With 99.7% of votes tallied, it looks like D66's Rob Jetten will be the next prime minister of the Netherlands — by the narrowest of margins, with far right populist Geert Wilders snapping at his heels, and with weeks or months of negotiations over which parties will form the governing coalition. @BBCNews takes a look at how 38-year-old Jetten pulled the liberal D66 party from fifth place to the top in less than two years.
#Netherlands #DutchElection #D66 #RobJetten #GeertWilders #Europe #News
Who is Rob Jetten, tipped to become youngest Dutch prime minister?
Rob Jetten's electoral success has come as a surprise, but politically, all the stars were aligned for him to achieve it.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
Fiserv’s Only Bear Is a 26-Year-Old Analyst Who Beat Wall Street
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/fiserv-s-only-bear-is-a-26-year-old-analyst-who-beat-wall-street?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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November, Valladolid - Noviembre Antifascista 2025
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"November, Valladolid - Noviembre Antifascista 2025"
Reporter had ONE JOB
"Meet Bill DeBlasio, the man a British newspaper confused with ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio"
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If people in the US wonder if there's a plan behind the US president's foreign policies, after the soybeans 'succes', where the US gets to export less than in 2024, annually reconfirmable, and loses nvidia at the same time, I guess it's fair to admit that there is one: to screw the country big time and hand it over bankrupt.
#resistance #usmaffia #paypalmaffia #europe #gaslighting #betrayal #krasnov #geopolitics #democracy #authoritarian #trumpregime
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#WordWeavers Oct 30: What sort of emotional therapy pet would your MC benefit from having?
Alia is not gonna be able to deal with a pet whatever the purpose. She doesn't find the idea of imprisoning another creature at all appealing. She doesn't express this opinion to others as many folks in her social circle do have pets for a variety of reasons.
Might as well take advantage of the beautiful autumn before it's all wet and dark.
#photography #art #visualart #autumn
ANZ to Take $720 Million Hit to Second Half 2025 Profit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/anz-to-take-720-million-hit-to-second-half-2025-profit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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First Non-Profit #AfricanHalal Pantry In The World.
"Food For All Services is the first ever registered 501c3 immigrant-owned nonprofit African halal pantry located in Portland, Maine. We provide food-insecure new immigrants with a low-barrier, dignified, and respectable solution to access culturally-relevant food. New immigrants are often expected to assimilate into American culture but at FFA we celebrate and appreciate our customers' lived experiences while coming together in a space that is welcoming and people of color focused."
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#HalalFood #Maine #FoodPantry #HalalFoodPantry #FoodInsecurity #SNAPCuts #NewMainers
"Because conservative Christianity is so tightly woven into the state’s political culture, #Musk and his fellow California exiles find themselves confronting a new ideological fusion, a blend of neoliberal economic policies and Christian-nationalist cultural ambition, rooted in the state’s long history of resource extraction and at ease with racism and misogyny."
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#tech #BigTech #USpol #SiliconValleyRight #Texas #techMigration #techFutures
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.The Baffler
Kommande föreläsning på #pycon Sweden 2025. #Mastodon and #python 💪🎉
"A talk about Fediverse and Mastodon networks. What they are, how to join and how to integrate with python.
As free software alternative to business social media networks, that push you propaganda - like it or not - there is the fediverse. And within the fediverse, the Mastodon.
This talk will show the interconnection between these federated universe and walk through how to use with python.
Speakers' Corner Diary - #4
💡Next session is this Saturday, November 1, 10 am to 11 am, at the Santa Fe Railyard Park, between SITE Santa Fe and the corner of Paseo de Peralta and S. Guadalupe. A Speakers' Corner for Santa Fe is going strong.Heidi Li Feldman (Indivisible Santa Fe)
To everyone who said that the wealthiest were untouchable: Prince Andrew is now being striped of all titles, will no longer be known as Prince, and is banished from his home The Royal Lodge.
May Donald Trump be next.
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Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge
He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Buckingham Palace says "these censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him".BBC News
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That's a good thing!
I like history, but that's precisely what it should be: monarchy, history. Because I believe that if royal houses still held the power of earlier times, many people would lose their romanticized view of the dynasties of the nobility. It's currently unavoidable and easy to portray oneself as a benefactor and philanthropist using resources stolen and appropriated in the past, as well as current allowances.
