Futurology Today

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34545967

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Monday in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has shifted to saying an overall peace agreement — and not a ceasefire — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year-old war.

Trump’s abrupt reversal, aligning himself with a position held by Russian President Vladimir Putin, came in a social media post on Saturday, hours after they concluded a summit in Alaska that produced no agreement to halt the fighting. Putin has long said that Moscow is not interested in a temporary truce, and instead is seeking a long-term settlement that takes the Kremlin’s interests into account.

After calls with Zelenskyy and European leaders, Trump posted that “it was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up.”

In a statement after the Trump call, the European leaders did not address whether a peace deal was preferable to a ceasefire, saying they “welcomed President Trump’s efforts to stop the killing in Ukraine, end Russia’s war of aggression, and achieve just and lasting peace.”

Temperatures are expected to reach up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in some areas on Sunday, Spanish national weather agency AEMET said.

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A senior figure in Iraq’s Fatah Alliance reaffirmed the demand for the withdrawal of U.S. forces, calling their expulsion an irreversible national decision and describing their continued presence as a source of instability in the country.

The removal of U.S. forces could significantly reshape Iraq’s security and military strategy and have broader implications for regional dynamics.

Adi Abdul Hadi stated: “The presence of U.S. forces in Iraq does not serve the country’s security and stability. These forces prioritize the interests of the Zionist regime, making their presence a destabilizing factor.”

From Google Maps, it looks like a big part of the river is dried out. Why aren't we seeing ATV's or other light vehicles contesting the territory?

Following Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday, Ukrainian officials are voicing concern over the US president’s apparent shift in tone after Putin demanded full control of Donetsk and Luhansk as a condition for ending the war.

On Truth Social, Trump said he wanted to “go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which often times do not hold up”.

Speaking to the Financial Times about Putin’s demands, a senior Ukrainian official said: “This is a stab in the back.”

Another senior Ukrainian official said: “He just wants a quick deal.”

Meanwhile, Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told the outlet that the outcome of the summit was “awful”.

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Scientists have managed to "break a theoretically impossible century-old barrier" about a fundamental physics property.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34824378

August 13, 2025

Last year, Claire Raizen, a social worker at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital[...] put up a small postcard at her desk bearing the words “Gaza Must Live.” Raizen said this affirmation of her values in her workplace was an attempt to manage the disconnect that arose from “knowing atrocities are happening” in Gaza while she went about her daily life. The postcard was in a space where only co-workers came and went, she said, and was out of view of patients.

At first, other employees at the top-ranked hospital who saw the postcard reacted positively, Raizen said. “I had co-workers that would come into my office and say, ‘it’s so amazing to know that this is a safe place to talk about Palestine."

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/calliope_kekule on 2025-08-18 04:49:51+00:00.

Monero's PoW mining pool centralization discussions covered problems, principles, PoW improvements, non-PoW alternatives like Trailing Finality Layer, vulnerability of Nakamoto consensus to rented hashrate and balancing decentralization with security. liberachat

Core principles to uphold in solutions: Privacy, decentralization, censorship resistance, accessibility, and permissionlessness, avoiding complexity, monetary policy integrity. a​rticmine: We have to be careful that we do not create a cure that is far worse than the disease

Improvements to Existing PoW: Tevador's bandwidth-based mining protocol proposal to penalize large pools & encourage decentralization. Sech1's idea of allocating 1% of rewards directly to miners. Short-term mitigations: Renting hashrate, temp raising tx fees as a relay rule.

Non-PoW Consensus Mechanisms: Trailing Finality Layer as an overlay for finality, potentially using PoS for validators, to prevent deep re-orgs and enable faster unlocks. https://xcancel.com/MoneroResearchL/status/1956119998004384085 TEEs withdrawn due to security issues.

Short-Term vs. Long-Term actions and research needs: Immediate: Rent hashrate during spikes; explore PoW tweaks.
Long-term: Research Trailing Finality Layer, PoS failure modes, hardening PoW.
Calls for CCS proposals and literature reviews.

Broad agreement on the urgency of addressing centralization, support for PoW tweaks as realistic short-term steps, rejection of TEEs, and the need for further research. sgp_: I personally think that on the PoW tweak front, tevador's proposal is the most realistic, by far.

kayabanerve: I like tevador's proposal but am concerned about the risk... tevador did respond to this concern though. articmine: I would suggest instead that we focus on hardening our existing POW both at the consensus and node really levels.

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Part 2: if you were the parent, would you feel it would be ethical to keep them alive?

Just want to make sure, we're currently down for everyone, right? I'm trying to ~~procrastinate on productive stuff I want to do like the AuDHD gremlin I am~~ do totally normal doomscrolling and it seems like the Lemmy instance is down. Other SDF services are active.

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/lurker_bee on 2025-08-18 04:00:24+00:00.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34500591

A phone application that has a queue when you open it before it displays your account information.

If I want to download all of this person's artwork https://x.com/CaoAmoss/media for use in my ttrpg games , how can I do that easily? I've been using gallery-dl a lot lately and it works great for artstation, deviantart, tumblr, etc. but twitter is a nightmare to scrape, at least with gallery-dl, and their scraper for nitter.net seems to be broken.