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Cesare Cremonini, la sua ex Martina Maggiore replica: «Di intimo nei suoi confronti non c’è niente. E nel momento in cui tradisci fai entrare altre persone»
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/cesare-cremonini-ex-martina-maggiore-replica?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su People & celebrities @people-celebrities-VanityFairItaly




I try not to be so negative but sometimes...

Like sure, what if fascists do not even have to ban books because there are no books to ban?

404media.co/libraries-scramble…


Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down


This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books.

“You might notice some delays as we (and more than 6,000 other libraries) transition to new wholesalers,” the Jacksonville Public Library told its community in a Facebook post. “We're keeping a close eye on things and doing everything we can to minimize any wait times.”

The libraries that do business with the distributor learned about the shut down earlier this month via Reddit.

Upon learning of her company’s closure, Jennifer Kennedy, a customer services account manager with Baker & Taylor, broke the news on October 6 on r/Libraries Reddit community.

“I just wanted the libraries to know,” Kennedy told 404 Media. “I didn’t want them to be held hostage waiting for books that would never come. I respect them too much for all this nonsense.”

Kennedy’s post prompted other current and former B&T employees to confirm the announcement and express concern for the competitors about to be inundated with requests from the libraries who would be scrambling for new suppliers.

B&T in Memoriam


Baker & Taylor has been in the book business just short of 200 years. Its primary focus was distributing physical copies of books to public libraries. The company also provided librarians with tools that helped them do their jobs more effectively related to collection development and processing.

But the company has spent decades being acquired by and divested from private equity firms, served as a revolving door for senior leadership, and was sued by a competitor earlier this year for alleged data misuse and was almost acquired again in September, this time by a distributor that works with mass-market retailers like Walmart and Target. That deal fell through.

On October 7, Publishers Weekly reported B&T let go of more than 500 employees the day the internal announcement was made. At least one law firm is currently investigating B&T for allegedly violating the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, and it took the company weeks to let account holders know.

Since the internal announcement, Kennedy says customer service staff at B&T have not received guidance on how to respond to inquiries from libraries, leaving them on the frontline and in the dark on issues ranging from whether existing orders would be fulfilled to securing refunds for materials they may have already paid for.

“Some libraries didn’t realize we are much closed as of right now,” Kennedy added.

B&T did not respond when asked for comment.

Kennedy has been with B&T for 16 years. At a time when it's uncommon to remain with one company more than a few years, that’s exactly what many of B&T’s employees have been able to do, until now. The same was true of the libraries who did business with them. Andrew Harant, director of Cuyahoga Falls Library had to consider the library's longstanding business relationship with the company against the roughly 20 percent of books the library had ordered from the beginning of the year they had never received.

“For us, that was about 1,500 items,” which Harant told 404 Media that for a small library is a lot of books they were ordering and not receiving.

Release dates for new books come and go on B&T’s main software platform for viewing and managing orders, Title Source 360. Better known as TS360, Harant realized the platform was updating preordered books never received to on backorder, which was “not sustainable”.

In September, Cuyahoga Falls Library canceled all outstanding orders with B&T.

“We needed to step up and make sure that we’re getting the books for our patrons that they needed,” he said.

Cuyahoga Falls Library was fortunate to have an existing account with the other main distributor on the scene, Ingram Content Group. This has been true for many of the libraries 404 Media reached out to for this story.

“The easier part is re-ordering the book,” Shellie Cocking, Chief of Collections and Technical Services for the San Francisco Public Library, told 404 Media. “The harder part is replacing the tools you use to order books.”

Integrated Fallout


Of the ancillary services B&T offered customers, TS360 was Cocking’s favorite. It helped her streamline collection development tasks, for instance, anticipating how popular a title might be or determining how many quantities of a book to purchase, which for larger libraries with dozens of branches, could be complicated to figure out manually. Once titles were ordered in TS360, B&T shared a Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) record that was automatically shared with the library’s API integration using data derived from B&T’s record set. This product, BTCat, was the subject of a lawsuit brought by OCLC earlier this year.

