Trump’s Washington Is a Technofascist Fantasy—With or Without Elon
Donald Trump's Washington is a technofascist fantasy—with or without Musk
Trump and the Silicon Valley right realized they both had a common adversary: democracy.Mother Jones
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Craven Elon Musk Says Sorry to Trump in Humiliating Reversal
Craven Elon Musk Says Sorry to Trump in Humiliating Reversal
The world’s richest man suddenly thinks some of his astonishing attacks “went too far.”Ewan Palmer (The Daily Beast)
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Fox News Deceptively Edits Trump Video To Falsely Claim Gavin Newsom ‘Lied’
Fox News Deceptively Edits Trump Video To Falsely Claim Gavin Newsom ‘Lied’
Jesse Watters played an edited clip of Trump in order to falsely claim that Gov. Gavin Newsom "lied" about a disputed phone call regarding protests.Tommy Christopher (Mediaite)
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...trying to say Fox is manipulating the quotes to falsify facts...
I'm pretty sure this is what you meant to type because it's completely on-brand for Fox News
Turkish and Kurdish groups in UK complain of intimidation by Turkey
Turkish and Kurdish groups in UK complain of intimidation by Turkey
Community groups say people who attended cultural events have faced questioning when visiting TurkeyDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Gangster tells BBC why India's biggest hip-hop star was murdered
Sidhu Moose Wala: Gangster tells BBC why India's biggest hip-hop star was murdered
Three years after Moose Wala's murder, the BBC investigates how he found himself an enemy of a feared gang.Soutik Biswas & Ishleen Kaur (BBC News)
Trump’s National Guard troops are ‘sitting unused without orders’ after being deployed for LA protests, Gavin Newsom reveals
The California governor said the troops had been left without food or water in federal buildings
Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles under Donald Trump's orders are reportedly idle and without clear directives, California Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed, calling the situation a political stunt.
The controversy stems from Trump's decision to send 2,000 Guard troops to Los Angeles over the weekend in response to protests against aggressive ICE operations. On Monday, Newsom said he was informed another 2,000 were en route, even though most of the first wave had not been mobilized.
Only about 300 have been actively deployed, while the rest remained in federal buildings "without orders," according to Newsom. The governor said the troops had been left without food or water, and accused the White House of misusing military resources to bolster Trump's image.
Trump's National Guard Troops Are 'Sitting Unused Without Orders' After Being Deployed for LA Protests, Gavin Newsom Reveals
Gov. Gavin Newsom says hundreds of National Guard troops deployed by Donald Trump to Los Angeles protests remain "sitting, unused, and without orders."M.B. Mack (Latin Times)
This little stunt cost $134 million dollars.
Come on TACO Don. Pump those fees up for making us pay $4 for eggs.
Poland's constitutional court rules EU energy policies breach national sovereignty
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has ruled that European Union energy and climate regulations are incompatible with the Polish constitution and breach national sovereignty in determining energy policy.
The Tribunal found that EU institutions, including the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), had exceeded their competences by interpreting EU treaties in a way that significantly impacts Poland’s ability to choose its energy sources independently.
Interpretations of EU law “cannot mean that Poland loses control over the scope of its delegated competences, and thus that there are areas in which its sovereignty (here: energy) is not protected”, the court said in a statement announcing its decision.
However, the ruling is unlikely to have any real effect for now given that the current government, a coalition led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, does not recognise the TK’s legitimacy due to it containing judges unlawfully appointed by the former Law and Justice (PiS) administration.
The case was brought by a group of opposition lawmakers led by Sebastian Kaleta, a PiS MP and former deputy justice minister. The motion challenged the compatibility of EU climate rules – including Directive 2003/87/EC, which created the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) – with the Polish constitution.
The MPs argued that, although Poland had transferred some powers to Brussels, it should retain sovereignty over critical energy decisions. They claimed that mandatory participation in the EU ETS restricts economic freedom and undermines the state’s ability to ensure energy security.
They also warned that EU decision-making processes, which do not require unanimity in the European Council on issues affecting Poland’s energy mix, might breach the limits of competence conferred on the EU and undermine the primacy of the Polish constitution.
In its ruling, the TK agreed with the motion’s core arguments. It held that the CJEU had extended the interpretation of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union beyond the conferred competences, infringing on national sovereignty.
“Competences not conferred on the European Union belong to the member states themselves, and the EU can only act on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity, subject to the scrutiny of national parliaments at all times,” the court said.
Consequently, the TK found this interpretation of EU law to be incompatible with the Polish constitution, emphasising that Poland cannot lose control over the scope of delegated powers, especially in such a key area as energy sovereignty.
The TK, however, discontinued proceedings relating specifically to the ETS “due to the incomplete, from a formal point of view, definition of the object under verification”.
