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The conviction of Colombia’s ex-president is a sign of hope amid autocracy’s rise | Maria McFarland Sšnchez-Moreno
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/04/colombia-uribe-ex-president-conviction-autocracy

This is a good article, being critical about the anthropomorphizing around GenAI / LLMs. But also not blind for their added value.
https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html

« Les autocrates africains assimilent la démocratie au colonialisme pour masquer leurs propres échecs »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/10/04/les-autocrates-africain…

« Les autocrates africains assimilent la démocratie au colonialisme pour masquer leurs propres échecs »
Prétendre que seul un régime fort peut assurer le développement contredit la réalité : aucun autocrate africain ne peut se vanter d’une telle performance, explique, dans sa chronique, Philippe Bernard, éditorialiste au « Monde ».

Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines.
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Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
Two critical vulnerabilities in Sudo command-line tool allow privilege escalation for local attackers on Linux systems

A sharp increase in standing charges makes it more difficult. An Italian model – time-of-use volumetric network tariff for EV charging – could be a good solution, provided it is also passed on to users. This provides incentives to avoid the expensive peaks (high system costs).
https://www.

Shock costs could cripple the UK's EV charging network
Operators questioning viability of big charging hubs after hike in standing fees

Qantas confirms it has been in contact with its ransomware attackers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/qantas-contacted-by-suspected-cyber-criminal-but-airline-wont-confirm-if-ha…

Everyone should read
"Pranksters vs Autocrats"
by Srdja Popovic.
It's a short, cheap ($4.99!), easy read
detailing how to use carefully planned mockery and
"Dilemma actions"
to fight fascists -- and why it works.
https://bsky.app/profile…

competentposter (@competentposter.bsky.social)
wizard frog is insane

Bad things are happening, but so are good ones. Demonstrations and protests across the country this last weekend did not get much press coverage from large outlets, but they happened. People are showing up. And they show us that Americans are not going gently into that good night, but are raging against the dying of the light. And more and more people each day are organizing and pushing back against this autocratic breakthrough.

Presidential Incapacity
We know already he can't do good things. Wag the Dog is a movie that was being made as Bill Clinton was doing the things he would later be impeached for. The impeachment timed out as taking place roughly when the movie came out. The movie depicts an American President

#NVDA screen reader add-on of the week: #AudioScreen https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3

Quantum simulation of carbon capture in periodic metal-organic frameworks
Dario Rocca, Jerome F. Gonthier, Joshua Levin, Tobias Schafer, Andreas Gruneis, Byeol Kang, Hong Woo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02550

Quantum simulation of carbon capture in periodic metal-organic frameworks
Carbon capture is vital for decarbonizing heavy industries such as steel and chemicals. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with their high surface area and structural tunability, are promising materials for CO2 capture. This study focuses on Fe-MOF-74, a magnetic Mott insulator with exposed metal sites that enhance CO2 adsorption. Its strongly correlated electronic structure challenges standard DFT methods, which often yield inconsistent predictions. We initially benchmark adsorption energies usi…