Is removing the right of (some) defendants to elect a jury trial the only way of speeding up the justice system or another attack on democratic rights?
Much depends on how much weight you put on the aphorism: 'justice delayed is justice denied', and how far you think that juries ameliorate the (potential) prejudices of judges operating without recourse to the defendant's 'peers'.
Of course, you might feel that the real issue is the justice budget!
#RuleOfLaw #politics
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
Jury trials must be limited to save criminal justice system from collapse, inquiry finds
Brian Leveson unveils radical proposals to clear huge backlog in crown courtsHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows
#DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for #ICE detention centers.
from #DropSiteNews
Ka (Jessica) Burbank
and Ryan Grim
Jul 08, 2025
dropsitenews.com/p/alligator-a…
#DefendImmigrantRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press
'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows
DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers.Ka (Jessica) Burbank (Drop Site News)
Philippines Says Canada Troops Pact Ready, Eyes China Deterrence
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/philippines-says-canada-troops-pact-ready-eyes-china-deterrence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"[...] στη χθεσινή κινητοποίηση στο YES Δελφών με Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ο εργοδότης προέβει σε νέα μήνυση για συκοφαντική δυσφήμιση, η αστυνομία όρμησε με δύο κλούβες ΜΑΤ, ασφαλίτες και συνέλαβε δεκάδες εργαζόμενους και φοιτητές, και τους μετέφερε στην ΓΑΔΘ."
Τα YES stores, εκτός από καταστήματα με γελοίο όνομα, είναι και εγκληματίες που δεν διστάζουν να ξαμολήσουν τους μπάτσους ενάντια των εργαζομένων τους.
Όπως όλοι οι εργοδότες, γιατί μόνο έτσι δουλεύει ο καπιταλισμός.
alterthess.gr/mazikes-syllipse…
Μαζικές συλλήψεις στη κινητοποίηση αλληλεγγύης απολυμένου που διεκδικούσε τα δεδουλευμένα του
Στην σύλληψη και των 28 αλληλέγγυων που διαμαρτύρονταν για τον εργαζόμενο των Yes Stores που βρέθηκε κατηγορούμενος διεκδικώντας τα δεδουλευμένα του στο κατάστημα στη Δελφών, προχώρησε την Παρασκευή το απόγευμα η αστυνομία κατά τη διάρκεια κινητοποίη…Σταυρούλα Πουλημένη (AlterThess.gr - Όλες οι Ειδήσεις από την άλλη Θεσσαλονίκη)
Nach Überarbeitung: X-KI Grok verbreitet Antisemitismus – und wird deaktiviert
Der KI-Account Grok des Kurznachrichtendiensts X war Elon Musk zu links, jetzt gab es eine Überarbeitung. In der Folge verbreitete er antisemitische Inhalte.
heise.de/news/Nach-Ueberarbeit…
#ElonMusk #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mobiles #X #news @de_edv
Câmara aprova urgência de projeto que prevê corte de 10% nos benefícios fiscais até 2026 - Gazeta Brasil-
A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou nesta terça-feira (8) o regime de urgência para a tramitação do Projeto de Lei Complementar (PLP) 128/2025, que propõe aGazeta Brasil
"Ανοικτά τα καταστήματα την Κυριακή 20 Ιουλίου"
Δεν θα πάμε για ψώνια όμως, ε? Ποτέ την Κυριακή.
thepressproject.gr/xekinoun-oi…
Ξεκινούν οι θερινές εκπτώσεις τη Δευτέρα 14 Ιουλίου – Ανοικτά τα καταστήματα την Κυριακή 20 Ιουλίου - The Press Project - Ειδήσεις, Αναλύσεις, Ραδιόφωνο, Τηλεόραση
Από τη Δευτέρα 14 Ιουλίου ξεκινούν οι θερινές εκπτώσεις στα εμπορικά καταστήματα της χώρας, οι οποίες θα διαρκέσουν έως και το Σάββατο 30 Αυγούστου. Στο πλαίσιο των εκπτώσεων, τα καταστήματα…Θάνος Καμήλαλης (ThePressProject.gr)
Σύσσωμο το κράτος, είτε λέγεται τοπική αυτοδιοίκηση, είτε λιμενικό, είτε κυβέρνηση, προσποιείται πως οι αφίξεις μεταναστών είναι μία μόνιμη έκπληξη την οποία κανένας δεν μπορούσε να προβλέψει και επομένως δεν είναι δυνατόν να είναι δική τους ευθύνη.
