Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
New, disturbing details have emerged about an incident that got a Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with second-degree murder for the death of a Black man in custody, reported The Guardian on Friday — with the death bearing a striking resemblance to th…Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
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A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot.
A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The c...
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Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal on tech ethics, the rise of surveillance, the power of AI, and what we can do to fight back.
cross-posted from: piefed.zip/post/539098
Filmed on 5/20/2025 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.About the speakers:
Meredith Whittaker is Signal’s President and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors. She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. She recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.
Stéphan-Eloïse Gras is a researcher and entrepreneur specializing in the geoeconomics of AI. An assistant professor at CNAM-Paris, she explores AI technologies through the lens of software & critical data studies. She also serves on the board of Probabl, an AI company built around the popular open-source library scikit-learn. With 15+ years in the digital sector, she has led initiatives at the intersection of innovation, research, education, and emerging markets. As CEO of Digital Africa, she oversaw a €130M initiative supporting African startups. She also co-founded Africa 4 Tech and led OpenClassrooms’ strategic expansion in Africa. Her doctoral research traced the rise of AI through a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify. She teaches at CNAM, Sciences Po, NYU, and Sorbonne and is currently writing a book on the geoeconomics of AI, describing LLMs as “belief-making machines.”
Rachel Donadio, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs, is a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
This event was part of Ways of Seeing, a special series exploring the connections between storytelling, creativity, and the visual world.
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Can anyone ELI5 the severity of this? Emerging Unity game vulnerability
Unity Security Vulnerability: Developer Remediation Guide
A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Download the patching tool here and read on for further instructions.Unity
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Madagascar president refuses to step down as antigov’t protests continue
Madagascar president refuses to step down as antigov’t protests continue
Protesters issue president 24-hour ultimatum to ‘respond favourably’ to demands, threatening ‘all necessary measures’.Al Jazeera
On trillion-dollar tech firms, gold and the evaporating dollar
I wasn't exactly sure where to put this, as after a few hours of sourcing data, applying formulas and being anal about how the charts look, I can't for the life of me figure out what I was attempting to respond to by doing this compilation.
But look! Charts! And tech valuations are involved!
The title art is spot gold Oct. 1 of each year sourced here. All other data come from here. Inflation figures to determine relative values are bog-standard BLS CPI.
My starting point was, "OK, I know these companies are valued so high because each dollar keeps getting worth less," but I wanted some actual numbers, and with gold being on a tear of late, that seemed like a good point of comparison.
1984 was chosen as the baseline because that was the year Apple started trading publicly, with most of the other companies IPOing thereafter. I only went back and added Intel (hence it being missing from the chart titles) because it happened to start trading the same year, and I already had the formulas. What a shitshow that's been.
Anyway, y'all know how to read line graphs, so I'm not going to go into detail. If you have any questions on methodology, please feel free to ask.
Absent inflation, only Apple. Microsoft and Nvidia would ever have been trillion-dollar companies.
And in terms of value against gold, Tech Stocks At All-Time Highs looks pretty damn anemic.
Gold Prices - 100 Year Historical Chart & Data
Gold Prices - Historical chart and current data through 2025.MACROTRENDS
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
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Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
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Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDT
A piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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it's the devs/publishers yes
some time ago Palworld devs lowered the regional price for Poland as they noticed it was relatively more expensive for Poles to buy the game, they got a lot of praise for that
I think Poland is just in the crappy position of not being on developers/publishers radars and being lumped in with other nearby countries when it comes to pricing.
I've heard similar complaints of polish people for all sorts of platforms, not only steam.
And I think them not having the euro probably adds to the situation since the value of the polish zloty has been going up compared to the euro.
So if publishers set the price to the euro equivalent in 2022, and the Zloty rose by 20% compared to the Euro in the mean time, you end up with the prices that are there now.
The difference to the USD over the same time is even more stark at 36%.
Useful idiots deserve to be charged as much as they're willing to pay.
Anything less, and they will legitimately get upset at the business not ripping them off.
Holy shit, it's really is. I wonder what factor they used to adjust the pricing, it isn't like this before.
Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content
Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content
Valve appears to have quietly updated its Steam Early Access policy to no longer accept games with mature themes.Ed Nightingale (Eurogamer.net)
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In the Reddit thread about the rejected NSFW updates, Crimson Delight have only good things to say about Valve's handling of the situation. "I have to say the reviewer was kind and forthcoming, we didn't feel threatened or bullied in any way, and we got the feeling they were trying to do their best to help devs navigate the process," developer Frenzin writes. "But the fact of the matter is that Valve has payment processors breathing down their neck, and the rules keep getting stricter as time goes on.""Valve isn't the problem here," Frenzin continues. "The big credit card companies are. If anything, Valve has stood up to them and pushed back. They could've simply nuked the 18+ section of Steam, but they didn't, they stuck up for developers. Obviously adult games make Valve money, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of Steam's catalogue. Silksong itself probably earned Valve more than most NSFW titles put together.
"Given that we're erogame devs, we're against any sort of censorship (as long as the content isn't sexualizing minors or nonconsensual in any way)," the developer comments. "But it's important to understand where the real problem lies, and it's not with Valve."
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They simply could‘ve nuked the 18+ section of Steam.
Was this ever a demand by payment processors??? To remove games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk 2077? I really don‘t see how this is evidence of Valve pushing back against anything. Perhaps people need to stop brainlessly sucking off Valve‘s dick for a minute.
Valve axed smut games because it was an easy business decision requiring minimum effort. They chose the boring and predictable path of lowest resistance which is the exact opposite of what they‘re being praised for here. Of course it‘s mildly annoying for Valve and they would rather sell whatever they want but they‘re not fighting for customers here at all.
18+ in this discussion refers to sex and nudity, not violence.
Valve axed smut games
They have NOT axed smut games, which is the primary reason we are still capable of having this discussion.
They chose the boring and predictable path of lowest resistance which is the exact opposite of what they‘re being praised for here. Of course it‘s mildly annoying for Valve and they would rather sell whatever they want but they‘re not fighting for customers here at all.
Weird how the smut developers, the ones who are most affected by this situation, have a diametrically opposed view of the situation than you do.
Having a nightmare time with Jellyfin.
- Edit: I am running CachyOS, and how I downloaded was mixed through AUR and Octopi for dependencies
Anyway, for 1, make sure jellyfin has the rights to see your video and music folders.
For 2, are you trying to do it from the same network or from outside?
FBI cuts ties with civil rights watchdog SPLC after conservative pressure
FBI cuts ties with civil rights watchdog SPLC after conservative pressure
Conservatives like billionaire Elon Musk had criticised the group for its criticism of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.Farah Najjar (Al Jazeera)
Chicagoans mobilize to oppose Trump’s threats of military occupation
Chicago, IL – On September 30, 1500 Chicagoans marched down Magnificent Mile to protest Trump’s threats of using the city as a military training ground. This past week has seen the effects of Operation Blitz in full force, with heavy presence of ICE and other federal agents conducting deportations. Trump’s speech to top U.S. generals the same day showed he intends to escalate the federal occupation with the military.
Ramped up repression means ramped up fight back!
“They are dehumanizing our communities. They are inflicting terror on our families. Separating families. Let’s not forget that when ICE murdered Silverio [Villegas-Gonzalez], the only thing they said was that he was an illegal. They did not say that he was a father, a worker, and a member of our community,” said Gabriela Hernandezm of Casa DuPage, speaking to the crowd in Spanish.
Hernandez also stated, “We are here today, protesting again, to tell this administration that the Mexicano/Latino community are not criminals. It is the time for us to speak firmly and clearly about these things, because if not, they will come to silence all of us.”
Reverend Jonathan Brooks of Live Free Illinois stated, “ICE has been accused of violating a consent decree meant to protect families from warrantless arrests. This disregard for legal protections tears at the very fabric of trust in our democracy.”
Brooks continued, “A federal judge has already ruled that targeting deportations based on political speech is unconstitutional – yet ICE continues to act as if it is above the law. Let’s be clear: this is not about safety. This is about authoritarianism, fear and control. Our communities do not need to be occupied – they need to be respected.”
