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"PANSPERMIA: The Radical Theory of Life's Origins"
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Deforestation Devastates Tesso Nilo National Park’s Endangered Creatures
Act now to save Tesso Nilo Park. This vital Indonesian park has lost 78% of its primary forest, threatening the habitat of Sumatran tigers and elephantsPalm Oil Detectives
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Head's up, if you want to disconnect the bridge to Bluesky, here are the instructions. I exercised this option today, as a result of them "blue checking" ICE. I'd never allow Federation of an ActivityPub instance with Nazis on it, and Bluesky is no exception. #Bluesky
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Bridgy Fed
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.voteyesornoai.com
The Companies Behind ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has grown its network of private industry partners since the start of the second Trump administration to support its agents as they storm into cities and detain people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants.
Last year, the ICE agency obligated more money than ever to private contractors, and this year it’s on pace to easily top last year’s record. More than 600 companies have been working with Trump’s ICE, including businesses in nearly every state...
This list includes Palantir. One of Australia's largest supermarket chains Coles contracts Palantir to help them with information gathering on their customers and more.
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.Donald Shaw (Sludge)
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Home - Citizens' Impeachment
Citizens’ Impeachment is a grassroots, nonpartisan effort to impeach, convict, & remove officials who violate their oath to the ConstitutionCitizens' Impeachment
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Message from our CEO | New Art Exchange | NAE | Nottingham
As a migrant in the UK, I was often confronted with questions that are centred around who gets to make decisions and who doesn’t.New Art Exchange | NAE
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Over the holidaya my daughter and I made "trash soup".
We sterilized some compostable paper, tea leaves, coffee grounds, etc in a pot, let it cool, and then mixed in oyster mushroom mycelia. A few weeks later, we have over 500 g!
#FungiFriday #mushrooms #growYourOwn
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Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover
Does he really think that there will be no consequences? Take Greenland and lose access to all the European Markets. Bases In Europe, and American Companies can leave with their tails between their legs without their assets.
He is Clueless.... If he Screws NATO he Screws ALL HIS Trade With the NATO Nations and EU
#OurModernTimes #PariahPresidentOfAmerica #Greenland #EU #Trade #Tariffs #Threats
Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover as US lawmakers visit Denmark to ease tensions
The president made the threat while a bipartisan group of US lawmakers were visiting Denmark in the hope of easing tensions over the territory.Daniel Bush (BBC News)
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Technically
So? Until congress grows a spine, who's going to stop him?
Our nation is coming apart around our ears as a madman takes a sledgehammer to it.
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Be the first to experience the new must-watch Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter launch keynote, press conference and businesses-oriented key updates.Nextcloud
[Feature Request] Repeating tasks
Repeating tasks, like calendar items, would be a really useful feature. Right now I'm putting repeating tasks in the calendar (stuff like taking out the trash weekly) but really that'd be better as...stoopidJSON (GitHub)
Update: Shortly after releasing maintenance version 32.0.4 we followed up with a hotfix, version 32.0.5.
Please keep your server up to date!
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January updates available: Nextcloud Hub 10 & Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn - Nextcloud
New maintenance updates are available for Nextcloud Hub 10 (31.0.13) and Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (32.0.4 ). Keep your server up-to-date!Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Ho remeber now why I wouldn't update on friday my own instance and leave for the week end away from keyboard. 😑
If I read well the changelog problem is only on a index deletion that does not exist in some cases. I can wait.
Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/thir…
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Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo
Give me some of that sweet mech combat action - RIG Riot looks pretty fantastic, and now there's a demo available for you to try.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A ‘mystery monkey’ in Borneo may be a rare hybrid between a Proboscis Monkey and Silvery Lutung
A new study has found that fragmentation of forests in Malaysian Borneo due to palm oil and mining has pressured two species of monkey (the Proboscis Monkey and Silvered Leaf Monkey/Silvery Lutung)…Palm Oil Detectives
Tabulo is chess meets Balatro and it's out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tabu…
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Tabulo is chess meets Balatro and it's out now
Is it chess? Is it Balatro? It's both, sort of. Tabulo is a pretty clever mixture of gameplay elements that looks set to hook you in.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
No Rest for the Wicked co-op update lands on January 22 and it hit a big sales milestone gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/no-r…
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No Rest for the Wicked co-op update lands on January 22 and it hit a big sales milestone
No Rest for the Wicked from Moon Studios is set for a huge upgrade on January 22nd, with the release of the co-op update titled No Rest for the Wicked Together.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
EndeavourOS Linux gets an upgraded release with Ganymede Neo gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ende…
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EndeavourOS Linux gets an upgraded release with Ganymede Neo
After a major update released for EndeavourOS late last year, a new refresh is out with Ganymede Neo with a big tweak for NVIDIA GPU owners.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Masters of Albion from Peter Molyneux / 22cans arrives in April gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mast…
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Masters of Albion from Peter Molyneux / 22cans arrives in April
Peter Molyneux and 22cans return in April with their latest god sim attempt, Masters of Albion.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I can see the launch hype now...