Οκ, είναι προσωπική ευθύνη των ίδιων των προσφύγων. Προφανώς.
thepressproject.gr/pano-apo-1-…
Πάνω από 1.200 πρόσφυγες στην Κρήτη σε τρεις ημέρες - Στοιβάζονται σε λιμάνια χωρίς υποδομές εν μέσω καύσωνα - The Press Project - Ειδήσεις, Αναλύσεις, Ραδιόφωνο, Τηλεόραση
Σε μόλις τρεις ημέρες διασώθηκαν πάνω από 1.200 πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες στη θαλάσσια περιοχή νότια της Γαύδου και σε παραθαλάσσιες περιοχές του Ηρακλείου. Οι περισσότεροι φτάνουν εξαντλημένοι, υποσιτισμένοι και χωρίς…Νεκταρία Ψαράκη (ThePressProject.gr)
"Nikkei Asia has found that research papers from at least 14 different academic institutions in eight countries contain hidden text that instructs any AI model summarizing the work to focus on flattering comments.
Nikkei looked at English language preprints – manuscripts that have yet to receive formal peer review – on ArXiv, an online distribution platform for academic work. The publication found 17 academic papers that contain text styled to be invisible – presented as a white font on a white background or with extremely tiny fonts – that would nonetheless be ingested and processed by an AI model scanning the page."
#PromptInjection
#AcademicsBehavingBadly
theregister.com/2025/07/07/sch…
Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
: Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMsThomas Claburn (The Register)
J Dino aveva formulato le tre leggi dell'amore cosmico:
1) L'amore verso Zaman deve essere totale e non si può permettere che, a causa delle proprie azioni, lei ne riceva di meno
2) Bisogna seguire le proprie passioni, purché tali passioni non contravvengano alla prima legge
3) Bisogna proteggere la propria esistenza, purché questa autodifesa non contrasti con la Prima e con la Seconda Legge.
Non voglio ballare, voglio farmi male, io mi sento male, devo vomitare
Cuba condemns Israel's attack on Lebanon
AVANA, Cuba, Jul 8 (ACN) We condemn the Israeli bombings against Lebanon, Cuban FM Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla declared today on X.www.cubanews.acn.cu
✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨
Unmute for koala snores!
Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!
#happy #koala #animal #sleepy #joyousjoyness
Heißester jemals gemessener Juni in Westeuropa
Zwei Hitzewellen sorgten im vergangenen Monat für außergewöhnlich hohe Temperaturen. Und machten den Juni 2025 zum heißesten in Westeuropa seit Beginn der Wetteraufzeichnungen. Von Hitzewellen war auch das Meer betroffen.
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wie habt ihr es geschafft in diesem Trööt das Wort #Klima oder #Klimakrise nicht ein mal zu verwenden?
Naja bei genauem Hinsehen wenigstens als Hashtag. Leider bisschen wenig
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Bonus #DadJoke :
Q: Why does #Superman always carry a power adaptor cord with him?
A: Because he's from the DC Universe.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Krypto #DCcomics #Superheroes #SupermanFilm #ComicBooks #Superman2025Film #DCU #DavidCorenswet #JamesGunn #DadJokes
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M…
Past few weeks, I've been trying to get into Kickstarter and failing--and with the help this past week I got from the Trust & Safety people, I was able to login.
Turns out someone hacked my account exactly after my birthday 🙃 (which was generally the time I started having troubles). Which is why KS acted fast and basically placed my account on the no-no list.
They even took off my avatar, man! Boooo!
