The ACLU condemns Trump for boycotting a UN human rights review.

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'Chilling Attempt to Evade Accountability': Trump to Boycott UN Human Rights Review

One ACLU expert said the move sets "a terrible precedent that would only embolden dictators and autocrats and dangerously weaken respect for human rights at home and abroad."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

"What a sad, screwed up reflection of this unhinged administration and the harm they are inflicting on America," said one immigration advocate.

'Fundamentally Sick': Trump Border Agents Arrest Two Firefighters Battling Washington Wildfire

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.

GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel

^{stephen-prager (Common Dreams)}

Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict will launch on PC and consoles soon! In this news post, we've gathered all the information you need to know about what happens on launch day and how to start downloading early.

Free Weekend August 29 - September 1 PDT

To celebrate the launch of Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict, we're making the game free to play for the first time ever, for three days on all available platforms. This includes the standalone client, Steam, Epic, Xbox X|S and PlayStation 5.

As an additional gift we're offering a few exclusive cosmetics you can earn if you play during this Free Weekend. To clarify, all new and existing Path of Exile 2 players on all available platforms will be able to receive these microtransactions. Find out more about the Free Weekend here.

Private Leagues Are Now Available

Those of you who are planning to play in a Private Rise of the Abyssal League at launch are now able to create them. Click here to set up your Private League (don't forget to double check your start time upon creating)! Please note you cannot start these leagues until The Third Edict officially launches on August 29th (PDT).

The Third Edict Launch Information

The realms will go down at Aug 29, 2025 6:00 PM (GMT+0) and patching will begin shortly after.

The servers go live at: Aug 29, 2025 8:00 PM (GMT+0)

The above times are displayed in your local time zone. You'll need to be logged into your account to see these. To change your local time, go to "My Account", "Manage Account" and "Edit Preferences".

If the timezone is displaying incorrectly for you, please disregard the above timer and refer to the countdown on the front page. Two hours before the end of the countdown, the realm will go down and patching will begin shortly after. When the countdown ends, the servers will be live and you'll be able to join the Rise of the Abyssal Leagues.

The patch size for the update will be around 46GB on the standalone client and Steam. The estimated size of the patch for consoles is 38.5GB.

Predownload For Existing Path of Exile 2 Players

Our existing Path of Exile 2 players can predownload the update using a torrent file available for PC. Please keep in mind that this method, while available earlier, makes it a larger update as it includes all the existing client content. The estimated size of this download is 117GB. When patching begins for Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict you'll also have a few remaining files that you'll need to update as well.

This torrent only includes the GGPK file, so you'll need to copy it into your actual install folder once the patching server is up, no earlier than three hours before Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict launches. Please note that you can't use this GGPK file with the Steam and Epic client.

Our console players are now able to predownload The Third Edict! You will still be able to play the current version of Path of Exile 2 until the launch of The Third Edict.

Converting Premium Stash tabs for Asynchronous Trade

If you're looking to make use of the new Asynchronous Trade system, you'll be able to convert your existing Premium Stash Tabs when the website comes back up after Aug 29, 2025 6:00 PM (GMT+0). We'll announce when this feature is available on our X, so be sure to keep an eye out.

The Dawn of the Hunt Mystery Box Ends Soon

This is also your last chance to get a Dawn of the Hunt Mystery Box in Path of Exile 2! It will leave the store when our next Mystery Box becomes available! If you need some extra points, we recommend checking out the newly released Trarthan Executioner and Justice Supporter packs.

You can also claim some free cosmetics by watching your favourite content creators on Twitch! Check out this post for more information!

We can't wait to see you explore Act Four and all the new content that The Third Edict has to offer. See you at launch!

Independent artist MindGame drops “IT’S OVER.” today, a dystopian hiphop video voiced from the perspective of a sentient AI — cold, ironic, and disturbingly self-aware.
The track explores:
- 🧠 Digital decay
- 🧬 Collapse of human identity
- 🧮 AI dominance and ethical ambiguity

Released on August 29, exactly 28 years after Terminator 2’s fictional Judgment Day — a symbolic moment when machines eclipse mankind.

🎬 Teaser (2 min): youtu.be/NTW2QT1xKJo

📺 Full video premieres today at 3:14 PM ET: youtu.be/S9q6tdfAfYg

🎧 Stream: ditto.fm/its-over-mindgame

Curious to hear your thoughts — especially on the AI’s voice and its critique of human legacy.