Molyneux: "The culmination of all my work, the re-imagining of the god sim"
Day 1 reviews: "Resource management and tower defence".
USA : No More Free Tax Returns
Turbo Tax/Intuit Legally Extorting America
#OurModernTimes #Taxes #TaxLaw #IncomeTaxes #Intuit #TurboTax #Extortion #TrumpCrimes #APieceOfTheAction
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Grab some awesome modern platformers in the Playful Platformers 2026 Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/grab…
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Grab some awesome modern platformers in the Playful Platformers 2026 Humble Bundle
Got a little time for some adventuring and platforming? The Playful Platformers 2026 Humble Bundle has launched with a great price for some nice games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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5 features that make Linux more productive than Windows or Mac
Linux takes productivity to a new level.Dibakar Ghosh (How-To Geek)
Amazon confirm New World: Aeternum will go permanently offline next year and is being delisted gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/amaz…
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Amazon confirm New World: Aeternum will go permanently offline next year and is being delisted
Back in October 2025, Amazon announced that their MMO game New World would no longer see updates - and now they've confirmed the full shutdown.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I'm slowly starting to share more images from my multi-year project "This Land Remembers", an odyssey into the last remaining ancient native woodlands of Scotland (like this one from a brilliant Autumn morning in 2025). I also have an upcoming exhibition at Gallery Photiq this April/May featuring 12 prints from the project, including this image.
#photography #LandscapePhotography #scotland #uk #nature
Heng Li: hlilab.github.io/vacancies
"We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to develop high-performance algorithms for sequence alignment, pangenome representation, application of pangenome data structures, or other projects the applicant may propose. A qualified candidate is expected to be proficient in a high-performance language such as C, C++ or Rust, and have rich research experiences in #bioinformatics and computational genomics."
#job
OpenXcom Extended takes over from OpenXcom for the classic X-COM / UFO: Enemy Unknown gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open…
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OpenXcom Extended takes over from OpenXcom for the classic X-COM / UFO: Enemy Unknown
Remember the classic X-COM / UFO: Enemy Unknown? It's one of my favourite strategy games from the 90s, and now the open source OpenXcom is switching hands.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Humble Algae: The Solution to Palm Oil Ecocide
Consumers, businesses and researchers have shown growing interest in microalgae in recent years. Use of Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) as a food supplement is one example. Others include how mic…Palm Oil Detectives
IO Interactive have fixed the crazy PC specifications for 007 First Light gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/io-i…
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IO Interactive have fixed the crazy PC specifications for 007 First Light
It was clear something wasn't right when IO Interactive originally released the PC specifications for the upcoming 007 First Light, and now they've been sorted.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
🍄 Keanu's Community Kitchen and Cafeteria
In a world where the gap between the wealthy and the impoverished often feels insurmountable, one man is making a stand for the basic human right of access to food. Keanu Reeves, the Hollywood actor known for his humble and generous spirit, has taken his philanthropy to a new level. His latest venture, a nationwide network of 24/7 free community kitchens, is nothing short of revolutionary. With an investment of $350 million, Reeves is working to ensure that no one in America goes hungry, regardless of their circumstances.
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GNOME has the platform. The office suite is missing.
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It's Time to Bring Back GNOME Office (Hope You Remember It)
Those who used GNOME 2 in the 2000's would remember the now forgotten GNOME Office. I think it's time to revive that project.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
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Protecting India’s Tigers Saves One Million Tonnes of CO2
#India’s fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #car…Palm Oil Detectives
From a private hobby to a global phenomenon, Linus explains how a simple experiment turned into the powerhouse we know today. 💪
Anthropic has done something to support Python. 💸
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After Rejecting US Government's Aid Over DEI, Python Software Foundation Accepts $1.5 Million in Funding from Claude AI
A two-year partnership aimed at bolstering security for Python and PyPI.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Australian goat smashes shop window.
"I was just trying to let that butt-head in the window know what I think of him!"