Somebody out there is working double time with actual black magic or something on me (I have reasons for saying this not lightly lol), because jiminy christmas, this is like--the 3rd or 4th thing that's happened to me where one of my accounts has gotten hacked! In places where I thought I had 2FA on too, which, well, that forgetfulness is on me.
Still, I'm getting tired of this 
I will say, I only wish KS acted this fast when we ran the Aradia Beat KS because wowie zowie, was my inbox full of scams and spam for a week. Even with reporting them lol.
Anyway, the projects that had these spam messages, if anyone is curious (as was I), were a comic book, some watch thing and fandom bread shaker keychains. 
The largest gender-affirming care center for kids in the US is closing, spurring protests
apnews.com/article/la-trans-yo…
Protesters are rallying against the closure of a major gender-affirming care center for kids and teenagers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Taiwan begins 10-day military drills to counter Chinese threats
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-military-exercises-straits-10210ba9edc34137f4d48d313d268a06?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress
Un commento su una recente assoluzione di un CSE
@lavoro
puntosicuro.it/sentenze-commen…
La Cassazione Penale ha ulteriormente ribadito quale sia il perimetro della posizione di garanzia del CSE che non risponde dei rischi specifici propri dell'impresa.
Un commento su una recente assoluzione di un CSE
La Cassazione Penale ha ulteriormente ribadito quale sia il perimetro della posizione di garanzia del CSE che non risponde dei rischi specifici propri dell’impresa.Carmelo G. Catanoso (https://www.puntosicuro.it/)
Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates
apnews.com/article/heat-deaths…
Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.
Fun with uv and PEP 723
The article demonstrates how combining the new Python package manager uv with PEP 723 allows you to write self-contained Python scripts that declare and manage their own dependencies using inline metadata, making one-off scripting much easier and more portable. It showcases practical examples, such as running scripts with uv run and creating executable scripts that fetch YouTube transcri...
cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-…
Fun with uv and PEP 723
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.Cottongeeks
Bonus #DadJoke :
Q: Why does #Superman only tell jokes while he's running?
A: Because he's an action comic.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Krypto #DCcomics #Superheroes #SupermanFilm #ComicBooks #Superman2025Film #DCU #DavidCorenswet #JamesGunn #DadJokes #Batman #Batsignal #GothamCity
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Bonus #DadJoke:
Q: What do you call Clark Kent on his way out for dinner?
A: Supperman.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Krypto #DCcomics #Superheroes #SupermanFilm #ComicBooks #Superman2025Film #DCU #DavidCorenswet #JamesGunn #Superman #ClarkKent #Batman #ImBatman
Video. Latest news bulletin | July 9th – Morning
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/07/09/latest-news-bulletin-july-9th-morning?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Europe News @europe-news-euronews
Video. Latest news bulletin | July 9th – Morning
Video. Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.Euronews.com
Bonus #DadJoke :
Have you ever heard of Superman's cousin who has no powers? His name is Norm-El.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Krypto #DCcomics #Superheroes #SupermanFilm #ComicBooks #Superman2025Film #DCU #DavidCorenswet #JamesGunn #DadJokes
Bonus #DadJoke :
Q: What did #WonderWoman say after #Superman gave her his bottled city?
A: "Thank you. I appreciate your Kandor."
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Krypto #DCcomics #Superheroes #SupermanFilm #ComicBooks #Superman2025Film #DCU #DavidCorenswet #JamesGunn #DadJokes #Kandor #JusticeLeague #Batman
I've been asked to add the scary pixel font FEAR (aaaah!) to my sale: now you're legally obliged to buy it (not really, but I'd appreciate it)
itch.io/s/154637/these-fonts-h…
These fonts have been used in so many projects: get them! by somepx
A bundle by somepx, $19.00 for 13 gamesitch.io
EUA sancionam espião da Coreia do Norte por esquema global de cibertrabalho e financiamento nuclear - Gazeta
O Departamento do Tesouro dos Estados Unidos anunciou sanções contra Song Kum Hyok, membro da inteligência militar norte-coreana, conhecida como EscritórioGazeta Brasil
"As a leader representing the working class of this country and as a voice for global human rights, I am writing to demand an immediate end to U.S. military and financial support for the ongoing #genocideInGaza and to ensure the safe passage of humanitarian aid, including the HANDALA #FreedomFlotilla I will personally help deliver on July 13th 2025."
