariff Threats Should Be a Big Deal. They're Not
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-09/trump-s-new-tariff-threats-should-be-a-big-deal-they-re-not?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

Disney, Hearst Consider Sale of A+E Cable-TV Networks Business
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/disney-hearst-consider-sale-of-a-e-cable-tv-networks-business?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

Orrido di Botri, nuovo accordo per la gestione fra Comune e Carabinieri per la biodiversità nel segno di ambiente e sicurezza
Le visite riaprono dal 12 luglio con accesso all'oasi regolato in modo rigoroso. Obbligatori casco protettivo e scarpe da trekking

luccaindiretta.it/mediavalle-e…

Orrido di Botri, nuovo accordo per la gestione fra Comune e Carabinieri per la biodiversità nel segno di ambiente e sicurezza - LuccaInDiretta

^{LuccainDiretta}