The TK concluded its statement by stating that it was now up to the Polish legislature and executive to take “appropriate public law measures” to implement the decision, which enters into force upon its publication.
However, it is the government that is responsible for publishing TK rulings, and it refuses to do so due to given that some of the tribunal’s judges were illegitimately appointed under PiS.
The ruling could still reverberate in Polish politics, however. The PiS-aligned president-elect, Karol Nawrocki, who takes office in August, said last month that the TK’s decision on this case could be a way to lower the electricity prices by 33% – one of his campaign promises.
He also pledged to hold a referendum on withdrawing from the EU’s Green Deal – a set of policies aimed at reaching climate neutrality by 2050 – and reaffirmed his support for coal, which remains Poland’s main source of electricity generation and is also widely used for heating homes.
PiS politicians welcomed the verdict, insisting that it means that Poland does not have to implement the Green Deal.
“The EU has not been given the competence to decide without the consent of Poland which energy sources we can use and what fiscal burdens may be imposed on individual sources,” Kaleta wrote on X. “This opens the path for a radical reduction in electricity and heating prices now.”
The former justice minister in the PiS government, Zbigniew Ziobro, meanwhile, challenged Tusk, asking if he would “break the law again and hide the verdict to drive Poles into poverty” or “will you behave as you should?”
The government has so far not commented on the TK’s ruling.
Chinese police crackdown on writers of online erotic fiction
Police in northwestern China are cracking down on writers of online erotic fiction across the country, including many college students, according to RFA sources and media reports, amid concern that officers are punishing people outside their jurisdiction.Police in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, have been summoning writers who don’t even live there. A report from Caixin media group said some have been referred to police for prosecution, and anecdotal evidence indicates writers are facing substantial fines.
A source who spoke to Radio Free Asia on condition of anonymity for safety reasons said the crackdown could involve 200-300 writers.
Their cases have also sparked a legal debate over the definition of “obscene materials” and renewed public discussion on the boundaries of creative freedom. Known as “Danmei,” the genre features romantic relationships between male characters. It originated in Japan and has become popular in China.
Amid tightened restrictions in China, many writers have turned to Haitang Culture, a Taiwanese-based adult fiction website established in 2015 to publish their work. The website on the democratic island doesn’t force censorship and allows explicit written content. Most readers are females.
Authorities in China have reacted. Last year, two China-based distributors affiliated with Haitang Culture were arrested for “assisting in information network criminal activities,” according to Shuiping Jiyuan, a news portal on the WeChat social media platform.
The recent police crackdown in Lanzhou followed similar moves in the eastern province of Anhui in June 2024, where authorities began arresting writers of online erotic fiction under the charge of “producing and distributing obscene materials for profit,” resulting in heavy fines and even prison sentences.
Police are seeking out writers even when they leave outside their jurisdiction - a practice that critics call “offshore fishing,” implying the motive of police is financial or political, rather than strictly legal.
“I don’t understand what they’re trying to do—are they pushing political correctness, or are they just desperate for money?” said Liu Yang, a veteran media professional in Lanzhou, told Radio Free Asia. “The police are short on funds, and now even arrests have become a way to make money.”
Chinese police crackdown on writers of online erotic fiction
Legal scholars say police are punishing writers outside their jurisdiction in an over-reach of authority.Qian Lang for RFA Mandarin (Radio Free Asia)
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a source who spoke to Radio Free Asia
Chinese police target writers of gay erotica with prison terms and heavy fines
The crackdown in Anhui has triggered debates about possible abuses of power and whether the law itself is too heavy-handed.Phoebe Zhang (South China Morning Post)
Un tunnel per energizzare la centrale ticinese, grazie all'efficienza svizzera del brucomela - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Un tunnel per energizzare la centrale ticinese, grazie all'efficienza svizzera del brucomela - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L’ostinato verme geometride avanza, avanza con possenza sotto l’irto zoccolo di pietra. Facendo uso di una testa dove tutto è un disco diamantato e i denti rotativi non cagionano ragioni o procurano alcun senso di riposo agli osservatori.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
CO2 levels just broke another record. Here's what that means
When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).
By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.
This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.
"This problem is not going away, and we're moving further and further into uncharted territory, and almost certainly, very dangerous territory."
There is a direct powerlaw relationship between CO2 & Earth's stabilization-temperature..
There's a gotcha, though:
Methane is about 82.5x as potent as CO2, at the 20y scale, & it's up, too..
Remember that scientific-paper which was held-back/suppressed until sooo many had vetted the math, that then it was allowed to be, but was attacked by many, yet-still?
It stated simply that methane lost through leaky shipping ( of methane ), etc, was sooo harmful, that there wasn't any way of justifying continued methane-usage..
The current planetary-equalization-temperature, given the chemical composition of the atmosphere, is over +8C.
