Scientists find a galaxy that defies conventional wisdom
It's a "surprising discovery."Mark Kaufman (Mashable)
The move is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under RFK Jr.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…
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nerd question: Would that be an EPDM membrane? I have heard those are used in parking garages too.
@Remittancegirl in Denmark we often use EPDM as a liner in garden ponds. Mine has lasted for 15 years now. They say it lasts up to 30 years.
Flies (of the lord?)
We've gotten the inside under control with the UV fly attractor + roaster lamp and meticulously killing every single one we see in the house.
But outside is another story. Any warm surface is covered in them. I don't think the colour matters, they just sit where it's sunny.
There's not even any livestock around, so not sure why. The neighbours cows are a decent distance away too. No manure either.
Need more frogs! 😀
#Flies #Insects #Homestead #PestControl
100 years, 100 moments: How women shaped a century of music
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2025/03/29/g-s1-56540/how-women-shaped-a-century-of-music?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
"Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail."
nathalielawhead.com/candybox/m…
about sustainable alternatives to existing in the game industry, and the positive impact of failure.
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #FOSS #Software
Sword lesbian? ✅
Love story? ✅
Retro action? ✅
Enigma Heart, our sapphic take on a classic action RPG formula, is available to wishlist NOW on #Steam!
If you'd like to be notified when it's released, boost this post! We'll edit it, and you should get a notification!
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#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGaming #PixelArt #Zelda #EnigmaHeart #ScreenshotSaturday
Enigma Heart on Steam
Unravel the mysteries of your past, protect the ones you love, and shape your destiny in Enigma Heart, a modern new take on a classic action RPG formula.store.steampowered.com
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Here is this week's #Linux & #OpenSource News video:
youtube.com/watch?v=weFVHVPynR…
AI directly harms Open Source, Android goes private: Linux & Open Source News
Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en#👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:Get access to:- a Daily Linux News show- a weekly...YouTube
Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order
As US pivots toward territorial ambitions in the west, the Kremlin’s support signals a deeper alignment in their challenge to global normsAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
the irony that Trump says the US needs Greenland to protect from Russia, and Russia backs him is lost on them.
He is angling for a war he thinks he can win, given US recent history, not many targets for him.
‘Among the worst conditions’: Florida theme park raided after dolphin deaths
State investigation under way at Gulf World after four dolphins have mysteriously died in past six monthsRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
What green card and visa holders should know before traveling abroad
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343493/green-card-holders-rights-visa-detained-cbp?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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President Zelensky: Ukraine received another US variant of minerals deal earlier, pointing out that this is an absolutely different document.
"There are a lot of things that were not mentioned, and also some things appeared that, let's say, the parties had rejected before," he said.
Zelensky also stated that Ukraine will not recognize all the previous US military aid as debt.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
President Zelensky:
"We have agreed to hold an urgent meeting in Ukraine within a week with a few representatives of the general staffs of the main countries that will be 100% ready for a troop contingent on the territory of Ukraine. France, Great Britain, and Ukraine definitely will. This is, let's say, a triangle in this matter."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews
So how's the first few days of Poilievre's hypocrisy election campaign going? #Elxn45 #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre holds investments in Brookfield — the same company he attacks Mark Carney over.
Pierre Poilievre has bashed asylum seekers for crossing into Canada but documents reveal his own relative crossed at Roxham Road—and then was helped by Anaida Poilievre and a MP's office to stay in Canada.
theferret.scot/the-money-trail…
Dumbing Down of America
FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out
In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
"Gawd forbid we get a pandemic under the Trump regime. The death toll will be huge!"
- Aure
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out
Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.
"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."
#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
Trump reverses termination of program tracking mass child abductions in Ukraine - for six more weeks
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#GiftLink #NoPaywall #UkraineWar
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Trinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality information
A questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests.TheJournal.ie
We told you this would happen and you said we were being “hysterical“ 🙄: They're Arresting Women for Miscarriages Now in the US
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-…
They're Arresting Us for Miscarriages Now
What the hell happened to the Overton Window?Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day)
USA: the CBP are snatching students off the streets for writing op-eds in a university magazine.
UK: The Met side-eye CBP and says "hold my beer …"
(C'mon, raiding a Quaker Meeting House and arresting a meeting there is just totally on-the-nose for 1675 politics, never mind 2025 …)
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The UK police broke into Westminster Quaker meeting house to arrest 6 young people last night.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/…
As a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, I have held quiet witness together with Quakers protesting wars for decades.
