Australian man shot and killed at a villa on the tourist island of Bali
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Paragon, Conte speaks: “I spied Casarini but not the journalists”
Giuseppe Conteformer prime minister, who in these days lashes out against the Meloni government on the case "Paragon"he said he had carried outBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
In Haiti, a record number of people have been displaced from their homes
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5431639/in-haiti-a-record-number-of-people-have-been-displaced-from-their-homes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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First take, best take, as always.
Some wonky moments, which I'm pleased with.
#music #MusicProduction #making
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Graham Dunning - Hexapod
Live mixdown of a new Mechanical Techno track, recorded on 12th June 2025. Check out the full "making of" video at https://youtu.be/p_XASERDMloYouTube
While woman-and-child killer Netanyahu is desecrating this slogan, he is arming #ISIS-linked militia in #Gaza.
Let's remember how the #YPJ defended #Kobani from ISIS itself. The slogan belongs to them
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'What's wrong with that?': How Israel trained and armed an ISIS-linked Gazan militia
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved this secret operation to support a Palestinian militia to guard the humanitarian aid – all while concealing the truth from the publicYossi Melman (Haaretz)
Columbia Secures $425K Grant for New Recycling Truck, Environmental Efforts - EUROPE SAYS
The City of Columbia is proud to announce it has been awarded a Waste Reduction Grant for a total project value of $425,200.00 from the Tennessee DepartmentEUROPE SAYS
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Shop Space-Saving Organizers for Every Room at Amazon - EUROPE SAYS
Space-Saving Home OrganizersEUROPE SAYS
Trump’s DC military parade is a warning - EUROPE SAYS
Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington this weekend — a show of force in the capital that just happens to take place on the president’s birthday —EUROPE SAYS
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Live: At least 90 killed in two days of Israeli attacks, says Gaza health ministry
Israeli strikes kill at least 27 Palestinians in Gaza since dawnMEE staff (Middle East Eye)
MEE is talking about Deir El Balah, which is south of Nuseirat. But Mosab here is a good source (Pulitzer prize winner from Gaza)
#AllEyesOnPalestine #Gaza #Genocide
David Beckham, Gary Oldman, Elaine Paige and others honored by King Charles III
https://apnews.com/article/beckham-oldman-paige-king-charles-honors-28e9d5e5b206fcacab3f92ca891e85e3?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Man Utd door 'definitively' closed amid agent 'sales mandate' and 'blackmail'
Does Viktor Gyokeres have a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with Sporting? Does his agent have proof of said agreement? Does that same agent have a ‘sales mandate’EUROPE SAYS
#TIL about @frequency, a federated photo-sharing app;
"I'm trying to be very upfront. Like, OK you're going to have to pay for this service. But I really want to make it as affordable as possible. I want to give you options to pay for your family and friends, to bring everybody in if there's someone that can't pay for it ..."
#JesseKarmani, 2024 (@jesseplusplus)
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What I find intriguing about Frequency is that Jesse isn't building an app in the sense of a client for existing fediverse servers. She's not building an app in the sense of a server stack like Friendica or Pleroma that's intended to be the base software for many people's servers.
What's she's building is an app in the sense of a commercial social network service, with its own branded client, revenue model, etc. But interacting with the rest of the fediverse, like FlipBoard now does.
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I'd like to see source code published under a libre license for the Frequency iOS client app, before I'd recommend it to anyone. Hopefully that will come as the software reaches a stable state.
But this is an approach I think has legs. Only enthusiasts want to dive into the minutiae of choosing software, host, and client. What most people want is to join a service that combines all 3 with a sustainable organisational model, and get on with using it.
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#KDE Frameworks 6.15 Is Out to Improve Accessibility and Keyboard Navigation in Plasma’s System Settings App 9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6…
@kde #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
KDE Frameworks 6.15 Improves Accessibility in Plasma's System Settings App - 9to5Linux
KDE Frameworks 6.15 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Russian attacks kill at least 3, injure 10 across Ukraine over past day - EUROPE SAYS
At least three people were killed and 10 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day, Ukrainian officials said on June 14.EUROPE SAYS
that certain people are more concerned with changing their phone backgrounds to a statement about warrantless searches to "protect" themselves and not:
- using fully end-to-end encrypted communications (eg., Signal)
- using strong PINs for phone locking/unlocking
- ensuring they have the latest phone updates and using, e.g., iOS Lockdown Mode
no one trying to break in to your phone gives a single fuck about an 11 year old case in California about warrantless searches
About Lockdown Mode - Apple Support
Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks.Apple Support
Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos. social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with decentralised social media;
decentered.co.uk/building-part…
#podcasts #Decentered #TechHistory #Indymedia #IndependentMedia #decentralisation
Building Participatory Media with Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka Rabble)
In this episode of the Decentered Media Podcast , Rob speaks with Evan Henshaw-Plath , widely known as Rabble , a technologist, activist, and early contributorRob Watson (Decentered Media)
"A lot of people came off X and went onto BlueSky, and said 'oh this doesn't accord with our values', and I thought that was a huge mistake. Because you've given up the ground, and the good people need to be in the place where people are."
#RobWatson, 2025
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This comment folds in so many assumptions it would take a long form essay to properly unpack.
#podcasts #Decentered
@decenteredmedia
Building Participatory Media with Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka Rabble)
In this episode of the Decentered Media Podcast , Rob speaks with Evan Henshaw-Plath , widely known as Rabble , a technologist, activist, and early contributorRob Watson (Decentered Media)
20 years ago similar arguments were being made for appealing to legacy corporate media for coverage, instead of publishing on the web. In both cases, corporate media platforms are being framed as neutral agora, which they are not. They gatekeep who gets to see what, in both explicit and covert ways.
