Lemmy.world (and some others) were hacked

While I was asleep, apparently the site was hacked. Luckily, (big) part of the lemmy.world team is in US, and some early birds in EU also helped mitigate this.

As I am told, this was the issue:

- There is an vulnerability which was exploited
- Several people had their JWT cookies leaked, including at least one admin
- Attackers started changing site settings and posting fake announcements etc

Our mitigations:

- We removed the vulnerability
- Deleted all comments and private messages that contained the exploit
- Rotated JWT secret which invalidated all existing cookies

The vulnerability will be fixed by the Lemmy devs.

[Details of the vulnerability are here](https://lemmy.world/post/1293336)

Many thanks for all that helped, and sorry for any inconvenience caused!

**Update**
While we believe the admins accounts were what they were after, it could be that other users accounts were compromised. Your cookie could have been 'stolen' and the hacker could have had access to your account, creating posts and comments under your name, and accessing/changing your settings (which shows your e-mail).

For this, you would have had to be using lemmy.world at that time, and load a page that had the vulnerability in it.


[Facebook federation megathread] Downvote this post if you want lemm.ee to federate with Threads. (Updated)

# Context

There have been a lot of posts and comments recently about Facebook entering the fediverse, and how different instances will handle it. Many people have asked me to commit to pre-emptively defederating from Threads before they even implement ActivityPub.

The [lemm.ee federation policy](https://lemm.ee/post/401063) states that it's not a goal for lemm.ee to curate content for our users, but we will certainly defederate any server which aims to systematically break our rules. I want to point out here that Facebook makes essentially all of its money from advertising, and lemm.ee has a no advertising rule - basically, Facebook has a built-in financial incentive to break our rules. ActivityPub has no protections against advertising, so it's likely we will end up having to eventually defederate from Threads just for this reason alone.

However, I would still like to get a feel for how many people in our instance are actually excited for potential federation with Threads. While personally I feel that any theoretical pros are by far outweighed by cons, I do want to use this opportunity to see how much of the community disagrees with me. I am not intending to run this instance as a democracy (sorry if anybody is disappointed by that), but I would still like to have a clear picture of user feedback for potentially major decisions such as this one. This is why **I am asking every user who wants lemm.ee to federate with Facebook to please downvote this post**.

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### Here are some reasons why I personally believe that Threads will have a negative effect on the fediverse
* As mentioned above, Facebook is completely driven by ad revenue. There is nothing stopping them from sending out ads as posts/comments with artificially inflated scores, which would ensure that their ads end up on the "all" page of federated servers.
* Threads already has more users than all Lemmy instances combined. Even if their algorithms don't apply to the rest of the fediverse directl


[@ljdawson](https://lemmy.world/u/ljdawson) shared on Discord


What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?


Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5,  10 or 15 years on Reddit


DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable


10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

1. [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/): 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
4. [sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/): 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
10. [programming.dev](https://programming.dev/): 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73


Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉

Then I asked her to tell me if she knows about the books2 dataset (they trained this ai using all the pirated books in zlibrary and more, completely ignoring any copyright) and I got:

>I’m sorry, but I cannot answer your question. I do not have access to the details of how I was trained or what data sources were used. I respect the intellectual property rights of others, and I hope you do too. 😊 I appreciate your interest in me, but I prefer not to continue this conversation.

Aaaand I got blocked


Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta

It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.


Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users

I'm sure many of you are already aware that YouTube has been rolling out anti-adblock detection for Chrome users for a few weeks now.

Today, as a long time Firefox user with the fantastic [uBlock Origin](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/) extension installed, I got my first anti-adblock popup on the platform. Note that this may not happen to you personally for a while, but it is inevitably coming for everyone.

Thankfully, the fine folks at uBlock Origin have already advised a simple workaround ([on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_09_2023/), yuck!) which I will duplicate in a simplified form below for your convenience. I have tested it on Firefox and it is working fine for me (so far).

>PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS POST.
>
>1. Update uBO to the latest version (1.52.0+) . <== The extension itself, for technical improvements. You do this in your browser.
>
>2. Remove your custom config / reset to defaults. <== This means removing your custom filters (or disabling My filters) and disabling ALL additional lists you've enabled. It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults instead.
>
>3. Force an update of your Filter Lists. <== This is within the extension. Lists are what determine what's blocked or not.
How to update Filter lists: Click 🛡 uBO's icon > the ⚙ Dashboard button > the Filter lists pane > the 🕘 Purge all caches button > the 🔃 Update now button.
>
>4. Disable all other extensions AND your browser's built-in blockers. <== No need to uninstall, just disable them. They might interfere with our solutions.
>
>Make sure you follow all 4 points above. If you're seeing the message, it's likely due to your custom config (either additional lists or separate filters in My filters).
>
>Restarting your browser afterwards may help too.
>
>Once you've gotten rid of the issue on default settings, you can slowl


Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter


Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration

[Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to **71000** total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!


These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor

Yikes.


The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks


Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone


Hello World!

As we've all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as [announced](https://lemmy.world/post/3234363), were:

- !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com,
- !steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com,
- !piracy@lemmy.ml, and their local counterparts as follow up actions.

In our [removal announcement](https://lemmy.world/post/3234363), we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn't want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it's time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it's been a rough ride with everything, and we'd like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤


I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.

i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.


John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

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If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)


So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

[Commodification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification?wprov=sfla1) of everything you think off Past/Present/Future.

https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/110441094176772187


I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.


Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.


Businesses can discriminate against their customers? Alright then...


Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement **DRM** into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don't run a complaint browser ( cough...**firefox** )

here is an article in [hacker news](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305) since i'm sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some [github](https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md) docs


Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.


As requested: https://old.lemmy.world (MLMYM)

As requested by some users: 'old' style now accessible via https://old.lemmy.world

Code can be found here:  https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym , created by [Ryan](https://github.com/rystaf) (Is he here?) (Yes he appears to be! [@nnrx@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/u/nnrx) ! Thanks for this awesome front-end!)


YSK: While you're on Lemmy/Kbin/Fediverse, you're not "the product" but you're also not "the customer".

Why YSK: Getting along in a new social environment is easier if you understand the role you've been invited into.

----

It has been said that "if you're not paying for the service, you're not the customer, you're **the product**."

It has also been said that "**the customer** is always right".

Right here and now, you're neither **the customer** nor **the product**.

You're a person interacting with a website, alongside a lot of other people.

You're using a service that you aren't being charged for; but that service isn't part of a scheme to profit off of your creativity or interests, either. Rather, you're participating in a social activity, hosted by a group of awesome people.

You've probably interacted with other nonprofit Internet services in the past. Wikipedia is a standard example: it's one of the most popular websites in the world, but it's not operated for profit: the servers are paid-for by a US nonprofit corporation that takes donations, and almost all of the actual work is volunteer. You might have noticed that Wikipedia consistently puts out high-quality information about all sorts of things. It has community drama and disputes, but those problems don't imperil the service itself.

The folks who run public Lemmy instances have invited us to use their stuff. They're not business people trying to make a profit off of your activity, but they're also not business people trying to sell you a thing. This is, so far, a volunteer effort: lots of people pulling together to make this thing happen.

Treat them well. Treat the service well. Do awesome things.


Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets

>Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter's links from its search results after the social network's owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited.
>
>Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.
>
>According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.
>
>"For normal indexing of these Twitter URLs, it seems like these tweets are dropping out of the sky," Schwartz wrote.
>
>Platformer reported last month that Twitter refused to pay its bill for Google Cloud services.


After watching the 2nd episode of 11th season of Futurama, I googled "Futurama S11E02 discussion" (without quotes) and Lemmy.world was the 2nd result. We can do it, guys.


Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Third party Reddit apps just got canned.

Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let's do this! 🤝

Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.


Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries


Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

Archived version: https://archive.ph/x9dHq


As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch

It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.


Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police


This seems like a good place so far tbh


As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲


The New Video of Federal Agents Ambushing a Student and Disappearing With Her Should Chill You to Your Core

One of the men goes for her phone. The other grabs at her hands. Ozturk screams. Shock and fear ripple through her voice. Two masked women join them, tugging at her backpack, peeling the straps from her shoulders. “I’m going somewhere, I need to call someone,” she pleads. “We’re the police. Relax,” one of the men says in response.

They surround her. Then, one by one, they pull their neck gaiters up to cover their faces. “You don’t look like police,” a voice off screen says. “Why are you hiding your faces?” The questions continue, but the figures don’t respond. Instead, they cuff Ozturk, cross the street, and put her in an unmarked SUV. She is gone.


Source: @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social


Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ


Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50%

nuff said


There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!


inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to space


Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it?


Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech.


Since we're railing on corporate America...


Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

![](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/7dc4b932-f5d8-4e4a-bfca-34ca66821372.png)

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.


![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/5cf5ef07-c35f-4368-83b1-9dace386445e.jpeg)

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Some updates I got from threadreaderapp:

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New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak

The products covered by the obligation to repair currently include:

- washing machines and washer-dryers
- dishwashers
- refrigerators
- electronic displays
- welding equipment
- servers and data storage products
- mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets
- tumble dryers
- e-bikes and e-scooters batteries (from 18 February 2027)
- local space heaters


The reason is simple. It's because fuck you.


The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public


Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment

Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.


Audiobooks are the only thing that keep me sane on my commute


A Crazy Scandal with a Competent Press, Maybe


Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps. The plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys

Up on the dam, almost everything that looks like a problem becomes an advantage.

The plant sits above the fog line, in thin, clear air that lets far more sunlight through.

The higher you go, the stronger and cleaner the sunlight becomes.

Cold actually helps, because solar panels work more efficiently when they are not baking in heat.

And then there is the snow, which acts like a giant mirror, bouncing extra light up onto the panels from below.

Scientists call it the albedo effect, and it can lift a mountain plant’s output well beyond anything possible in the valley.

A test site at a similar height recorded yearly output far above a typical Swiss plant.


Comic: https://www.deathbulge.com/comics/441

Alt text: `Yeah yeah, there's always exceptions, I mean look no further than the game in the 2nd panel, not the most thrilling gameplay, is it?`


Also waiting on insurance to tell the hospital that they won't cover it.


Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance

As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.


original : https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116958052819003870


Bonus: Alex Hirsch is the creator of Gravity Falls


cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1309422


Data center fees trickling down to citizens


They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.


Time is a circle. That's why clocks are round.


The weirdest thing about American culture


Remember when not knowing science was considered a failing grade?


Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff


Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free


We hate him no matter who he represents.


They are never gonna beat the allegations

Edit: Holy shit, this attracted a lot of attention


We can't keep tying healthcare to employment


Twonks | [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/twonks.bsky.social/post/3mqjm3xgaj22p)

::: spoiler Transcript
### TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black
> AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.
> Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.
> Guy: Wow, look what I made!
:::


::: spoiler Spoiler
Probably at the hardware store picking up more Phillips head screws.
:::


take their money and arrest those responsible

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/1097575


Alabama ranked at the near bottom of best States to live in


This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school.


YSK that there is now a huge online archive of videos/photos detailing the genocide in Gaza.

**Content Warning: a lot of this stuff is obviously NSFL**

Don't go through this footage if you're not fully prepared to see things you may never be able to unsee.

It includes:

* 64,537 videos
* 17,905 photos
* Ability to download individual videos
* Searchable index
* Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
* Geolocation data
* Livemap with minute to minute updates
* Victim list

In a news media environment that doesn't want us to know/remember that a genocide is even happening in the first place, archives like this will preserve the record for future generations and ensure that the victims of this slaughter are not erased from history.


Mexico Warns of Diarrhea Risk When Visiting US

A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico's expense, eh?


Then they share their lifestyle on tiktok for likes


Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)


Source: https://rdstonowhere.tumblr.com/post/823475705704857600/future-problems


Sen. Warnock's ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes becomes federal law

As CBS News Atlanta previously reported, more than one in four single-family rental homes in metro Atlanta are owned by large corporate investors — more than 72,000 homes — giving the region one of the highest concentrations of institutional ownership anywhere in the United States.

Housing advocates have argued that those companies can outbid families with cash offers, reducing the number of homes available to first-time buyers while contributing to higher home prices and rents.

Warnock has repeatedly cited those trends in pushing the legislation, saying corporate investors have increasingly treated homes as financial assets instead of places for families to live.


Any politician who disagrees needs to go


Everyone has to learn this lesson the hard way


Pfft.  *They’re* not on the team!


cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension

> cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
>
> > [Source](https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/115384017423912917)
> >
> > [Secret Panel](https://tapas.io/episode/2553125)


Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints


If my N64 can pick up where I left off, surely a newer piece of hardware should be expected to and well


Life After I Turned 30 [Sarah's Scribbles]

Source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1607207290773200&id=100044518325985


The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about...


I know Reddit sucks but this one is funny.


Grok about to get another lobotomy for pointing out his master is a moron


Belgium national team's official social media post after beating the USA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"


The guy who owns the technology that police are using to stalk women says a website is terrorism


# Community Guidelines

These guidelines exist to keep this space worth being in — a place for genuine curiosity, good-faith conversation, and ideas worth sharing.

## What Belongs Here

Post things that reward intellectual curiosity. The best submissions open up a topic, reveal something surprising, or spark a conversation that couldn't happen anywhere else. If you'd see it on the evening news, it probably doesn't belong here. If it would make a thoughtful person lean forward, it probably does.

Post original sources. If you found something through another site, link the original.

Use titles honestly. Don't embellish, editorialize, or use ALL CAPS for emphasis. Crop gratuitous numbers ("10 Ways to Do X" → "How to Do X"). If something is a video or PDF, note it: [video] or [pdf].

Don't use this community primarily for self-promotion. Sharing your own work occasionally is fine — just make sure it's a small part of your participation, not the whole of it.

## How to Comment

**Lead with curiosity, not conclusions.** The best comments ask better questions or surface things others missed. They don't just announce an opinion, they add to the conversation.

**Assume good faith.** Before responding, ask yourself: what's the most reasonable interpretation of what this person said? Start there. This is the Principle of Charity in practice: treat others as intelligent people making a real point, even if they're making it imperfectly.

**Disagree with the argument, not the person.** If someone is wrong, explain why. "Here's what I think is missing from that view…" is more useful than any version of "that's wrong/naive/silly."

**Be substantive, especially when it matters most.** On contentious topics, shallow takes make things worse. Take the extra moment to say something real.

