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🇫🇷 #France issued a curfew for Place de la Republique ‌and the ‌streets around Les Halles in central #Paris to take effect on Monday night from 11pm until 6am on Tuesday.

Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals | Norway | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/19/tap-water-no-longer-drinkable-norwegian-town-climate-related-thawing-heavy-metals-arctic-longyearbyen-svalbard

"Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the world"

#ClimateCrisis #Water

Around the world, states are using technologies to monitor populations, suppress dissent and exert control often without transparency, meaningful oversight or routes to redress.

Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents this growing trend across both democratic and authoritarian contexts.

https://privacyinternational.org/report/5873/global-report-authoritarian-use-technology

Just GTFO of every douchebag techbro billionaire owned social media.

Now.

Yes, #bluesky and #threads. #xitter #facebook, #instagram #linkedin ALL of them.

No, threads and bluesky are NOT the #Fediverse , they are #DTBO #SocialMedia , owned by techbro billionaires who are using the wealth they get from YOU being there to destroy democracy.

Just leave.

We did.

I'm in a somewhat awkward position - but since it's about security, and the only way to (hopefully) reach all Sharkey admins and bring this to their attention is by making a public post, I'll do just that.

You probably know that Sharkey is now based on a Misskey version that is 18 months old - falling behind is very understandable, especially for a long standing fork. But since almost 500 fediverse servers are running on Sharkey (495 according to fedidb), at least security releases are essential.

So I have to let you know that we have now notified the Sharkey devs twice about several upstream vulnerabilities we found (and fixed) in Catodon, with the first time being over a month ago. The latest stable Sharkey release was almost 5 months ago, which means they have yet to be patched in a stable release. In the meantime Misskey has also released security fixes, which have also not landed in a stable release yet.

This is not an attack on Sharkey, I hope this comes as a wakeup call, because Sharkey has truly been a great platform. But the hundreds of Sharkey admins (and users) should know about the unpatched vulnerabilities the software currently carries.

#sharkey #sharkeyadmin #misskey #fediverse

October 12 marks one month since police raids and mass arrests targeted the LGBTQI+ community and movement in #Turkey.

Between September 12 and 14, police raided seven LGBTQI+ rights groups and two groups supporting people living with HIV, along with bars and nightclubs, in five Turkish cities. At least 112 people were arrested. 

One month later, most of them remain behind bars, while the pressure on LGBTQI+ communities, on our civil society, continues. There are serious concerns that authorities will move to close down organisations and violate the human rights of our queer comrades in prison.

Criminalising LGBTQI+ people and the groups that defend them is an attack on freedom of expression and association, and it puts all of us at risk. Being yourself should never be a crime.

We are joining the call for international solidarity today.
Spread the word!

#HerYerdeyizAşkım #Özgürlükİstiyoruz

#EU warns online platforms over #livestreaming #US #execution planned by Pentagon

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261012-eu-warns-online-platforms-over-livestreaming-us-execution-planned-by-pentagon

The European Union warned digital platforms on Monday against livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist who is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on December 3 for killing 13 people at a military base in 2009. Under EU rules, platforms have an obligation to moderate shocking and violent content, including capital punishment.

I want to get an idea of how many people on Fedi have or have not seen Game of Thrones... so Please boost to increase the pool size!

Have you seen Game of Thrones? #GameOfThrones #Poll

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s #Climate

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

Developers beware: these ad-tracking libraries will give up your users’ location data by default to third parties. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/developers-beware-ad-libraries-betray-your-users-location-privacy

What’s your go-to choice for new accounts?

#passwordmanagers

If I say “the Nazi Bar” and you know exactly which web site I mean and you’re still on it…

🤔

Companies that cannot state for the record that they are anti-fascist are fascist. There is no middle ground. You can’t be somewhat fascist. You either are or you aren’t.

THEY ROBBED US: The Terrifying New Version of Society We Must Avoid

https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/they-robbed-us-the-terrifying-new

Families are borrowing money to feed themselves, college students are studying for jobs that have been replaced by AI, and meanwhile, entire nations are subjected to genocide as the rest of us prefer to get lost inside our phone screens to forget our mounting bills, abusive bosses and boring, miserable reality that simply fails to compete with the TikTok version. We are being mentally genocided by a system imposing a yellow perimeter around us the size of a smartphone screen. In this dystopia we are all alone, and we all want to be left alone. Oversaturated with our own real and imaginary problems, there is simply no room anymore for another person in our life, for a community.

We need to realise that WE are the system. The system is what WE make it, what we allowed it to become. I’m not offering hope. I’m suggesting the only way out: wake the fuck up.

A #homeless man was charged with a felony for #camping. He's one of the first

https://wpln.org/post/a-homeless-man-was-charged-with-a-felony-for-camping-hes-one-of-the-first/

When Joseph Lamont Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony. Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on #homelessness.

Advance of the far right threatens the Amazon

"The far right is moving in on the Amazon. Outsider and attorney Abelardo de la Espriella's win in Colombia, Keiko Fujimori's triumph in Peru, and the state of emergency in Bolivia point to an increasingly hostile future for the planet's largest rainforest.

Added to this scenario is the alarming fact that Venezuela is a ward of the United States.

If Flávio Bolsonaro comes out on top in Brazil’s October elections, nearly the entire Amazon will be held hostage to a project based on the limitless exploration of Nature, along with most of the countries in Latin America."

#farright #environment #climate #climatecrisis #rainforest #Amazon #Colombia #Peru #Bolivia #Venezuela #Brazil #LatinAmerica #Latam #elections
https://sumauma.com/en/o-avanco-da-extrema-direita-nas-americas-ameaca-a-amazonia-e-reduz-as-chances-de-sobrevivencia/