Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Anti-Vax Activists Staged a Rally Exactly Where an Anti-Vax Gunman Killed an Officer Last Month
Anti-vax activists stage a rally exactly where an anti-vax gunman killed an officer last month
One sign read, "Anti-Science, Pro-Informed Consent.”Mother Jones
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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Hey on the plus side a bunch of stupid fucks that think COVID is a joke or hoax will die, so win for intelligence, I guess?
Hopefully humankind as a whole survives their stupidity also.
How One Word Could Make the Difference in the Revenge Case Against James Comey
How one word could make the difference in the troubling case against James Comey
The former FBI director didn't say what the indictment claims he did.Mother Jones
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Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.
Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 after a congressional recommendation in the 2022 defense bill — itself a reflection of efforts by some lawmakers to rescind the awards for those who participated in the bloody massacre on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek.
While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp.
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How Western Europe invented the ‘Russian threat’ – and clung to it for 500 years
How Western Europe invented the ‘Russian threat’ – and clung to it for 500 years
The myth of the bogeyman from Moscow was born of cowardice and kept alive by greedRT
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
"Pete #Hegseth’s big, urgent military summit will just be a “pep rally” for what he calls the “warrior ethos.” "
Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
The defense secretary is putting the entire U.S. military at risk to hear himself speak.The New Republic
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Bug? URL rewrite after publishing breaks link
I'm trying to link to a YouTube channel and after submitting it, there's some rewrite automation that breaks the link. I've tried by app and browser, and it happens on both. Editing the post doesn't fix it either.
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes
It’s becoming somewhat of a running gag that any device or object will be made ‘smart’ these days, whether it’s a phone, TV, refrigerator, home thermostat, headphones or gla…Hackaday
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Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott - The New York Times
Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
The company is one of two that has been pre-empting Mr. Kimmel’s show since he returned this week.Benjamin Mullin (The New York Times)
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a tranche of partial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, which include flight logs, diary appointments and a financial ledger.
In the partially redacted documents, there are several emailed schedules over the years, which include:
- A 2019 breakfast with former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
- Lunch in 2017 with billionaire and Trump ally Peter Thiel.
- A potential visit from Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in 2014.
There is also a flight log from 2000, which lists Prince Andrew as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane.
Democrats release tranche of Jeffrey Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs – US politics live
Partially redacted documents mention Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Prince AndrewShrai Popat (The Guardian)
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Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices
Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices
Years in the making, the proprietary Linux OS that replaces Android-based FireOS is expected to be announced at next week's event. Here's everything we know so far.Maria Diaz (ZDNET)
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Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions
Washington, D.C. — Today, Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released partial records from the third batch of documents produced by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate, which includes phone message logs, copies of flight logs and ma…The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
Ohio Republicans have endorsed a bill to designate October 14 as “Charlie Kirk Memorial Day”
Republican lawmakers move quickly with proposed measures to honor Charlie Kirk in Ohio
Less than two weeks following the assassination of conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk, Republican lawmakers have proposed measures honoring him in Ohio.Karen Kasler (STATE NEWS)
Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version
Subscription service is Meta’s response to regulatory warnings over crunching users’ data to serve targeted adsDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Why Emerging Economies Choose EVs Over Gasoline. Chinese EV automakers are starting an export strategy by building their manufacturing outside of China. 2 mil. oil barrels are being displaced per day.
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Democrats release Epstein docs with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.
The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.
Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”
House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Small tranche of documents includes meeting itineraries, flight manifest and redacted financial transactionsAlex Woodward (The Independent)
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Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti
Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti | Truthout
Now, as Raunaq Alam’s team attempts to appeal the judge’s decision, he reportedly continues to be targeted.Negin Owliaei (Truthout)
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Bondi fires a third federal prosecutor in Miami office, linked to anti-Trump posts
But Rosenzweig — considered to be among the rising prosecutors in the office — wasn’t fired because he had been associated with the criminal investigations of Trump by the Justice Department’s special counsel during the prior Biden administration. That was why two other respected federal prosecutors in the Miami office were abruptly terminated this year.
Rather, Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami. When he was working for the prominent law firm Kobre & Kim in Washington during Trump’s first term, Rosenzweig posted criticisms of the president starting in 2017 — posts that were recently brought to the attention of the Justice Department.
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.
The comment on X by state representative John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a reaction to a short clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US representative Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, entitled “The Resistance Lab.” In the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for street protests against the Trump administration.
“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried, convicted and hanged … it will continue,” he posted.
Nothing in either the clip or the longer video actually suggests Jayapal is advocating for the overthrow of the US government. The video carries explicit calls for non-violent protest and discussed with alarm a rise in political violence in the US.
Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman
John Gillette on X called for ‘people like’ Pramila Jayapal to be ‘hanged’ in response to her video on anti-Trump protestsGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech
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The protests against Netanyahu came as Israel is causing a famine in Gaza with its near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, which has killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Israel has launched a full invasion of Gaza, and its right-wing government has explicitly said that it plans on expelling all Palestinians who are still living in the exclave. The Israel Defense Forces’ assault has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israel has become increasingly isolated on the international stage in recent weeks, as the governments of France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia have all formally recognized Palestine as an independent state.
Mass Walkout Leaves UN General Assembly Chamber Mostly 'Empty' for Netanyahu Speech
"I don't recall seeing such a large walkout for quite some time at UNGA," said one observer. "Israel has chosen to be a pariah and is increasingly treated as such by the international community."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Netanyahu's UN speech contained at least eight blatant lies
Netanyahu's UN speech was nothing more than “misleading rhetori aimed at justifying war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people
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Facebook and Instagram ad-free subscription arrives in the U.K.
Meta is introducing a subscription service in the U.K., allowing Facebook and Instagram users to pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience.
https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-and-instagram-ad-free-subscription-arrives-in-the-uk/
Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses
Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
: Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defensesCarly Page (The Register)
Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules
DJI loses its lawsuit against the US government.
Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…
Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules
A district court “cannot conclude” that DJI is “indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist Party,” but found the DoD can call it a Chinese military company.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
But records obtained by ProPublica show how one locality found a way to get FEMA aid more quickly: It asked one of Noem’s political donors for help.
The records show that Noem quickly expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida, after she was contacted by a major financial supporter last month. The pier is a tourist attraction in the wealthy Gulf Coast enclave and was badly damaged by Hurricane Ian in 2022.
Frustrated city officials had been laboring for months, without success, to get disaster assistance. But just two weeks after the donor stepped in, they were celebrating their sudden change of fortune. “We are now at warp speed with FEMA,” one city official wrote in an email. A FEMA representative wrote: “Per leadership instruction, pushing project immediately.”
Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked FEMA Funds for Naples After Donor Intervened
The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.ProPublica
Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption
Critics are warning the change would make life more difficult for LGBT people.
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California dumps its Trump-battered electric truck rule
The rule requiring private fleets to buy increasing percentages of zero-emission trucks never officially took effect.
Sorry about the sourcing. No other coverage yet
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/california-trump-electric-truck-rule-00581778
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Hypx! You’re back!
I missed your oil lobby talking points, still pushing hydrogen in the year of the production Sodium battery?
Is there a point where you will accept that Hydrogen is only going to be useful in the most nichey of niche of applications?
US Plans to Use Emergency Powers to Save More Coal Plants
US Plans to Use Emergency Powers to Stop More Coal Closures
The Trump administration plans to continue using emergency authority to stop coal-fired power plants from retiring, according to people familiar with the matter.Ari Natter (Bloomberg)
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I was disappointed but not at all surprised when I reread it.
I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of climate change misinformation
What President Donald Trump is doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters, and making a mockery of our country as he does so.Michael E. Mann (San Francisco Chronicle)
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As millions face climate relocation, the nation’s first attempt sparks warnings and regret [Louisiana, US]
Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises
Why banks’ credit risk models are blind to climate shocks
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/38752499
ArchivedA recent global survey by UNEP FI and Global Credit Data found that only 18 per cent of banks integrate climate risk into their internal ratings-based models [IRBs], which drive regulatory capital requirements. The study cites data gaps and methodological hurdles but does not explain the deeper problem: credit risk and climate risk models are built on fundamentally different logics.
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Unless supervisors adapt, the IRB models of today will remain blind to one of the most significant credit risk drivers of this century.
Credit risk models are precision tools honed on the past. Under the IRB approach, they calculate probabilities of default, losses given default, and exposure at default using deep pools of historical data.
Defaults, losses and macroeconomic patterns from years gone by are fed into these systems, with the underlying belief that yesterday’s relationships will largely hold tomorrow. This backward-looking design is reinforced by strict regulatory requirements: every risk driver must be de facto statistically significant, rigorously validated, and continuously monitored.
The result is a disciplined, data-heavy framework built to forecast the next 12 months of creditworthiness — and nothing beyond.
Climate risk models speak a different language. They are not grounded in borrower default histories but in climate science and policy pathways. Instead of asking “what happened last year, and will it repeat?”, they ask “what could happen in the decades ahead and how prepared are we if it does?” — on the premise that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
"“A factory in a flood zone may operate for years without incident, then suffer catastrophic losses from a single storm wiping it out overnight.”"[...]