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Good news! #ChatControl has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/efter-ty…
Dansk forslag om digital børnebeskyttelse droppet efter tysk kritik
Dansk EU-formandskab kunne ikke skabe opbakning til forslag om at scanne beskeder for overgrebsmateriale.DR
When Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons when it supposedly serves the national interest.
When Trump decides to increase nuclear testing as it supposedly serves the national interest.
Remember that it's not only such criminally irresponsible politicians who threaten the Unacceptable.
Only scientists and technicians know how to design and build these weapons: all the bombs and long-range missiles. They're the only ones who know how.
Scientists: have responsibility for what they do, too.
Former Central Michigan staff members receive punishments for their roles in sign-stealing scandal
https://apnews.com/article/central-michigan-chippewas-ncaa-signs-631af0ac0ac0148eccc09a5797ee61cb?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This right here 100%
“Social Networking is Pickleball…
The fediverse doesn’t need to resurface the tired, worn-down tennis courts of the old internet. It needs to create something new. This ecosystem offers an entirely different kind of online experience. It’s smaller, more local, more relational. It’s messy in the best ways. It prioritises conversation over content, sharing over extraction, and community governance over corporate control.”
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There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.
OK, maybe not a million, but over 100,000 and growing fast. And they are displacing tennis courts, because you can get four pickleball courts where one tennis court existed, and more and more people think that’s a good thing.Around the world, tennis is in decline. Court usage is down, club memberships are shrinking, and fewer young people are picking up a racket. At the same time, pickleball is on the rise. In parks, leisure centres, and converted gym halls, it’s growing at a pace few expected. It’s a big enough shift that Big Tennis is trying to massage the numbers and remain relevant, claiming participation rates that aren’t really there.
I don’t play either sport, but suddenly I see pickleball signs everywhere. What was once a niche pastime has gone mainstream seemingly overnight. And it makes sense. Pickleball is easier to get into, more fun for casual players, takes up less space, and can be played indoors without needing a full court or expensive gear. It’s inclusive, low-pressure, and social.
Source: Apple Heart and Movement Study
There’s a lesson here. The old, customary way of doing things can and does change. You can pour resources into resurfacing old tennis courts, hoping to bring back players who’ve already moved on. Or you can build pickleball courts, simple, accessible spaces that meet the needs of today, not the nostalgia of yesterday.And this is a little bit how I’ve come to see the fediverse.
For years, much of the energy has focussed on building a better version of something else. A better Twitter, a better Instagram, a better Tumblr. The assumption being that if we replicated what people already knew but made it safer, more ethical, or decentralised, the masses would come.
But they didn’t.
And that’s not a failure, it’s a sign that something way more interesting is going on.
Social Media is Tennis
Social media use is declining overall. That’s not a problem unique to the fediverse, it’s a signal that people are tired of the model entirely. The data backs it up. Engagement is down, trust is eroding, and more people are asking whether these platforms actually serve their needs. Conversely, for the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news. Europe’s not far behind.Source: NiemanLab
Most if not all of the large platforms started out as social networking. A way to connect with friends, family, and new communities. But over time, they slide into something else: social media. The focus becomes content, metrics, attention. People become audiences, and the algorithmic feed of addictive slop, propaganda, and ads replaces human conversations.The world maybe needs both things, social media and social networking. But the two are a wee bit mutually exclusive. At the very least, the motivations for operating these services are very different.
Social Networking is Pickleball
The fediverse doesn’t need to resurface the tired, worn-down tennis courts of the old internet. It needs to create something new. This ecosystem offers an entirely different kind of online experience. It’s smaller, more local, more relational. It’s messy in the best ways. It prioritises conversation over content, sharing over extraction, and community governance over corporate control.
Right now, not everyone wants that, not yet. But as we hear the call for digitally sovereign, locally governed platforms, we’re not just offering an alternative to what’s failing. We’re laying the groundwork for what comes next.We don’t need to build the perfect tennis court for a game that fewer and fewer people are playing. We need to build a million pickleball courts. Small, accessible, playful spaces that reflect the changing culture of online life. That’s why the fediverse shouldn’t be chasing migrations. We don’t need to become the next Twitter. We need to be the first of something else.
Growth will come, but not by chasing the habits of a declining model. Growth will come when we fully embrace what makes the fediverse distinct.
