This is not a defense of some of the worst things about Dubai, Singapore (exploitation of migrant workers etc), but Momtaza Mehri articulates something I agree with:
Many in the ‘west’ do not believe that other places have more than ‘one story’, but allow or demand nuance for themselves. I was especially annoyed when someone here was like ‘Dubai chocolate sucks, Dubai sucks’. All of those things can suck (like when you get a bad Dubai chocolate and say all of it is bad; and Dubai does suck) but then that person doubled down and say they couldn’t support anything with that name, everyone who lives there sucks.
Many of my friends who live there fled from wars that you started, denied visas by your countries.
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Hypercapitalist hellhole or city of dreams? Behind the cliches, let me show you the real Dubai
Everyone’s got an opinion about the city. But few in the west know the multicultural, unusual Dubai that I’ve seen up close, says poet Momtaza MehriMomtaza Mehri (The Guardian)
Usciva esattamente 2 anni fa e da 3 giorni è disponibile in streaming. Un'occasione per vedere #ValentinaLodovini in un ruolo che finalmente la valorizza, grazie alla trasposizione del testo teatrale che l'esordiente regista ha reso un orologio. La vidi dal vivo in "Tutta casa, letto e chiesa" e un po' mi vergognai di ciò che le offre il #cinema italiano. Conversazioni con altre donne - RaiPlay raiplay.it/programmi/conversaz…
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'Wizard of Oz' debuts at Las Vegas Sphere
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Video 'Wizard of Oz' debuts at Las Vegas Sphere
Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes joins ABC News Live to discuss the debut of an AI-enhanced version of “The Wizard of Oz,” which premiered on Thursday at the Sphere.ABC News
Lawyers trying to block Trump administration from repatriating Guatemalan minors
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Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan minors
Lawyers say they're being prevented from presenting their case.Laura Romero (ABC News)
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Police officer punched in face as masked protesters with children march through Canary Wharf shopping centre
Video seen on social media showed young children among the protesters, with some of them wearing England flags.Sky News
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Chicago's mayor pushes back as Trump administration readies immigration crackdown
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Yo quiero a los animales
Y al animal que más quiero
Es al buitre carroñero
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Desde que tú no me quieres
Yo todos los días me muero
Y alimento con mi carne
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Quest’estate è stata caratterizzata tanto dalla detenzione e dalla deportazione di immigrati quanto dalla resistenza. Mentre l’amministrazione Trump incoraggia gli immigrati in tutto il Paese ad “auto-deportarsi”, gli arresti dell’ICE* (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) sono aumentati vertiginosamente in…
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USA: un'estate di detenzione di immigrati e di resistenza
Quest'estate è stata caratterizzata tanto dalla detenzione e dalla deportazione di immigrati quanto dalla resistenza. Mentre l'amministrazione TrumpPressenza New York (Pressenza)
How Trump can put his tariff agenda on stronger footing
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A beautiful abandoned synagogue in USA, abandoned for around 30 years.
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Blue and Gold Synagogue, USA - Obsidian Urbex Photography | Urban Exploration | Abandoned Places
The Blue and Gold Synagogue is an abandoned Jewish religious building in the USA. The ceiling is navy blue and has gilded, golden details.Obsidian Urbex Photography
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Yea I wasn't too happy either, ended up losing 20% of my followers and follows over night. Oh well, onwards and rebuilding and I am glad I just left. Server was photog.social
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The headline here is that
(1) the increasingly authoritarian US government demanded that Google suppress videos serving the public interest because those videos are embarrassing to government officials, and
(2) Google readily over-complied with that request, deleting not just the videos but the entire channel.
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Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself that criticized Covid vaccines
Doctor who created now-defunct channel says he wanted to ‘preserve’ what Trump health officials said during CovidStephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
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“maybe he should just use Linux”
Spelling out the point of the snark there: the the post is not about what platform he’s using; it’s about the behavior of the US government and Google.
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I mean…we should not be surprised, but we should still be outraged. It’s important not to skip that crucial step; assuming outrage and immediately moving past it is how complacency and acceptance set in.
And yes, there are ample alternate hosting options for the Streisand Effect to kick in. But we have to be sure to give Google and the Trump admin that black eye, every time.
Genuine question from my pragmatic autistic point of view: and how that will change anything to give them the black eye?
Saying that, I’m going to look online for a way to contact the author of the video and to mention him the existence of Peertube that he has probably no idea about.
“Give them the black eye” means “discuss this with in our various social circles and express outrage so as to damage their reputation and keep attention on it.” It is easy to underestimate just how real and how impactful that kind of social shift can be.
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Migliori monitor gaming sotto i 300 euro (settembre 2025)
In questa nostra guida all'acquisto potete trovare i migliori monitor da gaming sul mercato sotto i 300 euro.Giulia Serena (Tom's Hardware)
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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/31/apple-new-ai-chatbot-for-support-employees/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones - 9to5Mac
After implementing an AI chatbot in the Apple Support app to help customers a few weeks ago, the company is...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
Can newsrooms become social platforms themselves? Should they?
The future belongs to organizations that understand their communities, not just their analytics. In this post, I dig into a reader question that speaks to the future of social, newsrooms, and AI.
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Can newsrooms become social platforms?
How community-first thinking can help newsrooms survive AIBen Werdmuller
This is a great post on the good news, bad news dynamic of the AI boom.
The good news is demand is exploding. Nvidia can’t make GPUs fast enough nor can Microsoft & Google bring data centers online fast enough to meet demand.
The bad news is demand is exploding. New features like Deep Research or Agehts use 10x - 100x the resources of vanilla chatbot queries from a year ago. AI companies simply can’t raise prices high enough to match usage. $200/month it isn’t enough.
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the goal with this is to generalize what happened with claude code & windsurf to the fatal flaw in the idea that “models getting cheaper” will bail out consumer ai marginsEthan Ding (ethan's mandates)
We brush and clip Caesar regularly for mats, but about once a year we give everyone a break from the whole ordeal.
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"You not believing it doesn't make it true. You not understanding it doesn't mean it isn't understood. Your ignorance give you no authority. Your skepticism doesn't make you wise."
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🎶 Study finds big crowds hurt live-stream engagement
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Study finds big crowds hurt live-stream engagement
Most content platforms thrive on user engagement, but a professor at the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School has discovered that too much of it can be harmful.Blair S. Walker (Tech Xplore)
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Ok, oggi ho iniziato a settare #orgmode in #emacs . Prima reazione : maremma che caos. Dopo tre o quattro tutorial invece ora penso: sarà anche un po’ rognoso da settare , ma è una figata ! son solo agli inizi ma…. Trovo sia decisamente meglio di logseq e obsidian sommati insieme, se vinci la diffidenza. E c’è anche #roam-mode e sia benedetto il cielo evil mode (shortcuts di vim , che faccio fatica a tenere a mente sia quelli di eMacs che quello di vin!)
#linux #opensource #emacs
Comunque, se mai deciderai di usare Emacs "seriamente" ti consiglio lo stesso di limitare pacchetti e configurazioni solo per quello a cui proprio non puoi fare a meno... all'inizio anche io mi affidavo a "preset" scritti da altri, tipo copiando init.el da blog vari, e con il senno di poi questa cosa mi ha fatto più male che bene. Ho veramente iniziato a usare il potenziale del programma quando ho abbandonato tutto e sono ripartito da zero.
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