Why banks’ credit risk models are blind to climate shocks
Regulators need to change the rules to ensure adequate climate risk managementRémy Estran-Fraioli and Frédéric Ducoulombier (The Banker)
China’s empty promises on the road to COP30: When you parse the Paramount Leader’s video message to world leaders, any vestige of optimism begins to melt away - [Opinion]
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/42981736
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[China's Xi Jinping's] promise to cut emissions by 7-10% from their peak was indeed a landmark pledge, in the sense that the country responsible for a third of global CO2 pollution has never before committed to cutting it by so much as a puff. But when you parse the Paramount Leader’s video message to world leaders, any vestige of optimism begins to melt away.
Let’s leave aside the question of which “peak” Mr Xi had in mind – some estimates suggest Chinese greenhouse gas pollution may have plateaued last year, but his carefully worded statement leaves room for another peak yet.
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Firstly, some logic. A commitment to a 7-10% cut “while striving to do better” is a commitment to a 7% cut. That is all.
And let’s not forget it’s a “net” cut, meaning the parallel pledge to “scale up the total forest stock volume to 24 billion cubic metres” will subtract the presumed amount of CO2 locked away in wood.
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What else does Beijing promise? “Expand the installed capacity of wind and solar power to over 6 times the 2020 levels, striving to bring the total to 3,600 gigawatts.”
There’s that weasel word “striving” again. Signatories to the Paris Agreement said they would strive to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels (specifically, the climate during the latter half of the nineteenth century). That is now considered politically impossible.
But we risk getting tied up in data. The nationally determined contribution (NDC) may not have been the most significant part of Xi’s intervention, if you read between the lines: “In the course of global green transition, fairness and equity should be upheld and the right to development of developing countries fully respected.”
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It might surprise many to learn that China – while asserting itself as a major geopolitical force and very close to tying with the EU as the world’s second-largest economy – claims to be a “developing country” in the context of global climate talks, allying itself with the likes of Kiribati, Somalia and Zimbabwe.
In other words, it is the wealthy West that should pay for having had their industrial revolutions earlier. Beijing’s intransigence on this point was a major bone of contention at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan last year.
Then comes the kicker: “It is important that countries strengthen international coordination in green technologies and industries to address the shortfall in green production capacity and ensure free flow of quality green products globally so that the benefits of green development can reach all corners of the world.”
China has invested a tremendous amount of political and actual capital in turning itself into the global workshop for green tech production. Trump is not only tossing tariffs around: He’s declared climate action a “con job” and is doing his best to shut down wind and solar development, both at home and abroad.
Meanwhile Brussels is actively pursuing a “buy European” policy. Beijing probably has reason to be concerned about its export market.
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The Brief – China’s empty promises on the road to Belém | Euractiv
When you parse the Paramount Leader’s video message to world leaders, any vestige of optimism begins to melt awayEuractiv
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in reply to Tony Bark • • •1. Network is created that doesn't discriminate on speech.
2. The left wins debates and it becomes increasingly liberal over time.
3. Far right billionaires buy it to stop those process.
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in reply to Tony Bark • • •scintilla
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in reply to scintilla • • •Soup
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in reply to Soup • • •Soup
in reply to BrainInABox • • •Because the person I replied was trying to say that the person they replied to was falling for propaganda and compared it to call millenials lazy. We know for a fact that millenials generally work harder, and for less, than the older generations that were/are doing the complaining. In this case, we the older generation is complaining about Gen Z not being nearly as progressive as one would expect, even to the point where we can say they actually have a problem with conservatism, and the statistics back that up as fact.
TL;DR: “millenials are lazy” is made up to try to pay us less despite the statistics showing it to be a huge lie and “GenZ has way too many conservatives” is an observable fact complete with actual numbers.
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in reply to Soup • • •Soup
in reply to BrainInABox • • •Young women are the most progressive group in American history. Young men are checked out
Carter Sherman (The Guardian)ScoffingLizard
in reply to Soup • • •Atelopus-zeteki
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in reply to Atelopus-zeteki • • •I wonder if gen Z has media literacy. I am expecting approximately 0% to discontinue TicTok as result of the acquisition.
Edit: Sorry for being lizardy.
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in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •politics of those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)MrSmiley
in reply to Atelopus-zeteki • • •After repetitive exposure to this propaganda (repetition priming), the people were beginning to believe and stand up for what each respective government had been flashing before their eyes, without them even knowing it.
sites.psu.edu/psych256sp18003/…
The fact of being exposed to propaganda and misinformation, repeatedly and continuously, has a psychological affect over time.
The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges.
Propaganda, Jacques Ellul
Ellul Propaganda : Jacques Ellul : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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