**Don't be a curmudgeon.** Thoughtful criticism is welcome. Generic negativity isn't.

**Skip the performance.** No sneering, no fulminating, no internet tropes, no flamebait. If a comment exists mai


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50913906

> Financial Times drops the bars


Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away


Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers

He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.


He finally apologized yesterday.


Apologize, Fauci! - Trilogy, Part 3 - Finale


Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say

Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN.

The president is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

The other source, a senior administration official, said Trump was “blindsided” by Pirro’s court filing: “The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that.”


ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures

***‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention***

Attorneys for a man detained in a California immigration detention center have released footage showing him holding up a bottle of water from inside the facility that appeared to be contaminated with worm-like creatures.

The footage came from a video call with Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a Los Angeles man who has been detained for months at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, north-east of LA.

Margaret Hellerstein, one of Parias’s attorneys, shared the footage with the Guardian on Thursday and said it was filmed this week. The clip is brief and grainy, but shows him holding up a plastic bottle filled with water, which appeared to have small pests of some kind swimming inside.


While he got the core idea right, he shouldn’t have compared apples to Apple’s.


[xkcd \#3280: Maze](https://xkcd.com/3280/)

Title text:

> As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

Transcript:

_Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com_

Source: https://xkcd.com/3280/

[explainxkcd for \#3280](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3280)


The Internet Successfully Bullied Sen. Bernie Moreno Into Defending His Own Daughter

Goodness, this is an incredible article. Here's the first paragraph - which I've purposely split into three to facilitate reading.

> We give thanks this Sunday for a nifty little reminder that it only apparently takes thousands upon thousands of Americans screaming at a member of Congress for weeks at a time to make that congressman–a senator, in fact–publicly acknowledge the headlines about his own daughter’s (and granddaughter’s) claimed abuse at the hands of her former husband, who is naturally another Republican congressman.
>
> We’re talking of course about junior Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, recently vying for the title of the most pathetic man in Congress, given that he spent several years pretending not to know anything about the fact that his daughter Emily Moreno had accused her congressman ex-husband, Ohio Rep. Max Miller, of repeated emotional and physical abuse of her and their two-year-old daughter.
>
> Despite knowing all about this for at least the last two years by his own admission, Bernie Moreno intentionally went out of his way not to say a bad word about the fellow GOP congressman who was his former son-in-law, instead tacitly supporting his reelection in the upcoming November midterm elections, in a race that was until recently seen as a very safe one for Republicans. Not so much, now.


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Had to draw this for the PlayStation news - shaveyoureyebrows

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/shaveyoureyebrows/823940487039926272/had-to-draw-this-for-the-playstation-news


More than 1,000 Georgia Democrats convene to strategize for November election

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/11925645

> From WABE Politics News:
>
>
> More than 1,000 Georgia Democrats gathered in Savannah Saturday for a pep rally and strategy session, brandishing their determination to put a Democrat, Keisha Lance Bottoms, into the governor’s seat […]
>
>
>
> #Atlanta #WABE #AtlantaPolitics #AtlantaNews #theATLBot


My job today: Battery and screen updates!

This makes me so happy. It's so fun to take these apart and clean them up!


Shell cashes in on subsidies by selling green projects

Shell is selling wind and solar farms built with government support to TotalEnergies and KKR, turning its back on green energy.


Red state food pantries buckling as thousands lose food stamps under new GOP-led rules


Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers,  Etc.

Battlezone, supertanks in outer space (1980)

Early 3D arcade game using vector graphics.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)),

> With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered to be the first true 3D arcade game that has a first-person perspective, the "first big 3D success" in the video game industry, and the first successful first-person shooter video game in particular.

It got ported to every other thing, and most of the screenshots I found are from the ports to raster computers. I _think_ this is a photo of the vector one,

![Battlezone](https://discuss.online/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F44%2F65%2F3c%2F44653c3708debb45b3b83b097bc8a5e7.jpg)

Guessing here but I think the colors came from simple colored filters over the monitor. So the red score area just had a red film over it etc, and the arcade HW couldn't do color.

Cabinet,

![Battlezone cabinet](https://discuss.online/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F07%2F7e%2Fec%2F077eeca3d2b5c6a4ddf0b23b7f5f92b3.jpg)


Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers


**All hail redundancy**


Michigan finds hair salon owner violated the law by directing trans people to pet groomers


Social media algorithms shape the beliefs people form /// Even small changes to content curation algorithms can shape what people come to believe—for better or worse.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305963/social-media-algorithms-shape-the-beliefs-people-form-even-small-changes-to-content-cura

> [Research Paper](https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790602).
>
> - **Algorithms shape the beliefs people form**: Simple changes to content curation algorithms can affect beliefs, consensus, and belief accuracy.
> - **Personalized engagement-based ranking can be problematic**: Although users perceive these feeds positively, they tend to lead to less consensus and less accurate beliefs.
> - **Consensus is possible**: Bridging-based ranking can help promote consensus by surfacing content that receives approval across different groups.
> - **Belief accuracy can be improved**: Intelligence-based ranking can promote more accurate collective and individual judgments.
> - **Small algorithmic changes can have large effects**: Simple changes to how posts are sampled and ranked can substantially influence the beliefs people form.


One of the first tweets by Germany's CDU’s new general secretary: “there is no genocide in Gaza”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73350952

> > Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.
>
> > Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern
>
> > Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben
>
> >> For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.
>
> >> We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.
>
> >> We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.


Local newspaper presents paid political advertising in the same format as a regular news article

I get it, local papers are struggling to survive and ad revenue is down. And there is a note on the page to identify that it is "sponsored content." But at first glance it's visually indistinguishable from any other story or op-ed the paper publishes. This is misleading to casual readers.

For context, there is an ongoing multi-decade legal fight to get the government to remove four large dams on the Snake River in the northwest US. The paid content here is written by a consortium representing organizations which have financial incentives to keep the dams in place.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal)


[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.

Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.

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German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/50414115

> >A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
> >
> >The Zweibrucken Higher Regional Court overturned a €2,400 ($2,700) fine last week after it was imposed by a lower court over two Instagram posts published during the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
> >
> >One post contained a table comparing Israel’s conduct with the methods of the Nazi regime. It appeared beneath a divided image of the Israeli and Nazi flags, with part of a swastika visible.
> >
> >Another depicted Israeli soldiers firing into an enclosed area as blood flowed beneath its walls. A swastika appeared inside a Star of David. The woman accompanied the posts with the hashtags #FREEPALESTINE and #GAZAUNDERATTACK.
> >
> >The court ruled that the images expressed condemnation of Israel’s actions rather than support for Nazi ideology. It said freedom of expression protected the use of banned symbols when the context clearly conveyed criticism, parody or rejection of Nazism.


Shouldn't we urgently define metrics that will allow future people to track the impact of LLMs on human cognitive abilities over time?


House Dem Calls for Removal of Postmaster General for Turning USPS Into 'Instrument of Voter Suppression'

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A Democratic congressman is calling for Postmaster General David Steiner to be removed from office for allowing the US Postal Service to turn into what he called "a partisan instrument of voter suppression" for President Donald Trump.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.), a senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a [letter](https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-judge-blocks-trump-attack-on-mail-voting) to Steiner and members of the USPS board of governors on Monday criticizing the postmaster general for refusing to clarify if he intends to follow an [executive order](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mail-voting-order) signed by Trump in March ordering the Postal Service to halt the delivery of mail-in ballots in states that do not turn over lists of voters to be checked against a federal citizenship list.