All the models which contradict that, & which simultaneously contradict the actual MEASURED temperatures in the still-accelerating punctuation-between-temperate-planet-and-hot-planet-equlibrium-climates, are wrong, no matter how "politically established" they are.
Feynman was right: "the exception proves the model/rule/theory IS WRONG."
At +4C, India becomes mostly-uninhabitable. China has ZERO problem with that.
California, & Texas, & Saudi Arabia also become nearly-entirely uninhabitable ( think 50+C temperatures, throughout most, in the hottest summer days ).
+9C is where we're currently anchoring onto, and at this point it's just nihilism ruling the world, lording the final "days" over the subjects-of-the-"titanic" regime, narcissistic authority-over-others, consuming all they can, while crashing the world-"ship"..
Saudi Arabia, obviously, will simply take whatever other-territory it needs: it is a kingdom, not a civil-rights regime.
Who will Texas war against, to take territory permanently from them, when Texas is becoming uninhabitable?
Somebody, certainly..
Whom will the US of A take/destroy/possess, when climate-punctuation is forcing them from their established location? Canada.
Do you see part of why Trump is committed to butchering Canada from Canadians, now? It's actually a SURVIVAL OF THE US strategy, though that isn't his personal motivation: he just wants to be ruler of a continental-empire, then butcher the hated woke-EU, with Putin, so they can rule the entire West, unfettered..
Criminally-negligent own-species-icide, is what humankind's doing.. for sake of .. distractions, ideologies, & other "political" drugs/delusions..
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Here is the paper which ignores the methane, including only the CO2 ( of the part that I read, of it, at least.. )
nature.com/articles/nature1979…
Adding-in the methane puts planetary-equlibrium-temperature, on the numbers I ran a year or 2 ago, between +8 & +9C.
Now, of course, the numbers are worse..
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.. shruggeth ..
EITHER a portion of humankind is going to evolve, fast, relentlessly, drivenly, for most of this century,
XOR The Great Filter will force-extinguish this world's human-category kind from Universe.
I believe that that same species-"puberty", aka The Great Filter, controls ALL such populated-worlds, forcing maturation-or-extinguishment on every last one. Given the ratio ( who WON'T tolerate change/growing-up, and if it means killing the world, then they're going to at-least be the rulers of the destruction-of-our-world, breaking evolution from having its transforming our world, .. vs .. all who honestly-will evolve, no matter what it costs us ) on this world, I'd be surprised if more than a small percentage of worlds which reach the Industrial Revolutions survives the subsequent Great Filter..
when .. when adult-technology combines with animal/tribal/political population who now utterly-dominates their own ecology:
in the previous condition, nature always recovered, this unconscious-assumption is sooo ingrained, that unconscious-mind WON'T ALLOW that consequences/accountability COULD EVER touch it, .. & it's willing to kill the entire world, to prove that it "doesn't have to" grow-up/change: unconscious-ego, is "god", in its own "reality"..
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If nothing-else, it certainly is educational to be caught in a world that is devoutly deranged, ideological, rejecting empiricism for "religious" ( political ) reasons, even to the point of everybody must die..
good motivation to break the reincarnation-prison that "life" is, the perpetual cycle of getting-caught-in-messes, life after life after life..
Not compatible with the New Age religions, that view, obviously..
but when you're on a bus being driven by a murderous gang of drunks, & you can't break their control of the vehicle, then crashing is inevitable..
one becomes tired of reincarnation, after it has abused one enough..
The Nature paper's the single most-important document in the whole climate-issue: powerlaws rule nature, & discovering what the powerlaw is that relates atmospheric-CO2 to planetary-equilibrium-temperature discards all the bullshit-models ( seriously: leaving-out Greenland ice-melt until the 2020's, & wondering why there's "The Cold Blob" all around Greenland, & why the oceanic-predictions don't work right.. that isn't science, that is politics! ),
but until the methane also is included, even this paper/model is mis-assessing, significantly.
The more people who get the underlying-powerlaw, who get the law ruling this planet's punctuation-between-temperate-to-hot-climate, which has only begun, the better.
The stuff about reincarnation, .. it was reincarnation-memories which broke all the Abrahamic-religions, for me: evidence broke the ideology of those religions, falsifying them all.
Took years to adapt-to, so-great a worldview-change.. but changing one's worldview when evidence falsified it, that is Science.
I'm only leaving the re-incarnation stuff in, because among White culture, such truth isn't usually spoken, & if anyone needs that perspective, to break the assumptions/ideology of Western habitual belief, then maybe just seeing a different perspective will give them some leverage, so they can then do their own learning, on their own, through the meditation-experiments, the inner-yoga experiments, the deepening-of-one's-Self, until ego is dissolving, & Soul/Continuum is awakening..
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years - Nature
Reconstruction of global average surface temperature for the past two million years shows continuous cooling until about 1.Nature
The weaponization of Waymo
The weaponization of Waymo
How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrationsBrian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It's a protest, we've had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.
Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I'm happy to see those death traps burn.
Sure, this wasn't that dangerous, but knowing that you gotta call Customer Service to get the car to stop in case of emergency is pretty bad design, safety wise.
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A driverless car without an emergency stop button IS a death trap. Arguing that this is not so is just really dumb, sorry. All big machinery have emergency stops for a reason, and the laws for those reasons usually are written in blood.
A driverless car without an emergency stop is a disaster in the making
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Assuming that what you say is true about closed course testing (and that they truly made an effort to replicate the dynamism of a city), why do they gotta test this snack dab in the middle of cities (where we should rather invest in public transportations anyway) instead of, I don't know, some trails in the woods, where there would also be a bunch of unknowns?
All this reeks of "gotta go to market ASAP to please the investors / shareholders above the rest of humanity" to me.
I work in an area adjacent to autonomous vehicles, and the primary reason has to do with data availability and stability of terrain. In the woods you're naturally going to have worse coverage of typical behaviors just because the set of observations is much wider ("anomalies" are more common). The terrain being less maintained also makes planning and perception much more critical. So in some sense, cities are ideal.
Some companies are specifically targeting offs road AVs, but as you can guess the primary use cases are going to be military.
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Seeing so many disingenuous conservatives clutching their pearls about this, while being completely fine with unspeakably cruel shit they're doing to immigrants (including green card holders, and others who are here legally) is infuriating. Fucking shameful.
Property damage to insured vehicles owned by a corporation vs. actual human beings
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GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government
GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government
A new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Why Marc Andreessen was 'very scared' after meeting with the Biden administration about AI | TechCrunch
What scared him most was what some said about the government’s role in AI, and what he described as a young staff who were “out for blood. ”Margaux MacColl (TechCrunch)
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The basic screen design is pathetic. When I do a search I want to see search results. The whole right half of the screen is taken by related searches (your example differs from mine where it puts that Wikipedia summary in the upper right). Then half of the left side is taken up by a "people also ask" block. That leaves a quarter of the screen for search results, which with their inefficient spacing, fits 2 whole results before needing to scroll! If I scroll down I get 7 more before needing to use paging.
When they first rolled it out, they asked for feedback. Good luck trying to find where to submit that.
Fact-check: Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA
Fact-check: Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA
The US president reiterated falsehoods and misleading statements to troops at the North Carolina military baseRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
I remember that one! I was in grad school at the time, and my then-GF now-wife had just finished. We laughed for 15 minutes.
"Journal Of DUH"
Frankly, the thing that scares me the most is that you can hear the soldiers in the audience loudly booing at residents of LA on behalf of Trump, when prompted by Trump. That’s disgusting behavior, and should get them all reprimanded or discharged.
While I don’t necessarily have the default unchallenged respect/reverence for the military that most people do, at the very least I expect them to act professionally and respectfully in their own country (since we know that’s often way too much to ask when they’re sent abroad). Fuck any solider who openly acts on their political views, and fuck every soldier that doesn’t refuse an illegal order. You volunteered to do this, so you better do it right.
Nine women accuse Jared Leto of sexual impropriety in new report
Nine women accuse Jared Leto of sexual impropriety in new report
Women recount alleged behavior, including flirting with teenagers, as ‘predatory, terrifying and unacceptable’Maya Yang (The Guardian)
Dallas Buyers Club
For which he won his oscar for Actor in a supporting role
House of Gucci
Supporting role behind Lady Gaga and Adam Driver
The Little Things
Nominated at Golden Gloves and SAG awards for best supporting role.
I'll give you Requiem and Mr Nobody, however there's no denying he doesn't carry films in general. He's an award winning supporting actor.
I suppose you're right there - I was conflating Starring with Leading, which is different. He has a lot of starring roles, but only a few leading roles.
But its not like leading roles are the hallmarks of success, either. There are plenty of successful and iconic supporting/character actors out there who are absolutely successes and have raving fans. Its not a mark against his talent.
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‘Complicit with a totalitarian regime’: Canada’s border rules are landing asylum seekers in ICE detention
The removals are a product of the longstanding Safe Third Country Agreement, which requires anyone seeking refugee protection in Canada or the U.S. to claim asylum in the first of the two countries they reach.
I understand why they've had that agreement. However, it should've been obvious for some time now that maybe that's an agreement they should bin? It's blatantly obvious the us don't treat refugees/asylum seekers the way they deserve at the moment
Yep. Politicians and the kind of people that hang out with politicians seem to be behind the curve on understanding what's happening, but even they must know this by now. The trick is that rolling it back could provoke Trump, and they're trying to keep that to a minimum at the moment.
That being said, if Carney doesn't fix the rules within the next year I'm going to be very disappointed. The courts will probably strike it down eventually regardless.
