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Norobiik

@Norobiik@noc.social

#TwitterMigrant stumbling through #cyberspace. 🇵🇭

Loves #cats, #scifi, #fantasy, #tech & my new home #Mastodon.

Enjoys #PokemonGo, #Kdrama, #Chess, #RetroGaming & #Music.

ps. If you want me to follow you then please have a profile picture and something about you in your bio. Or just a bio will do👌(also applies to approval of follow requests)

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Norobiik, to indonesia
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Mount Doom 🌋😬

erupted on Saturday evening, sending ash 4km into the sky, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater, according to information and images shared by Indonesia’s volcanology agency.

The alert level of the to the highest level on Thursday, after Ibu erupted multiple times earlier this month.

’s spectacularly erupts forcing nearby villages to evacuate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/indonesias-ibu-volcano-spectacularly-erupts-forcing-nearby-villages-to-evacuate

Back toot: https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112432782679594037

Norobiik, to random
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Repeat after me (x 100)

Don't depend on the cloud for your primary backup.

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

Norobiik, to microsoft
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After pledging to slash its emissions, ’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes .

Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledge

Norobiik, to ai
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The -powered "Search Generative Experience ()" that the company had been trialing for months is rolling out to everyone in the . The top of many results (especially questions) are now dominated by an that scrapes the and gives you a sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result.

adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

Norobiik, to MIguns
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The #SatanicTemple is known for trolling the #ReligiousRight, but in its fight for #ReligiousPluralism, it's become a powerful foe.

"The #Constitution is unambiguous about this,” Greaves said. “You just cannot take a religious identity and cut it out from a public accommodation. It’s against the law, the school districts will lose."

The Satanic Temple is taking on #ChristianNationalism in schools
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/satanic-temple-christian-nationalism-school-chaplains-rcna151276

Norobiik, to Philippines
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I'm hearing from the grapevine that cases of are pretty high again. Not a surprise since very few people wear a mask nowadays.

So, please be smart and mask up - this triply applies if you're a senior or immune compromised 😷

Norobiik, to cars
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temporarily modified the rates of import duty on , including their parts, from between 5 percent and 30 percent to zero percent until 2028.

The tweaked EO 12 also covers hybrid and plug-in hybrid , , , , , as well as completely knocked down EVs for all types of vehicles.

Marcos okays for hybrid e-vehicles
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1941537/marcos-okays-zero-tariff-for-hybrid-e-vehicles

Norobiik, to microsoft
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Microsoft is just the first.

#Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 people who are involved in #MachineLearning and other work related to #CloudComputing to consider relocating.

The employees, mostly #engineers of Chinese nationality, were earlier in the week offered an option to transfer to the #US, #Ireland, #Australia, and #NewZealand.

Microsoft asks some #China staff to relocate amid Sino-US tensions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/microsoft-asks-some-china-staff-to-relocate-amid-sino-us-tensions/ar-BB1mtUz9?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

Norobiik, to France
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Deadly clashes have erupted over move to increase number of #FrenchNationals eligible to vote in Pacific territory.

#NewCaledonia, one of five island territories spanning the #IndoPacific held by #France, is central to #EmmanuelMacron’s plan to increase French influence in the #Pacific. #EUinAsia

Why are there riots in New Caledonia against France’s voting change, and why does it matter?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/why-riots-new-caledonia-france-voting

Norobiik,
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Rioting broke out over a bill adopted by the #FrenchParliament in #Paris on Tuesday that will let non-Caledonian French who have lived in #NewCaledonia for 10 years vote in #ProvincialElections – a move some local leaders say will dilute the indigenous #Kanak vote.

Hundreds of French police deployed amid New Caledonia riots
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots

Norobiik,
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#FrenchPolice reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital #Noumea.

#Rioters angry with an #ElectoralReform have burnt businesses, torched cars, looted shops and set up road barricades over three days, cutting off access to medicine and food, authorities said.

'Massive' French police deployment arrives to secure #NewCaledonia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/massive-french-police-deployment-arrives-to-secure-new-caledonia/ar-BB1mxwZW?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

Norobiik,
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#France’s government says it has no doubt that #Azerbaijan is stirring tensions in #NewCaledonia, despite the vast geographical and cultural distance between the Caspian country and the French Pacific territory.

‘This isn’t a fantasy’: why is distant Azerbaijan being linked to deadly #NewCaledoniaRiots?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/new-caledonia-riots-explainer-azerbaijan-flags-noumea-link

Norobiik, to Women
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, a spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.

denies death toll of and has been revised down | - war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed
UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed

Norobiik,
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A long-festering split at the heart of #Israel’s #WarCabinet has burst into the open with the defence minister, #YoavGallant, challenging the prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, to come up with plans for the “day after” the war in #Gaza, and saying he would not permit any solution where Israeli military or civil governance were in the territory.