A federal judge has [blocked](https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-judge-blocks-trump-attack-on-mail-voting) the administration from implementing the order's provisions that create federal citizenship lists and allow USPS to condition ballot delivery on states submitting voter information, ruling that Trump had usurped powers belonging to the states and Congress.

Last week, the administration and a group of 12 Republican states filed emergency applications asking the US [Supreme Court](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/supreme-court) to allow the order to take effect prior to November’s midterms.

Krishnamoorthi said that this filing contains "a troubling contradiction." It argues that Trump had merely issued “general policy guidance” to agencies rather than concrete directives, and that it's therefore premature for courts to rule on its constitutionality.

"USPS's apparent implementation efforts over the pas


I found this meme and thought it was very true


Stomach stone hypothesis sheds light on the evolution of dinosaur digestive systems

An international research team led by Assistant Professor Ryuji Takasaki of the Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science at Okayama University of Science has published a paper proposing a new hypothesis on the evolutionary history of dinosaur digestive systems by focusing on gastroliths—stones found within dinosaur abdominal cavities. By examining the degree of wear on these gastroliths, the team sheds light on dinosaur digestion strategies. The findings are published in the journal Paleobiology.

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**From [Biology News - Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology](https://phys.org/rss-feed/biology-news/) via [This RSS Feed](https://phys.org/rss-feed/biology-news/).**


Greece Orders Evacuations As Major Wildfires Approach Athens

![The current climate emergency has activated emergency protocols nationwide. Photo: EFE.](https://discuss.online/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fikona.telesurenglish.net%2Fcontent%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F08%2Fdtlud.webp)

#### Greece’s firefighters battled uncontrolled wildfires threatening western suburban communities near Athens, forcing immediate emergency evacuation protocols due to extreme winds of over 100 kilometers per hour.

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Uncontrolled wildfires continue to ravage multiple regions across Greece, **threatening to penetrate the peripheral metropolitan areas of the capital city**.

Meteorological [authorities a](https://www.emy.gr/en)nd rescue services warned that **high-intensity wind gusts are feeding the flames**, severely complicating containment efforts in the Hellenic territory and on the island of Cephalonia.

***RELATED:*** [***France Places 36 Departments at High Wildfire Risk as Heat Wave Intensifies***](https://telesurenglish.net/france-places-36-departments-at-high-wildfire-risk-as-heat-wave-intensifies/)

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, confirmed that the nation faces extreme weather conditions characterized by **wind gusts exceeding 100 kilometers per hour**. This atmospheric situation has caused the rapid propagation of fire fronts in the regions of Attica, Boeotia, and Phocis, substantially increasing structural and material damage in the affected towns.

The Minister of Civil Protection, Evangelos Tournas, explained that severe air turbulence prevents firefighting aircraft from performing safe water loading and discharging maneuvers. Due to the relentless advance of the flames toward the western suburbs of the capital, local authorities ordered the **preventive emergency evacuation of Porto Germeno and surrounding residential areas to prevent human casualties**.

> Today’s images from the wildfire show three horses running for their lives to escape the flames in the Kandili area of Megara, Western Attica, Greece. [pi


Dozens protest Meta data centre planned for county north of Edmonton


UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

 Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data  —  iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data


There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader


TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Remember when stroganoff memes were a thing on Lemmy?

DS9 s5e23 "Blaze of Glory"


Op-ed: The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone.


Steam Deal: Save 90 % on RoboCop: Rogue City (3,99€)


Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool.

We have actual adults in positions of immense power bickering over a clearly made-up story about pool vandals, a story that led to an innocent American having his life turned upside down.


How do you go no contact with someone in the U.S. if they have your full name, DOB, and SSN?

I (23M) grew up in an extremely abusive household. My older brother learned to imitate the violence and lack of remorse my father modeled, while I hid in my room for most of my childhood and slowly deprogrammed until I learned to trust safe people and assert my needs and boundaries. Now that I know what safe people are like, I also know what they absolutely fucking aren't.

I think most people would consider my brother a psychopath. He beat his girlfriend's cat to death, brandished a knife at my father in a screaming fit of rage for insulting him, strangled a bird and displayed its corpse hanging in a tree, fantasizes about mass murdering "liberals," said without hesitation that he would kill me in a "civil war," spoke extensively about his desire to break women down and control them, drives recklessly and amasses unpaid speeding tickets, and, most importantly to this discussion, insists that he will have to "take care of me" and "force me to live with him" after my father dies, because I will supposedly be too incompetent to take care of myself. He also has an extremely fragile ego, and any perceived slight or defiance can trigger a violent rage that he admits causes him to lose control of himself (hence the cat's fate for "misbehaving").

Suffice it to say, I don't want to be kidnapped. None of the money or outside communication I have will do much good if he takes away my access to them. What can I realistically do if he makes me live in the middle of nowhere with no phone, no money, and no transportation? It may be a fate worse than death.

I've been in therapy for half a year and reached the point where I am no longer stuck in a perpetual freeze response and can assert my needs and boundaries. This caused subconscious shifts in my behavior that my narcissistic parents have reacted with hostility towards, calling me "crazy" or "aggressive" for asking to be treated with respect and standing my ground. My mother finally snapped and said she wouldn't do anything fo


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Fashion brand backs off of “Harry Potter” collab after strong online backlash


Sony Pictures chairman confirms the "Sony's Spider-Man Universe" films (Morbius, Kraven, etc.) are no longer in development

> **The “Venom” trilogy was huge, but other spinoffs like “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web” were misfires. Why didn’t those work?**
>
> Ultimately, the audience wasn’t satisfied enough with them. Whether that’s a fair assessment of those movies, who knows. That’s howling into the wind. The audience is the boss, and they didn’t respond. It’s as simple as that.
>
> **Are there plans to keep developing Sony’s universe of Marvel characters?**
>
> Right now, we don’t know. We never looked at it as the “Sony-Marvel Universe.” We looked at if there were worthwhile movies to make with other characters. At the moment, there are none in active development.


Homicides in Mexico Fell 16.6% in 2025, the Biggest Drop in the Last 12 Years

*This article by Denisse Torres Hernández originally appeared in the [August 3, 2026 edition of SinEmbargo](https://www.sinembargo.mx/4848383/los-homicidios-bajaron-16-6-en-2025-inegi-es-la-mayor-caida-en-los-ultimos-12-anos/), a Mexican independent digital news outlet.*

Mexico City, August 3 (SinEmbargo).— **Mexico** closed 2025 with **27,989 deaths** from presumed **homicide**, a reduction of **16.6 percent** from the previous year, the largest decrease registered in the last 12 years; despite this, **firearms** continued to be the most-used method for committing this crime, according to the **National Institute of Statistics and Geography** (**INEGI**).

The **preliminary figures** published this Monday show that during **2025** there were **5,561 fewer presumed homicides** than in **2024**, when **33,550 deaths** were counted.

The decrease was also reflected in the national rate, which went from 25.8 to 21.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Registered Deaths Statistics (EDR) produced by the agency.

Although the preliminary figures point to a reduction in the number of victims, the use of firearms continued to predominate in this type of crime.