Folks have been suing the gov about the Safe Third a country agreement since 2005 - opposition isn't new. And yes, the courts did strike it down but the gov appealed, and it's still under review.
The govs website about the agreement even includes a section on why the US is considered a safe country.
I think assuming they are 'behind the curve' is
... generous.
Safe Third Country: more information | Canadian Council for Refugees
This page has historical information about the Safe Third Country Agreement. More the main page about Safe Third Country, with current information, see ccrweb.ca/en/safe-third-country.ccrweb.ca
It was successfully appealed in 2008, if we're being picky.
The appeal was based in the fact that the judge found that the basis upon which a regulation was made (i.e. the position that the states is a safe country) does not have to be absolutely correct, so long as the gov considered if it might be true.
(See: decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/fca-ca…)
[57] Understanding precisely what is in issue in a judicial review application is important when it comes time to determine the standard of review as well as the scope of the review that can be conducted by the Court. An attack aimed at the vires of a regulation involves the narrow question of whether the conditions precedent set out by Parliament for the exercise of the delegated authority are present at the time of the promulgation, an issue that invariably calls for a standard of correctness.
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[60] Despite this language, the matter raised by the application is a pure vires issue (see the relevant part of the application for judicial review quoted at paragraph 15 above).
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[78] Subsection 101(2) does not refer to “actual” compliance or compliance “in absolute terms” nor does it otherwise specify the type and extent of compliance contemplated. However, Parliament has specified the four factors to be considered in determining whether a country can be designated. These factors are general in nature and are indicative of Parliament’s intent that the matter of compliance be assessed on the basis of an appreciation by the GIC of the country’s policies, practices and human rights record. Once it is accepted, as it must be in this case, that the GIC has given due consideration to these four factors, and formed the opinion that the candidate country is compliant with the relevant Articles of the Conventions, there is nothing left to be reviewed judicially. I stress that there is no suggestion in this case that the GIC acted in bad faith or for an improper purpose.
I mentioned it was challenged back then to demonstrate that it's been known to be problematic since the beginning.
If we want to follow along with the details there have been further challenges, started in 2017, which were on the basis that it violated the charter. The courts agreed in 2020, but again it was appealed and the court gave it's ruling in 2023: decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/s…
I remember watching Trudeau respond to this in 2020, when he was doing his daily appearances from the governor generals cottage.
I'm not trying to shame anyone for not knowing, I get that there is a lot going on in the world and people are struggling in an individual basis too. But it really shocks me when are surprised that it's not all sunshine and rainbows and open arms. I actually learned about it in 2017, when the PM was on TV saying canada would welcome people. Not if they are being deported from the US, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
Canada v. Canada (Council for refugees) - Federal Court of Appeal
Web Experience Toolkit (WET) includes reusable components for building and maintaining innovative Web sites that are accessible, usable, and interoperable.decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca
going to be very disappointed
What's that look like? We don't vote Red* because we like all the policies, but because the only alternative capable of pulling even a minority would be Trump levels of disastrous for us all.
So, would "disappointment" just be a harder grimace while continuing to vote to block the blue*?
*Note that in my country the blues are like Republicans and reds are the business-friendly investment/consolidated socialist-adjacents at centre of our spectrum.
I'm actually in a safe riding, on top of it all. I do activism as well, but it's a drop in the bucket. The sweet, sweet taste of powerlessness...
Oh well. In a world of 8 billion it's only fair.
News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic
News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic
Major news outlets are in panic mode as artificial intelligence chatbots push by Google and other Big Tech firms crush website traffic.Thomas Barrabi (New York Post)
With what passes for news these days at most outlets I can't say I feel too bad for them that someone else beat them at their own game of feeding the masses surface level doom scrolling slop for engagement and ad impressions.
Hell, a large chunk of the junk being put out by these same outlets is trash written by the AI solutions they are paying for. Probably solutions from the likes of Google that is giving it to them at both ends.
Once the snake finishes eating its own tail maybe the good reporters will still have somewhere that pays them for the good work they do.
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Glad this is happening. These are the same news outlets that provide Google with your information and pay Google for ads.
They can all bust for all I care.