#ChristianSmalls, Founder, Amazon Labor Union
docs.google.com/document/d/1Vz…
#USpol #Gaza #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity @palestine @israel
Copy of End the Genocide in Gaza
July 8, 2025 Dear President Trump, As a leader representing the working class of this country and as a voice for global human rights, I am writing to demand an immediate end to U.S.Google Docs
Kiamichi @mahtheyzhawey is a Native artist from the Ponca & Choctaw Nations who creates traditional & contemporary #art & beadwork. she is unable to work due to #chronicIllness. she supports her family by selling her beadwork & relies on monthly #mutualAid. help below!
- Cashapp/Venmo/PayPal: kiagbear
- ko-fi.com/mahtheyzhawey
- linktr.ee/mahtheyzhawey
#PortfolioDay #DisabilityPrideMonth #onlineShop #SmallBusiness #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #OriginalArt #handmade #CreativeToots #noAI
mahtheyzhawey | Twitter | Linktree
Disabled Native mom/artist. Any help/sales goes to rent/survival funds.Linktree
Inspired by this post and the recent nazi Grok debacle I wanted to look a bit into how close are Flat Earth and antisemitism in the #LLMs latent space. So I got the embeddings of a bunch of positive, negative and neutral statements about Jewish people, as well as just neutral everyday statements and flat earther statements and did this hierarchical clustering using cosine similarity as distance metric.
Statements do cluster together quite well.
1/n
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Artfight attack for my younger sister!
artfight.net/attack/9834867.se…
#artfight2025 #MastoArt #TeamFossil
Cheddupalle! Mo pure l'Europa ce se mette perché spiamo laggente
Ma lo vedi che è mejo er sovranismo? Tipo a Putin mica je scassano le palle pe ste cose e lui è pure più... incisivo
Mo ce tocca de fà quarcosa tipo investì artri sordi pe nun farce più beccà. Uff 😩
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Gli sbarchi dei migranti non si sono fermati in Italia, anche se il governo non ne parla più
https://www.wired.it/article/sbarchi-migranti-italia-numeri-governo-meloni/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Diritti @diritti-WiredItalia
Gli sbarchi dei migranti non si sono fermati in Italia, anche se il governo non ne parla più
Secondo il ministero dell'Interno, nei primi sei mesi del 2025 sono sbarcate oltre 30mila persone: +15,5% rispetto allo stesso periodo dello scorso annoRiccardo Saporiti (Wired Italia)
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •H4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to H4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 • • •@H4Heights
Agreed, Timpson's heart is in the right place, but the structural issues may be insurmountable?
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Unknown parent • • •@HarriettMB
really good point (context) and boosted
Jen
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •personally, I think the real problem is too many cases being pushed into the justice system that should never be there.
Waving a placard or getting an abortion don't need prosecutions. Stealing food should never be necessary. PIP "fraud" doesn't need made an example of. Drug use needs treatment and support, not criminalisation.
You cut out all those cases that really aren't in the public interest, the workload across the whole system drops.
TC Won't Give In To Lies
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •100 times this! 👆
Yet another example of an underfunded public service pushed into crisis. Of course, it's unacceptable and changes must be made.
But the answers always seems to be sacrificing more services (or rights) and *never* about more funding.
Of course, most people don't have more money to spend for taxes. But it is so very obvious who *does* have the money.
#TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
llanciawn
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •BashStKid
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •At the root of this is not enough police time addressing crimes that do matter, so the CPS can take the case forwards.
Why is that? The police & CPS do need more budget, but more importantly, time and money needs to be spent on those serious crimes where they can make a difference, not on whatever political priorities come down from the Home Office or the NPCC (ACPO as was).
‘Serious’ being against the person, less against property, not at all about political expression.
Tony Wells
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Tony Wells • • •@TonyJWells
Indeed!
The Penguin of Evil
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Estarriol, lucozade dragon
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