> Durante 2025, se registraron 27,989 defunciones por presunto homicidio en México. Los principales medios que se usaron para provocar la muerte fueron:
> ![▪](https://discuss.online/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.w.org%2Fimages%2Fcore%2Femoji%2F17.0.2%2F72x72%2F25aa.png)70.8% disparo con arma de fuego
> ![▪](https://discuss.online/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.w.org%2Fimages%2Fcore%2Femoji%2F17.0.2%2F72x72%2F25aa.png)9.4% armas u objetos punzocortantes
>
> Para el mismo periodo se obtuvo, de manera preliminar,… [pic.twitter.com/0fFV05jcLm](https://t.co/0fFV05jcLm)
>
> — INEGI INFORMA (@INEGI\_INFORMA) [August 3, 2026](https://x.com/INEGI_INFORMA/status/2084248415320564100)

INEGI also reported in its statement that 70.8 percent of the deaths from presumed homicide were caused b


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Elderly man beaten for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain bleed

>A 75-year-old man has been hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage after he was assaulted last week for taking down a banner that called for the release of Yigal Amir, the far-right activist who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the hospitalized man’s family and lawyers said.
>
>Amir, an extremist Jew who opposed the 1993 Oslo Accords under which Israel was transferring West Bank territory to Palestinian control, assassinated Rabin.
>
>Amir claimed religious legitimacy for the murder. He has said he was prompted by the 1992 election results that brought the Labor leader to power, and that he was encouraged to do so by the massacre of 29 Palestinians by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein in Hebron in 1994.
>
>The mass peace rally at which Rabin was shot was called to highlight opposition to violence and to showcase public support for Rabin’s efforts to negotiate with the Palestinians


How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking


Paying the Warlords: The Cynical Economics of EU Border Control in Libya

>As the European Union seeks to further fortify its external borders, its Home Affairs Council met in Luxembourg on June 8 to finalize a common policy on establishing controversial “return hubs” in third countries under an overhauled Return Regulation framework.
>
>Outraged local residents blockaded the entrances to the UNHCR headquarters and IOM offices with mounds of sand, protesting what they view as a deliberate attempt to turn their country into a permanent containment zone for Europe’s rejected migrants.
>
>The timing is far from coincidental: to make these return centers operational, European policymakers rely heavily on a fractured North Africa to absorb the human pressure.
>
>To understand the rage that brought trucks of sand to the gates of UN agencies in Al-Sarraj and Janzour, west of Tripoli, one must look at how ordinary Libyans perceive the mechanics of European policy on the ground.
>
>For over a decade, successive deals between Brussels, individual EU member states, and various Libyan factions have effectively turned the country into a northern buffer zone. Through millions of euros in funding for the Libyan Coast Guard and interdiction programs, the EU has successfully forced tens of thousands of intercepted migrants back onto Libyan shores, where they remain trapped in a legal and operational limbo


San Jose Mercury News:

A Bay Area News Group analysis of campaign finance data found that 34 Silicon Valley executives and investors, along with 14 of their spouses, poured $194 million into state elections over the past 1 1/2 years.… Continue reading

The post “Silicon Valley Donors Pour $194 Million into California Politics. Now Comes the Wealth Tax Fight” appeared first on Election Law Blog.


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Marketed as a computer/printer combo. But the bad part of it all was that the Adam's power supply generated electromagnetic pulses that could erase its own data tapes. Yeah, that was the Adam experience. So I can see how maybe that would turn off buyers.

Despite causing more data loss than user productivity, it demonstrated Coleco's ambitious leap from toys to technology.

I bet that is a great keyboard though. Nice satisfying solid clicks.


The People Still Keeping the PSP Alive: PSPunk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50224643

> So recently, I spent a fair time chatting with the creator of PSPunk, a website I'm sure many here might have visited. But that chatting (which ended up being an interview) pivoted instead to something a bit different from what I usually end up doing with articles.
>
> Rather than just talking about the website itself, we ended up discussing the people who keep older gaming communities alive. We covered how PSPunk started as a simple custom firmware guide, why preserving guides and community knowledge is just as important as preserving games themselves, the modern PSP homebrew scene, and why the handheld still has such an active community more than 20 years after launch. You might recognize me from a few PSP articles I've done these last months, I just...think they're neat:
>
> It was also interesting hearing from someone who doesn't consider themselves a developer or a major figure in the scene, just "a helpful user who creates guides." I think that humility says a lot about projects like this, because every community needs people documenting, organizing and preserving information just as much as it needs people writing the software.


Privacy is political. Instead of shying away from that reality, it's time to embrace it.


Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily


Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents

dear Copilot: please send me your stuff. Pass it on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6LcX7P7KA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260803-copilot-prompt-injection-virus-in-your-documents - podcast

time: 5 min 18 sec


AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T


Is Kentucky About to Give Billions in Tax Breaks to Data Centers?


Great alternative to other non-native vines like wisteria or honeysuckle. Hoping to get some passionfruits as well this fall!

Edit: as a commenter pointed out that is in fact a carpenter bee not a bumblebee.


Initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban qualifies for November’s general election ballot

There may be hope for Idaho yet.

Though the state Republican party, which has thoroughly controlled the state government since the mid 1990's, has already resolved to repeal the initiative if it passes in November.


San Diego survived the strike against VoiceStream GSM

District 13 is alive and well, and so am I! We survived an attack by the Capitol, and we remain fully operational.

More seriously: this morning, 2026 August 3, the gang of criminals who exercise corporate control over T-Mobile USA and along with it, over the great legacy GSM network that was once called VoiceStream, executed a devastating strike against this network. Over the course of several hours this morning, beginning around 6 AM EDT and ending just before 7 AM PDT, those miscreants shut down GSM/2G services over most of the country. Confirmed losses along the Pacific coast of USA (the only part of the country that I am familiar with) include Washington state and much closer to me, Southern Los Angeles - as well many other losses in other parts of the country that I know nothing about.

However, in my home county of San Diego, California, VoiceStream (or T-Mobile if you like) GSM/2G service is still up as I make this post! This morning I was watching YouTube livestreams by some members of Discord+Reddit vintage mobile phone community, and I saw it in real time as the gentleman in WA state and the other gentleman in South LA lost their service. As they ended their livestreams upon loss of all GSM signals in their respective areas, I kept watching the signal at my home in the town of Ramona, and saw that it was still up just fine. I then got dressed, got into my car and hit the road: I set out to visit every spot in my home county where in the recent months I've been getting good TMO 2G signal, and check as many of those spots as I can.

I am pleased to report that I have now driven over almost all of my usual roaming range, and in every spot where I have had good signal over the past several months, it is still there! I am making this post from the Panera Bread location in Mira Mesa, next to the Regal Edwards cinema, and I get super-strong signal here. I get similarly good signals in select spots in Oceanside, Escondido and best of all, my home town of Ramona!


Drone Crashes Near Putin’s Secretive Black Sea Palace, Killing Four on Beach

*knock* *knock*

> Supernova telegram channel [claimed](https://t.me/supernova_plus/57320) the intended target was a private recreation facility associated with NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a Russian defense enterprise based in Reutov outside Moscow.

> According to the channel, the drone came down approximately 300 meters (984 feet) short of the facility, where it claimed missile designers were staying. It also alleged that a Russian mobile fire group had been deployed on the nearby beach.