Maduro calls on the US people to stop its government's madness (+Foto) - Noticias Prensa Latina
Maduro llama al pueblo de EEUU a detener locura de su Gobierno (+Foto) - Noticias Prensa Latina
Caracas, 18 jun (Prensa Latina) El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, llamó al pueblo estadounidense a detener la locura de su Gobierno de involucrarse en la guerra que sostienen hoy Israel y la República Islámica de Irán.Juan Carlos Díaz Guerrero (Prensa Latina)
Liberals tell me to protest Drumpf: fuck you you don't control me
Maduro tells me to protest Trump: YES SIR MR MADURO SIR
Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged Armageddon Cultist
Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged Armageddon Cultist
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
Türkiye, China renew $4.7B currency swap deal to bolster bilateral trade
Türkiye, China renew $4.7B currency swap deal to bolster bilateral trade
Deal supports local currency transactions worth up to ₺189B ($4.79B), 35B Chinese yuanNewsroom (Türkiye Today)
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Update of my $65 4tb nvmes 🤣🤪
So i'm testing one of the drives I got on amazon using an old computer. It started off promising, didn't get any errors when formating the drive, write speed using a usb adapter at 25mb/s... Then it dropped off to 7mb/s and the expected time shot up from 40hours to 156h🤣
I'm going to let it run over night and see what happens in the morning. If I can get it to show 4tb without error I might still keep them to test out my geekworm pi nas, otherwise back to amazon you go!
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$65 for 4tb? they're almost certainly fake crap. just got done giving someone the bad news on some similarly-priced sd and ssd they bought off ebay.
grc.com/validrive.htm will verify real capacity in seconds.
Laptop left charging on bed causes house fire in Bendigo
Ms Robinson said the laptop was an 18-month old AppleMac Pro and it had started to lose charge more often in the lead up to the fire."It seemed to be going flat a lot, which can identify a faulty battery," Ms Robinson.
Fire Rescue Victoria commander Craig Houlahan attended the blaze.
"It was clear the fire had actually started from the bed," he said.
"It was quite obvious with the development of the fire that it was the laptop, because of the battery."
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Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York
Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York
The popularity of online gambling, especially among young men, has addiction researchers worried in New York, where mobile sports betting has surpassed casino gambling as the primary reason for calls to the state’s helpline.Willa Odefey (Healthbeat)
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Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York
Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York
The popularity of online gambling, especially among young men, has addiction researchers worried in New York, where mobile sports betting has surpassed casino gambling as the primary reason for calls to the state’s helpline.Willa Odefey (Healthbeat)
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ICE Taking away a 3 year old from the parents
US Always Planned to Use Israel as Proxy to Attack Iran
US Always Planned to Use Israel as Proxy to Attack Iran
Donald Trump did everything he could to make sure that the war between Israel and Iran began, military and political observer Evgeny Mikhailov tells Sputnik.Sputnik International
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This is such nonsense. Netanyahu has been trying non-stop to get the US to attack Iraq and Iran for literally 30 years. And the US kept saying no.
The US is not benefiting from having all their regional assets and oil fields blown up by Iranian missiles. The only party which does not care about this whatsoever is of course Israel. The cart and the horse keep getting switched around.
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MakeMKV down - cant find firmware to flash Verbatim 43888
Hi all,
I recently bought a Verbatim 43888. Went to rip my first disc, which is just a regular DVD. But MakeMKV isn't even able to detect the disc. I checked a few forums which all recommend Makemkv forums, however the site seems to be down.
I may need to rollback the firmware from version 1.05 to 1.03. Has anyone else had experience with this issue? Can it be done using linux?
I know the drive is working because I can see the video/audio files. It also works with Handbrake.
Cheers
Here you go 😀 Link
It doesn’t call home to makemkv so OP is played by this again, he/she won’t have this issue.
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Ho dei pensieri forse un po’ confusi a riguardo, e certamente rifletterci e scriverci su a quest’ora non aiuta — nonostante questo sia a dire il vero proprio l’orario migliore possibile per scrivere cose di questo tipo, perché il lieve sonno mi porta inevitabilmente alla stesura di righe che nemmeno sotto effetto di droghe sarebbe […]