OCLC owns WorldCat, the global union catalog of library collections that lets anyone see what libraries own what items. OCLC alleged in a U.S. district court filing that B&T misused their proprietary bibliographic records to populate its own competing cataloguing database. OCLC also accused B&T of inserted clauses into its contracts where there was overlap with the businesses and customers, requiring libraries to grant B&T access to their cataloging records so the libraries could then license the records back to B&T for BTCat. B&T has denied these claims, accusing OCLC of stifling fair competition in an already consolidated marketplace.

Marshall Breeding, an independent consultant who monitors library vendor mergers has been following all of this rather closely. He says B&T's closure creates a number of bottlenecks for libraries, the primary one being whether suppliers like Ingram or Brodart can absorb thousands of libraries as customers all at once.

“Maybe, maybe not,” Breeding told 404 Media. “It’s going to take them a while to set up the business relationships and technical things that have to be set up for libraries to automatically order books from the providers.”

But one thing is evident.

“Libraries are kind of in a weaker position just scrambling to find a vendor at all,” he added.

Less competition in the market makes for more challenging working conditions all around. Just ask Erin Hughes, director of the Wood Ridge Memorial Library in New Jersey, made the move over to Ingram after a series of negative experiences with B&T in 2021 from late and damaged deliveries to customer service calls that went poorly, to say the least. Hughes worries her experience with B&T will happen again, only this time with Ingram.

Since the Reddit announcement, she's noticed it's a little more difficult to get a rep on the phone and the number of shipments to the library is smaller. But the other way Hughes is seeing the problem play out involves the consortium her library belongs to. While she may have foregone B&T years ago, her network hasn't, which affects the operability of InterLibrary Loan lending.

“The resource sharing is going to be off for a bit,” Hughes told 404 Media.

Amazon Incoming


If Ingram’s service stagnates due to the B&T cluster, Hughes says she'll use Amazon, which recently launched its own online library hub, offering competitive pricing. One downside, says Hughes, is that it's Amazon.

“No, we do have a little bit of pause around Amazon,” she added. “But we’re at a point now where Ingram actually does supply most of the books for Amazon. So we’re already in the devil’s pocket. It’s all connected. It’s all integrated. And as much as I personally don’t care for the whole thing, I don’t really see a lot of other options.”

It's hard not to think this outcome was predictable and also preventable. We know what happens when private equity gets involved with businesses not expected to generate high growth or returns, as well as what happens when there's too little market competition in any given sector. It can't be a cautionary tale because market consolidation is in itself a cautionary tale.

But it’s also worth acknowledging how the timing could not be worse. Library use is way up right now, which is indicative of the times. People are buying less for various reasons. People also seem to like the idea of putting a little friction between their media consumption habits and Big Brother, even at the expense of a little convenience.

“We kind of made our own bed a little bit because we didn’t branch out,” said Hughes. “We didn’t find other solutions to this, and we were relying essentially on two giant companies, one of which folded so quick it was not even funny.”




sounds good to me? per this announcement the new affinity app will combine photo, publisher, & designer & will be free to all, no license purchase required

won't need to upload anything to cloud services online to use

as an Affinity Photo 2 user, i like what i'm hearing so far...

youtube.com/watch?v=UP_TBaKODl…

#Photography #PostProcessing #Affinity #AffinityPhoto





Surprised there's no #3DPrinting IKEA Kallax NAS case. The only thing I find is this one, and this sadly uses two inserts in a rather weird way.
printables.com/model/1070051-i…

Might be something I do at some point, with a design that packs as many disks as possible in a single Kallax insert.

in reply to Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

I vaguely remember that IKEA hat a (side) table that exactly fitted 19 inch hardware. Maybe that's what everyone is using.
in reply to Matthias Bach

@marix Yeah, I know which one you mean. I don't have any place to put that one though, not to mention I'd have to get a 19" NAS case which would be way more expensive.
in reply to Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

oh yeah, that would be super practical. I was also wondering why there is so little 10 inch rack stuff, which would also neatly fit in there.


Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney+ und Amazon Prime im November 2025

Im November zeigt Netflix "Frankenstein". Bei Disney+ läuft "The Fantastic Four: First Steps", während bei Amazon "Robin Hood" startet.

heise.de/news/Neue-Filme-und-S…

#AmazonPrimeVideo #Entertainment #Filme #Netflix #Streaming #news



Soso, die #Affinity Apps gehen jetzt im kostenlosen (!) Affinity Studio auf, d.h. Bildbearbeitung, Vektordesign und Desktop Publishing finden sich jetzt zum Umschalten in einer Monster-App.

Dat janze hängt an einem #Canva-Account, dessen #KI Features nur mit Premium-Abo zu haben sind. Ohne KI ist Affinity aber angeblich komplett kostenfrei. Fürs #FediLZ insofern interessant, als dass Canva EDU für Kollegiumsteams bisher ebenfalls kostenlos war.

Bin auf das Geschäftsmodell gespannt.



LIVE: Hamas hands over more Israeli bodies amid shaky Gaza ceasefire | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- Israel’s Gaza route restrictions limiting aid deliveries: UN
- Israeli forces demolish houses in eastern Gaza City
- ‘Killers of journalists getting away with murder’: CPJ urges reforms
- Qatari PM, US Rubio discuss Gaza, ceasefire efforts during call
- Hamas still urging Israel to allow bulldozers into Gaza to retrieve bodies

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine



Stream between the rocks in autumn mood. Long exposure.
Jump back to previous trip. Matrefjellet. I didn`t prepare new photos, it was a busy few days.
Like, share, comment and smile, everything is funny
#mountains #stream #autumn #rocks #landscape #nature #longexposure #photo #photography #art #fjellphoto


Caroline Willeman, Doctors Without Borders project coordinator in Gaza, warned today that Israel continues to use aid as a weapon of war against Gaza. Willeman said that the humanitarian situation in the enclave has not improved much, as shortages of water and shelter persist.

The Medical Relief Society in Gaza said the health system is collapsing beyond repair, warning that almost half of all kidney patients in the territory have already died because of Israel's blockade.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza




@Mastodon @MastodonEngineering

I am again going to point out that adding quote post functionality to the boost button is poor UX. A quote post is a type of reply, and it should be an option when replying. Adding it to boost adds unnecessary friction to one of the primary engagement options on the platform and potentially reduces sharing and activity on people's posts.

Please move quote post functionality to the reply button. Thank you.

in reply to Perrin42

We recently added a setting that moves the quote button under the 3 dot menu on the post, restoring the previous behaviour for the boost button.
You can configure this in Preferences > Appearance > Enable quick boosting


Torino capitale dell'arte contemporanea, torna Artissima - Arte - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/arte/2025/10/30/torino-capitale-dellarte-contemporanea-torna-artissima_2d8c10a7-ff7c-418a-8129-81d53253b2dc.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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



Good morning gang! How y'all doing?
I can tell Halloween round da corner. It getting all cold an shit time to pop out the coats! Yall got your candy ready? Y'all wearing any costumes?
😂 my momma she always gets bags of candy and then we eat it all ourselves!
in reply to Jaden

I have bags of sweets in case the kids from my street come around, they do most years, usually wearing quite rubbish costumes. They are greedy AF just grabbing handfuls and handfuls.
in reply to Charlotte Walker

@purplepadma
Ah, the trick is to not fill the candy container too much. Just have a smaller set of items on the bottom. You have time to refill between visitors.


NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

reshared this

in reply to dell cameron

> ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas

Woah. This is like a twisted, funhouse mirror inversion of the Underground Railroad, run by Pennywise the Clown.




10 hour round trip with 1.5 hours working and half an hour to grab a sandwich and some juice. But I'm home now and absolutely shattered plus feeling achy and sweaty. Feels like flu to me. Anyway I got the autopilot repaired onboard the Venture BF in Kinlochbervie. Some pictures of the steering rams where i was swapping out a faulty rudder feedback unit and the bridge.
A picture of the fishing vessel Venture BF in Kinlochbervie A picture of the bridge taken from the back. you can make out the 55" screens which are on a video matrix.
A photo taken from a small space behind the vessels steering rams.
in reply to Justine Smithies

oh, sorry to read you're not feeling that well. Now rest and relax, and I hope you'll feel better!



L’operazione anti-narcos a Rio de Janeiro è stata la più sanguinosa della storia della città | Rivista Studio
https://www.rivistastudio.com/operazione-anti-narcos-rio-de-janeiro-29-ottobre/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Attualità @attualit-RivistaStudio




Philip's Mystery Meal #ILostTrack
I have no idea what this is, but its all I had,
1lb of ground turkey, 1lb of ground sausage, 1/2 an onion diced up, 3 smallish potatoes diced up, 3 carrots diced up, 1 can of Rotel, 2 cans of tomato soup, 1pinch of red pepper flakes, 1TB of Italian Seasoning, 1Tb of garlic, now it is simmering to soften and bring everything together, hopefully it comes out good;

You can encourage my continued useless #culinary #cooking ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…



“We are opposed to Prop 3 because this is going to overload an already overburdened pre-trial detention system. Because of overcrowding, the jail system is already the largest warehouse of people with mental illness in the state of Texas. We cannot keep punishing our way out of this mental health crisis.”

texasobserver.org/bail-crackdo…
#Bail reform

#bail


petition: Climate Change Is Closer to Home Than You Think. We Must Demand Action!

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Delicious cakes I used to make before the war in my beautiful home, which is now just a memory. How painful what we went through was; it's like a disturbing dream that never ends.
in reply to dalia rezk

The image shows a decorated interior space, possibly a wedding or event venue. The space is predominantly white, with white walls, flooring, and furniture. There is a white couch with several pillows, and several chairs around a table. The table is decorated with various arrangements of flowers and candles, with a red and white color scheme. A chandelier is visible in the background, and the lighting contributes to a soft and elegant ambiance.

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Sign up for a seminar from #picathecat
“Staffing Difficulties of the Modern Feline: Getting the Most From Lazy Humans”

Price: 0.5 BTC or two cans beef purée and a dozen ‘scritches’

in reply to myrmepropagandist

Top topic! Our Mizzi will attend for sure! Two lazy humans to order around is a hard job. :blobcatheadbang:


"Their nearly two-hour, face-to-face meeting in South Korea was a welcome de-escalation," the Editorial Board writes.

"But what came out of this meeting looks more like a temporary truce than a lasting peace pact."

wapo.st/47yw71w



Borsa: l'Europa conclude incerta, Londra piatta - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2025/10/30/borsa-leuropa-conclude-incerta-londra-piatta_d3339125-6de1-4db1-b033-12891b6e84fe.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Economia @economia-AgenziaAnsa

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To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds. They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use. No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.
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Borsa: Milano chiude in lieve calo, Ftse Mib -0,09% - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2025/10/30/borsa-milano-chiude-in-lieve-calo-ftse-mib-009_e02b16da-eb02-499b-97ca-94959b1abe7b.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Economia @economia-AgenziaAnsa

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OpenBSD 7.8 // SMTPD // ERRATA 005

Date: October 31, 2025
Name: 005_smtpd.patch
Description: smtpd(8) can die if a malformed imsg is sent on the local socket. CVE-2025-62875
Link: cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/pa…

#OpenBSD #Security #Update