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Sharing a statement from Merdeka West Papua Support Network about the ongoing crackdown of police against West Papuan activists.

#WestPapua is a region in #Indonesia--a country that's currently experiencing a nationwide riot.

The Merdeka West Papua Support Network strongly condemns the ongoing crackdown on democracy activists in Papua, today, Wednesday, 27 August, in the town of Sorong, following the unlawful transfer of four Papuan political prisoners to Makassar District Court — a clear violation of Article 85 of Indonesia’s Criminal Procedure Code.


Read more here: acab.link/s/523UeZ

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sexual assault (not serious)

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S.S. Lazio Miku + A.S. Roma Teto (auguri miku!!)
#miku #teto #vocaloid #utauloid #art
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Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots
https://www.theverge.com/news/768465/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines-for-minors?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech News @tech-news-theverge




Die Fernsicht ist heute spektakulär – fast jedes Detail an den gegenüberliegenden Bergen sind zu erkennen.
#natur #berge




Zona zero: come l’attività a bassa intensità mantiene corpo e mente in salute
@scienza
focustech.it/scienza/zona-zero…

#News #Scienza #Salute #Zonazero #scienza
Quando si parla di esercizio fisico, spesso si pensa a prestazioni intense, sudore e fatica. Tuttavia, la ricerca scientifica sta



Gregorio Astengo explores the innovations employed in early issues of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, the world's first scientific journal — new forms of image making which pushed the boundaries of 17th-century book printing: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m…


I hate hate hate the fact that #Firefox now has AI features but basic HTML5 implementation such as month / week selection fields don't work. @mozilla 's priorities are really messed up.

Open this in Firefox and scroll to the forms in the bottom: justfuckingusehtml.com/

Turns out there's a (12 year old) ticket for it on Bugzilla: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

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Das Bild zeigt ein verlassenes, verfallenes Zimmer in Schwarz-Weiß. Die Wände sind mit abblätternder Farbe und verwittertem Putz bedeckt, was auf Vernachlässigung hinweist. Auf der rechten Wand ist eine Mischung aus Graffiti und Wandverkleidung zu sehen. Die Worte "LOVE IS THE WAY" sind in großen Buchstaben geschrieben, und daneben ist eine einfache Zeichnung eines Kindes mit einem Korb in der Hand. Auf der linken Wand befindet sich eine Tür mit einer Graffiti-Figur, die ein Gesicht und eine Strichmuster-Kleidung zeigt. Über der Tür hängt ein kleines, offenes Regal mit einem Bild. Der Boden ist schmutzig und uneben, was zur Gesamtkluft des Raumes beiträgt.

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Ruins of recovery - etched into Tasmania’s memory.

The ruins of the old Port Arthur Hospital, Tasmania, Australia.

Photographed and edited by Kev.

© All Rights Reserved by 2 Peeps and a Camera

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #ruins #historical


in reply to Laura Manach

Ngl this is the level of adulting i aspire to. Self-aware but not self-conscious, rest as self care and resistance, and planning ahead to secure my own happiness. This is Maturity ✨


#AI #Facebook #scams #Holocaust #DeepFakes

'An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into "AI slop" has found.'

bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4xjk1…




digital.elmercurio.com/2025/08… #Press habrá incentivo ? #Chile
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Refbe y Eliza, androides con emociones, enfrentan su propósito existencial y de programación ,mientras el Dr. Lock revela que existe un escuadrón militar de máquinas sin autonomía. fictograma.com/ver_cuento?id=9…

#literature #books #socialmedia #robots




Jarmusch, 'i soldi delle corporate sono sporchi' - Cinema - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/cinema/2025/08/31/jarmusch-i-soldi-delle-corporate-sono-sporchi_80220391-d3b5-403b-807b-201ac27f54a1.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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



Excellent review of the latest book by Jeremy Morris, "Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Rebellion"

Focuses on neo-liberal transition in Russia, moves beyond the exceptionalist narratives, based on ethnographic approaches

jacobin.com/2025/08/russia-wor… #Russia



Salpata da Barcellona verso Gaza la Global Sumud Flotilla, Greta: 'Come può il mondo tacere?' - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/mediooriente/2025/08/31/salpata-da-barcellona-verso-gaza-la-global-sumud-flotilla-greta-come-puo_8d01e18c-fec5-4559-b41f-e8c879179a16.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa



Salpata da Barcellona la Sumud Flotilla in direzione Gaza - Europa - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/europa/2025/08/31/salpata-da-barcellona-la-sumud-flotilla-in-direzione-gaza_402b6d2d-3401-4ef4-89af-fe619112dd9f.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa



nato is stronger today, in part because of trump. so is the shanghai cooperation organization.

us unpredictability brings long term strategic consequences.