Because of the power of network effects, the "ground" is the *people*, not the platform. Everyone who moves from a corporate platform to a community-centric network makes it easier to do.
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🗣️ Zelensky: We continue to take our people from Russian captivity. This is the fourth exchange in a week. Today, among the guys who returned to Ukraine, many have been in captivity since 2022.
There are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
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Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting.The Fool on the Hill
So here's some highlights.
On Money
"Money is, then, a necrotising parasite on social relationships, systematically sucking out transactions of kindness and generosity from the economy and replacing them with a winner-takes-all, zero sum game of competitive meanness.
Money is a disease."
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On Money
I've been listening to an interview with Joe Ament on the Economics for Rebels podcast. In it, Joe claims that the origin of money cannot be in barter, because a fisher cannot catch fish until they have a fishing pole, and so, to obtain the fishing p…Simon Brooke (The Fool on the Hill)
Manifesto for a Good Society
"who, precisely, is 'the commune'? Well, exactly the same people as 'the natural, informal society,' of course. What a person is doing when asking 'the commune' for help is not applying to a higher authority, but saying, formally, to the people among whom they live, 'hey! I have needs that aren't being met. Can we fix this, please?'"
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Manifesto for a good society
This essay grows out of a quite minor Twitter thread, which is here.Scotland now provides period products for free, to everyone who needs them.That's an incredibly powerful thing.Simon Brooke (The Fool on the Hill)
"As AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly versatile and capable of addressing a broad spectrum of tasks, ensuring their security has become a critical challenge. Among the most pressing threats are prompt injection attacks, which exploit the agent’s resilience on natural language inputs — an especially dangerous threat when agents are granted tool access or handle sensitive information. In this work, we propose a set of principled design patterns for building AI agents with provable resistance to prompt injection. We systematically analyze these patterns, discuss their trade-offs in terms of utility and security, and illustrate their real-world applicability through a series of case studies."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #PromptInjection #AIAgents #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity
"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections (2025) by Luca Beurer-Kellner, Beat Buesser, Ana-Maria Creţu, Edoardo Debenedetti, Daniel Dobos, Daniel Fabian, Marc Fischer, David Froelicher, Kathrin Grosse, Daniel Naeff, Ezinwanne Ozoani, Andrew Paverd, Florian Tramèr, and Václav Volhejn.
I’m so excited to see papers like this starting to appear. I wrote about Google DeepMind’s Defeating Prompt Injections by Design paper (aka the CaMeL paper) back in April, which was the first paper I’d seen that proposed a credible solution to some of the challenges posed by prompt injection against tool-using LLM systems (often referred to as “agents”).
This new paper provides a robust explanation of prompt injection, then proposes six design patterns to help protect against it, including the pattern proposed by the CaMeL paper."
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/…
Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM …Simon Willison’s Weblog
Israel’s war with Iran is only getting started - EUROPE SAYS
With the launch of Operation ‘Rising Lion’, Israel appears to have sought to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity. Through its own actions overEUROPE SAYS
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#lawsuits
Even after a judge ordered a halt to regime's war on foreign Harvard students, students were being locked up at Logan for hours and ordered to leave the country, school says
Harvard University says that even with three separate court orders requiring der Tacoführer's minions to let foreign students and professors go to Harvard, the regime found ways to block them from getting past Logan Airport - sometimes by continuing …Universal Hub
![This composite image compares the original, left, and edited versions of an image during the inspection of a then under-construction warship by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right in both images, in March. The red circle in the original image shows the former North Korean chief naval commander, Kim Myong-sik, in military attire, and manager of the Chongjin Shipyard, Hong Kil-ho, looking on as Kim speaks, while the edited image — captured from the North's official Korean Central Television footage aired on June 13 — shows both men to have been digitally removed, in a photo captured from NK News. [SCREEN CAPTURE]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/2488899 "This composite image compares the original, left, and edited versions of an image during the inspection of a then under-construction warship by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right in both images, in March. The red circle in the original image shows the former North Korean chief naval commander, Kim Myong-sik, in military attire, and manager of the Chongjin Shipyard, Hong Kil-ho, looking on as Kim speaks, while the edited image — captured from the North's official Korean Central Television footage aired on June 13 — shows both men to have been digitally removed, in a photo captured from NK News. [SCREEN CAPTURE]")
#LongCovid #WearAMask
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in reply to mhoye • • •some years ago I remember seeing a study (I think focused on cyber pros, but I suspect it’s broadly applicable) that, above a certain threshold, money stops being the primary motivator (for the best in the field).
Which, hey! Hierarchy of needs! Once you’re physically comfortable and secure, you get to think about having a mission instead of a job. You get to think about moral alignment. And so forth.
And that’s what a good CEO does: sets organizational culture.
Phosphenes
in reply to mhoye • • •Both extreme wealth and poverty seem to disconnect people from their own actions.
If you are mega wealthy, every decision you make has a happy ending, so without consequences you have no real agency.
If you're very poor, every decision you make has a sad ending, so you also have no agency.
Maybe there's a mirror image to the pathology of learned helplessness for the extremely rich, which would explain why they act increasingly crazy.
mhoye
in reply to Phosphenes • • •@Phosphenes This is an absolutely ridiculous equivalence. It's some of the worst both-sidesism I've ever seen.
What the hell.
Phosphenes
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