Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Reading the language of today's reports of a hospital bombed, remembering the language of previous reports of previous hospitals bombed, thinking of this cartoon by Tom Gauld.

A May 13 warning from U.S. President Donald Trump to Iran came as the president already knew an Israeli attack on the nation could be imminent — and that there might be little he could do to stop it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/20/world/politics/trump-iran-behind-scenes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #iran #israel #middleeast

There are a lot of expectations from the relatively new European Public Prosecution Office (EPPO) in the region. At least in Croatia they start to deliver.

As for Žalac, I don’t really think she should be paid her stay in prison with taxpayer money, so they could let her out in home custody or whatever.

"The defendant Gabrijela Žalac was found guilty today. On the basis of her admission of guilt and the agreement between the parties, she has been sentenced to two years in prison. It should be noted, that prior to this verdict she voluntarily paid back to the state 200 thousand euros, a part of the damages she caused by her criminal actions,” said Sani Ljubičić, a prosecutor assigned to the case by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).

The United Nations is drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans due to the "deepest funding cuts ever" — leaving tens of millions of people facing dire straits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/17/world/un-global-aid-plan-cuts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #unhcr #un #sudan #palestinians #gaza #southsudan #haiti #mali #famine #usaid

Good news: GitHub Copilot is scared shitless of the concept of gender.

Instead of foo, bar and baz, use “genderqueer”, “demisexual” and “leather_daddy” and you’ll reduce the likelihood of getting a spammy PR from a sad robot.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603

#NoKings

@gamingonlinux Displaying quote posts will be in Mastodon 4.4.0, which we plan to release the first week of July (and is already deployed on mastodon.social).

Authoring quote posts will be in Mastodon 4.5, which will be released as soon as we finished this feature, probably at the end of summer. We are 70% done on quote posts and the hardest part is done (figuring out the protocol details to implement them in the Fediverse while giving control to users), now we "simply" need to finish the code

"For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance." https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/ by @privacyguides

@yogthos

Italy’s first assisted suicide exposes years of political inaction https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/italys-first-assisted-suicide-exposes-years-of-political-inaction/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it

The dozen board members of the prestigious #Fulbright program that promotes #international #educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was #political #interference by the #Trump admin in their operations, acc/to people familiar w/the issues & a board memo obtained by NYT.

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #SeparationOfPowers #tyranny #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy

Many fathers think neither the UK government nor employers view their participation in childcare as important.
https://tcnv.link/tnyhkLV

🎉 Benvenuti nel Fediverso: una nuova era dei social network

In soli 4 minuti @elena spiega cos’è il Fediverso: un mondo alternativo ai social tradizionali, dove la privacy è rispettata, gli utenti hanno il controllo e le Big Tech restano fuori.
Guarda il video e scopri una rete sociale davvero libera e decentralizzata!

https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

@fediverso

#fediverso #fediverse #SocialNetwork #Social #SocialMedia #BigTech

This has been tacit knowledge, but here are the exact mechanics of how Telegram (very likely intentionally) is leaking data to the Russian FSB

https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

@nepravda