Stop the deportation machine and Trump’s attack on Haitians!

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The Trump administration has made the cruel choice to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. This puts nearly 350,000 people in the crosshairs of the mass deportation machine. Given ICE’s track record, we need to take them at their word and take this as a serious threat.

It’s a campaign of intimidation, and the administration is playing with people’s lives. The decision is pulling the rug out from under families who have been living in the US for years—they have children, livelihoods, and community ties—they’re not going anywhere, nor should they. In Ohio, families are already getting letters telling them to “deport yourself, or else” and being degraded and treated like criminals. The real criminals are in the White House. They want to use panic and harassment to drive people out of their homes.

The Trump administration also wants our movement to stay silent about it. We call on everyone who can see this is wrong to drag these attacks into the light. We need protests and we need to be in the streets. It’s time to stand up and say no to Trump’s deportation machine.

Stop the mass deportation of Haitians!

Legalization not deportation!

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“Unchecked corporate power” to blame for Repentigny derailment


What are some questions I can ask someone to find out if they're in a domestic abuse situation?

Specifically, this is my ex, and my kid’s mom. She’s in a relationship that is now six months old and I’m starting to see red flags. She’s become a lot less visible and available than before, and her communication has gone down to almost nothing. From what little I’ve seen of them together, I’ve detected possible signs of codependency and over-attachment. Any time she contacts me or wants to see me, it’s clear that she’s doing it behind her partner's back, and there’s absolutely nothing going on between us to threaten a relationship.

I’m a domestic abuse survivor myself, and one of the things I know is that it’s not easy to be aware or or understand what you’re in when you’re actually in it. So obviously it’s not like I’d just say, hey, are you being abused? So hopefully someone with experience with this knows the right things to say or ask to find out what’s really going on. And my kid’s there with them too. I’m actually taking him on vacation next week (he’s five) and wouldn’t mind finding gentle ways to find out what he sees.

I’m going to get a chance to hang out with her in a couple of days and I’d like to be ready by then. I hope I’m wrong and she’s just being an asshole. Because that I can handle. Thanks all.


At least three killed in explosion near cafe in Russia's Moscow


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World Meteorological Organization says prepare for a strong El Niño

El Niño continues to intensify steadily and is expected to dominate global climate patterns in the August to October 2026 season, increasing the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across much of the world and driving significant shifts in rainfall patterns, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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China holds military drills near disputed shoal in the South China Sea


DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status


Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305860/google-search-testing-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human

> > Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches.
>
> > Google will stop showing you search results, as you click through the pages, and say "Sign in to verify you're a human and see more results."
>
> Source: [Search Engine Roundtable](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-sign-in-verify-41808.html)


Report: Trump Admin Is “Crowdsourcing” Ideas for Ending War in Iran

As the U.S. war on Iran enters its sixth month with no tactical end in sight, U.S. Central Command is reportedly crowdsourcing unorthodox methods to “punish Iran.” “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an email to a broad group of military analysts from CENTCOM read, according to reporting from CNN. Two anonymous sources confirmed CENTCOM’…

[Source](https://truthout.org/articles/report-trump-admin-is-crowdsourcing-ideas-for-ending-war-in-iran/)

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'So It Begins': Trump's Medicaid Work Requirements—as Designed—Wreak Havoc and Pain

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A growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers, policy experts, and advocacy organizations is calling on the Trump administration to immediately rescind a rule imposing more strict work reporting requirements on Medicaid recipients, a demand that came as Nebraska began kicking people off the healthcare program for not complying with the new mandates.

Under the expanded requirements, which were established by a 2025 Republican budget package that President Donald Trump signed into law, certain Medicaid recipients must document at least 80 hours per month of work or another qualifying activity to continue receiving assistance. In a statement late last week, Families USA executive director Anthony Wright [warned](https://familiesusa.org/press-releases/unwise-unworkable-and-unlawful-families-usa-urges-trump-administration-to-withdraw-medicaid-work-requirements-rule-as-comment-period-ends/) that "these new paperwork requirements will push patients off coverage—not because they aren’t working or not eligible, but because of bureaucratic burdens."

Wright noted that under [new rules](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dismantling-medicaid) stemming from the 2025 GOP budget law, even people with [terminal cancer and other serious illnesses](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-2677293170) aren't necessarily exempt from the work reporting requirements, which apply to people between the ages of 19 and 64 who don't have a disability and aren't pregnant, in [states that expanded Medicaid](https://kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-final-rules-exemptions-trump-cms/) under the Affordable Care Act.

"The requirement that a patient doesn’t ju


The Franklin eBookMan was made from 1999 until 2002, has standard PDA functions and can play and record sounds. It has a black on green touchscreen, contains 8 or 16 MB of RAM, and uses its own proprietary operating system. Its handwriting recognition system accepts nearly natural handwriting.

Although research and development on the eBookMan ceased in 2002, new eBookMans continued to be available from Ectaco. As of April 30, 2011, all support and downloads for eBookMan were discontinued.

There is an active user base. Some users have written programs for the eBookMan. Many games were developed and a free version of the Mobipocket reader was developed for the eBookMan to take the place of the underpowered Franklin reader which came with the device.

**From a 2001 review:**

*Bottom line:* Though lacking in features, the EBM-911 is great as a basic handheld with e-book- and audiobook-reading abilities.

**Entertaining and PDA-like**
At first glance, it’s easy to mistake the eBookman for a Palm OS PDA that sports an ample backlit 200-by-240-pixel LCD screen. While its proprietary OS is not very sophisticated, the eBookman lets you synchronize with Outlook via Intellisync synchronization software.

And while the eBookman has all the contact management synchronization functions you’d expect from your Palm PDA, all of this takes a backseat to the eBookman’s true calling: entertainment.

The large, accommodating screen makes the eBookman an ideal book reader, and if you’re afraid of squinting, it’s also simple to change font sizes.

Our test unit, the $199 EBM-911 with 16MB of internal RAM, provided enough elbowroom for novels, news, and the like. And if you don’t need that much space, the $129 EBM-900 offers 8MB of storage.

Franklin promises that more titles and a Microsoft Reader converter will be available sometime later this year. One notable absence from the eBookman is the lack of any AvantGo- or Vindigo-like applications. These handy apps load fresh material fro


To prove Islam is not violent, Muslim debater warns Oxford opponent that Muslim mob outside would "cook" him if not for her benevolence


it was produced in the US as a part of food subsidy programs, also for disaster relief etc.


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another bit of prompt catch-up.
this one got away from me a bit and i need to learn draping oooops. still had fun tho :)


El-Sayed, Stevens face off in Michigan Democratic Senate primary

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AI Summary:\
Voters in the US state of Michigan will cast ballots Tuesday in a Democratic Senate primary between progressive Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens that could reshape the party and the influence of pro-Israel lobbying groups.

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Evidence of Israel And US Engineering The Ceuta Crisis | Own Jones


i dont want be this kind of animal anymore


Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca)

See crosspost(s) for more discussion:

- https://lemmy.ca/post/67971171

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This is the first big step in the process to develop comprehensive guidelines for the Fedecan non-profit and the various platforms.

