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Zubin Metha indisposto non inaugurerà il Festival Respighi - Musica - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2025/08/30/zubin-metha-indisposto-non-inaugurera-il-festival-respighi_9d4f7f12-97fd-484e-b6d6-128530a93c41.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Spettacolo e Cultura @spettacolo-e-cultura-AgenziaAnsa



Burying the Bruises ... On Monday, press photographers gathered in the Oval Office ... (Jon Passantino/Status)

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Sta girando questa immagine in rete, soprattutto tra i negazionisti e markettari da due spicci che cercano di guadagnare visibilità in rete con argomentazioni farlocche ma ad effetto.
Sapevatevelo, e giratevelo 🙂
#negazionismoclimatico #cambiamentoclimatico
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Il 3-4 settembre messa a punto autovelox fissi in 3 punti Roma - Sicurezza - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_motori/notizie/sicurezza/2025/08/30/il-3-4-settembre-messa-a-punto-autovelox-fissi-in-3-punti-roma_fe3f6509-aed9-4476-9861-8e8a2f508fe3.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Motori @motori-AgenziaAnsa



Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: 'He should show more gratitude to the United States' (Madeline Sherratt/The Independent)

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My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds.

I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.

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And the best thing is, if I'm wrong, there will be no one left to call me out on that


Venezia, la manifestazione pro Palestina al Lido - Diretta
https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/2025/08/30/video/venezia_la_manifestazione_pro_palestina_al_lido_-_diretta-15288951/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su La Stampa Video @la-stampa-video-LaStampa



Their system charged my card, but will not show a payment at the hotel. "Contact your bank."

So.. we're fucked.



Golpe do falso advogado: entenda como funciona e saiba se proteger
https://www.techtudo.com.br/guia/2025/08/golpe-do-falso-advogado-entenda-como-funciona-e-saiba-se-proteger-edapps.ghtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub


“First off, congratulations on this unique achievement. I mean, everyone will be asking for generations how you did this much damage to this room with a single jar of pickles. Secondly, we are definitely going to need crime scene killers to fix this mess.”
in reply to GayDeceiver

Exploding five pickles technique.

("My kung fu is better than your kung fu !")

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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists (Minho Kim/New York Times)

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✅ Dems have overperformed by an avg. 16 pts across 36 Special Elections so far this year, including *flipping* 3 GOP seats!

NEXT UP:

9/02: FL SD-15: LaVon Bracy Davis
9/02: FL HD-40: RaShon Young
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Sinner e Alcaraz “rivali” anche a tavola: Jannik ama il ragù bolognese, lo spagnolo pollo e trota
https://www.lastampa.it/il-gusto/2025/08/30/news/sinner_alcaraz_new_york_rivali_anche_a_tavola_jannik_ragu_bolognese_spagnolo_pollo_e_trota_chef_diego_bigucci-424816531/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Il Gusto @il-gusto-LaStampa





JWST zooms into the heart of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302). The MIRI instrument and its spectrometer were used at 5–28 µm wavelength to study the intricate structures surrounding its central star.

NGC 6302 is a bipolar nebula, 3,400 ly away, with the remains of an exploded star, a dust/gas torus and "wings" of gas expanding on two sides. With a temp of 220,000 K, the star is one of the hottest known central stars in a planetary nebula in our galaxy.

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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️

These annotated images describe the structures at the heart of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302).

The images (using data from JWST and ALMA) show the central star, the dust/gas torus and interconnected bubbles of dusty gas that expand into the wings. Outside the bubbles are blue jets traced by emission from ionised iron.

The dusty torus may be responsible for shaping the nebula’s insectoid shape by preventing gas from flowing outward equally in all directions.

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Tom really didn’t want me to run in the rain. He never wants me to run outside if it’s more than about 17° or if it’s been frosty. He’s always worried I’ll slip, get heatstroke, get sick. He sees exercise as risky if I’ve had as much as a slight cold. Sometimes it gets a bit much.

Anyway I went for a run, nothing bad happened to me other than feeling that it was a little tougher than usual after 10 days of no exercise. I feel more awake than I’ve done all day.

Tom was asleep in his recliner with the cat when I went out, and he’s still there now.

Now for cosy indoor things: hot bath with a good book, then making some soup.

#running

in reply to Charlotte Walker

nice one, out and back without being rumbled, good of the cat to keep Tom in the chair while you were out, extra treats earned there 😅



Until someone develops a #SocialMedia platform with ear flaps I won't be impressed.

(hey, my ears get cold)



Indonesian internet access has been limited by the government because of the fear of the revolution #tiktok #instagram #livestreaming

in reply to Florian Schlund

Die haben wohl nicht gedient. Die Flagge darf niemals den Boden berühren! Und die legen sie sogar hin. Landesverräter!


‘Spotlight,’ Press TV (Iran): E3 Move to reimpose UN sanctions gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…


»Die Grünen müssen populistischer werden«, lautet eine Überschrift beim SPIEGEL, und das Magazin nennt Gouverneur Newsom den »MAGAvin aus Kalifornien«, weil er Trump parodiert.

Mit anderen Worten: Wenn wir uns nur auf das Niveau der Populisten herunterschrauben, dann wird das schon mit der Rettung der Demokratie.

