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News from Serbia / novosti iz Srbije :

Trump-tower to replace the building bombed by NATO , a.k.a. a “national monument” - army headquarters of a country that fell apart in series of violent conflicts …

symbolism upon symbolism of globalized capitalism, local corruption, greed, rampant but fake nationalism, disregard for laws or regulations, failure of urbanism & “democracy” within (patriarchal) oligarchy…

pescanik.net/vapaj-za-odbranu-…

&

theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…

#generalstab #srbija #serbia


Thousands protest Jared Kushner-linked development on site of bombed-out Belgrade building

Many in Serbia see the site – a former army headquarters damaged in a 1999 Nato bombing campaign – as a tribute to those who died
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#serbia #srbija #generalstab

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Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification 9to5google.com/2025/11/12/andr…

Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification

In August, Google announced that it will require developer verification to install Android apps, including through sideloading. That’s continuing, but Google is working on a solution for “experienced users.”
Abner Li (9to5Google)

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Palantir kriegt in BaWü freie Bahn. Vertrag zuerst, Recht später, Kontrolle irgendwann. Demokratie als Abo-Modell: 25 Millionen, fünf Jahre Laufzeit, keine Kündigung. Datenschutz? Wird gerade ausgeschrieben. Willkommen im Überwachungsstaat as a Service.

heise.de/news/Baden-Wuerttembe…

#palantir #bw #polizei #rechtsstaat #bullshit #datenschutz #dsgvo

/kuk


Trotz Überrumpelung: Baden-Württemberg stimmt für Palantir

In Baden-Württemberg hat der Landtag Änderungen am Polizeigesetz beschlossen, um die Nutzung von Palantir rechtlich abzusichern.
Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)
#datenschutz #bullshit #palantir #DSGVO #bw #polizei #Rechtsstaat

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Nestáva sa často, že by som bol kritickejší než tu Ivan, ktorý tento ďalší pokus (koľký už?) o špicľovací zákon rozobral na šróbiky.
Pre mňa je tam ešte jeden červený vykričník navyše (ktorý v článku možno iba tušiť):

Ak už raz budú mať možnosť takto špicľovať, bars aj pod "vznešenou", a možno spočiatku aj úprimnou (byť naivnou), snahou bojovať proti CSAM, čo im, !technicky!, zabráni začať hľadať čokoľvek iné? Protištátne reči, zakázané názory, protiústavné pohlavie...
Na Slovensku o tom už vieme svoje.

abravito.cz/novinky-it/umela-i…


Chat Control 2.0: EÚ sa chce stať veľkým bratom

EÚ pripravuje Chat Control: AI má čítať správy pred zašifrovaním. Ochrana detí či zásah do súkromia a základných práv občanov?
www.abravito.cz

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Very much looking forward to this book! A lot of amazing minds came together to get this necessary conversation started including @ChanceyFleet! routledge.com/Digital-Accessib…

Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
Routledge & CRC Press
@ChanceyFleet
in reply to Aleca

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Mr. Greeb

Some bubbles take longer to burst than others, and some are simply more in plain sight than others. The 2008 financial crisis was because of a scheme that had been going on for years and years — but mainly bankers and investors knew about it. However, even though it was a slow burner, the scheme was ultimately founded on hopes, wishes and fairy dust.

What makes a bubble is not how long it takes to burst, but its foundations. The focus should be on the consequences of it bursting.

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Located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China,
it is one of only about 200 identified craters worldwide
and is very young in geological years.

Based on measurements of nearby soil erosion,
it likely formed during the early-to-mid Holocene
—our current geological epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago.

With a diameter of 900 meters, it is the largest known impact crater from this era
—far exceeding Russia's 300-meter Macha crater, previously the largest known Holocene impact structure
phys.org/news/2025-11-earth-la…


Earth's largest modern crater discovered in Southern China

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth.
American Institute of Physics (Phys.org)

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I definitely know that I live in a bubble by being here on Mastodon and following the people I follow, but nonetheless even with my friends that are not tech savvy or don’t care/know about Linux, all the recent megacorp tech announcements have been met with lukewarm reactions at best, skepticism, and sometimes disdain.
The AI fuelled emptiness we’re experiencing is affecting everyone, alongside the realization that even “good” companies don’t step it up and stand for what should be normal

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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

No influyendo en la agilización o resolución de trámite o procedimiento administrativo sin justa causa y, en ningún caso, cuando ello comporte un privilegio en mi beneficio por el cargo público del que soy titular o mi entorno familiar y social inmediato o cuando suponga un menoscabo de los intereses de terceros.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

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Libervia CLI Tip 15:

When publishing a blog or other pubsub based feature, the item ID is often used in the URL when it is rendered for the web (e.g.; Libervia or Movim use something like `https://…/blog/<user>/<item_id>`).