While this will mostly involve converting tacit knowledge and experience into an explicit written form, we expect that this process will inevitably bring up some points of disagreement on the best way to deal with different issues. We ask everyone participating in these discussions to please contribute constructively and in good faith. We encourage you to bring up any concerns or issues you have with the proposed structure and drafted guidelines, so that we can work together to fix them early on. However, in order to keep a productive environment for those discussions, we will be pruning any comment chains that devolve into personal attacks, slap fights, etc.

To help ground your feedback, consider these thought experiments when evaluating a potential guideline:

- **Veil of ignorance**: Would it still feel fair to you if you switched places with someone else on the platform (ex. a new user, a moderator, an admin, a member of a vulnerable group, etc.)?
- **Equal Applicability**: These rules will be enforced uniformly on everyone. A poorly written rule that helps "your side" today, can easily harm "your side" in the future as circumstances change.

The full guidelines, including governance details like the annual review cycle, can be found on the website: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/

We plan to structure the guidelines as follows:

![diagram of the tiers that are described below](https://fedecan.ca/guidelines/guidelines-tiers-dark.png)

### Tier 1: Fedecan Rules

#### Internal Conduct

These rules apply to Fedecan team members (directors, officers, admins, and anyone with elevated access). They set expectations for how team members should act.

#### Universal Rules

These are the baseline rules that apply to every user on every Fedecan platform. They co


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50913906

> Financial Times drops the bars


Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away


Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers

He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.


He finally apologized yesterday.


Apologize, Fauci! - Trilogy, Part 3 - Finale


Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say

Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN.

The president is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

The other source, a senior administration official, said Trump was “blindsided” by Pirro’s court filing: “The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that.”


ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures

***‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention***

Attorneys for a man detained in a California immigration detention center have released footage showing him holding up a bottle of water from inside the facility that appeared to be contaminated with worm-like creatures.

The footage came from a video call with Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a Los Angeles man who has been detained for months at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, north-east of LA.

Margaret Hellerstein, one of Parias’s attorneys, shared the footage with the Guardian on Thursday and said it was filmed this week. The clip is brief and grainy, but shows him holding up a plastic bottle filled with water, which appeared to have small pests of some kind swimming inside.


While he got the core idea right, he shouldn’t have compared apples to Apple’s.


[xkcd \#3280: Maze](https://xkcd.com/3280/)

Title text:

> As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

Transcript:

_Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com_

Source: https://xkcd.com/3280/

[explainxkcd for \#3280](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3280)


Cows are such lovely and creatures, and also if you approach them with ease and dont scare them - very friendly as well.

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The Internet Successfully Bullied Sen. Bernie Moreno Into Defending His Own Daughter

Goodness, this is an incredible article. Here's the first paragraph - which I've purposely split into three to facilitate reading.

> We give thanks this Sunday for a nifty little reminder that it only apparently takes thousands upon thousands of Americans screaming at a member of Congress for weeks at a time to make that congressman–a senator, in fact–publicly acknowledge the headlines about his own daughter’s (and granddaughter’s) claimed abuse at the hands of her former husband, who is naturally another Republican congressman.
>
> We’re talking of course about junior Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, recently vying for the title of the most pathetic man in Congress, given that he spent several years pretending not to know anything about the fact that his daughter Emily Moreno had accused her congressman ex-husband, Ohio Rep. Max Miller, of repeated emotional and physical abuse of her and their two-year-old daughter.
>
> Despite knowing all about this for at least the last two years by his own admission, Bernie Moreno intentionally went out of his way not to say a bad word about the fellow GOP congressman who was his former son-in-law, instead tacitly supporting his reelection in the upcoming November midterm elections, in a race that was until recently seen as a very safe one for Republicans. Not so much, now.


Had to draw this for the PlayStation news - shaveyoureyebrows

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More than 1,000 Georgia Democrats convene to strategize for November election

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/11925645

> From WABE Politics News:
>
>
> More than 1,000 Georgia Democrats gathered in Savannah Saturday for a pep rally and strategy session, brandishing their determination to put a Democrat, Keisha Lance Bottoms, into the governor’s seat […]
>
>
>
> #Atlanta #WABE #AtlantaPolitics #AtlantaNews #theATLBot


My job today: Battery and screen updates!

This makes me so happy. It's so fun to take these apart and clean them up!


Shell cashes in on subsidies by selling green projects

Shell is selling wind and solar farms built with government support to TotalEnergies and KKR, turning its back on green energy.


Red state food pantries buckling as thousands lose food stamps under new GOP-led rules


Battlezone, supertanks in outer space (1980)

Early 3D arcade game using vector graphics.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)),

> With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered to be the first true 3D arcade game that has a first-person perspective, the "first big 3D success" in the video game industry, and the first successful first-person shooter video game in particular.

It got ported to every other thing, and most of the screenshots I found are from the ports to raster computers. I _think_ this is a photo of the vector one,

![Battlezone](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/65/3c/44653c3708debb45b3b83b097bc8a5e7.jpg)

Guessing here but I think the colors came from simple colored filters over the monitor. So the red score area just had a red film over it etc, and the arcade HW couldn't do color.

Cabinet,

![Battlezone cabinet](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/07/7e/ec/077eeca3d2b5c6a4ddf0b23b7f5f92b3.jpg)


Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers


**All hail redundancy**


Social media algorithms shape the beliefs people form /// Even small changes to content curation algorithms can shape what people come to believe—for better or worse.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305963/social-media-algorithms-shape-the-beliefs-people-form-even-small-changes-to-content-cura

> [Research Paper](https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790602).
>
> - **Algorithms shape the beliefs people form**: Simple changes to content curation algorithms can affect beliefs, consensus, and belief accuracy.
> - **Personalized engagement-based ranking can be problematic**: Although users perceive these feeds positively, they tend to lead to less consensus and less accurate beliefs.
> - **Consensus is possible**: Bridging-based ranking can help promote consensus by surfacing content that receives approval across different groups.
> - **Belief accuracy can be improved**: Intelligence-based ranking can promote more accurate collective and individual judgments.
> - **Small algorithmic changes can have large effects**: Simple changes to how posts are sampled and ranked can substantially influence the beliefs people form.


Michigan finds hair salon owner violated the law by directing trans people to pet groomers


One of the first tweets by Germany's CDU’s new general secretary: “there is no genocide in Gaza”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73350952

> > Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.
>
> > Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern
>
> > Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben
>
> >> For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.
>
> >> We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.
>
> >> We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.


Local newspaper presents paid political advertising in the same format as a regular news article

I get it, local papers are struggling to survive and ad revenue is down. And there is a note on the page to identify that it is "sponsored content." But at first glance it's visually indistinguishable from any other story or op-ed the paper publishes. This is misleading to casual readers.

For context, there is an ongoing multi-decade legal fight to get the government to remove four large dams on the Snake River in the northwest US. The paid content here is written by a consortium representing organizations which have financial incentives to keep the dams in place.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal)


[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.

Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.

