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Physicists turn lead into gold — for a fraction of a second
Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine particle accelerator experiments.Gibney, Elizabeth
Documentary about Malta’s street cats screened in Japan
A documentary about Malta’s street cats by husband-and-wife filmmakers Sarah Jayne Portelli and Ivan Malekin has been enjoyed by hundreds of filmgoers inBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
For experimental value, here it is again: A nazi being punched in the face, with appropriate soundtrack from The Who's : Won't Get Fooled Again
#punch_a_nazi #fcknzs
Cyprus court jails Hungarians brokering property sales in Turkish-occupied north
A court in Cyprus sentenced two Hungarian nationals to prison on Friday for brokering sales of properties in the Turkish-occupied north of the island seizedBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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""Protestors showed up at Plaza Fiesta along Buford Highway on Friday night to demand the release of a Georgia college student in ICE custody." #Atlanta wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/d…"
En advokat och en företagare frikändes av Svea hovrätt, liksom tidigare av tingsrätten, från åtal för medhjälp till försök till grov utpressning av en VD i ett börsnoterat företag. Bägge dömdes till fängelse för annan brottslighet. Fyra andra personer dömdes av hovrätten till fängelse för delaktighet i utpressningsförsöket eller brottslighet med anknytning till det.
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Merz in Brussels: 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine possible within days, decision lies with Moscow
Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said he believes an agreement for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine is on the cards and could happen within the nextBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
GNOME Welcomes Its Google Summer of Code 2025 Contributors!
We are happy to announce that five contributors are joining the GNOME community as part of GSoC 2025!
This year’s contributors will work on backend isolation in GNOME Papers, adding eBPF profiling to Sysprof, adding printing support in GNOME Crosswords, and Vala’s XML/JSON/YAML integration improvements. Let’s give them a warm welcome!
In the coming days, our new contributors will begin onboarding in our community channels and services. Stay tuned to Planet GNOME to read their introduction blog posts and learn more about their projects.
If you want to learn more about Google Summer of Code internships with GNOME, visit gsoc.gnome.org.
Attacks Targeting Constitutional, Legal Order of Bosnia and Herzegovina Threat to Country’s Peace, Stability
“The extraordinary crisis currently facing Bosnia and Herzegovina stems from severe attacks by the Republika Srpska ruling coalition on the Dayton peaceBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
First they wanted to make lists of the autistics, trans people and those who might access abortion. Not to mention the lists that ICE undoubtedly have.
Now it's food stamp recipients.
Who and what will be next?
You know who made lists? Nazis. There's no reason for the government to require this level of personal data.
Or at least, there's no good reason. I think we all know what their reason is. This is fascism. They’re preparing lists to target and eliminate people deemed ‘undesirable’. We must fight back.
If you’re still being silent because you aren’t in a targeted group, please remember history.
Fascists won’t stop. They will land on your doorstep eventually.
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#uspoli #fascism #snap #transrights #ice #disability #autism #ableism
Britons increasingly swapping Med’s busy hotspots for ‘destination dupes’ | Travel & leisure
It will take more than a TikTok trend to break Britons’ love affair with Mediterranean beaches. But latest figures show travellers are increasingly swappingBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Verona, incontro: "Ritorno al futuro"
Perplessi? Ebbene, quanti ritengono che un argomento scientifico così specifico e avanzato possa essere pesante o noioso, avranno modo di ricredersi, perché l’argomento sarà trattato da Davide Formenti, un divulgatore scientifico simpatico quanto pre…UAAR
« S’adapter à un monde invivable n’est pas une option ». Sur l’IA et l’enseignement
Le discours fataliste de l’adaptation à un monde envahi par les intelligences artificielles est un renoncement aux objectifs émancipateurs du service public de l’éducation. On peut le mettre en parallèle avec le discours de l’adaptation au changement climatique qui fait oublier l’objectif prioritaire : son atténuation.
« S’adapter à un monde invivable n’est pas une option ». Sur l’IA et l’enseignement
Enseignement et IA : la consommation contre l’émancipation par Amélie Hart et Christophe Cailleaux, enseignant·es et militant·es.Academia
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"Fury growing against ICE, as in #Massachusetts, "angry... residents descended on federal immigration agents and attempted to thwart their operation to detain a woman with her family." While in #NewJersey, hundreds rallied against the re-opening of Delaney Hall by the GeoGroup, as a major ICE prison."
Mads Pedersen takes pink for first time with Giro d’Italia stage one win in Albania
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating theBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Even the Atlantic is starting to call it “ethnic cleaning” after years of strident Zionism.
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As Omar El Akkad said, “One day, everyone will have always been against this.”
Israel Plunges Into Darkness
What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.Gershom Gorenberg (The Atlantic)
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hat to use up the extra yarn from making my trans flag scarf-hood. braids are turning out to be much less dramatic than in the pattern photo but this is actually for the best cuz I wanna give it to my partner who prefers a practical aesthetic.
not the easiest pattern but once you figure out the trick for not getting the yarn tangled it's much more manageable (the pattern tries to explain it but I just found it confusing as fuck. the trick is just to keep the free yarn close to the top side of the row you just made, because you'll be going back along it to unwind it)
the pattern name is Leeward Hat, btw.
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in reply to David Whittle • • •"CERN researchers achieved the feat by aiming beams of lead at each other, travelling at close to the speed of light. The ions occasionally glance past each other, rather than hit head on. When this happens, the intense electromagnetic field around an ion can create a pulse of energy that triggers an oncoming lead nucleus to eject three protons — turning it into gold."
The power of a glance.
#CERN
#lead
#gold
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