Aber die Rechten »zu entzaubern« funktioniert nicht¹. Das haben nicht nur zehn Jahre AfD gezeigt, sondern auch die furchtbaren Jahre von 1919 bis 1945 – und alles, was an Faschismus auf die Nazis folgte.

Im Gegenteil führt das Übernehmen von Nazi-»Argumenten« und -Taktiken zu ihrer Erstarkung. Und zur zunehmenden Verdummung der Bevölkerung.

Stattdessen sinnvoll wäre es, in Bildung und Information zu investieren. Das darf ruhig in einfachen Worten passieren, aber eben nicht populistisch verzerrt.

Oder?

¹ @Natascha_Strobl 2018 bei @Volksverpetzer⁠: »Wer mit Nazis diskutiert, hilft dem Faschismus.«

volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/re…

#Antifa #Populismus #Bildung #FCKNZS

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No gods, no masters... Except Mr. Whiskers, he's a little cutie, beauty, super-smoochie godly master, oh yes he his :blobcathappy:


Anarchist Library: **Ignatius - You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell**

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Author: IgnatiusTitle: You Have Always Been in Someone’s HellSubtitle: Exceptionalization and Reification of State ViolenceDate: August 2025Source: Long Leaf Distro
Rising Waters
The present is unbearable. Genocidal violence continues to be the language of daily life. Mass starvation in Gaza has set in as Israel



I saw a post with a map of countries where >90% of the population speaks English. Scandinavia was included, but Canada wasn't. Claiming that Canada has <90% English speakers is interesting, and not entirely trivial to confirm or deny from official sources.

I looked up Statistics Canada, data from 2021. They don't say outright how many speak English, and they switch measurements between "mother tongue" and "first official language". But the bounds for English speakers seem to be 76.1% – 88.4%, so the post was correct about Canada. Calculations below.

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76.1% speak English as their "first official language" (27 881 228 people)
22.0% speak French as FOL (8 066 633, of which 7 074 328 in Quebec)
18.0% speak both, but could be from either of the two above
1.8% speak neither

Upper bound for English so far is 94.1%, lower bound is 76.1%.

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42.8% of Quebec native French speakers ("mother tongue") speak English
85.0% of other native French speakers speak English

We don't know how many speak English of those 1.8% who have French as FOL (22.0%) but not as mother tongue (20.2%).

The upper bound for Quebec native French speakers is the 7 074 328 people with French as "first official language".
For non-Quebec it's 8066633 - 7074328 = 992305.
The subtotal upper bound for the number of English speakers is 42.8% * 7074328 + 85.0% * 992395 + 27881228 = 31752499.
The total population is 27881228 / 76.1% = 36637618.
The subtotal upper bound percentage of English speakers is 31752499 / 36637618 =
86.6%.

And then we add those 1.8% with French FOL who may or may not all be speaking English, making it 88.4%.

#canada #quebec #EnglishCanada #FrenchCanada
#english #EnglishLanguage

in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

When thinking of #Québec, it's useful to think of it as two societies: Greater Montréal and everywhere else. In the former, almost everyone speaks French and English, and often a third language. Elsewhere society is much more homogenously French.




Coming this fall. Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the internet...

Fediverse: The Movie!




We are going downtown so my wife can get her first tattoo. Then I'm taking her out for sushi to celebrate. 🍣


It's just not the case that there was an idyllic #internet, maybe at some point in the 1990s or early 2000s.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s browser popups became a scourge. Microsoft refused to do anything about them, and internet explorer became known as being full of exploitable security holes. The initial rise of Firefox was because it blocked popups by default. That was Firefox's killer feature.

Also from 1998 and at least a decade afterwards, Microsoft and its allies tried to destroy Open Source. It was a complicated multi-faceted battle. Their eventual buying of Github is part of that story of the company trying to dominate and control Open Source, after the realization that it couldn't be defeated via lawsuits or intimidating developers.

Also the early internet was full of spam. Spam pretty much destroyed Usenet, and it was only in the mid 2000s that the spam problem began to be under control.

But surely the late 1990s internet was the ultimate in freedom of online speech? Well, there was that whole battle with PGP and the clipper chip. They were trying to stop - or at least fuck with - encrypted messaging from the beginning.

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#jugendliche

Kann natürlich auch daran liegen, dass es kaum noch Zukunft geben wird wegen der #klimakatastrophe...

"Demnach sind junge Erwachsene, also Menschen zwischen 18 und 24 Jahren, heute im Schnitt deutlich unglücklicher, als sie es noch vor ein paar Jahren waren.":
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"Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later." #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Klima #Klimakrise #AMOC #ClimateCatastrophe #KlimaKatastrophe theguardian.com/environment/20…


I thought it would be nice to make a quilt for my bed in time for the colder weather.

Suffice to say that after cutting everything out and starting to piece it all together I hadn’t visualised how big a quilt for a super king sized bed would be. It’s f’ing huge. 😳

#quilting #sewing

in reply to CurlyParakeet 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Pretty sure they're called "wonder clips" because as soon as you give in and buy them, you *wonder* why you hadn't been using them all along 😂