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Ho dei pensieri forse un po’ confusi a riguardo, e certamente rifletterci e scriverci su a quest’ora non aiuta — nonostante questo sia a dire il vero proprio l’orario migliore possibile per scrivere cose di questo tipo, perché il lieve sonno mi porta inevitabilmente alla stesura di righe che nemmeno sotto effetto di droghe sarebbe possibile concepire — però diavolaccio… Se davvero devo avviarmi sulla strada del bedrotting professionale, portando buona parte delle giornate ad essere concettualmente assimilabili a questa mia ultima trascorsa, ci sono un paio di appunti da tenere in conto per massimizzare il valore dell’esperienza, soprattutto in chiave di ricorrenza medio-alta. ✋Innanzitutto, il top bedrotting dovrebbe essere visto con più grande passione; ossia, nel modo in cui a quanto pare diverse persone su Internet già fanno… e non nel modo su cui senza volerlo ripiego io, ossia come “piano B”, come “ops oggi mi sento così e quindi farò così perché non mi va di fare come al solito“. In effetti, il marcimento lettifero nella sua forma più pura altro non è che un momento di straordinaria connessione con il sublime attraverso attimi altrimenti normali, banali; è lo stato di esistenza che più precisamente di tutti gli altri si trova a metà tra la vita e la morte, l’ordine ed il caos; insomma, l’equilibrio perfetto che, se non fosse per la fame e in molti casi il dover pagare l’affitto, potrebbe rappresentare la modalità dell’essere ideale permanentemente per tutti gli esseri umani… con la sofferenza tangibile della specie che sarebbe estremamente più limitata come conseguenza, e tutte le guerre che si formerebbero per sempre (…così come lo sviluppo della società ed il mantenimento dei servizi, in realtà, ma è un piccolo prezzo da pagare a confronto dei grandi benefici per tutti). 🥰
Quindi, boh: a parte le digressioni, serve più convinzione, più integrità. Innanzitutto, dovrei forse programmare il bedrotting come attività fissa all’interno della mia giornata, non sindacabile, da onorare e rispettare senza se e senza ma; e che occupi quanto più tempo possibile dei miei momenti di veglia, idealmente, anche se ciò non è sempre possibile nella pratica. Probabilmente, poi, dovrei rifarmi il letto appena mi sveglio dopo la notte, o almeno poco prima di darmi al bedrotting per la prima volta nella giornata dopo essermi alzata… non perché io ora dalla sera alla pre-notte creda alla propaganda dei rifattisti (quelli che dicono che il letto va rifatto subito perché bla bla bla e per giunta è una forma mentis zzz…), ma perché indubbiamente è più comodo sprofondare nel letto ordinato e senza pieghe, rispetto allo schifo che diventa durante la notte di sonno turbato, non prendiamoci in giro. 🌚
Questi due punti, dopo una piccola riflessione, mi appaiono veramente come il minimo da tenere in considerazione per un’esperienza di marciscenza spirituale decente. Ma, ovviamente si può, e probabilmente si deve, fare ancora di meglio… E dunque, da un lato temo di dover ammettere che bisogna ogni giorno lavarsi, per bene e subito, per dedicarsi alla funzione… e dall’altro bisogna porre un po’ di attenzione anche nel po’ di vestiario che si indossa durante la cosa. Lo sappiamo come questi giorni più scarichi portano a viziarci — e a viziarmi, personalmente, con io in particolare che finisco per lavarmi solo ben dopo pranzo, per poi indossare magliette e pantaloni veramente a casaccio, sotto l’influenza del diktat per cui sarebbe sconveniente tenere dentro casa quegli indumenti di maggior pregio estetico e morale che invece sarebbero meglio riservati solo per uscire. Ma, tra la puzza di ascelle dormite, e i vestiti con sopra i pallini di cotone consumati, l’anima ne soffre… e poi, che figura ci si fa con gli spiriti delle pareti che ci guardano da molto (molto) vicino durante la giornata in casa? 🪱
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Ora, però, per concludere, un piccolo momento di rovescio della medaglia, che sento essere necessario anche se a molti non farà affatto piacere… Se vi considerate appassionati di bedrotting, o comunque in qualche modo siete praticanti più o meno abituali dell’attività, ma quello che ho detto qui vi sembra assurdo, fuori misura, o comunque non ne considerereste nemmeno mai la semplice idea di applicazione… ahimè, voi siete probabilmente nella trappola della marciscenza non introspettiva, la variante con buona ragione strettamente criticata persino dal Consiglio Assoluto degli Stellari. Oh, per carità: nessuno è perfetto, menchemeno io che stavolta mi permetto di fare questa predica (in parte auto-predica) che mi rendo conto essere a dir poco sconclusionata… però quantomeno mantenete la mente aperta a nuove formule di riposo più arricchenti del sé, suvvia! 😳
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Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
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Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
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[Patch Notes] 3.26.0b Hotfix
3.26.0b Hotfix
- Fixed a client crash when failing to fall back to DirectX11 if DirectX12 is not supported.
Patch Notes - 3.26.0b Hotfix - Forum - Path of Exile
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[Patch Notes] 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless)
3.26.0b Patch Notes
- Reduced the damage of the Memory Influence Monsters.
- The Refiner's Bargain Atlas Keystone now has Lifeforce found in your Maps is granted as a random Crop instead at 150% of the value (from 300%). The client will display the old value until updated in a later patch.
- Vastly reduced the gold cost of extremely rare Unique items from Cadiro in Betrayal. The rarest unique will cost at a maximum ~135000 gold. This is to alleviate an issue where you'd have to keep a huge amount of gold on your character at all times just in case the right unique item was offered. This is approximately twenty-five times cheaper now for the most expensive unique items.
- Fixed a bug where the Cannot have Minions other than Animated Weapons Modifier on the Dark Monarch Unique was not removing Animated Guardian.
- Fixed a bug where some Mercenaries would be unable to take actions while taunted by non-players.
- Fixed several cases of Mercenaries attempting to target players that had not opted into duels. They couldn't damage them, just try to.
- Fixed Veiled Chaos Orbs not being listable on the Currency Exchange.
