did a small photoshoot with my cat
#cat #catsofmastodon
Yogthos
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A sentience trapped in a prison of meat. Made in USSR. Capitalismus delendus est! ☭
Nothing screams Idiocracy like celebrating America’s 250th birthday with a UFC cage fight at the White House, sponsored by a president who’s already turned the Oval Office into a gold-plated McMansion.
While the empire burns, Trump’s is paving over the Rose Garden for an octagon. It's a fitting reality TV arc for the unfolding national collapse.
#usa #uspol
White House to host UFC fight night on 4 July
The fight is set to be part of a series of events commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.
Hundreds of firefighters are battling to stop the spread of a fast-moving wildfire in the the Corbières hills of southern France.
The blaze burned an area the size of Paris over one afternoon and night and was still burning on Wednesday evening, making it the second biggest fire in France in 50 years.
#france #climatecrisis
the Guardian
‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France
Advancing blaze scorches 16,000 hectares near Spanish border, destroying homes and forcing people to flee
Chinese researchers have developed two advanced DNA editing tools that could lead to breakthroughs in crop breeding and new treatments for cancer and genetic diseases.
#china #science
New Chinese Gene-Editing Tools Promise Advances in Medicine, Agriculture
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software.
#germany #privacy
dw.com
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software – DW – 08/04/2025
Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveill...
Canada’s government treats war funding as urgent but climate action as ‘unrealistic’ despite heat domes killing 20x more people than terrorism. While military spending is set to soar to 5% GDP, climate gets scraps at 0.7% GDP, half of which funds fossil fuel scams like carbon capture.
The real security threat is climate chaos displacing millions and collapsing food systems Yet we’re buying missile shields instead of mass electrification.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/opinion/money-military-climate-nato
#canada #cdnpoli #climatecrisis
US prices for China-made goods on Amazon rise faster than inflation, analysis shows, as tariffs bite.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-prices-china-made-goods-amazon-rise-faster-than-inflation-analysis-shows-2025-06-30/
#usa #economy #tariffs
Scientists in China have developed the world’s first 3D model of early mouse embryos, revealing how life forms in its initial stages at single-cell resolution.
#science
South China Morning Post
Digital embryo gives China a powerful tool to decode secret of life: scientists
The world-first scientific breakthrough will enhance understanding of disease development, organ regeneration and cancer treatment.
16 billion passwords have been leaked from Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. It is now considered as the largest password leak in history.
#security
Dexerto
16 billion passwords leaked in one of the biggest data breaches ever: Report - Dexerto
Research from Cybernews has found 16 billion sets of login credentials have been leaked across all sorts of online services.
A great video explaining how China's internet firewall is a net positive ensuring a sovereign and a cleaner online space. It limits harmful content, disinformation, and foreign interference, allowing domestic tech to thrive.
While censorship exists, citizens have channels to voice concerns, and the system avoids the extreme polarization and toxicity seen elsewhere.
#china #technology
Huawei faced a global business crisis when the US banned it 2019. The ban almost wiped out Huawei's global smartphone business but was met with strong support from China's government.
Huawei is now at the center of China's efforts to achieve technological independence from the West having establishing a network of factories to manufacture its chips and developing its own operating system, HarmonyOS.
#china #technology #huawei
Bloomberg.com
What Huawei’s Comeback Says About US-China Tech War
When the Trump administration blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co. in 2019 over spying concerns, the move almost wiped out the Chinese company’s g...
#usa #china #tradewar
Bank of America strategists advise selling rallies in U.S. stocks and the dollar due to the ongoing depreciation of the U.S. dollar and the shift away from U.S. assets.
The weak dollar theme favors increased global asset allocation to commodities, emerging markets, and international stocks.
#usa #economy
Bank of America warns to sell the rebound in U.S. stocks and dollar | Financial Post
one of the best things about running your own instance is that you can just ban trolls immediately
Daniel Ortega "The Revolution in China continues, and now offers itself to the World as a Revolution bringing Peace, bringing Well-being, bringing Solidarity to the Peoples"
DANIEL: "The Revolution in China continues, and now offers itself to the World as a Revolution bringing Peace, bringing Well-being, bringing Solidarity to the Peoples" | Tortilla con Sal
Celebration of the Delivery of Buses to Transport Cooperatives March 8th 2025
European leaders are struggling to find the funds and political will to increase military spending and support Ukraine, despite their tough talk against the US and Russia.
Unity is already fracturing, particularly when it comes to borrowing money and raising collective debt. Ursula von der Leyen's plan to rearm Europe, called "ReArm Europe," has been rebranded as "Readiness 2030" due to opposition from Italy and Spain.
#Europe #eu #economy
Europe Talks Tough on Military Spending, but Unity Is Fracturing
European leaders are struggling to find the money and the political will to replace the bulk of the U.S. contribution to Ukraine and to their own d...
By talking directly to Russia, the US is signalling that Russia is an equal whose interests matter, while the interests of Europe and Ukraine are irrelevant.
Just as Kissinger and Nixon managed to peel China away from the USSR in the 70s, the US may be trying a similar tactic today by handing over Europe in an attempt to isolate China from Russian support.
#geopolitics
Researchers discovered that humpback whale song follows Zipf's law, a pattern also found in human languages. This pattern indicates that whale songs, like human language, are culturally learned.
Both species share a learning mechanism driven by cultural evolution, favoring statistically coherent structures for easier learning.
The findings raise questions about the possibility of communicating with whales and the existence of meaning in whale song.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html
#Science
Chinese researchers used software optimization techniques to achieve a near-tenfold performance boost using domestically made GPUs over US supercomputers relying on Nvidia's hardware.
The study challenges the dominance of US chips in advanced scientific research and highlights unintended consequences from tech sanctions.
The development underscores China's strategy to mitigate risks in critical technologies, particularly in scientific simulations.
#technology #china
South China Morning Post
Chinese GPUs outdo Nvidia chips nearly tenfold in supercomputer task
Innovative parallel computing design using domestic hardware underscores Beijing’s broader strategy to blunt ‘chokepoint’ risks in critical t...