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
"Greenlanders shouted at Vance and carried banners reading 'Yankee, Go Home' upon his arrival"
- Aure
JD Vance arrives in Greenland: ‘It’s cold as s–t here — nobody told me’
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #greenland
nypost.com/2025/03/28/us-news/…
JD Vance arrives in Greenland: 'It’s cold as s--t here — nobody told me'
President Trump has pushed for Greenland’s roughly 56,000 residents to sever ties with Denmark and join the United States.Diana Glebova (New York Post)
Nazi America | Heil Trump!
Trump revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology,” the latest step in a broadside against culture he deems too liberal
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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Trump order on Smithsonian targets programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.Darlene Superville (AP News)
"STAND UP TO TYRANNY!
More than 200 'Tesla Takedown' protests planned this weekend
Tesla has become a lightning rod for violent attacks and vandalism in the months since CEO Elon Musk joined the Trump administration and now protests have spread to the UK
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #socialmedia #Fediverse #Tesla #protests
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We analyzed racial justice statements from the 500 largest US companies and found that DEI officials really did have an influence
Only 1 in 5 Fortune 500 companies made strong racial justice commitments in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Those companies were more likely to have DEI staff.The Conversation
A remarkable statement in a judgment against US government.
Rare to see a government defence described in such stark terms by a judge.
This is judicial comment turned up to 11, so to speak.
Am not following this case as closely as I am following the deportations case.
(I decided that as I am not an American lawyer, it was better to know one case well, than a number superficially.)
But looking at this judgment, the same lack of care by US government and legal flimsiness is plain.
#Police response to mass protests marked by punitive ill-treatment: lawyers
#Turkey #acab
turkishminute.com/2025/03/28/p…
Police have engaged in widespread physical abuse, sexual harassment and degrading treatment of young people detained during mass demonstrations sparked by the jailing of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, lawyers representing the detainees told Turkish media.
Police response to mass protests marked by punitive ill-treatment: lawyers - Turkish Minute
Police have engaged in widespread physical abuse, sexual harassment and degrading treatment of young people detained during mass demonstrations sparked by the jailing of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, lawyers representing the detainees told Turkish m…Turkish Minute (TurkishMinute)
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Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.Esme Stallard (BBC News)
In Turkish democracy your lawyer has the right to remain silent.
#erdoğan #turkey #türkiye #fascism #faşizm #imamoglu #imamoğlu mastodon.social/@rmblaber1956/…
Richard Michael Blaber (@rmblaber1956@mastodon.social)
https://www.dw.com/en/imamoglus-lawyer-detained-amid-ongoing-protests-in-turkey/a-72067490.Mastodon
From: blenderdumbass . org
A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...
Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th…
#copyright #endCopyright #copyleft #libre #piracy #privacy #dataProtection #AI #AiArt #philosophy
#ungerechtigkeit #armut #ernährung #deutschland
Ungerechtigkeit in Deutschland?
Dazu habe ich als #armutsbetroffene doch auch was zu sagen!
(Beilage in der taz von 28.03.25, ALT -Text zusammengefasst wegen Zeichenbegrenzung)
The thing about #Quakers, &I should know because I am one, is that from the outside we look pretty soft and easy to intimidate. Most of us are delicate, silver haired elderly ladies or gender diverse young people wearing shapeless clothes made of hemp. We spend endless meetings reaching consensus on decolonising the names of roles in our Meetings. But once a Quaker is finally convinced of the moral course of action there is absolutely nothing that will sway them from it.
quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/…
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
A new commitment to fight malnutrition worldwide.
We have announced €3.4 billion until 2027 to support partner countries facing high levels of child malnutrition, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
The EU support will address children under five and young pregnant and breastfeeding mothers suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
We will work with partner countries to get closer to a world where every child wakes up nourished, grows strong, and thrives.
More: europa.eu/!nywc49
EU pledges €3.4 billion to combat global malnutrition
Today, at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris, the European Commission announced a new pledge of €3.4 billion until 2027 to combat malnutrition globally.European Commission - European Commission
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If you needed another reason why LLMs are problematic, read this.
The problem is that any popularity algorithm can be manipulated. This is something we have seen with search SEO, with social media algorithms and now with LLMs. People will try to manipulate these algorithms for marketing reasons and sadly for more nefarious reasons.
For me, the first step of any solution is to ban user profiling.
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the timeNewsGuard (NewsGuard's Reality Check)
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