McLaren F1 Team Valued at More Than £3 Billion in Stake Sale
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-01/mclaren-f1-team-valued-at-more-than-3-billion-in-stake-sale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#WritersCoffeeClub 1Sep–What's the most number of revisions you've gone through for a work?
I aim to write once then sell. Also, I usually start a day of writing by revising the previous day, so there's no such thing as a first draft. But in extreme cases, a novel gets revised—or re-written—entirely. My current problem child WIP (in abeyance while I write an attack novel) is on its second complete re-write (third draft) over a ten year period. The attack novel is 80% done and should sell as-is.
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No surprise:
"Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform"
"A study examining 2.6m #Bluesky posts referencing more than 500,000 scholarly articles over the past two and a half years found they demonstrated “substantially higher levels of interaction” – likes, reposts, replies and quotes – and greater “textual originality” than previously reported for #x formerly Twitter."
#Musk
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How Sanctions Destroyed Tourism in Cuba
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]
Other items
* Rubio goes after Brazil, Africa, Grenada over Cuban medical missions
* Title III saga continues: American Airlines in the crosshairs
* Cuba releases Salvadoran terrorist behind hotel bombing
* Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese donate money to help Cuba
* Cuban-born billionaire targets Florida politicians
* Venezuela increases oil exports to Cuba
* A Russian Silicon Valley in Cuba?
* Cubans flock to cinemas this summer
* U.S. warships head for the Caribbean
How Sanctions Destroyed Tourism in Cuba
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35129252
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]Other items
* Rubio goes after Brazil, Africa, Grenada over Cuban medical missions
* Title III saga continues: American Airlines in the crosshairs
* Cuba releases Salvadoran terrorist behind hotel bombing
* Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese donate money to help Cuba
* Cuban-born billionaire targets Florida politicians
* Venezuela increases oil exports to Cuba
* A Russian Silicon Valley in Cuba?
* Cubans flock to cinemas this summer
* U.S. warships head for the Caribbean
How Sanctions Destroyed Tourism in Cuba
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]Other items
* Rubio goes after Brazil, Africa, Grenada over Cuban medical missions
* Title III saga continues: American Airlines in the crosshairs
* Cuba releases Salvadoran terrorist behind hotel bombing
* Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese donate money to help Cuba
* Cuban-born billionaire targets Florida politicians
* Venezuela increases oil exports to Cuba
* A Russian Silicon Valley in Cuba?
* Cubans flock to cinemas this summer
* U.S. warships head for the Caribbean
Android is cooked. this is a very worrying trend. #Android #Technology #DigitalLiberty
Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'".
youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70…
- 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.youtube.com
OK, humans that are against human rights: how about human rights only for those that aren't against human rights?
Everyone would be happy then, right? 🤔
How can leaving the ECHR be an election promise?
WTF is wrong with people. It truly boggles the mind.
What's next? "We promise free floggings for everyone?"
Biden official: Netanyahu sabotaged deals but calling him out would have helped Hamas
Matthew Miller tells Israeli TV show US wanted to declare publicly that Netanyahu was ‘completely intransigent,’ but saw Sinwar pull back from talks when detecting US-Israel strain
The Biden administration on several occasions wanted to publicly declare that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hampering efforts to secure a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement, but refrained from doing so upon understanding it would lead Hamas to harden its negotiating positions, a former senior US official revealed in an exposé that aired on Thursday.
“There were times that we very much wanted to go public and make clear that we thought the prime minister was being completely intransigent and making it tougher to get a deal,” former State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller, who was a close aide to former secretary of state Antony Blinken, told Channel 13’s “Hamakor” (“The Source”) TV program.
“But we discussed it amongst ourselves, and we made the decision that it wouldn’t accomplish anything, [because] we had seen it in a number of cases: [Former Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar pulled back from negotiations when he thought there was division between the United States and Israel,” Miller continued. “We wanted to speak very toughly to the government of Israel behind closed doors, but ultimately not do anything that we thought would make it harder to get to a deal.”
Netanyahu has long been accused by critics within Israel and abroad of dragging out hostage negotiations since the early months of the war. But he has rejected those arguments by noting that US officials have repeatedly said publicly that Hamas was the main obstacle preventing deals from being reached.
Miller’s comments to Channel 13 offered some context for why that was the case, and the former Biden official recalled several instances when the US came close to calling out Netanyahu for allegedly torpedoing negotiations.
