In his new book 'Architects of Terror,' Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain's ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy to Jewish refugees
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.
Michael Flynn, a Christian nationalist who previously served as US national security advisor under Donald Trump, said that Jews were willingly given to the Nazis and said there were no guards.
As more workers around the world adopt the generative AI chatbot for menial tasks, some corporations have begun to push back in fear of data and IP security concerns.
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It is happening relatively fast. Solar glass is already in production, at least as good as I know in Spain (the Spanish startup Onyx Solar is one of the pioneers in the area. They have already implemented solutions in buildings in Spain, Australia, Saudi Arabia and a prototype of a new version of the product in Israel.
@BlackRose I am wondering whether the increase of the AfD together with the actual momentum of extreme right wing parties in other countries can jeopardize the estability of European institutions after the next European elections.
Physicist Rajendra Gupta's study suggests current calculations that show the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years old are wrong, and his new theory shows the universe has actually been around for 26.7 billion years.
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made another eye-popping statement this week, and this time it was about the origins of the novel coronavirus.The New York Post reports that Kennedy floated his new conspiracy theory about COVID-19 during a ...
@hariette Is it possible as a user to change the background of this thread? It cannot be read with the kbin mobile webapp. It happens only with this specific thread and previous posts about Artemis.
After win last month by member of 'proven right-wing extremist' AfD branch, Jewish head of Thuringia domestic intelligence agency says will emigrate if party joins state gov't
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There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept...
@Ronno No really, if I understood well the proposal is not that every channel will have a backdoor. Probably that is a request only for citizens, and maybe most companies, but I don't think that it will apply to banks, finance institutions or to the state.
Or maybe I misunderstood something... I'm not sure.
@luna I was wondering why the name is weird. Maybe because I am not an English native speaker, but I don't find it not or less weird than lemmy or twitter...
The insurrection case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on June 24.
@endlessvoid And what is the goal? Now the results after the performance looks like;
Putin and the actual regime are weak: armed contractors leave their positions, enter in national territory and occupied a bit town without that the army is able to stop them. At the end and for the first time Putin's regime negotiates publicly with an oppositional illegal armed force inside its territory. Result: the regime show weakness.
Wagner as a contractor leaves the places in the line of combat and revolts against their actual employer: Result: Wagner cannot be trusted by future employers.
Since Prigozhin is not more in Russia/Ukraine, and it has been exiled, the command chain and control on Wagner is not more stable. At the same time the Russian Army doesn't seem able to take control of it, at least outside of Russia/Ukraine. Which control does now Russia have about the contracts in Syria, Africa, etc?
To be a theater... it doesn't seem to have a goal. Everyone seems here to be a loser: Wagner not more a successful company, Putin not more the head of a strong regime, the Russian army not more able to defend their territory against a armed force (worse, against a private company, not even a country or a terror organization).
For me more than a theater it looks like symptoms of decadence.
Putin's regime looks weak... to negotiate with a private company to avoid that their attack the capital of the country (a private company, not the NATO, not a bit terror organization) looks not really good.
The Russian army doesn't seem to be able to defend the Russian territory from the incursion of an organized armed force (able to occupy in hours a town with more than one million inhabitants)
Wagner doesn't look now as a company in which future stakeholders can trust, and trust is the base of the work of contractors.
@DarkGamer what it will be difficult will be to absorb into Russian forces the teams of Wagner deployed in other countries, especially African countries. They have been deployed as private contractors working for the local government or for local rebel groups. But... as part of the Russian Army that is diplomatically unsustainable (only exception Syria, since Russia is present there).
@shishmish And how they leave their place and arrive to Russia? Russian airports and sky are at the moment under governmental control. And I don't think that Syria will take part on the conflict organizing flights to Wager.
Russia's FSB security service has opened a criminal case against mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for calling for armed mutiny, the TASS news agency said on Friday, citing the National Antiterrorism Committee.
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No perhaps. That was all the problem. It was a break of trust by the admins who attended this meeting, and then cannot do a lot to regain the trust since they cannot speak about the subject. Eben is unknown who attended meeting. @LollerCorleone@kaladininskyrim
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
I’d like to explore a project for NLP based search on the fediverse. But I’m a fediverse beginner and am not sure if it’s possible to index fediverse content....
@ofcourse there are instances which defederated an instance because they implented free-text search. There is not agreement on that.
Steps 1 and 2 are problematic, since the Fediverse is hetetogeneous and not every instance federates which every instance, and not all the content is shared between diffrerent software (i.e. only a part of the content in kbin can be accessed by madtodon).
Anyway the approach is sound, maybe not for the fediverse, but for groups of instances which agree on a shared search engine.
I'm not sure about the GPU requirements, but on CPU the updates could be very slow for the actual trafic.
Mauritius Supreme Court legalises homosexuality in historic victory (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
The Supreme Court of Mauritius has declared the country’s criminalisation and ban of same-sex intimacy ‘discriminatory’ in a landmark ruling.
At least 22 killed in massive Hamas surprise attack, emergency service says (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Magen David Adom emergency service says at least 22 people have been killed since the start of the massive attack by the Hamas terror group.
Germans caught celebrating Oktoberfest with Nazi salutes (www.jpost.com)
Performing Nazi salutes has been illegal in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II and is punishable by law with prison time.
Germans caught celebrating Oktoberfest with Nazi salutes (www.jpost.com)
Performing Nazi salutes has been illegal in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II and is punishable by law with prison time.