The fediverse isn’t growing slowly because of a lack of cross-platform migration, it’s because the people who will thrive here aren’t migrating at all, they’re looking for something fundamentally different.
Sure, some will switch from tennis to pickleball, that’s a given. But many more will have never played tennis, or tried it a few times and it wasn’t fun. They will show up on the fediverse at some point.
And when they arrive, we should have the courts ready.
To everyone already building in the fediverse – the admins, the moderators, the developers, the artists, the writers, the everyday users… keep going.
Every time you welcome someone new, every time you resolve a conflict with care, every time you share something thoughtful or beautiful or kind, you’re helping shape a different kind of internet.
You’re not just connecting people, you’re restoring meaning to that connection. You’re helping build spaces that are slower, more intentional, more humane. You’re showing that online communities can be self-governed, safer, and grounded in values, not revenue.
It may not look like growth from the outside. But this is how movements begin, not with numbers, but with purpose. So keep doing the good work. Keep experimenting. Keep protecting each other. Keep making space for joy, for solidarity, and for belonging.
The future of the internet doesn’t arrive all at once, we build it, bit by bit, together.
And we’re already building it.
Building Digital Sovereignty: What Does Europe Need and How to Achieve It
The EU should not re-do the entire digital stack but confront the structural bottlenecks that sustain Europe’s digital dependence, writes Zuzanna Warso.Zuzanna Warso (Tech Policy Press)
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Tony Vitello takes daunting step from college ranks to MLB dugout as Giants manager
https://apnews.com/article/giants-manager-tony-vitello-19cb2c1d3712b5f4641a2392a503a196?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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クラーケン、EUロビー活動費で暗号業界トップに―コインベースを上回る支出を記録 - Crypto Trillion - WACOCA NEWS
欧州連合（EU）の透明性登録データによると、2024年、暗号資産取引所のロビー活動費が前年比で約25％増加したWACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
US Justice Department places prosecutors on leave for January 6 reference
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/30/us-justice-department-places-prosecutors-on-leave-for-january-6-reference?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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US Justice Department places prosecutors on leave for January 6 reference
The prosecutors reportedly called the Trump supporters who participated in the January 6 attack a ‘mob of rioters’.Al Jazeera
Openpilot 0.10.1 Released: Improved World Model and Overhauled User Interface
Openpilot 0.10.1 introduces the North Nevada Model, featuring major improvements to the World Model architecture. The system now infers 6 degree of freedom ego localization directly from images, removing the need for external localization inputs. This reduces over-constrained data and opens the door for future self-generated imagery.
To support this change, the autoencoder Compressor was upgraded with masked image modeling, switched from CNN to Vision Transformer architecture, and the World Model itself was scaled from 500 million to 1 billion parameters. All models now train on a much larger dataset of 2.5 million segments, up from 437,000, covering more vehicles, countries, and driving scenarios.
The UI has been completely rewritten, moving from Qt/Weston to Python with raylib. This reduces code complexity by about 10,000 lines, cuts boot time by 4 seconds, lowers GPU usage, and simplifies development.
Finally, the Driver Monitoring Model's training infrastructure has been streamlined with dynamic data streaming, though the model’s functionality remains unchanged.
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So what do you do if you want this? Does the car need to already have cameras and sensors and stuff or do you get those with the comma and you have to install it into your car by yourself somehow? What's the procedure?
I have a Volvo EX40 right now and it has a lot of features but it refuses to drive on its own for more than a number of seconds for safety reasons. (We're in the EU, so I guess that's not allowed.)
… Mi padre miró a mi hija de doce años como si no fuera más que un mueble que estorbaba. «Puedes comer en la cocina», dijo con un tono despectivo que arrastraba desde hacía cuarenta años. «En esta mesa, solo adultos».
Vi el rostro de mi hija descomponerse. Esa mañana, Meredith había pasado una hora peinándose y eligiendo su mejor atuendo. Incluso había anotado temas de conversación en pequeñas tarjetas.
Y allí estaba ella, de pie con su vestido verde esmeralda, frente a nueve cubiertos inmaculados dispuestos en una mesa que podría haber acogido a doce sin esfuerzo. Nueve cubiertos, diez personas. Una crueldad deliberada, calculada.
La voz de Meredith era apenas un susurro, pero en aquel comedor paralizado, fue como un trueno: «Yo también soy parte de la familia… ¿verdad?».