Imagine the worlds strongest military nation, with a budget larger than the next 5 countries, with bases around the globe, the largest economy in the world, spanning over a continent with access to two oceans, hundreds of millions of people...
Is pathetically enslaved to a small state of a few million violent extremists who humiliate the US in every possible way at every possible turn. And the US willfully lets itself be humiliated in the face of the world over and over and over again. No matter the administration in the US or in Israel, no matter the claims of "MAGA". When the Israelis government unzips its pants and starts peeing, the US government is rushing on its knees to let the pee go in their face.
Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
Instagram users are baffled after an innocuous illustration of the words "immigrants make the country great" was flagged by the platform.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Yeah I'm the same (not really into that type of posting).
I basically want what Facebook once was, but with e2ee. Something like: you make a post, only people you've added can see it. They can comment, and if they choose, your friends can see that comment also.
Something to prevent mass scraping and data collection, while retaining the 'keeping up with old aquitances' vibe old Facebook used to have.
L'aereo su cui viaggiava Ursula von der Leyen è stato colpito da interferenze al GPS, di cui si sospetta la Russia - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/09/01/aereo-ursula-von-der-leyen-interferenza-gps/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
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France’s Recognition of Palestine – Macron’s Rubicon
Macron has crossed his Rubicon and now cannot withdraw; he must see this through to the end. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us:…Strategic Culture Foundation
Niente rinnovo con la Juve, va a Napoli: Manna soffia ai bianconeri Baridò, l'erede di Dybala
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercato/Napoli/01-09-2025/juve-barido-al-napoli-l-argentino-raggiunge-manna.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Niente rinnovo con la Juve, va a Napoli: Manna soffia ai bianconeri Baridò, l'erede di Dybala
Il ds azzurro l'aveva portato dal Boca Juniors a Torino strappandolo al Barcellona, e ora se lo riprendeFabio Russo (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Milan, colpo giovane in difesa: dal Wolfsburg arriva Odogu. Joe Gomez, si tratta a oltranza
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercato/Milan/01-09-2025/odogu-al-milan-dal-wolfsburg-arriva-il-difensore-e-per-joe-gomez.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta
Milan, colpo giovane in difesa: dal Wolfsburg arriva Odogu. Joe Gomez, si tratta a oltranza
I rossoneri hanno definito l'arrivo del centrale tedesco, classe 2006 ma già titolare in Bundesliga. Al Liverpool manca il sostituto dell'inglese, Tare alla finestraLuca Bianchin (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
"The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists"
"Western reporters are full partners in the genocide."
"They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted & killed by Israel."
"Palestinian reporters expose Israeli atrocities and implode Israeli lies. The rest of the press does not."
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…
#GazaGenocide #WesternEnablement #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #DisplacementReplacement #Press #IsraeliCrimes #BDS @palestine .
The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Von der Leyens Flugzeug wird Ziel von GPS-Störung ++
Das GPS-System eines Flugzeug mit EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen an Bord wurde absichtlich gestört - offenbar durch Russland. Die Ukraine vermutet, dass Russland an der Ermordung des Abgeordneten Parubij beteiligt war.
➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Spahn und Miersch zu Gesprächen in Ukraine ++
Die Vorsitzenden der beiden Koalitionsfraktionen, Spahn und Miersch, besuchen überraschend die Ukraine. Laut EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen arbeitet die EU an konkreten Plänen für die Entsendung multinationaler Truppen.tagesschau.de
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Some cat and otter sketches with my #fountainpen ! Love the fude nib for the juicy lines and variation!
#inkdrawing #cat #otter #art
Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse in just 25 years
A scientist has made the shocking claim that there's a 49% chance the world will end in just 25 years. Jared Diamond, American scientist and historian, predicted civilisation could collapse by 2050. He told Intelligencer: "I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050."Diamond explained that fisheries and farms across the globe are being "managed unsustainably", causing resources to be depleted at an alarming rate. He added: "At the rate we’re going now, resources that are essential for complex societies are being managed unsustainably. Fisheries around the world, most fisheries are being managed unsustainably, and they’re getting depleted.
"Farms around the world, most farms are being managed unsustainably. Soil, topsoil around the world. Fresh water around the world is being managed unsustainably."
The Pulitzer Prize winning author warned that we must come up with more sustainable practices by 2050, "or it'll be too late".
Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse' in just 25 years
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author warned that we must develop more sustainable practices by 2050, 'or it'll be too late.'Rebecca Robinson (Express.co.uk)
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This argument frustrates me greatly. Humans are far more adaptable than most other species, and the damage we are already doing to less adaptable species and ecosystems is incalculable and irreversible. We will kill off much of Earth's life long before we manage to destroy ourselves.
Species are going extinct at a rate of 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than the normal "background rate" of extinction, driven by habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Every species that we drive to extinction represents a multi-billion year legacy that will never return. Arguing that life will continue after the collapse of humanity is only partly true. There are a hell of a lot of species that will never continue, because our actions destroyed them.
We're also roughly at the halfway point of Earth's ability to support complex life, which emerged about a half billion years ago and has roughly another half billion years before the increased heat of the aging sun disrupts carbonate weathering to the extent that one of the main pathways of photosynthesis is no longer possible. Yes, during that 500 million years, in the absence of ongoing anthropogenic extinction, species will again diversify to fill the gaps. But there will be no tigers or elephants or rhinoceros after humanity, just as there were no non-avian dinosaurs after the asteroid.
I'm not making an argument. I'm learning to identify with a bigger picture for my sanity.
My heart weeps greatly for all of the species that are going extinct on this planet.
And I find some hope that life itself will continue here, even if it's not complex life. Life has survived extinction events before. Life is adaptable.
I'm trying to be less attached to the form life takes, because I can't stop climate change.
So it's something that gives me peace. It's not an argument that what is happening is right. Because it's not.
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling Cubans
By Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025
[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/world/asia/vietnam-cuba-fundraising.html
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35128365
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling CubansBy Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling CubansBy Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/world/asia/vietnam-cuba-fundraising.html
Today in Labor History August 31, 1933: Italian American labor organizer and socialist, Giovanni Pippan, was murdered during his campaign to organize the Italian bread wagon drivers of Chicago. In 1921, he was beaten by fascists in Albona, Italy, while on his way to support striking miners. In response to this fascist attack, the workers of the region rose up, occupied all the mines, and declared the Albona Republic. They organized their own government and “red guard” to protect themselves from law enforcement. They managed the mines by themselves with the support of a section of farmers. 1 month later, the republic was violently crushed by the state. For his role, Pippan was threatened with death by the local fascists. He fled to the U.S. There, he helped organize the silk workers of Patterson, New Jersey; participated in the organization and defense of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti; and fought against fascist elements within the Italian-American community.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #socialism #communism #italy #fascism #antifascism #antifa #giovannipippan #solidarity
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Lo Squalo, il film di Steven Spielberg compie 50 anni e torna al cinema: ecco tutti i segreti sommersi del primo cult estivo di sempre
https://www.vogue.it/article/lo-squalo-film-steven-spielberg-al-cinema?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Lo Squalo, il film di Steven Spielberg compie 50 anni e torna al cinema: ecco tutti i segreti sommersi del primo cult estivo di sempre
Tratto dal bestseller di Peter Benchley, era il 1975 quando uscì al cinema Lo Squalo, un film capace di divertire e terrorizzare (e che diventò subito cult)Andrea Giordano (Vogue Italia)
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:calendar_spiral: Fairphone Community events + Fairphone :six: :community_round:
Just click at the one of the local Fairphone Communities’ names below to find out more about each event in its own topic. You can also show your participation there if you want.Fairphone Community Forum
Trasparenza e resilienza: il NIST pubblica il meta-framework che cambia la gestione delle supply chain
Il National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) degli Stati Uniti, attraverso il suo National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), ha introdotto un approccio basato sui dati decentralizzati per aiutare i produttori e i settori delle infrastrutture critiche a proteggere le loro supply chain e gli ambienti operativi. Il documento introduce un meta-framework progettato per migliorare la tracciabilità lungo diverse supply chain, consentendo la registrazione strutturata, il collegamento e il recupero dei dati di tracciabilità.
Nell’ambito di questo sforzo, il NIST ha rilasciato un’implementazione di riferimento (RI) per il prodotto minimo vitale (MVP) per testare ecosistemi sperimentali di supply chain in un ambiente di laboratorio controllato. L’implementazione esamina come i dati di tracciabilità possano essere condivisi tra settori e ambienti di utilizzo finale critici, affrontando sfide fondamentali come l’interoperabilità, la sicurezza informatica, la governance e l’analisi dei dati.
