I Asked AI to Write a Protest Chant. What I Got Back Was Surprisingly Subversive - EUROPE SAYS
I wanted to know what kind of activist a chatbot could be.EUROPE SAYS
Ancient carbon emissions from rivers may accelerate climate change: study - EUROPE SAYS
MILWAUKEE - An incredibly complex area of science with no simple answers, climate change is one of the most significant and most hotly debated topics inEUROPE SAYS
Rogue States And Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran - Oriental Review
The broader Israeli logic is less the coherence of the nuclear threat than one of settling scores and crippling a rival.Binoy KAMPMARK (Oriental Review)
Rising Unemployment May Be Warning Signs for the U.S. Economy – La Voce di New York - EUROPE SAYS
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a questeEUROPE SAYS
A look at today's No Kings protests
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5431930/a-look-at-todays-no-kings-protests?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
This week in politics: the conflict between Israel and Iran and protests in CA
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5429138/this-week-in-politics-the-conflict-between-israel-and-iran-and-protests-in-ca?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
Can Israel Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program? - EUROPE SAYS
Israel’s decision to attack Iran’s nuclear program on June 12 might go down in history as the start of a significant regional war, and the inflection pointEUROPE SAYS
S2065
A bill to improve border security through regular assessments and evaluations of the Checkpoint Program Management Office and effective training of U.S. Border Patrol agents regarding drug seizures.
📢 Introduced in Senate
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#S2065 #congress119 #senate #republican #congress #newbill
SBET Crypto Token? Joseph Lubin Hints on What's Next for ETH Strategy Spin Off - EUROPE SAYS
Joseph Lubin, co-founder of the Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency and the founder of ConsenSys, the most influential Ethereum (ETH) development studio, doesn'tEUROPE SAYS
March for Palestine Tromsø, Norway. Not a large demonstratiin, but we made ourselves heard marching to the drums and chanting, through the not to friendly crowds of tourists from all over the world, expecting to enjoy their arctic adventure without politics, and the shopkeepers who don't wan't to uppset them.
#BreakTheSiege #StopTheGenocide #gaza
BREAKING: Palestine Action raid and destroy the inside of Permoid Industries Ltd. @Pal_action
The intervention came ahead of a planned shipment of ammunition boxes from the Durham factory to an Elbit Systems weapons plant in Israel.
This is the best way to stop GENOCIDE
#FreePalestine from #ZioNazis
#FreeEurope from #Fascism
#TommyRoe
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Hooray For Hazel
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupHooray For Hazel · Tommy RoeGreatest Hits - The Original ABC Hit Recordings℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.Released on...YouTube
Australian man shot and killed at a villa on the tourist island of Bali
https://apnews.com/article/bali-shooting-australian-attack-indonesia-tourist-island-d4e3fea58c5d55b125e0e302594fc3e3?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
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
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…
'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
Sharpshot Nature .Com 03298-tod-010736 Dandelion
100 0 2025-06-14 03298-tod-010736 Dandelion NIKON D7100 – ƒ/7.1 1/800 105mm ISO200 – Inver Grove Heights, MN Source: Sharpshot Nature .Com 03298-tod-010736 Dandelion
current friendliness levels are 97%
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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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(Original podcast was there, 404 right now)
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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
decentered.co.uk/building-part…
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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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Tindra
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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