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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5734117

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In contrast to Russian intelligence, which now carries immediate political stigma due to the war in Ukraine, Chinese operatives face fewer social barriers inside European institutions. Until recently, cooperation with China in academia and technology was widely encouraged. “That has changed,” [Director of the Center for International Studies and Development at Jagiellonian University Marcin] Grabowski said, “but the access channels remain open, especially in research and development.”

He pointed to recent British cases in which fake headhunters approached parliamentary staff with lucrative job offers, a tactic MI5 has flagged. He also described encounters at academic events where “students” later appeared to be acting on behalf of Chinese authorities.

According to Grabowski, China’s espionage strategy is a “long game,” using diplomatic cover, business activity, and academic collaboration to map European decision-making and technological capacity. With espionage now “a natural element of international politics,” he said, Europe must recognize that China’s intelligence presence is neither marginal nor new and is still expanding.

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these 2 items deserve to be in one image together

Cross-posted from "Do you agree?" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world

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Have wanted some houseplants for my office at home, but it gets practically no light and every plant I have tried has suffered there. Decided to try a "decorative" mushroom instead. Figured the lower degree of natural light will be less detrimental.

This is Oregon Reishi (Ganoderma oregonense). Mixed a colonized bag of millet grain spawn into a sterilized bag of wood-based substrate on 10/31/2025, used impulse sealer to close mixed bag. Substrate bag was fully colonized by 11/05/2025. I used isopropyl to clean some pottery, opened the colonized sub bag, and packed the sub into each pot. Placed the loaded pots into a monotub which has a layer of perlite in it and a water/peroxide solution (didn't measure, just eyeballed it, much more water than peroxide). Set the monotub on top of a kitchen cabinet.

Once a day I went up and just briefly popped open the top to give a gush of fresh air. There are filtered holes in the lid for passive air movement, but I figured a quick open wouldn't hurt, especially after I could see that the mycelium had grown over the upper crust of the substrate. As needed, I topped up water in the tub and also added a splash of peroxide. Took until ~11/17/2025 for some lumps to start forming at the top of the pots.

When I checked Thursday 11/20/2025, those lumps had risen considerably from where they had been, and I saw orange pigmentation beginning to spread.

Just today (11/21/2025) when I went to check, pores have now formed on some of the larger lumps.

Gonna let these hang out in the monotub until they reach the tub's ceiling, then move one into my office and see how it does in there. The rest I will divvy out to interested friends and family c: I figure they will dry out eventually, but I hope when they do that they retain their shape and sorta just become dried "arrangements".

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The pilot of an Indian combat plane died after the aircraft crashed Friday during a demonstration flight for spectators at the Dubai Air Show, the Indian Air Force said.

The Indian HAL Tejas, a combat aircraft used in the Indian Air Force, crashed around 2:10 p.m. local time after the pilot had flown across the site of the biennial air show in Dubai several times.

The plane appeared to lose control and dive directly toward the ground just prior to crashing inside the grounds of the airfield.

Tejas is India’s indigenous fighter aircraft, built by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The lightweight, single-engine jet is expected to bolster India’s depleted fighter fleet as China expands its military presence in South Asia, including by strengthening defense ties with India’s rival Pakistan.

The Indian government signed a deal with HAL in 2021 for 83 Tejas aircraft. Deliveries, expected last year, have been delayed largely because of shortages of engines that must be imported from the United States.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42161794

• US plan would require Kyiv to give up land, accept curbs to military, sources say
• French minister: peace cannot mean capitulation
• US army delegation is visiting Kyiv

European countries pushed back on Thursday against a U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions long seen by Ukraine's allies as tantamount to capitulation.

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European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels were careful not to comment in too much detail about a U.S. peace plan that has not been made public. But they made clear they would not accept demands for punishing concessions from Kyiv.

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Moscow played down any new U.S. initiative.

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A U.S. Army delegation ... was in Kyiv [and] met Ukraine's top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi late on Wednesday. Syrskyi said he told them the best way to secure a just peace was to defend Ukraine's airspace, extend its ability to strike deep into Russia and stabilise the front line.

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It's funny that they might call this a PSYOP because they use disinfo and misinfo on every type of media imaginable, on a worldwide scale the likes of which most can not even imagine and would never believe. internet bots were sent by the millions to destroy america, lol. and every day, there are more. every accusation, and all.

Won't someone think of the metadata? 🥺 Why is nobody taking us seriously

In the months that followed, no one came forward to represent Anna’s Archive in court. OCLC did name an archivist from the Seattle area as the potential operator, but they denied any involvement with the site and were eventually dropped from the case.

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The CDC has updated its website to say vaccines “may cause autism,” contradicting decades of scientific research and sparking backlash

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xkcd #3171: Geologic Core Sample

Title text:

If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3171/

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Pat Gelsinger has shared the story of how his initials remained on the Intel 386 silicon die, despite them being spotted by the top brass during a pre-production design review session. Creating such inscriptions "was not done," during this era at Intel, remembers Gelsinger. Nevertheless, the legendary true-blue Intel man says he uttered “some complete nonsense about substrate tap configuration experiments” to swerve a comment on the 'PG' silicon markings by the gruff (then-CEO) Andy Grove. The end result is that Pat Gelsinger's initials are etched directly into the silicon of every 386 processor ever made.

The story goes that Gelsinger and his team of fellow architects and engineers were gathered in a conference room poring over “a huge 25x25 foot printout of the [i386] chip, magnified so we could see every little detail.” This was a part of the design review stage of a chip at the time.

During the review session, the team was excited by the arrival of Grove, invited by the youthful (~25) rising star Gelsinger. However, they grew apprehensive as the Intel CEO du jour took some time to review the detailed printout.

The tram line has been open for about two years now, but people still have trouble remembering the tram has the right of way. Maybe this will help, the audible warning doesn't seem to be enough since many people have headphones (understandable, noise cancelling is a must if the city has any car traffic).