L’MVP RI si basa sullo standard NIST IR 8419 e trae spunto dal meta-framework delineato nello standard NIST IR 8536. Questo framework fornisce un modello tecnologicamente neutrale per organizzare, collegare e interrogare i dati di tracciabilità tra diversi sistemi e stakeholder. Fungendo da modello architetturale, supporta lo sviluppo e il testing di soluzioni di tracciabilità per ecosistemi gestiti dall’industria, con l’obiettivo di rafforzare la trasparenza, la gestione del rischio e la resilienza nelle moderne catene di fornitura.
All’inizio di agosto, il NIST ha pubblicato la seconda bozza pubblica del Rapporto Interno NIST 8536, Supply Chain Traceability: Manufacturing Meta-Framework. L’iniziativa supporta i produttori statunitensi nella protezione delle loro supply chain sviluppando un’implementazione di riferimento che dimostra come scambiare dati di tracciabilità dei componenti in modo sicuro tra ecosistemi distribuiti. Il meta-framework migliora la tracciabilità end-to-end della supply chain organizzando, collegando e interrogando i dati di tracciabilità in diversi ambienti di produzione .
Attraverso repository di dati affidabili, le parti interessate possono accedere alle informazioni sulla catena di fornitura necessarie per verificare la provenienza del prodotto, dimostrare la conformità agli obblighi normativi e contrattuali e valutare l’integrità della catena di fornitura.
Il meta-framework definisce i principi chiave per rafforzare la visibilità, l’affidabilità e l’integrità nella tracciabilità della supply chain. Sottolinea la necessità di dati e ontologie comuni per garantire che le informazioni rimangano strutturate, interoperabili e comprensibili in tutti i settori.
Sottolinea inoltre l’importanza di repository sicuri e verificabili all’interno degli ecosistemi industriali per gestire i record di tracciabilità. La tracciabilità stessa viene stabilita attraverso record basati su eventi, come produzione, spedizione e ricezione, che sono collegati tramite connessioni crittograficamente verificabili. Insieme, questi record sequenziali formano catene di tracciabilità che consentono alle parti interessate di confermare la cronologia e il movimento dei prodotti lungo la rete di fornitura.
Offrendo una soluzione scalabile per migliorare la tracciabilità in tutti i settori industriali, il meta-framework consente alle organizzazioni di scambiare dati sulla supply chain in modo sicuro. Con la crescente complessità delle supply chain globali, questo approccio rafforza l’integrità, supporta il rispetto degli obblighi legali, contrattuali e operativi e promuove la fiducia degli stakeholder.
Gli obiettivi principali del meta-framework sono migliorare la trasparenza della supply chain fornendo un approccio strutturato per la registrazione e il collegamento dei dati di tracciabilità, garantendo una maggiore visibilità tra gli ecosistemi. Si propone di garantire l’interoperabilità dei dati attraverso un modello comune che consenta l’integrazione tra operatori del settore, ecosistemi e stakeholder esterni. Un altro obiettivo è rafforzare la verifica dell’autenticità e della provenienza dei prodotti supportando meccanismi che consentano agli stakeholder di confermare l’origine e la discendenza di componenti, materiali e prodotti finiti.
Il framework consente inoltre alle organizzazioni di soddisfare i requisiti di tracciabilità stabiliti da contratti, standard o normative attraverso un modello strutturato di condivisione dei dati. Inoltre, pone l’accento sul miglioramento della sicurezza, dell’integrità dei dati e della privacy definendo best practice per l’autenticazione, il controllo degli accessi e la convalida crittografica, garantendo che i dati di tracciabilità rimangano accurati, a prova di manomissione e adeguatamente definiti per proteggere le informazioni sensibili. Infine, facilita la governance dell’ecosistema consentendo alle parti interessate di definire regole in linea con gli obblighi e le aspettative esterne, garantendo al contempo un’efficace tracciabilità.
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Exclusivo: Novos planos do Vivo Easy começam a valer hoje; veja os preços
https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/exclusivo-novos-planos-do-vivo-easy-comecam-a-valer-hoje-veja-os-precos/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Novos planos do Vivo Easy começam a valer hoje; veja os preços • Tecnoblog
O plano anual garante desconto de cerca de 30% em relação à assinatura mensal, com pagamento parcelado no cartão de crédito. Modalidades anteriores do Prime não serão mais ofertadas.Thássius Veloso (Mobilon Mídia LTDA)
So I agree we will not go back entirely to what it used to be. The trust has been broken.
