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Etchings on a Wall in the Desert Could Rewrite the Story of Human Migration
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a68162812/human-migration-art/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Democrats are holding strong on the shutdown, which means that this will likely go into next week. This is showing signs of being a very protracted shutdown. Nobody wants to vote for the “clean CR” without the ACA protections and protections against Trump’s rescissions.
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Note again that the CRs don’t have anti-lgbtq provisions, those are in the main appropriations bills which the CRs are meant to buy time for negotiating over. Punchbowl is reporting some of the approps bills may be targeted for passage as “minibus” bills. punchbowl.news/article/fina...

Minibus talks nearing end but ...



New from me: (Aside: The hardest thing about writing this piece was reconciling the horrible subject matter with the immense satisfaction that comes with correcting an arrogant dudesplainer.) open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Yes, the Trump administration ...



EU support guarantees AKSHI and AKSK in Albania access to world-class cybersecurity software byteseu.com/1417503/ #Albania


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We had to leave earlier, but coincidentally, after my last post, I was fortunate enough to meet two people in person who enrich the #Fediverse: @quintessence , as well as @_elena It was awesome! It was nice meeting you two!

I could also explain the federation concept applied here, in e-mails and Matrix to two young women who studied computer science.

Unfortunately, I cannot attend the event during the weekend, but it promises to be really good! Hopefully, I can watch some presentations later, even from the airport..

#fediday #BerlinFediDay #fediday25 #federation

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tante grazie!


Introducing Ultimate Audiobooks, the one stop shop for file cleaning


My family hosts a modest Audiobookshelf server. When we tried to move from our old Plex server to ABS it was a nightmare. Our library had been built slowly over years and file organization/metadata was a mess. It took us several tools and many hours to get everything in decent shape. I was frustrated that nobody had made a single tool to scrub and clean up an audiobook library. So, I made one!

Notable features:


  • Fetch new metadata interactively from Audible or Goodreads
  • Generate metadata files
  • Recursively find and process files
  • Combine chapter files into a single book file
  • Convert files to .m4b

This is my first foray into an open source project. I know it's not pretty, and many of the features on my initial wishlist never got finished. But I have the core functionality working enough for my needs, which means I've been putting a lot less time into it. I decided to just release it to the world as is. May it save you much time!

The link

Ultimate Audiobooks is licensed under GPL-3.0

in reply to Thoven

Seems like an extension of Readarr (rest in peace) plus AudioBook Converter and ffmpeg for conversion?

Nice to have a tool with all of it in one place. I’d be concerned about the Goodreads API failing you like it did for Readarr. Then the backup metadata also failed

in reply to Bldck

Metadata is written to the file at the time of operation, so Goodreads failing would not affect any existing metadata sourced from it. But Audible is the preferred source anyway, as it has metadata specific to the audiobook typically not available in Goodreads. I've included it as a backup for books (mostly older ones) that are not available on Audible. Goodreads allows user submissions and thus has just about every book available in its library.


Oxford Eagle - Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez paints a scene of local media outlets being bought out and erased while major corporations capitulate to pressure from the FCC and other governmental bodies. oxfordeagle.com/2025/10/03/now…
in reply to Steve Herman

do they have enough audience of non extremists stopped giving them their eyeballs and attention? Not holding my breath people we would do that, but we do have some power as the people.
in reply to Steve Herman

ICYMI, here’s the video recording of FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez’s remarks and our Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and Innovation Q&A with her that has made news: youtu.be/XrdO7Kk268w



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Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before




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Antoni Lallikan, French photojournalist, was killed by a Russian FPV drone in Donetsk region.

Hryhorii Ivanchenko, photographer for Kyiv Independent, worked alongside Antoni. Both journalists were wearing bulletproof vests with PRESS written on them. Hryhorii was injured but is stable.

Antoni Lallikan was known for his reports from conflict zones. After the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022, he traveled to Ukraine and documented the consequences of the war.
#AureFreePress #News #press



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An OB-GYN who took acetaminophen during her own labor said the president’s remarks about Tylenol won’t stop her from prescribing it when necessary, but will confuse patients and increase health care providers’ fears of potential lawsuits.

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