• Ubuntu 22.04, codenamed Jammy Jellyfish, was released on 21 April 2022.

• It was followed by Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu on 20 October 2022.

• It was followed by Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur on 12 October 2023.

• It was followed by Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffinnwas on 17 April 2025

• It was followed by Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka on 9 October 2025

All Linux distros keep publishing new versions: Fedora, Mint, Debian...

Yet strangely, I don't notice any change. I'm just a normie user. It seems only computer nerds understand why the new versions are "game changers"

Apart from "increased security", what is actually the point of these releases?

by Tjeerd Royaards

btw, the hot sauce is mild

They were going to get £55 from me but now they're getting nothing!

The U.S. economy, hobbled by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, advanced at an unexpectedly sluggish 0.7% annual rate from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Friday in a big downgrade of its initial estimate.

Growth in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s third quarter and 3.8% in the second. And the fourth-quarter number was half the government’s first estimate of 1.4%.

In the fourth quarter, consumer spending grew at a 2% clip, down from 3.5% in the third quarter and the 2.4% the government had initially estimated. Business investment, excluding housing, increased at a healthy 2.2% pace, likely reflecting money being poured into artificial intelligence, but the increase was down from 3.2% in the third quarter and from the 3.7% advance in the Commerce department's initial estimate.

Exports fell at a 3.3% annual rate in the fourth quarter, a bigger drop than the government first estimated.

Tame contrasted Albanese’s historical advocacy for Palestine and critique of Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war with his current position on Iran, alleging as a “relatively defenceless Pacific middle power, Australia cannot afford to cut its military ties with the US and Israel”.

“We’re in a geopolitical chokehold,” she said.

“To Albanese, I am difficult because I am both aware of this reality and unafraid to scream it at the top of my lungs, much to his obvious chagrin.

India's top court has rejected a petition seeking menstrual leave for working women and female students with the judges saying if they were to make such a law, "no-one will hire women".

The two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant said mandatory leave would make young women think they were "not at par" with their male colleagues and would be "harmful for their growth".

The subject of menstrual leave has long polarised Indian society - while many agree with the justices' views, others argue that a day or two off can help women deal with painful periods.

Some states and a number of large private companies have introduced menstrual leaves for employees over the years.

The top court's comments came while hearing a petition filed by lawyer Shailendra Mani Tripathi, seeking a national menstrual leave policy, legal website LiveLaw reported.

Tripathi later told news agency IANS that he had hoped that working women would receive "two-to-three days of leave" to account for menstrual difficulties.

The judges, however, said that introducing such a policy would not benefit women - instead, it would harm them by reinforcing gender stereotypes and affecting their employability.

March 12, 2026 – Individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over its signing of waivers restricting purchases of candy, soda, and more.

So far, the USDA has signed 22 waivers that allow states to implement restrictions on what foods can be purchased using federal SNAP benefits. These restrictions include soda, sugar-sweetened beverages, candy, energy drinks, and more.

The nonprofit National Center for Law and Economic Justice and law firm Shinder Cantor Lerner filed the lawsuit in the District of Columbia federal district court Wednesday on behalf of five SNAP recipients. The plaintiffs are based in Colorado, Iowa, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Nebraska, and the suit specifically asks the court to block the waivers in these states.

The plaintiffs allege the USDA is attempting to shrink the SNAP program by allowing a patchwork of state restrictions that narrow the definition of “food.” It also argues the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act by not following the proper notice and comment procedure before approving these waivers.

A USDA spokesperson said the agency would not comment on pending litigation.

These SNAP waivers are tied to the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda and are backed by MAHA leaders like Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Supporters argue these waivers prevent taxpayer dollars from going to “junk food.”

But in states where these waivers have already taken effect, recipients report confusion about what falls under the restrictions. Retailers and anti-hunger advocates are also concerned about how these could impact state economies and food access.

“I am finding Iowa’s food-restriction waiver extremely complicated to navigate,” Marc Craig, an Iowa-based plaintiff in the lawsuit said in a press release. “When I shop for food, I have to read the ingredient list on everything I buy to try to figure out if I can use SNAP to buy it. I still get to the register only to be told I cannot use SNAP to buy everything I have selected.” (Link to this post.)

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Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage.

Bombs are exploding in Iran and the Middle East, but the fallout is rattling households and businesses in neighborhoods all over the globe.

In Kansas, home buyers saw 30-year mortgage rates edge above 6 percent this week. In Western India, families mourning the death of a loved one discovered that gas-fired crematories had been temporarily closed.

In Hanoi, Vietnam, gas station owners posted “sold out” signs. In Kenya, tea growers and traders worried their exports to Iran would rot on the dock. And across the United States, Canada, Europe, Britain and Mexico, farmers blanched at the surge in fertilizer costs.

The widening war in Iran has delivered a stunning punch to a worldwide economy that has already been walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and President Trump’s chaotic policymaking.

MBFC

Edit: archive.today is broken again. Replaced the original link with a gift link.

Free my boy !!

I've been seeing a bad line of thinking in leftist spaces and in myself and I feel the need to call it out.

The western left's demonization of the class unconscious proletariat is a symptom of idealism that seems sadly acceptable in leftist social media spaces. Class consciousness is not an achievement to be proud of, you didn't do it, it happened to you.

Labor aristocracy is not a "sin" of the western working class it is a weapon of the bourgeoisie. Unique material conditions are what lead each of us to class consciousness not some sort of moral/intellectual/educational supremacy. The limited class consciousness in the west's working class is not an inherit flaw in the masses but a failure of the class conscious to conduct effective agitation. (the word "failure" is not a condemnation but recognition that we have been unable to succeed against the overwhelming power of the imperialist bourgeoisie.)

This extends to demonization of the troops. Yes members of the western armed forces actively benefit from imperialism and do horrific things supporting imperialism but they do this out of a response to their material conditions not because they are evil. That is not to say they are absolved of their crimes. It means many of them could be redeemable.

We have all had liberal and imperialist ideas that we now recognize are wrong. We must be willing to accept those who admit the faults of their past who are willing to fight for a better future. Anyone refusing to forgive comrades who admit to a flawed past is being dishonest about their own flaws. They are engaging in ideological moral supremacy. It is not a dialectical materialists position to refuse something changing into its opposite.

Again this is not a call to absolve the complicit but instead a call to remind us that we have all been complicit in some way and we are the proletariat not above them.

Marty Supreme is kino btw

In Dublin there was a monument locally called "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi" ("floozie" is someone promiscuous) which apparently the artist quite liked. It got moved off the main thoroughfare at some point.

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