How dictator Franco built his regime vilifying the Jews, then tried to hide it (www.timesofisrael.com)
In his new book 'Architects of Terror,' Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain's ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy to Jewish refugees
The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane (www.wired.com)
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
Former Trump adviser blames Jews for dying in Auschwitz (www.jpost.com)
Michael Flynn, a Christian nationalist who previously served as US national security advisor under Donald Trump, said that Jews were willingly given to the Nazis and said there were no guards.
Second Temple era synagogue discovered in Russia (www.jpost.com)
The finding marks the discovery of one of the world’s oldest synagogues.
Are corporations going to ban the use of ChatGPT? (www.jpost.com)
As more workers around the world adopt the generative AI chatbot for menial tasks, some corporations have begun to push back in fear of data and IP security concerns.
The Next Generation of Solar Technology: An Introduction to Solar Paint and Solar Glass (www.energyportal.eu)
Exploring the Future of Solar Energy: Solar Paint and Solar Glass Innovations
Videos denying climate science approved by Florida as state curriculum (www.theguardian.com)
Prager University Foundation’s animations cast doubt over renewable energy and liken climate activists to Nazis
New COVID variant spreading in the UK as hospitalizations rise (www.jpost.com)
Increases in coronavirus cases have been reported in other countries as well recently.
German intel: AfD taken over by extremist factions (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: mlem.a-smol-cat.fr/post/77878...
Spain fines Apple and Amazon €194M for colluding to restrict competition (thenextweb.com)
Amazon and Apple were found guilt of colluding to limit the sale of Apple products by third-party sellers on the huge online retail platform.
AI cannot replace spies, UK intelligence chief to say (www.reuters.com)
Study suggests universe is twice as old as presumed (www.ynetnews.com)
Physicist Rajendra Gupta's study suggests current calculations that show the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years old are wrong, and his new theory shows the universe has actually been around for 26.7 billion years.
“Millions” of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo (www.theverge.com)
Emails have been mistakenly routed to Mali for over a decade.
Germany’s AfD uses Nazi symbol to campaign against gender-inclusive language (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Alternative for Germany party condemned as 'disgusting and homophobic' for photo showing a downwards-facing rainbow triangle in a campaign
RFK Jr. suggests COVID-19 could have been 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews (www.rawstory.com)
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made another eye-popping statement this week, and this time it was about the origins of the novel coronavirus.The New York Post reports that Kennedy floated his new conspiracy theory about COVID-19 during a ...
Meta won’t say what happened to taxpayer data it may have illegally collected (arstechnica.com)
One tax preparer said the scandal likely impacts every user of its services.
Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data – The Markup (themarkup.org)
The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup
Israel's 'Day of Disruption': Protests break out at Ben-Gurion (www.jpost.com)
Roads were blocked across Israel as protesters demonstrated against the passage of the reasonableness standard bill.
About to start rolling out wave 2 of Artemis beta 👀 (kbin.social)
LET'S GO
Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation (www.bbc.com)
False and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine are being widely shared.
‘We’ve seen this before’: Growing fears after German county elects far-right leader (www.timesofisrael.com)
After win last month by member of 'proven right-wing extremist' AfD branch, Jewish head of Thuringia domestic intelligence agency says will emigrate if party joins state gov't
YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances. (kbin.social)
This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin....
What is the Small Web? (ar.al)
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The British town where the antisemitic blood libel theory was born could get a Jewish heritage center - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (www.jta.org)
Local Jews in Norwich are considering leasing Jurnet's House, built by a Jewish moneylender in the 12th century, for the new institution.
Encryption With A Back Door Is NOT Encryption (ktetch.co.uk)
There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept...
Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here? (kbin.social)
It finally happened: many Reddit 3rd party apps have officially shut down. With it comes an influx of users looking for a new place....
Jewish German intelligence chief says he and his family would leave Germany if the AfD gain power (www.jpost.com)
Stephan Kramer's comments come after the Alternative für Deutschland candidate won the local district council election in the same state.
'Chinese spy balloon' was 'crammed' with US hardware (www.theregister.com)
Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Israel seizes millions in Iran Quds Force, Hezbollah crypto assets (www.jpost.com)
This was Israel's largest seizure of cryptocurrency from those groups to date, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said.
Kremlin spokesman: Prigozhin case will be dropped, he will move to Belarus (kyivindependent.com)
The insurrection case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on June 24.
Incoming reports of Wagner Group soldiers leaving their missions in Africa and Syria to join the military coup in Russia against Putin. (twitter.com)
Russia's FSB opens criminal case against Wagner chief Prigozhin for armed mutiny (www.jpost.com)
Russia's FSB security service has opened a criminal case against mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for calling for armed mutiny, the TASS news agency said on Friday, citing the National Antiterrorism Committee.
Meta invited the admin of Fosstodon for a roundtable to discuss their upcoming fediverse platform (fosstodon.org)
And got a straightforward no as a response XD...
Erdan: UNSC must condemn Hezbollah infiltration into northern Israel (www.jpost.com)
Erdan warned that Israel "retains the right to take all necessary measures to protect its territory."
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Implementing NLP search on fediverse (kbin.social)
I’d like to explore a project for NLP based search on the fediverse. But I’m a fediverse beginner and am not sure if it’s possible to index fediverse content....