It’s amazing how many tech people in 2025 still are white knights in my replies, stanning the ad company who ruined the Internet

hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1151…



For your Labor Day weekend listening, my conversation with @mattpolprof.bsky.social about how conservatism isn't so much a philosophy aimed at seeking truth, but instead at giving its adherents a false but comforting feeling of certainty. pod.link/1614436300/e...

073: Conservatism Falsely Prom...



Trump si prepara a mettere le mani sul football americano nelle università. I timori degli studenti-atleti: «Un passo indietro per i nostri diritti»
https://www.open.online/2025/08/31/trump-football-americano-universitario-reazione-timori-atleti-studenti/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ULTIME NEWS @ultime-news-OpenGiornale



o.k. this is my first #bambus ;)

I tried some pencils which are water treatable - aqiarell in fact but pencil also, erasable - but just before applying water afterwards they are fix, you cannot erase them anymore.
once more it wasn't possible to stay monotechnique ;) I fetched the black ink to try the sky... that failed a bit...
further made me happy to recycle the old hindu.flags I kept storing for months planning 2 make some #art out of it.

pencil: 8B + 6B I thought it wouldn't be too much difference but it is. many shades of...



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L'immagine mostra una persona in un abito medievale, probabilmente un personaggio di un'opera teatrale o un evento storico. Indossa una lunga tunica nera con ricami dorati e un cappello con una piuma bianca. La persona tiene in mano un rotolo di pergamena, suggerendo un ruolo di autorità o un personaggio importante. La scena si svolge in un'area pavimentata con un'illuminazione focale che mette in risalto la figura centrale. Sullo sfondo, si vedono altre persone in abiti medievali, che sembrano essere parte dello stesso evento. La parete di pietra alle spalle della persona aggiunge un tocco storico all'ambiente.

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Bello! Finalmente uno dei “Nodi” di Zona42 che mi è piaciuto! Un'unica nota: il titolo della versione originale “Sword & Spore” era più ficcante, anche se pure “MYCELIUM” non mi dispiace.

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Germany is shifting its strategy on Ukraine: rather than deploying troops, the government now prioritizes financial support. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil no longer expect direct peace talks between Putin and Zelensky, and with Trump refusing to commit troops, Berlin has shelved plans to send Bundeswehr forces for ceasefire monitoring. Instead, Germany plans to boost Ukraine’s army post-conflict with funding, training, and increased arms production
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in one hand, I don't think this is a good idea but in the other hand, for countries like the UK the military was two times the solution of a problem. In Germany it was the root cause. The militarism of our forefathers was feared in Europe.

So, out stance toward military including our own is difficult as hell.

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Welttierschutzbund kämpft seit 75 Jahren für Tiere

Vor 75 Jahren gründeten Tierschützer den Welttierschutzbund, heute World Animal Protection. Zum Jahrestag zeigt sich: Nichtregierungsorganisationen sind heute zentrale Akteure im Tierschutz. Von Nadine Gode.

➡️ tagesschau.de/wissen/welttiers…

#Tierschutz #Artenschutz




If I ran Bluesky..


If I were running Bluesky I’d have a quiet project to make a lite Bluesky server that peers with the mother ship, highly factored, in a Node package, open source of course. Get this snake oil phase behind them, where they’re claiming to be decentralized, but aren’t.

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@davew Or at the very least, if they can’t port it to Node, a #Bluesky #Docker image like #Mastodon has done. As well as an example compose file if it needs multiple services.

I was able to get my own server running with a minimum of fuss thanks to Mastodon providing those.

in reply to Mark Gardner

i want to be able to build on whatever they ship, or bake it into one of my projects.

that suggests not doing docker, doing a package.

in reply to Dave Winer ☕️

Oh of course. But an easy-to-deploy package that federates would at least show that the service can be definitively decentralized.
in reply to Mark Gardner

agree. it's better than the snake oil approach where they ignore anyone who calls them on it.
in reply to Mark Gardner

And there’s no such thing as half measures, either you’re decentralized or not.
in reply to Dave Winer ☕️

#Bluesky has muddied the waters to decentralization with how complicated they’ve made #ATproto.

A good ground-truth monitor is arewedecentralizedyet.online

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Great point! The reason that #Bluesky doesn't make it easy to set up alternative fully independent instances is because it would undermine their hegemony over the protocol. They want their cake (claiming decentralization) and to to eat it to (effectively being centralized) because that is what is necessary for their valuation to attract investors.

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As you say, they could easily set up showcase quasi-independent instances to prove the decentralizability of ATProto. They could package toolkits to make it easy for others to do so. The fact they don't do these things speaks volumes about their true intent.

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Note that for a real decentralized project without investors controlling it, the incentives are the opposite. Running the infrastructure to serve everyone who wants to use it is prohibitively expensive, so you naturally want to make it easy for unaffiliated parties to do it so you don't have to.
in reply to Cassandrich

Great point! Had not thought of this.

And a corollary... When your business model is collecting data on all of the users you are incentivised to collect it from as many users as possible. When you don't collect data, your incentive is simply to spread the cost as you point out.