Kaliningrad e la baia di Pietroburgo, i due paradisi per la guerra elettronica di Putin all’Europa
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/09/01/news/kaliningrad_e_la_baia_di_pietroburgo_i_due_paradisi_per_la_guerra_elettronica_di_putin_all_europa-15290831/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Kaliningrad e la baia di Pietroburgo, i due paradisi per la guerra elettronica di Putin all’Europa
Sospetti per l’attacco che ha “accecato” il Gps dell’aereo di von der Leyen in Bulgaria. In tutte e due le aree, Mosca ha stazionate due divisioni specializzat…Jacopo Iacoboni (La Stampa)
LITTLE DONNIE: Wants Another Military Parade for Himself
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President Trump will reportedly have another big boy military parade later this year.
You’ll recall that in June, #DonaldTrump made the Army put on a parade on the streets of Washington with a bunch of tanks and fireworks for his birthday — an event that was also billed as the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Army.
The event was widely regarded as an extremely expensive flop....
An image with a large text overlay at the top and two main photographic elements below. The black text reads "WHAT HAPPENED TO TRUMP?" and a red banner below it reads in white "'INCONSOLABLE AT $45M PARADE'".
In the foreground, on the left, is a close-up of Donald Trump. He is an older man with light blonde hair, wearing a dark suit and a red tie, and has a visibly dejected or sullen expression with a downturned mouth. A man in a suit and patterned tie is partially visible behind his left shoulder.
To the right and in the background, a military parade takes place on a wide street lined with trees. Many soldiers in camouflage uniforms are marching in formation, and some in the foreground are playing large brass instruments like tubas while one is seated on a military vehicle.
Barcellona, la flotilla per Gaza torna in porto per il maltempo: “Ma Israele non ci fermerà”
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/09/01/news/global_sumud_flotilla_porto_barcellona_maltempo-424819264/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Barcellona, la flotilla per Gaza torna in porto per il maltempo: “Ma Israele non ci fermerà”
Il vento a trenta nodi obbliga la delegazione partita dalla Spagna a rinviare la partenza. Le quattro barche italiane in rotta verso la Sicilia. La replica al …Alessia Candito (la Repubblica)
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Man who alleged hundreds were raped and buried in Indian temple town arrested
Man who alleged rapes and secret burials in Dharmasthala temple town arrested
The former temple cleaner's startling claims threw the town of Dharmasthala in Karnataka into turmoil.Geeta Pandey & Imran Qureshi (BBC News)
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Police officials have confirmed to the BBC that human remains have been found at two places
Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.
The Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to combine access to the sensitive and personal information of Americans into a single searchable system with the help of shady companies should terrify us – and should inspire us to fight back.
While couched in the benign language of eliminating government “data silos,” this plan runs roughshod over your privacy and security. It’s a throwback to the rightly mocked “Total Information Awareness” plans of the early 2000s that were, at least publicly, stopped after massive outcry from the public and from key members of Congress.
Under this order, ICE is trying to get access to the IRS and Medicaid records of millions of people, and is demanding data from local police. The administration is also making grabs for food stamp data from California and demanding voter registration data from at least nine states.
Much of the plan seems to rely on the data management firm Palantir, formerly based in Palo Alto. It’s telling that the Trump administration would entrust such a sensitive task to a company that has a shaky-at-best record on privacy and human rights.
Bad ideas for spending your taxpayer money never go away – they just hide for a few years and hope no one remembers. But we do. In the early 2000s, when the stated rationale was finding terrorists, the government proposed creating a single all-knowing interface into multiple databases and systems containing information about millions of people. Yet that plan was rightly abandoned after less than three years and millions of wasted taxpayer dollars, because of both privacy concerns and practical problems.
It certainly seems the Trump administration’s intention is to try once again to create a single, all-knowing way to access and use the personal information about everyone in America. Today, of course, the stated focus is on finding violent illegal immigrants and the plan initially only involves data about you held by the government, but the dystopian risks are the same.
Over fifty years ago, after the scandals surrounding Nixon’s “enemies list,” Watergate, and COINTELPRO, in which a President bent on staying in power misused government information to target his political enemies, Congress enacted laws to protect our data privacy. Those laws ensure that data about you collected for one purpose by the government can’t be misused for other purposes or disclosed to other government officials with an actual need. Also, they require the government to carefully secure the data it collects. While not perfect, these laws have served the twin goals of protecting our privacy and data security for many years.
