carrosa

[carrosa @carrosat]

"Ora, a corte, era di moda la pietà"

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Yemen's Houthis might have directly struck Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pipeline in the desert southeast of Medina. Sentinel-3 satellite imagery from today shows a massive black smoke plume nearly 100 km long over the pipeline route, stretching across the desert between Medina and Mahd adh Dhahab.

Satellite fire data shows a large fire burning at the same spot, with multiple heat anomalies clustered along a stretch of under 10 kilometers, fire radiative power above 70 megawatts, more than double a conventional fire, and the burn sustained for at least 8 hours, per NASA FIRMS data from today.

The East-West pipeline carries Saudi crude from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea, the kingdom's only export route that does not pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The fire comes amid Houthi attacks on Saudi territory over the past 24 hours.

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

This is the SINGLE MOST important story if you want to make sense of Trump’s hemispheric ambitions 👇

It is the story of Fernando Cerimedo: the fabulist, the fixer, now arrested on charges of femicide.

But it is also the story of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in action: how political consultants act as agents of empire, stealing the democratic rights and freedoms won by Latin America through centuries of struggle.

I HIGHLY recommend that you this terrific investigation, a thorough account of how the new Operation Condor is conducted, and to what devastating effect.

[carrosa @carrosat]

Pienz...

[CNN International @cnni]

More than 100 US military advisers are on the ground in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support to the Kingdom in its military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, multiple sources familiar with the effort say. https://t.co/4tFmgtlCs2

[ItalianPolitica @ItalianPolitics]

Circa 20 min. fa caccia israeliani sono entrati nello spazio aereo del #Libano e hanno (finora) bombardato Nabatieh Al-Fawqa e le alture vicine.

[Fanpage.it @fanpage]

Si è uccisa a 35 anni Denise Cosco: era la figlia di Lea Garofalo, simbolo della lotta alla 'ndrangheta

https://t.co/BdfRXldp9c

[Il Fatto Quotidiano @fattoquotidiano]

Frena per non investire un pedone, ragazzo si lascia scappare una bestemmia: multato con 102 euro perché contro le divinità della religione di Stato https://t.co/B0Dquj6Yad

[carrosa @carrosat]

Shock in my town

[Entropia @Entropia_70]

@ClaudioBorghi «I costi di gestione chi li paga?» L’automobilista. Il Comune vende il carburante a un prezzo che copre i costi, senza profitto. Lo ha dichiarato il sindaco: «Andiamo in pareggio».

[Andrea Mariuzzo @MariuzzoAndrea]

"'Occidente'...: è un concetto del quale possiamo fare uso scientificamente? No. È un concetto politicamente dannoso? Sì, perché è uno strumento propagandistico di basso conio che funziona sempre di meno" (L. Canfora)

[carrosa @carrosat]

@hymage @Agenzia_Ansa Non che sia rilevante, ma chissà com'è la vita di uno che non è scemo, ma vive mentendo e trattando tutti gli altri come fossero scemi. Bah.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

From around 1890, Jacobus van Looy painted a series of close-ups of flowers and fruit from unusual angles; a characteristic of these works is the severe cropping which various artists, influenced by the advent of photography, experimented with in the late 19thC

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

One reason 9/11 looms so large for millennials is that in retrospect it heralded the collapse of so much else: the economy, the environment, literacy, culture. Those falling towers are a perfect visual image of the past 25 years. We’ve been watching towers fall every day since.

[The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites]

The same cluster of people constantly telling us we may soon live forever but also all be dead, we’re on the cusp of untold riches but also will have no jobs, the best is yet to come but also this is your last chance to grab resources, is a form of collective psychological abuse.

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇰🇷 | High tensions in South Korea as protests erupt against Iran war deployment plans.

South Korea is actively preparing to become the first country to join the US militarily in the Strait of Hormuz — and Seoul has seen daily protests ever since officials confirmed it.

Police tried to contain demonstrators as they took to the streets. With slogans such as "Everyone opposed to the Hormuz deployment, unite!" and "Refuse US military pressure!", activists are protesting near the US embassy in the capital.

The demonstrations are organised by Seoul Peace Solidarity and National People's Action, which have urged the government not to bow to US pressure or capitulate to Washington, and vowed to continue the mobilisations. Further protests are planned.

Washington has pressured Seoul for months to deploy forces to West Asia. It has never looked closer to reality.

Seoul has notified Washington it is willing to dispatch naval ships and maritime patrol aircraft, and local media report parliamentary approval is already being prepared.

It would be South Korea's first deployment at US request in 22 years.

The deployment still requires that approval to proceed, but officials confirmed preparations are already under way regardless.

While South Korea frames the package as "defensive," it would actively supply and enable US military operations against Iran, providing logistics, intelligence and direct cooperation with US forces.

South Korea imports essentially all of its crude oil, 70% of it from the Gulf, leaving it heavily dependent on traffic through the Strait.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warned Seoul on Monday, in Korean, that any country operating in the Strait would be regarded as directly supporting the aggressor, and that a sovereign state must not yield to US pressure.

Just last month, Washington downgraded its most important annual drills with Seoul, saying South Korea had refused to back its war on Iran.

South Korea is arguably the most subordinated country in the world to the US military. Under OPCON, it is the only country on earth whose military would pass to American command in wartime.

It hosts one of the largest US contingents anywhere, and Washington is its most important diplomatic and military partner.

[Shubham @sy100x]

When Andrew Wiles solved Fermat’s Last Theorem, he added 84 references to the paper. His proof was built on other people’s work.

How many references does OpenAI’s article have? None.

That makes it look as if the LLM did something novel. In reality, it is only as good as the internet context and the data it was trained on - all of which was created by brilliant people.

Whether the OpenAI found this independently remains disputed until it cites the sources it used to generate the output.

[Wolfgang Munchau @EuroBriefing]

It took the CDU two days after their election disaster in Saxony-Anhalt to jump on the “Lets Ban the AfD” bandwagon. The chances of this happening are next to zero because the strict constitutional hurdles for a party ban are not met. What we are seeing here, is the political centre in search of new ways not to solve the problem.
https://t.co/xhrTyJS1Hq

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[La.rissa @Larissa17403687]

@annaiov1 In un paese civile dovrebbe esserci il tempo scuola e il tempo altro garantito (educazione non formale, campi estivi, attività pre e post scuola). Le polemiche suo giorni di scuola distraggono solo dal nodo centrale, la mancanza di servizi alla famiglia.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The Trump administration is seeking to rescind a rule that was put in place to stop private equity funds from bribing public officials, per Axios

[Apostolos Pistolas @appistol]

Shocked by Belgrade. Charmed by Damascus.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

French authorities have launched an investigation after female employees at Paris's Eiffel Tower were taken off duty for a private visit by a Hindu religious group, leading to a staff strike and Monday closure at the iconic landmark. https://t.co/Tl5vz5FJbA