CATL launches sodium batteries: extremely durable and stable at –40°C
CATL launches sodium batteries: extremely durable and stable at –40°C
CATL presented the first sodium batteries produced ...EVmarket Romania (EVmarket.ro)
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UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms
UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms
The UK has announced large-scale policing reforms, including new investments into artificial intelligence and increased Live Facial Recognition deployments.Masha Borak (BiometricUpdate.com)
Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline
Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy
When people perceive artificial intelligence as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation declineUniversität Wien
Im Rahmen ihres Bildungsauftrags unterstützt die Bürgerstiftung Wiesloch den Digitalen Unabhängigkeitstag!
Die Bürgerstiftung bietet einen offenen Raum für Austausch, Vernetzung und digitale Selbstbestimmung. Ehrenamtliche Expert*innen unterstützen beim Wechsel zu digitalen Alternativen.
Commission opens proceedings to assist Google in complying with interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act
Commission opens proceedings to assist Google in complying with interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act
Today, the European Commission has started two sets of specification proceedings to assist Google in complying with its obligations under the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA\'). The specification proceedingsEuropean Commission - European Commission
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Utslagna öringbestånd hämtade sig snabbt. Vintern 1995/1996 i Sverige präglades av omväxlande väder med både kraftigt snöfall och kyla.Anders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
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noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children
noyb has scored another win in its proceedings against Microsoft 365 Education: The Austrian data protection authority (DSB) has decided that the company illegally installed cookies on the devices of a pupil without consent. According to Microsoft’s own documentation, these cookies analyse user behaviour, collect browser data and are used for advertising. Microsoft now has four weeks to comply and cease the use of tracking cookies.
noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children
The DSB decided that Microsoft unlawfully placed tracking cookies on the devices of a pupilnoyb.eu
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When is the right time?
[2025][a green character looks anxious, speaks]
I fear some people in this movement may have a racial bias issue
[a yellow character looks pissed, raises their hand and talks back]
Now's not the right time to be saying that
We can't afford to be turning away people
Stop trying to divide us racially
You are an agitator
[the yellow character is now looking distraught]
Huh, the movement has been coopted by liberals and fizzled out
Nobody could have predicted this outcome
[2026]The exact same situation repeats
[2027]The exact same situation repeats
[2028]The exact same situation seems to be repeating endlessly
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Shh we don't say that part out loud and encourage them to actually do something for once.
10 years of doing nothing followed by "we always cared" is the usual fare.
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It's the continuation of a centuries long cycle.
The USA, being the most imperialist country, also becomes the most ruthless on its own population when the imperialism is turned inwards.
Imperial boomerang on steroids.
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With the way the fight is shaping up, the outcome will not be positive.
Maybe the abolish ICE movement will manage to stop them from shooting white people (which would be a small win tbh), but they don't seem to have the teeth required to turn it into a proper radical movement that will attack the core issues and cure the USA from its rot. There's no organization, no clear end goal, no leadership, it'll end up being coopted by Gavin Newsom or some other soft centrist and turned into a propaganda movement for liberals in the 2026 primaries and 2028 election.
I'm afraid a real movement that provides actual systemic change in the USA and breaks the cycle can only come from minorities, from people who have nothing left to lose and won't accept halfway concessions. Insert here the quote from MLK about the white liberal being a bigger enemy to minorities in the US than the KKK. If they cared, they'd have primary'd Biden out in favor of a progressive in 2024, since the ICE death camps continued killing people under his presidency.
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Hmm I get where you're coming from. It does seem concerning that they aren't organized as much as they should be.
I have felt similar to you in some ways. The fact that people didn't already have some kind of structure earlier on feels like a massive missed opportunity but I recognize that it's probably easier said than done to organize a whole independent movement across a country. I agree it might very well end up that way.
I guess ...I always like to prep for the worst and hope for the best. But don't lose hope. I think there's always time to turn things around.
Calling for a reform.... current parties are too focused on corporations and their own pockets.... fundamental rebirth of a nation.... now where did I hear this before....
(No matter the party, nations are still bourgeois dictatorships - if you change the parties or their names, the existing material conditions will force parties to behave in more or less the same way (best seen with crises of capital). This applies to every nation in existence, it's just less pronounced given less dominant economic position + internet being mostly US centric. The only way to permanently fix this is to get rid of underlying social relations and what manifests them e.g. private property, commodity production, wage labor and so on.)
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That's an interesting way of looking at it that I suppose I have thought of but haven't really considered it in depth. I suppose my mentality has been "work within the accepted framework because trying to convince people of anything else feels impossible."
I'm likely ignorant to a lot of this, however.
I wouldn't be opposed to a change like that though. As long as conditions improve for everyone and it's peaceful, I dont think i care what kind of system is put in place as long as everyone is treated properly. But now that I think about it more I can kinda get where you're coming from. I am curious if it would work at scale, and in the meantime, what we could do about things currently. It feels like that would be a polar opposite of capitalism entirely.
Anyways, sorry, im rambling with my thoughts here.
China probes senior military officials Zhang Youxia, Liu Zhenli for suspected serious discipline, law violations: defense ministry - Global Times
China probes senior military officials Zhang Youxia, Liu Zhenli for suspected serious discipline, law violations: defense ministry
China's defense ministry on Saturday announced that senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have been investigated for suspected serious discipline and law violations.www.globaltimes.cn
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Statligt digitalt ID ska införas - Svenssons Nyheter
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in reply to robinhoode • • •Since lithium prices crashed, sodium batteries' main advantage of being cheaper has vanished.
They're also lower capacity for the same weight.
The best application is where cold might be an issue, and weight isn't. So, for large storage. Or, where cold is always an issue, such as in the Arctic.
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in reply to TrackinDaKraken • • •Sodium is basically ubiquitous and sodium batteries are much easier to produce, which is not to be neglected amid rising geopolitical tension. They are also a lot safer to handle. The technology has improved to be ready for the market in almost no time and is still improving rapidly.
They won't be in your smartphone or wireless earbuds where energy density is key, but for large storage grids or maybe even cars, they might replace LiPo or LiFePO4.
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in reply to MotoAsh • • •Vancouver BC has had exposed trolley wires for many decades, no major mishaps. Sometimes drivers have to jump out and reconnect the charge arms, which puts them in the road for half a minute.
Can you point out the actual, demonstrated risks?
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in reply to eleitl • • •of course there is, and everyone is assuming lithium won't be recycled.
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