Repairs may cost as much as $4000
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Goat's headbutt frenzy causes thousands of dollars in damage to Cobar business
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Lily Plass (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Claude Code for writers
Five useful things I’ve built so far. Plus: Grok caves, and Thinking Machines implodesCasey Newton (Platformer)
Sounds interesting!
I image the Claude agent would need LOTS of access to the host system/local PC with open 'Net access to accomplish this?
The functionality sounds useful but I worry about giving a semi-autonomous agent with potential back doors that much access to my PC/laptop.
Perhaps a separate clean PC or a virtual host would help contain this security problem?
GitHub - nibzard/awesome-agentic-patterns: A curated catalogue of awesome agentic AI patterns
A curated catalogue of awesome agentic AI patterns - nibzard/awesome-agentic-patternsGitHub
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •THANK YOU. youtube.com/watch?v=hMUlp7T9ng…
Person: mental illness, trauma, abuse, neglect, etc.
Uncle Iroh, ffs: "That girl is crazy and needs to go down!"
Yes. Anyone, mentally ill / mistreated etc or not, can be dangerous to themself and others around them.
Literally anyone.
11:20 Except no, Ozai is another parent. He's more entrenched and beholden to this toxic culture, arguably, than Ursa. He still doesn't get to be absolved from being a bad father.
They can get a damn nanny, bring Iroh back, or just spend 2 seconds thinking about how to stop demanding carework from mothers as a matter of course.
I could see the flawed logic in "Azula is well-suited to this crappy environment, so I don't need to worry about her as much".
*Still* doesn't excuse treating her like a non-person.
Uncle Iroh to Zuko: "You alone can cleanse the sins of our family". A totally normal thing to say to a minor.
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •No one is 'bad'. Everyone is shaped by their situation and has incomplete influence over their situation.
Even if someone were completely 'bad', does that make them not human? Are their rights to be a person revoked?
If someone can feel any kind of pain, or have the same needs (food, water, organ maintenance in sleep, etc), then people in that world share stakes with that person.
People always need to cooperate, compromise, share, and make decisions. If nothing else, communication can always start from mutually understood context.
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •34:55 no, that could absolutely still be the greeting of someone who is scared. Especially if they are scared of what might happen if they don't respond so effusively.
Yes, people typically act in accordance with their emotions -- when they feel safe to do so. When they don't feel safe, however, some fall into "Fight, Flight, Fawn, Freeze / freak out" mode. This would be a fawn response, if so. Or: it might be how she actually feels. I don't know cuz I'm not in her head or those of the writers'.
37:15 yep. I can't imagine a cauldron more suited to breaking people than "constant demands for perfection".
If you can't win in any outcome, then why bother doing anything but what you want in the moment?
39:40 uh no. Don't show you "like" people by pushing them down after they do something you haven't.
40:15 yes, don't emphasise your problems to someone who may (think they) would want those problems. ALSO clear communication is important for everyone. AND excessive attention, "flattering" or not, is definitely a problem if the person experiencing it says it's a pr
... show more34:55 no, that could absolutely still be the greeting of someone who is scared. Especially if they are scared of what might happen if they don't respond so effusively.
Yes, people typically act in accordance with their emotions -- when they feel safe to do so. When they don't feel safe, however, some fall into "Fight, Flight, Fawn, Freeze / freak out" mode. This would be a fawn response, if so. Or: it might be how she actually feels. I don't know cuz I'm not in her head or those of the writers'.
37:15 yep. I can't imagine a cauldron more suited to breaking people than "constant demands for perfection".
If you can't win in any outcome, then why bother doing anything but what you want in the moment?
39:40 uh no. Don't show you "like" people by pushing them down after they do something you haven't.
40:15 yes, don't emphasise your problems to someone who may (think they) would want those problems. ALSO clear communication is important for everyone. AND excessive attention, "flattering" or not, is definitely a problem if the person experiencing it says it's a problem for them.
40:45 omgg that feeling when emotional awareness and caring, jfc. And yep, being expected to be perfect, assumed to be superior, or put on a pedestal are all ways to dehumanise someone.
"Oh I'd love a problem like that!" Would anyone? Being seen as someone you can never be? Being seen as above discomfort or worthy of help?
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •44:00 "But with Mei, how can it be about fear as a form of control?"
Because she can connect the dots about what Azula has done and may consider?
55:19 "You're definitely gonna die if you don't, so you might as well follow my orders" might also apply to her in the Fire Nation's patriarchal exploitative system of power.
56:00 yes, finally, we get into the rampant sexism.
1:03:30 omg yes. I wish I could figure out the most effective phrasing in a given moment. Feels like she understands people around her in order to guess how to best survive.