La pregunta quedó suspendida como una acusación. Debería haber recibido una reafirmación inmediata. Mi madre, Vivian, debería haber corrido con un plato de más. Mi hermano, Dennis, debería haberle ofrecido su sitio. Pero los nueve adultos alrededor de aquella hermosa tabla de caoba —mi madre, mi hermano y su esposa, mi tía y mi tío, mi prima— no dijeron nada.
El silencio se alargó, cada segundo una nueva negación. Vi las manos de mi madre tan apretadas que sus nudillos palidecían, pero su mirada seguía clavada en la porcelana. De repente, Dennis encontró su corbata fascinante. Todos esperaban a que pasara el momento incómodo, a que Meredith se arrastrara hasta la cocina, donde le habían preparado una mesita frente al microondas.
Miré el rostro de mi hija y vi algo romperse en sus ojos. No era solo decepción; era la conciencia, repentina y devastadora, de que esta gente —que le enviaba tarjetas de cumpleaños firmadas "con cariño", que publicaba fotos con ella escribiendo "nuestra preciosa sobrina"— la dejaría ser humillada sin decir una palabra.
Entonces hice lo que haría cualquier padre. Tomé la mano temblorosa de mi hija. «Nos vamos», dije con una voz que rasgó su cómodo silencio.
Mi padre resopló: «No seas dramática, Alexandra. Es solo una comida».
Pero no era solo una comida. Eran todas las veces que la habían hecho callar, cada foto de familia de la que le habían pedido que se apartara, cada fiesta donde sus éxitos habían sido ignorados mientras se celebraban los de Dennis. Era un patrón que yo había sido demasiado cobarde para ver, hasta que mi hija se vio forzada a preguntar si era parte de la familia.
Eché un último vistazo a aquella hermosa mesa, a aquella familia que había pasado mi vida intentando satisfacer, y tomé una decisión que lo cambiaría todo. Irme era solo el principio. Lo que hice después no solo arruinó su Navidad; hizo que todo su mundo se desmoronara. #narraciones #mensajedepaz #socialmedia
Abbiamo appreso della morte di due ragazzi questa mattina, nel porto di Livorno. Due giovanissimi lavoratori che, nella speranza di una vita migliore, si erano imbarcati su una nave ro-ro nascosti dentro un semirimorchi
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#InEvidenza #CollettivoAutonomoLavoratoriPortuali #diritti #Lavoro #Livorno
Livorno non è questo: la morte di due giovani migranti nel nostro porto - La Città invisibile | perUnaltracittà | Firenze
Abbiamo appreso della morte di due ragazzi questa mattina, nel porto di Livorno. Due giovanissimi lavoratori che, nella speranza di una vita migliore, si erano imbarcati su una nave ro-ro nascosti…Lavoratori portuali USB Livorno (perUnaltracittà - laboratorio politico Firenze)
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Apple、昨年EUロビー活動に12億円超を支出 - iPhone Mania - WACOCA NEWS
EU（欧州連合）の電子機器規制はテック業界への影響が大きく、Appleもロビー活動に多額を投じていることが分かりました。昨年の支出額は700万ユーロ（約12億5,000万円）にのぼります。なぜこれほどの資金を投下する必要があるのでしょうか。WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
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Radical Right Research Robot (@RRResRobot@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image E. O"Malley. “Why is there no Radical Right Party in Ireland?” In: West European Politics 31.5 (2008), pp. 960-977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402380802234631.FediScience.org
A new Coding Train vidéo talking about running transformers in your web browser? Yes that's it 😁 No tedious installation steps... Just a few lines of javascript code and so many creative possibilities! Check it out!👍
#Transformers #P5js #javascript #video
#AI #TranformersJS #HugginFace
#codingTrain #coding #creativity #tutorial #innovation #tech #computerScience
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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
#PennedPossibilities 829: Is there a noticeable change in the seasons in your WIP’s universe?
Definitely! A major part of the WIP is an epic ocean journey that takes months and crosses a lot of latitudes with the changing seasons having a lot to do with the fate of some of the main characters.
Smurfs Log: Oma en Opa Sterk (around 1920)
* Part of the "Housecleaning (Things Left in My Mom's House)" series
#ThrowBackThursday #History #Caregiving #Photography
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