did a small photoshoot with my cat
#cat #catsofmastodon
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.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wyex9zd5o
#usa #uspol
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/france-largest-wildfire-this-year-corbieres-hills
#france #climatecrisis
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
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
#germany #privacy
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.
#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
16 billion passwords have been leaked from Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. It is now considered as the largest password leak in history.
#security
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwgjt6znrqvj8r7xc3dq9s75hav7z4fu3da5d70r9te08lej6vmfqdu3jqg no that's just the idiotic straw man you're making. What's actually being said to you is that the material conditions reflect whether the system is working in the interest of the people or not.
Both China and India started roughly in the same place in the 50s. India is still largely impoverished with the oligarchs running amok. Meanwhile, in China it's the working majority who see the benefits.
People who are brainwashed are the ones who allow themselves to be brutally exploited.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEwoYIYgJA
#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
#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.
https://financialpost.com/investing/bank-of-america-sell-rebound-us-stocks-dollar
#usa #economy
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"
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/ukraine-us-nato-eu-defense.html
#Europe #eu #economy
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