- Fixed Syndicate Medallion, Echo of Loneliness, Echo of Trauma and Echo of Reverence not being in the Fragments tab of the Currency Exchange.
- Fixed Blessed Orbs not being usable on Expedition Logbooks.
- Fixed Kingsmarch resources not being collected if you hadn't visited Kingsmarch yet.
- Fixed a bug with Memory Lines sometimes not generating when talking to Eagon in your hideout.
- Fixed a bug where the Quisitive Quandaries The Dweller of the Deep Challenge was being completed when clearing the Fetid Pool instead.
- Added a tooltip for disabled Currency Exchange orders to clarify they can manually be migrated from Character Selection.
- Changed the Controller button for opening the Bestiary book and Heist inventory to avoid clashing with Mercenaries.
- Fixed a bug when using Controller where the dropdown selection in the Farm Plot UI was not working.
- Fixed a bug when using Controller where the Expedition Explosives placement not responding to right stick movement.
- Fixed a bug when using Controller where the Atlas Passive Tree selector on was not functioning correctly.
- Fixed a client crash when using Controller that could occur when talking to Sin about the Pantheon.
- Fixed a client crash when using Controller that could occur in the Challenges panel.
- Fixed a crash when using Controller that could occur when entering the socket management mode UI.
- Fixed 2 instance crashes.
This patch was deployed without restarting the servers, you'll need to patch your client to get the client changes.
Patch Notes - 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) - Forum - Path of Exile
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[Announcement] How Secrets of the Atlas Launch Went
We wanted to give an update talking about how the launch went and what we're immediately working on.
Over the weekend we launched Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas. We are so thrilled to see the number of people who joined us for launch day. Welcome back, Exiles!
Starting with the elephant in the room, unfortunately primarily our European servers but also servers across the globe have been facing a barrage of DDOS attacks. We understand that this issue has ruined such an anticipated launch for many players. This is unacceptable service and we are deeply sorry. We want to assure you that we are taking this very seriously and it is the highest priority problem for our company to solve. Due to the nature of these attacks, we're unable to provide a timeframe on when it will be resolved but we do want to acknowledge that we do see the issue and are doing everything we can to mitigate this.
Another thing we caught just prior to the launch was an issue with our final console builds which did not affect our internal realms so couldn't have been caught sooner than it was. Because this required brand new builds to be created, tested and then certified, this process took quite a long time to fix, but the console realms are now fully operational and players are able to login and play. We are implementing measures to prevent this occurring in the future.
While our system administration and backend team address the issues with the servers, our development team continues to monitor feedback. Currently the leading issue we're looking to address with the league is that a number of Mercenary skills, especially once you get to the middle of the campaign start to deal overwhelming amounts of damage to the player, often instantly killing you, you should expect a patch in the near future that puts all these skills more in line. This will not affect the Mercenary balance when they are your ally.
Additionally we're looking at making some improvements to the Memory Skills granted in maps influenced by The Originator, we'll have more updates on this later this week.
We also just wanted to give a huge thank you to all our players, be it those who have returned to play Path of Exile after a year with no expansions, and all those who are new to the game.
We're very excited to not only once again be delivering content, but playing the game alongside you all.
Thank you Exiles!
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EU league start was very frustrating, hopefully you ll find a solution. Seems like a tough problem to solve.
Community is not affiliated or run by Grinding Gear Games.
As far EU issues, they said that their service providers were being DDoSed so not much they can do themselves apart from diversifying the infrastructure.
Napster and Sonos Sued for Millions in Unpaid Music Royalties
Napster, the brand synonymous with the music piracy boom of the early 2000s, has a new copyright challenge. Together with audio giant Sonos, Napster faces a lawsuit demanding over $3.4 million in alleged unpaid copyright royalties. Filed by SoundExchange, the complaint centers on missed payments related to the "Sonos Radio" service, which until 2023 was powered by Napster's music catalog.
Napster and Sonos Sued for Millions in Unpaid Music Royalties * TorrentFreak
Napster, the brand synonymous with the music piracy boom of the early 2000s, now finds itself facing a new copyright challenge.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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While Napster did get decked hard a long while ago, it's still a well known cultural icon, so some company was inevitably going to buy the rights to its branding/trademarks after it ate dirt to attract attention to whatever product they decide to slap it on.
The same thing kinda happened to Atari. That company got burned to a crisp by Nintendo and Sega after the 2600, but some nobodies bought it and things keep having the Atari logo even today because it was a well known brand. It sucked ass and failed... but we remember it.
Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.David Pierce (The Verge)
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in reply to MuskyMelon • • •What a fucking.idiot.
Not only did he make this all worse for the US, he's going to try and trot this out like it's an improvement.
There was no problem before you started one, dipshit, now everything is going to cost more for no fucking reason. Eat shit.