MindGame - IT'S OVER. - [OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK]

JUDGMENT DAY REIMAGINED – Premiering Friday, August 29 3:14 PM ET. MindGame fires a dystopian warning shot with “IT’S OVER.”August 29, 2025 – 3:14 PM ET – F...

^YouTube

The entire thing is worth watching, but some of her concluding thoughts:

And the truth is, I don't know. As with all modern famines and all genocides, what this boils down to right now is a very small group of people in positions of power needing to make different choices, basically needing to be different people, which won't happen. So the reality is there is not much we can do. But I do not want that to be mistaken for saying that we should not do what we can.

[...]

Second, I don't think constant international attention, the increasing international attention is doing nothing. The fact that focus has stayed on this issue in the news could make the difference in saving a lot of lives. In the words of one Holocaust survivor:

Today's marches are having a very hopeful aspect. It is so large, so persistent, so global, that eventually the Western leadership, which are trying to deny what is actually going on, will be forced to face up to it. And I think we are not far from that.

[...]

I am personally exhausted that the fact that this even is a controversy in the first place, that we here in the US are in the position of having to claw back rights that most of us took for granted our whole lives, but it must be done. We can't do everything, but we must do what we can.

When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

^{Phil Hoad (The Guardian)}

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This vulnerability was discovered by security researchers from The Hacker News. The following password managers have affected browser extensions that are based on DOM (Document Object Model):

• 1Password
• Bitwarden
• Dashlane
• Enpass
• iCloud Passwords
• Keeper
• LastPass
• LogMeOnce
• NordPass
• ProtonPass
• RoboForm

Password managers vulnerable: 40 million users at risk of stolen data

Most password managers are secure, but one common vulnerability makes it possible for hackers to steal your data anyway.

^{Laura Pippig (PCWorld)}

The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of slavery and white rule.

This is what the anti-woke state is — the plantation: white supremacist America under the occupation of more open white supremacists. There is no daylight between the campaign to end wokeness and the desire to see Black populations suffer, however much anti-wokeness is presented as the reasonable middle ground between the extremism of both sides — the Ku Klux Klan on one side and the bodies they hung from trees on the other.

The anti-woke in power immediately set about resurrecting their shrines to the sex traffickers of Black children and merchants of Black flesh. They immediately set out to curtail Black liberties and reverse performative efforts to reduce police shootings — however insincere. Being woke has always meant being attuned to anti-Blackness and resisting the society of white rule — which is why it is hated the world over. The colonist leaders who have shaken hands in agreement that anti-wokeness is the new paradigm, from the conservative former grand wizard to the progressive governor, have all meant the same thing: to see resistance ridiculed and dismantled.

The people who decry wokeness are no different from the people who decried Emancipation. What, indeed, was the abolition of slavery to a Confederate, other than woke government overreach? What was the integration of restaurants and schools to the segregationist other than woke corporations and DEI gone mad? What the 19th-century Redeemers sought, what the millions-strong 20th-century Ku Klux Klan sought, and what the 21st-century MAGA movement seeks is the restoration of the whipping post.

Really moving piece on the road that MAGA is leading us down.

From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America

The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of white rule.

^{Yannick Giovanni Marshall (Al Jazeera)}

Privacy isn't about hiding secrets - it's about power. In this video, we explain why thinking you "have nothing to hide" is a dangerous misconception, especially in our ever-connected digital age. Taking back your privacy is easier than you might think!

Hey everyone a shorter video this week, but still an important one. We do have a larger project in the pipeline about browser fingerprinting which will be coming soon.

Let me know what you think about the video - it's focused more on connecting with people who aren't aware about privacy invasions and the detrimental effect not caring about your privacy can have.

neat.tube/w/vVECH95JDrM4pQf8vP…

Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: fediverse.observer/dailystats&…

(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).

We are seeing:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily…
- And a small increase on Piefed: piefed.fediverse.observer/dail…
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: peertube.fediverse.observer/da…
- Mastodon is all over the place: mastodon.fediverse.observer/da…

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

Florida could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz.”

The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-ice-alligator-alcatraz-445e7cc7f6163d6a4749d452f2d57630

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44989722

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Hal-5700X

2025-08-29 00:41:39

Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours on Drives But Unable To Reproduce Errors

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Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours o…

Phison has dismissed the claims of Windows 11 updates bricking its SSDs after conducting several hours of rigorous testing on its solutions.

^Wccftech

AS SOON AS THEY TAKE OFF from the Panamanian coast, there is a sigh of relief. Surrounded by 30 other Venezuelan migrants, packed inside an overloaded midsize speedboat, Edinson holds on tightly to the edge. The 37-year-old is tall and slender and has a presence that stands out as he towers over everyone. Over the past couple of weeks, he’s become the de facto captain of a group of migrants making their way back to Venezuela.