1:07:00 yup. If she had a set worldview, she'd have yet one more thing to be targeted. I think the InfoSec phrase is 'attack surface' or something. 1:08:00 you can use people's misconception of you against them.
1:13:00 nope. "This person could be useful to us" is a terrible reason to help someone. Help them because they are a person who exists, not because you see benefit for yourself.
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •1:24:40 YES! She's had shit in her life and impossible expectations, but she's still put in the work to solidify her skills. Omg yes, the solid creativity and adaptability. She's always had to be "better than [literally everything, including herself" so she has much less in common with other people who haven't.
Even within restrictive situations, you always have minor choices. Start with the tiny decisions and work up to bigger changes!
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •"If you make me realise my mental model of the world was even SLIGHTLY inaccurate, then I will hurt you."
It feels like they don't like examples of people making positive changes. Or it feels like a responsibility to choose (within personal abilities in situation), therefore they feel the knowledge as criticism.
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how do we trick capitalists into getting therapy?
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •18:48 I mean, he could just not be so insecure in his self-image as to feel geniunely threatened by a teenager's dim view of him.
20:30 "The court of the Fire Kingdom is one where anyone can be corrupted." I mean, yeah? Everyone has a level of torture (whatever causes them personal pain) beyond which they MUST reassess their values / narrative in order to survive.
Survival of the most adaptable, in a grim af way.
42:00 Uncle Iroh can do kind things and still have hurt people. Watching clips as an adult makes me appreciate this more. I still think Azula was written off far too quickly to be remotely fair to her as a person. AND I understand why Iroh would guard against the great potential harms she may cause.
48:00 "The power to cleanse the sins of the Fire Nation and bring balance to the world" is a hell of a heavy burden to place on a child, royal teenager or not.
... show moreI understand that he's trying to empower Zuko to understand the huge scope of actions he could take. I get that he does need to know the impacts he will always have. Still feels demanding tho.
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18:48 I mean, he could just not be so insecure in his self-image as to feel geniunely threatened by a teenager's dim view of him.
20:30 "The court of the Fire Kingdom is one where anyone can be corrupted." I mean, yeah? Everyone has a level of torture (whatever causes them personal pain) beyond which they MUST reassess their values / narrative in order to survive.
Survival of the most adaptable, in a grim af way.
42:00 Uncle Iroh can do kind things and still have hurt people. Watching clips as an adult makes me appreciate this more. I still think Azula was written off far too quickly to be remotely fair to her as a person. AND I understand why Iroh would guard against the great potential harms she may cause.
48:00 "The power to cleanse the sins of the Fire Nation and bring balance to the world" is a hell of a heavy burden to place on a child, royal teenager or not.
I understand that he's trying to empower Zuko to understand the huge scope of actions he could take. I get that he does need to know the impacts he will always have. Still feels demanding tho.
You can always make a different choice today compared to yesterday, and a prince will have more direct effects than a non-prince, sure. Any progeny is always also a person.
You have to trust people to know their options and choose as freely as they can. You can't know what someone "would" choose unless you know they could have chosen anything else. And even then!
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I get the feeling Uncle Iroh attempted suicide after his son's death. I could accept he might have "entered the Spirit World" in order to look for him, but this is a world where everyone knows resurrection doesn't happen. So he may have had a near death experience, or he may have sought a portal to travel there.
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •To show vulnerability to someone else is to communicate a lack of will to fight, or a sense of trust that they won't fight.
That starts a shared situation where you're coexisting. You then both have a motive to sustain this lower energy state.
You're not trusting a given person, exactly, but the idea that this event will not hurt you unduly.
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •Violence is a last resort to escape an untenable situation.
So advocating for stochastic terrorism (say, like every time there's a mass shooting or directing discomfort away from capitalism to random sub-groups) feels pretty relevant tbh.
Do I think people should die? No.
Do I think people who currently feel comfortable with conservative ideas are irredeemable? No.
Do I think it's at all surprising that Charlie Kirk advocated for exactly what he got? Not really, no.
Yep, a human is dead, his partner is upset, etc. (*and kids. I don't wish losing a parent on anyone.) Just like the people he argued didn't deserve understanding.
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in reply to Mx Verda • • •10:20 omg yes. In the UK, people keep asking when I 'automatically' got citizenship. The cheapest for the APPLICATION for UK citizenship was £1200. It's now £1700. I didn't have enough then and I don't now.
"But you've lived here for how long?" Evidently they've been reading Daily Mail / Sun nonsense for how long.
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