It is then important to have a user-friendly item ID (e.g.; `title-of-my-publication-abc123`), which is usually done by the software from the title.

If you want to change it, you can use `li pubsub rename`.

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#Libervia #CLI #li #tips #xmpp #pubsub

pubsub: PubSub management — Libervia Backend documentation

libervia.org
#xmpp #libervia #CLI #tips #pubsub #li

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Hey, did you know that you can join Matrix chatrooms using Movim and #matridge (a Slidge XMPP - Matrix bridge) ? 😮

You can then access your Matrix rooms (and soon Matrix servers 😚) and integrate them seamlessly in your Movim interface ✨

…and it seems that Movim is much faster than Element at accessing and displaying the content of Matrix chat rooms 🚀 Fun 😸

Checkout the Slidge project slidge.im/ !

#feature #matrix #xmpp #movim

The FOSDEM Matrix room in Movim

slidge.im — Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks

Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.
slidge.im
#xmpp #matrix #movim #feature #matridge
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"Does the leadership at my company promote a xenophobic agenda and use the wealth I help them acquire to donate directly to bigoted causes and politicians I find despicable? Yeah, sure. Did I celebrate my last birthday at Drag Brunch? Also yes." mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work…

I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency

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You know like how they tell you that washing dishes with a dishwasher will save a lot of water but they don't mention that the heat and abrasion of the dishwasher causes anything plastic to start shedding a ton of microplastics into foods that contact them. And everything that isn't plastic is expensive. So you should already have a sink of soapy water anyway ...

ibbi.io/mp

Microplastics: No Longer a "Maybe"

ibbi.io

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Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lega…

#Privacy
#EFF


The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature

Many biometric privacy laws across the country are clear: Companies need your affirmative consent before running face recognition on you.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
#privacy #eff

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Never have I ever read an article about Trump and Epstein that treats survivors of their sexual abuse and violence with more indifference. Crawley presents claims by Trump's team as fact and then brushes aside the revelations in the email dump as nothing significant, as though the girls they talk about trafficking are nothing to report. There was a lot in these files and they reveal more about how closely tied these two abusers were. Garbage reporting. Shame on you #CBC and #MikeCrawley

cbc.ca/news/world/trump-epstei…

#cbc #mikecrawley

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Anyone know how the new-ish Steam OS accessibility beta is going? Is it still beta or has it made it to stable yet? Is it actually using Orca underneath so you can use desktop mode?

I wonder what it would take to add TTS/screen reader controller shims to Proton, if they aren't there already? Can't imagine screen reader controller shims are, but TTS/SAPI? I assume there's some sort of bridge layer between the Linux and Windows API surfaces, but is that layer extensible so users could just, I don't know, install a ProtonPack(TM) or similar, add necessary TTS/screen reader API bridges to whatever it exposes to games, and have accessible games on an accessible Steam OS?

This post brought to you by the Steam Machine, and by me wanting to purge Windows 11 from my Steam Deck. That said, I haven't really looked at the specs yet, but if it's as solid as the Deck then I'm tempted.

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"'Funaná is music of liberation. Fierce music. Anti-colonial music,' says Marcus Veiga aka Portugal-born, Angolan and Cape Verdean artist Scúru Fitchádu. 'What I like about funaná is that it comes from the people,'"

The Radical Rhythms of Funaná:

daily.bandcamp.com/lists/funan…


The Radical Rhythms of Funaná

Once banned by colonizers, its rhythms now drive dance floors around the world.
April Clare Welsh (Bandcamp)

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As an American, treacle is not really common in our desserts and most people don't even know what it is. It's a strange word though, it has some unpleasant quality to it but it's hard to pin down.

Without knowing what it is, try to use it in a sentence:

"That gas station sushi gave me a treacle of diarrhea."

Feels right, doesn't it?

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The Dulon Von Paradis Project:
I’m honored to be the recipient of a Canada Counsel for the Arts Research and Development grant. Along with my colleague Michelle Coon, I’ll be travelling to Europe in March, 2026, to research the lives and work of Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis. They were contemporaries, classical musicians and composers who achieved renown in their lifetimes, who travelled to perform, worked hard at their art, and were both Blind. My interest is as a musician and storyteller. Michelle’s is as a music historian and flutist. As I think and plan ahead for our journey, I’m collecting my thoughts by writing them down, cause that’s what I do. I’m posting on Patreon. Check out my first post at this link. patreon.com/posts/dulon-von-bl…
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