Israel war cabinet split looms as defence minister demands post-war Gaza plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza

Norobiik,
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Recently, #food and other supplies have fail to make it in to #Gaza as #Israel recently seized the key #Rafah border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border.

The #USMilitary has finished installing a floating pier for the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/israel-gaza-war-rafah-middle-east-floating-pier-aid-hamas-latest?page=with:block-6645b1468f0835020111211c#block-6645b1468f0835020111211c

Norobiik,
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Crucially, however, it is not considered a substitute for far cheaper land-based deliveries that aid agencies say are much more sustainable. #Israel #Egypt

Fraught with logistical, weather and security challenges, delivering aid via the maritime route and floating pier is designed to bolster the amount of aid getting into the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/israel-gaza-war-rafah-middle-east-floating-pier-aid-hamas-latest?page=with:block-6645b43a8f081942f56c4bc9#block-6645b43a8f081942f56c4bc9

Norobiik,
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"If we're shooting down a $50,000 one-way #drone with a $3 million #missile, that's not a good cost equation," Bill LaPlante, the #Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. #RedSea #Houthis #Israel #Gaza

The Pentagon's growing costly headache: Cheap drones
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/16/us-military-attack-drones-pentagon

Norobiik,
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The South African legal team, which set out its case for fresh emergency measures the previous day, framed the Israeli military operation as part of a #GenocidalPlan aimed at bringing about the destruction of the Palestinian people. #Gaza #Rafah #TheHague #ICC

#Israel tells #WorldCourt #SouthAfrica case makes a mockery of genocide
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-tells-world-court-south-africa-case-makes-a-mockery-of-genocide/ar-BB1myJuN?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

Norobiik,
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warn of a looming crisis in 's southern city of where they have no more to distribute since the closure of the Rafah border crossing over a week ago, even as the first trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza via a temporary pier built by the .

Rafah is running out of food, even as the U.S. pier starts operating in Gaza : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252095266/rafah-is-running-out-of-food-even-as-the-u-s-pier-starts-operating-in-gaza

Norobiik,
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#JERUSALEM - Israeli war Cabinet minister #BennyGantz demanded on May 18 that Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the #Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with #Hamas. #Israel

Israel's Gantz demands day-after plan for Gaza by June 8, threatens to quit Cabinet
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/israels-gantz-demands-gaza-day-after-plan-by-june-8-threatens-to-quit-cabinet

Norobiik,
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The crash comes as the remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which under Supreme Leader Ayatollah launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on just last month.

Raisi, 63, a hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary, was viewed as a protégé of Khamenei and even as a possible successor.

's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48

Norobiik,
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The #warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the #ICC has targeted the top leader of a close ally of the #UnitedStates. The decision puts #Netanyahu in the company of the Russian President Vladimir #Putin, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant over Moscow’s war on #Ukraine. #Israel #Gaza

ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html

Norobiik, to Philippines
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"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the , part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships."

Wreck, Rats and Roaches : Standoff in the (2014 article)
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2014/07/world/south-china-sea-dispute/

Norobiik,
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#MANILA, #Philippines – Over 46 Chinese government vessels have been deployed at the vicinity of #PanatagShoal, also called #BajoDeMasinloc or #ScarboroughShoal, a feature just 120 nautical miles off the coast of #Zambales province in the #WestPhilippineSea.

At least 19 of those vessels were in the immediate area of the shoal. #WestPHSea

WATCH: Massive vessel deployment in Panatag betrays a scared China, says Philippines
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/china-coast-guard-maritime-militia-deployment-scarborough-shoal-atin-ito/

Norobiik,
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ABOARD FBCA BING BING — The of a civilian convoy aiming to bring supplies to could not reach due to being shadowed by (CCG) vessels.

“It is not advisable to proceed because it is already risky,” Ariel Bustillos, the captain of Fbca Bing Bing.

China ships block convoy's mother boat from reaching Scarborough
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/236147/chinese-ships-block-convoys-mother-boat-from-reaching-scarborough

Norobiik,
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, — Volunteers of the civilian-led convoy that reached about 50 nautical miles from () have concluded their mission and will now return to , according to (This is Ours) Coalition.

Scarborough convoy concludes mission, heads back to Subic port
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/236327/scarborough-convoy-concludes-mission-now-heading-back-to-subic-port

Norobiik,
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#China has issued a regulation empowering its coast guard to detain foreigners trespassing in the #SouthChinaSea following the Philippine civilian mission to the #WestPhilippineSea (WPS) that ended on Friday. #WestPHSea

#ChinaCoastGuard empowered to detain 'trespassers' in SCS; PCG unfazed
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/907082/china-eyes-arrest-of-civilians-in-south-china-sea-ph-coast-guard-unfazed/story/

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