At this point in their long journey, they sit in silence under blue skies and a blazing morning sun. The end is in sight. Sporting a black Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap and a blue T-shirt, Edinson stares out to the crystal clear Caribbean Sea. He knows these waters can be deadly. A couple of months ago, a boat carrying 19 migrants capsized not too far from here, but Edinson tells himself he has survived worse.

Horrific on the humanitarian front, but excellent writing.

Migrants Are Leaving the US Because of Trump's Immigration Policies

As more migrants self-deport and turn around before they get to the border, their new future comes into focus

^{Paola Ramos (Rolling Stone)}

Stavo quasi in procinto, forse, di andare a dormire… quando a un certo punto, stando in bagno, da giù per strada sento scatenarsi la più assoluta pazzia; e stavolta non in senso figurato. Infatti, dal nulla si è iniziato a sentire questo tizio — che credo sia uno dei pazzi della città, per l’appunto, anche […]

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minioctt

2025-08-29 00:03:05

quasi un “vecchio posseduto sclera” momento in questa sera altrimenti silente

Stavo quasi in procinto, forse, di andare a dormire… quando a un certo punto, stando in bagno, da giù per strada sento scatenarsi la più assoluta pazzia; e stavolta non in senso figurato. Infatti, dal nulla si è iniziato a sentire questo tizio — che credo sia uno dei pazzi della città, per l’appunto, anche se non lo riconosco di faccia e non so come si chiami (ho sentito un “Carmine”, magari era lui? non che cambi molto) — che ha iniziato a tirare bestemmie e porconi, non è ben chiaro perché. 😶

Anche se non ho idea di cosa ci sia dietro, la situazione è certamente molto divertente, anche perché non è la prima volta che sento questo preciso tizio. Giuro di averlo sentito almeno un’altra volta in passato, tanti mesi fa, se non addirittura più di un anno fa, e questo suo tono è inimitabile… Tira i jastemoni, e lo fa con questa enfasi assurda, che addirittura gli richiede diversi secondi di cooldown. Però non gli basta una sola volta, e quindi ripete la stessa identica frase almeno altre 3 o 4 volte, per poi fermarsi… ma solo prima di passare poi ad una diversa espressione a dir poco colorita. 😻

Per fortuna, anche se ho perso forse i primi 20 secondi di “mannaggia a Dio veramente” a causa del lag dello Xiaomi di merda, lo #sclero è durato abbastanza da permettermi di registrarlo al volo… e, adesso che è arrivata una volante della Polizia (chiamata da qualcuno) e lui ci stava parlando, e si è apparentemente calmato del tutto, riascoltare l’audio fa specialmente pisciare dal ridere. Mannaggia a questo, #mannaggia quello… mannaggia alla quiete pubblica violata all’una di notte, direi io! Prima di questo lieto fine, per un paio di minuti c’è stata pure una signora che gli ha urlato contro ma, ripeto, non ho capito la lore. 😏

Ma allora, ecco che concedo a tutti di vivere questo misticismo, allegando qui la registrazione audio del casino; dopo aver opportunamente cancellato le parti di solo rumore, cosa che lo ha fatto pure scendere da 3 minuti e 46 ad appena 1 minuto e 37 (per quanto ho limitato il taglio dei momenti morti silenziosi, che sono fondamentali all’atmosfera), ed aver amplificato un bel po’ tutto (perché, per quanto il microfono del telefono sia capace di catturare suoni lontani, lui stesso non ci crede abbastanza). 💣

Comunque sia, wow. Il tutto è molto magico, e mi sono sentita un po’ Zeb89 che registra gli atti di “vecchia posseduta sclera” in tale momento, perché è così assurdo… anche se, in questo caso, gli scleri finalmente da me archiviati sono solo audio; sia perché voglio evitare di doxxarmi ora che sono sul balcone, e sia perché prima dal bagno non si vedeva niente comunque. Ah, a proposito… questo è in assoluto il primo file audio che carico in un post, da quando ho il sito del fritto misto di octospacc! Insomma, poteva essere qualunque audio, e invece abbiamo avuto, in ordine, insulti a Dio, a “tutti i santi”, alla Maronn’ e Pumpej, e degli “oh” che sembrano rigurgiti. Quindi, buonanotte così!!! 🥰

#città #Mannaggia #pazzi #pazzo #rumore #scleri #sclero