Now the Trump regime is basically ignoring them, and this Congress is doing nothing to stand up for the laws it passed to protect us.
But many of us are pushing back. At the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where I’m executive director, we have sued over DOGE agents grabbing personal data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, filed an amicus brief in a suit challenging ICE’s grab for taxpayer data, and co-authored another amicus brief challenging ICE’s grab for Medicaid data. We’re not done and we’re not alone.
Cohn: Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.
A single searchable database of all Americans’ sensitive information is the goal of the president and Palantir – and the dream of authoritarians.Cindy Cohn (The Mercury News)
Sco, dal summit la sfida globale di Xi: “Pace, stabilità e prosperità”. Intesa con Putin e Modi
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Sco, dal summit la sfida globale di Xi: “Pace, stabilità e prosperità”. Intesa con Putin e Modi
Dal vertice di Tianjin il presidente cinese si propone come leader del Sud del mondo contro un Occidente terremotato dall’imprevedibilità di Trump. E il leader…Enrico Franceschini (la Repubblica)
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I exclusively wrote everything down with a pen, since I was not going to bring a laptop everywhere and somehow get it to stay powered for so many hours. Not to mention that it would have been terrible to draw schematics etc.
The best were those courses where you could prepare a "cheat sheet", so then I go over everything and put key information and formulas into a word document. So I go over my notes, then have to filter them and then write the key things again. Maximum retention, as I can tell you 10 years later.
and somehow get it to stay powered for so many hours.
You can plug it into an outlet to power it.
this entire thing reads like a fantasy. or some reddit thread where "everyone clapped" to me.
if I was told by a professor on the first day of class which I paid for that I wasn't allowed to use my own note taking method I had been using for decades, I'd just say "No." and if pressed further, I'd take it as high as I needed to. or get a full refund for the class and find another.
this isn't an elementary school. these aren't children. these are adults.
Think of it this way .. if you sign up at a karate dojo, there are a ton of rules and norms you'll need to follow. And those rules and norms will be very different dojo to dojo. That's an understood expectation. It's similar to college. The professor is empowered to dictate the structure and norms of their course.
And sure... The professor will dictate their expectations on day 1. If you don't like the structure, you have 2 weeks to change the course with no penalty.
I think that's a bit different.
At a university, there are only so many options to meet some requirement for your program, often just one or two teachers for a given class, and at least at my school, they didn't provide the syllabus until the start of classes. So if you disagree with the rules of the class, you may just be screwed.
Class policies shouldn't stray too far from institution policies, and a syllabus should largely stick to defining coursework expectations, like when projects and coursework are due. I'm also of the opinion that attendance shouldn't be part of the grade unless it's a hands on class or something (i.e. all material for tests and homework is in the textbooks).
If your behavior causes issues in the class, you should be removed. But if your behavior merely distracts you, that should be your business. Higher level education shouldn't hold your hand, you should succeed or fail on your own merits. A huge part of the expected outcomes should be developed self-discipline, because the whole point should be to cultivate self-motivated people who can learn and improve on their own.
Charlie Stross
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •#WritersCoffeeClub Footnote to revisions question: I write for a living. I do not view multiple revisions as a badge of honour; they're a sign that I fucked up the previous draft. They represent an opportunity cost—labour that would have better been spent writing another book if I did the job right first time round.
My writing aim is to emit a publication-grade draft with the first attempt. (I sometimes even manage it!)
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Jürgen Hubert
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Understandable.
In my case, my works are close enough to textbooks and my background is so strongly academic that I am trying something approaching a peer review for my books.
Fish Id Wardrobe
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •that's … very different from what you hear from most pro writers. of course, lots of writers don't talk about their process, but even so. very interesting.
i certainly can't write that way, but then, I haven't been practising every day for 30+ years…
Charlie Stross
in reply to Fish Id Wardrobe • • •@fishidwardrobe Oh, the other way of looking at it is that wasted effort doesn't pay the bills, BUT my specific angle (in fiction) is exploring ideas in SF that nobody I'm aware of did before, which in turn means exploration, which sometimes goes into dead ends. Irritating when I can't make it work, though.
Writing to a formula is much easier, if you've worked out how all the bits fit together, but is less rewarding (and challenging).
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