In peaceful times, people cling to broken systems simply because "that's how it's always been done". Comfort is a prison.

This crisis is a great opportunity to screw Microsoft.

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Canadians should be agressively lobbying their politicians to embrace Linux and the open source ecosystem. Call your representatives. Write to your city council. Contact your town IT department. Do it now.

For perspective: I come from a country where "cafeteria" food at school is good and affordable (most is less than the equivalent of 5-10 USD max and it's not slop, it's actual food), but it's not an obligation for everyone since it's up to the student if they want to buy something or bring their own lunch.

The "cafeteria" in my school isn't a typical American one, rather it's closer to a canteen where they sell food you can purchase from cup noodles, fried stuff, sandwiches, baked goods, etc. also appliances like a kettle or microwave are available in the dining hall for students to heat up left overs if they wanted.

The thing I tend to notice from American schools (according to US movies, there's bias whether it's true or false) is that they tend to depict kids always heading for the cafeteria for recess or lunch picking up whats available instead of bringing their own food from home (left overs from dinner), why is that the case?

The 44-year-old was fatally stabbed in Córdoba, while prosecutors initially classified the case as simple homicide and LGBTQ+ advocates demanded a gender-and-diversity investigation.

Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says

When Britain abolished slavery, plantation owners from powerful families notoriously received huge sums in compensation, while those who were enslaved got nothing.

Now evidence has come to light that Sandbach, Tinne and Company – a corporation closely linked to the merchants who got the biggest taxpayer-funded compensation payouts – continued to traffic enslaved Africans illegally after abolition to Guyana, in South America.

The discovery is detailed in a book, Searching for My Slave Roots, by author Malik Al Nasir, who has been researching his family history.

President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concerned

A series of moves by Donald Trump’s administration to sow doubt in the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts – and sparked hope among election deniers – that it could declare a national emergency.

The White House and US federal agencies have released a string of documents this summer – including disputed analyses of alleged voting by noncitzens and historical intelligence memos – stoking expectations that the US president could move to exert greater control over November’s US midterm elections.

Trump used a primetime television address in July to claim – again – that US elections were vulnerable to foreign manipulation, and repeat the lie that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen.

This was taken during the partial eclipse recently.

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/42365961

Satelitte images gif showing the exceptional drough this summer in France (and around) compared to the past two years.

Sources: Météo France and https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/secheresse/visualisez-la-secheresse-exceptionnelle-de-l-ete-2026-par-rapport-aux-annees-precedentes_8145884.html

Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”

A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”

Continuwuity, the Matrix homeserver with an incredible name, has gotten a new version!

The highlight of this release is a brand new way to track remote server health, in order to recover faster from federation issues. Previously, an unreachable remote triggers a very naive retry loop with increasing timeouts (i.e. sender backoff), which by itself can present cascading problems.

Now, such a loop can be reset when the remote is detected back online (e.g. when they send something new), and any retry attempts also redo the server destination discovery instead of using potentially stale cache values. The result is better, more reliable federation recoveries, especially towards servers with dynamic IP addresses rotation.

Experimental support for Sticky Events has also been added behind an opt-in toggle. These special event types allow for efficient, ephemeral user states that can expire later, such as someone's participantship in a video call. Alongside the drafts for Delayed Events and embedded Livekit token service, it is one of the building blocks to support calling in the MatrixRTC 2.0 era.

Futhermore, various bugfixes to OAuth2-based logins, client-server syncing, and room state resolution allows for a smoother, more correct experience. The docs have also been updated in some aspect. Finally, the new version also contains a security fix in store, so please update after checking the changelogs accordingly.

Still reeling in from the June update where a third of the codebase was refactored, the homeserver's development remain steadfast as ever, despite any recent downtimes on the git forges or community rooms. The maintainer team yet again delivered with speed and excellence, so Continuwuity can be a Matrix server you can run!

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen broke record for farthest distance traveled from Earth

The crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission have earned the US’s top space medal, officials have announced.

Cmdr Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on 28 August, the US space agency Nasa said.

Nasa’s website indicates that only 30 astronauts have gained the honor – among them Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and John Glenn, who was first to orbit Earth and then served four terms in the US Senate.

Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen were selected for the medal, despite its name, by Donald Trump after the Nasa administrator, Jared Isaacman, recommended them to the president.

Mark Ruffalo has hit back at Paramount after they accused him of ‘antisemitism’. The attack followed Ruffalo’s criticism of a potential merger which would result in Paramount and the Ellison family owning a significant percentage of all US media:

The best part about the Zionists trying to attack Mark Ruffalo is that now tons of Americans will see the connection between Paramount and genocide. https://t.co/FbfrUlahFn

— Marxist Mark & The Socialist Bunch (@MarxistBunch) August 22, 2026

Paramount importance

The man who owns Paramount and tech company Oracle is Larry Ellison. In the UK, Ellison is best known for his links to Tony Blair, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), and Digital ID.

Well this isn’t terrifying at all. Here’s Blair talking to Oracles Larry Ellison.

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching & recording everything that's going on."

Now you can see why Starmer is so keen on digital ID

pic.twitter.com/sZuB0tj02p

— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) September 28, 2025

Larry’s son David also works in the family business. David is a failed actor who later turned his hand to movie production. Notoriously, he’s the man who greenlit many of the big budget streaming movies you either:

• Didn’t watch.
• Barely remember.

If the Paramount merger goes ahead, these soulless husks will be in charge of a significant percentage of all creative and informative media in the US. And this is something Ruffalo saw fit to draw attention to, resulting in Paramount smearing him.

Smeared

Paramount is currently aiming to buy out Warner Bros. for $111bn. Ruffalo is among the many critics of the deal. And as part of his criticism, he drew attention to tech company Oracle’s links to Israel and the ongoing genocide.

The CEO of the American technology company Oracle boasts about the services it provides to the Israeli occupation army, which uses them to kill us. She even boasts about the fact that several of her employees work with the occupation army! pic.twitter.com/D4WAGT090J

— Hamza Ali (@HamzaAli340214) August 21, 2026

Given that Larry Ellison owns both Paramount and Oracle, Ruffalo’s point is a fair one to make. In response, Paramount issued the following statement:

We are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.

Ruffalo responded as follows:

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

Mark Ruffalo — Consolidation

Mark Ruffalo and pro-Palestinian advocates are far from the only ones criticising the potential merger. L.A. County is warning it could cost the area $2.78bn in lost economic value. In other words, the only people this merger is good for are the Ellisons, and the authoritarian politicians in the US and Israel who will no doubt enjoy active PR from this increasingly bloated media empire.

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