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Trump’s order takes aim at “gender ideology,” even as it appears he does not have any real idea what “gender ideology” means. There’s no need for “gender ideology” to mean anything more than this: an enemy to be defeated.

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Gaza's media office (GMO) has updated the death toll from Israel's war on the battered Palestinian territory to include those whose bodies have been recovered since a ceasefire took effect on Sunday.

The enclave’s officials have now set the toll at 61,182 Palestinians killed or missing after thousands of bodies were recovered and later brought to hospitals, and after several remains were uncovered.

newarab.com/news/over-61000-de…

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#Gaza #Palestine



H.R. 207 by Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA1] passed the House yesterday (→Senate). To direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a task force regarding shark depredation, and for other purposes. govtrack.us/congress/bills/119… 🏛️


The opposition to Netanyahu (you know, those who are supposed to save Israel from far-right messianism) propose annexing a huge chunk of the West Bank because it's a “strategic asset”.

Netanyahu's government turned it down because annexation “needs to be done in the right way".

Can't make this up.

timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent…

#Israel #Palestine #WestBank



New on // foss.events: Bytenight by Hackerspace Brussels on 01-02 February 2025 in LionCity in #Brussels, #Belgium

Find out more on foss.events/2025/02-01-bytenig…

Official account: @HSBXL
Official hashtag(s): #bytenight

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe



An Israeli military delegation led by Major General Oded Basyuk visited Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) today, Declassified can reveal.

Basyuk is the head of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Operations Directorate, which is responsible for preparing the Israeli military for war.

Basyuk was on the ground in Gaza during Israel’s most recent onslaught and presided over decision-making on last year’s offensive in southern Lebanon.

declassifieduk.org/israeli-gen…

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#Gaza #Palestine



Ray is a powerful open-source framework designed to simplify the process of building and deploying distributed applications. It is particularly popular in the fields of machine learning, data processing, and reinforcement learning, where distributed computing is often essential for scaling workloads across multiple nodes or GPUs.

ml-nn.eu/a1/74.html

#Programming #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks #Python #AI



📣 Attention web developers, students, and tech enthusiasts! MidCamp 2025 is happening May 20–22 at DePaul University in Chicago. Join us for an exciting event featuring Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal!

We need your help to grow the community. Share this flyer, invite your peers, and don’t miss out! Let’s build something amazing together.

Flyer: drive.google.com/file/d/1Q1BeH…
Info: midcamp.org/2025/article/help-…

#MidCamp2025 #Drupal #FOSS #WebDevelopment



BTW we're planning to ship flatpaks instead of rpms for some apps (that we think are suitable) in 41.

Basically the one major downside is that this increases the ISO image sizes by 1 GB on average.

#ultramarinelinux #um41 #fedora #opensource #linux #flatpak



New on // foss.events: TecKids CampDay by TecKids on 08 March 2025 in Nibelungenturm in #Worms, #Germany

Find out more on foss.events/2025/03-08-teckids…

Official account: @Teckids

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

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I'm going to try doing my first live-stream in 2025

Today at 6:30 p.m. CST, I will have a fun tutorial on creating keyboard shortcuts in your TUI using #Textual and #Python



Stellantis Will Restart Illinois Factory That U.A.W. Pushed to Revive (Neal E. Boudette/New York Times)

nytimes.com/2025/01/22/busines…
memeorandum.com/250122/p63#a25…



Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in "horribly shortsighted" decision (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/trum…
memeorandum.com/250122/p62#a25…



This elderly baby is off to a veterinary dentist this morning for a high risk tooth extraction. Send healing vibes please!
in reply to Mike Stone

@mike He never lived in CA, just in Ohio, maybe new york? (can't remember where my friend was before boston), Boston, and now in Arizona. I haven't lived in CA in a looooooong time
in reply to Eric R. Scott

Well, he's at the minimum tying me. I've got three states under my belt, and that's it. Huckleberry has at least that many. He's seen all kinds of birds.


Horne doubles down on culture war issues in State of Education address tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor…
During his State of Education address on Tuesday, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne included in his wish list for Arizona schools more armed security, no transgender athletes and less focus on racial differences.
#Tucson #Arizona


Anonymous posting of a claimed former X employee. The author discusses how the algorithm was changed to promote right wing accounts and posts, and how the Eliza LLM was explicitly designed for election influence. Also an entire misinformation operation?

Horrifying if true.

theconcernedbird.substack.com/…