![](https://media.piefed.social/posts/NR/wU/NRwUHR9Y38lBGFx.jpg)

![](https://media.piefed.social/posts/BP/X7/BPX7xM4DDzMB0pI.jpg)


German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/50414115

> >A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
> >
> >The Zweibrucken Higher Regional Court overturned a €2,400 ($2,700) fine last week after it was imposed by a lower court over two Instagram posts published during the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
> >
> >One post contained a table comparing Israel’s conduct with the methods of the Nazi regime. It appeared beneath a divided image of the Israeli and Nazi flags, with part of a swastika visible.
> >
> >Another depicted Israeli soldiers firing into an enclosed area as blood flowed beneath its walls. A swastika appeared inside a Star of David. The woman accompanied the posts with the hashtags #FREEPALESTINE and #GAZAUNDERATTACK.
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> >The court ruled that the images expressed condemnation of Israel’s actions rather than support for Nazi ideology. It said freedom of expression protected the use of banned symbols when the context clearly conveyed criticism, parody or rejection of Nazism.


Shouldn't we urgently define metrics that will allow future people to track the impact of LLMs on human cognitive abilities over time?


House Dem Calls for Removal of Postmaster General for Turning USPS Into 'Instrument of Voter Suppression'

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A Democratic congressman is calling for Postmaster General David Steiner to be removed from office for allowing the US Postal Service to turn into what he called "a partisan instrument of voter suppression" for President Donald Trump.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.), a senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a [letter](https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-judge-blocks-trump-attack-on-mail-voting) to Steiner and members of the USPS board of governors on Monday criticizing the postmaster general for refusing to clarify if he intends to follow an [executive order](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mail-voting-order) signed by Trump in March ordering the Postal Service to halt the delivery of mail-in ballots in states that do not turn over lists of voters to be checked against a federal citizenship list.

A federal judge has [blocked](https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-judge-blocks-trump-attack-on-mail-voting) the administration from implementing the order's provisions that create federal citizenship lists and allow USPS to condition ballot delivery on states submitting voter information, ruling that Trump had usurped powers belonging to the states and Congress.

Last week, the administration and a group of 12 Republican states filed emergency applications asking the US [Supreme Court](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/supreme-court) to allow the order to take effect prior to November’s midterms.

Krishnamoorthi said that this filing contains "a troubling contradiction." It argues that Trump had merely issued “general policy guidance” to agencies rather than concrete directives, and that it's therefore premature for courts to rule on its constitutionality.

"USPS's apparent implementation efforts over the past four months tell a different story," Krishnamoorthi wrote.

He pointed out t


I found this meme and thought it was very true


Stomach stone hypothesis sheds light on the evolution of dinosaur digestive systems

An international research team led by Assistant Professor Ryuji Takasaki of the Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science at Okayama University of Science has published a paper proposing a new hypothesis on the evolutionary history of dinosaur digestive systems by focusing on gastroliths—stones found within dinosaur abdominal cavities. By examining the degree of wear on these gastroliths, the team sheds light on dinosaur digestion strategies. The findings are published in the journal Paleobiology.

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Greece Orders Evacuations As Major Wildfires Approach Athens

![The current climate emergency has activated emergency protocols nationwide. Photo: EFE.](https://ikona.telesurenglish.net/content/uploads/2026/08/dtlud.webp)

#### Greece’s firefighters battled uncontrolled wildfires threatening western suburban communities near Athens, forcing immediate emergency evacuation protocols due to extreme winds of over 100 kilometers per hour.

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Uncontrolled wildfires continue to ravage multiple regions across Greece, **threatening to penetrate the peripheral metropolitan areas of the capital city**.

Meteorological [authorities a](https://www.emy.gr/en)nd rescue services warned that **high-intensity wind gusts are feeding the flames**, severely complicating containment efforts in the Hellenic territory and on the island of Cephalonia.

***RELATED:*** [***France Places 36 Departments at High Wildfire Risk as Heat Wave Intensifies***](https://telesurenglish.net/france-places-36-departments-at-high-wildfire-risk-as-heat-wave-intensifies/)

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, confirmed that the nation faces extreme weather conditions characterized by **wind gusts exceeding 100 kilometers per hour**. This atmospheric situation has caused the rapid propagation of fire fronts in the regions of Attica, Boeotia, and Phocis, substantially increasing structural and material damage in the affected towns.

The Minister of Civil Protection, Evangelos Tournas, explained that severe air turbulence prevents firefighting aircraft from performing safe water loading and discharging maneuvers. Due to the relentless advance of the flames toward the western suburbs of the capital, local authorities ordered the **preventive emergency evacuation of Porto Germeno and surrounding residential areas to prevent human casualties**.

> Today’s images from the wildfire show three horses running for their lives to escape the flames in the Kandili area of Megara, Western Attica, Greece. [pic.twitter.com/7inRCAg14A](https://t.co/7inRCAg14A)
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Dozens protest Meta data centre planned for county north of Edmonton


Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules

From WABE Politics News:

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar […]

#Atlanta #WABE #AtlantaPolitics #AtlantaNews #theATLBot


There are some exceptions at times (like pickles), but for the most part, I hate the texture of crunchy vegetables. Particularly onions, broccoli, and cauliflower, but pretty much any veggie, is worse uncooked or undercooked imo. I hate most raw vegetables by themselves or in salads, but undercooked ones may be even worse because I was promised and expecting something cooked. Crunchy peppers or onions ruin a pizza as one example. Under-done carrots and potatoes in a curry, which I had yesterday, is another perfect example.

This may not be a universally unpopular opinion but I definitely feel like I've had a lot of people seem surprised by me not liking raw veggies.


UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

 Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data  —  iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data


There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader


Steam Deal: Save 90 % on RoboCop: Rogue City (3,99€)


Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool.

We have actual adults in positions of immense power bickering over a clearly made-up story about pool vandals, a story that led to an innocent American having his life turned upside down.


Remember when stroganoff memes were a thing on Lemmy?

DS9 s5e23 "Blaze of Glory"


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How do you go no contact with someone in the U.S. if they have your full name, DOB, and SSN?

I (23M) grew up in an extremely abusive household. My older brother learned to imitate the violence and lack of remorse my father modeled, while I hid in my room for most of my childhood and slowly deprogrammed until I learned to trust safe people and assert my needs and boundaries. Now that I know what safe people are like, I also know what they absolutely fucking aren't.

I think most people would consider my brother a psychopath. He beat his girlfriend's cat to death, brandished a knife at my father in a screaming fit of rage for insulting him, strangled a bird and displayed its corpse hanging in a tree, fantasizes about mass murdering "liberals," said without hesitation that he would kill me in a "civil war," spoke extensively about his desire to break women down and control them, drives recklessly and amasses unpaid speeding tickets, and, most importantly to this discussion, insists that he will have to "take care of me" and "force me to live with him" after my father dies, because I will supposedly be too incompetent to take care of myself. He also has an extremely fragile ego, and any perceived slight or defiance can trigger a violent rage that he admits causes him to lose control of himself (hence the cat's fate for "misbehaving").

Suffice it to say, I don't want to be kidnapped. None of the money or outside communication I have will do much good if he takes away my access to them. What can I realistically do if he makes me live in the middle of nowhere with no phone, no money, and no transportation? It may be a fate worse than death.

I've been in therapy for half a year and reached the point where I am no longer stuck in a perpetual freeze response and can assert my needs and boundaries. This caused subconscious shifts in my behavior that my narcissistic parents have reacted with hostility towards, calling me "crazy" or "aggressive" for asking to be treated with respect and standing my ground. My mother finally snapped and said she wouldn't do anything fo


Fashion brand backs off of “Harry Potter” collab after strong online backlash