“We saw over the weekend how ICE agents shamelessly occupied the streets of downtown and detained fellow residents. Over in Broadview, protesters and journalists are being shot at, teargassed, and brutalized. In a raid in South Shore just last night, ICE, FBI and other federal agents ransacked 70 apartments, knocked down doors, threw stuff all over the place, and detained 50 people – including Black U.S. citizens,” said Angel Naranjo of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO).
Naranjo continued, “Trump hates Chicago because he is a racist reactionary who represents the class enemy – the monopoly capitalist class – and this enemy can’t stand us. Trump and his lackeys are mad and ramping up their attacks – and so we’re ramping up our fight back! The masses of our city – and in particular the Black, Chicano/Latino, immigrant and working-class masses – are putting up a just fight against this rotten imperialist system that is tearing apart our families and occupying our neighborhoods! We are building a movement to stop the raids, and our demand is legalization for all undocumented people.”
“What we need right now is solidarity. The solidarity that Fred Hampton talked about. The solidarity that Assata Shakur deserved. We need solidarity with federal workers, with day laborers, teachers, nurses, warehouse workers. We need solidarity across unions. All public unions, trade unions, across communities. We need the solidarity of all working people,” said Jill Manrique of Chicago Jobs for Justice.
A member of Students for Justice in Palestine – Chicago (SJP Chicago) ended the program by reminding the crowd, ”The kidnapping of families and workers, and the occupations of our city’s streets is just an escalation of policy that has been standard in this nation since its inception.”
After the program, Chicagoans loudly marched down Magnificent Mile, one of the biggest commercial corridors in the city. Protests ended at the Water Tower, finishing with Assata’s “It is our duty to fight for our freedom” chant.
Enemies from within
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. Cuz we’re going into Chicago very soon,” said Trump in front of the U.S. top military leaders, stating that there were enemies from within that the military must apprehend.
Trump's deployment of federal forces is an escalation of the ongoing occupation of Black, Chicano/Latino, and working-class communities by the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Trump aims to ramp up this oppression and squash the working and oppressed people who are getting organized to fight back against this. From the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, to the 2025 LA uprising against ICE, working and oppressed are wanting and mobilizing for an end to this terror. The ruling class of this country knows this, and is ramping to continue its grip of oppressed people in this country.
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Polarization rocks U.S. military
New Orleans, LA – On September 30, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth blew his bugle for the military’s next crusade. The world’s biggest and baddest armed forces folded in Afghanistan and burned in Vietnam. Hegseth and Trump looked at these defeats, and many more, then scratched their chins. At last, they ferreted out Benedict Arnold: DEI.
Top brass from across the globe scrambled to Quantico to hear about it. Hegseth attacked “fat generals,” women, “men in dresses,” “weak men,” and supposed diversity hires. He announced he’d whip troops into shape by prohibiting beards, narrowing hazing protections, and replacing gender-neutral expectations with “male-standard” physical training. Trump followed by parading a $1 trillion 2026 military budget.
Military meeting or MAGA sales pitch?
“All-hands” high-level gatherings are routine, but this one stood out. It was a full court press to build consensus against “wokeness.”
“What made this meeting so notable is that today’s military is buffeted by an atmosphere of extreme partisan polarization,” wrote former National Security Council staffer Peter Feaver.
Commentators saluted the officers for listening with their poker faces on. It’s supposed to be a win for keeping politics out of the military. But many haven’t kept their cards close to their chests.
“Could have been an email,” one officer told Politico. Another described the conference as an “inexcusable strategic risk.”
“I suspect it’s not being taken well,” retired Lt. General Mark Hertling told MSNBC.
These comments expose that polarization hasn’t been staved off; it’s already running deep. It’s come up before, everywhere from shaving rules to the trans ban. The latter was opposed by 56 retired generals and admirals.
Take it to the streets, see who comes out on top
The sharpest flashpoint has been the National Guard’s occupation of major cities. Trump called them “training grounds” for troops. He states plainly that these takeovers, in Black and Chicano urban areas, go fist-in-glove with imperialism abroad.
Trump’s takeovers have escalated deportations and racist arrests. Although the National Guardsmen do not have powers of arrest themselves, they give backup to federal agents to go after people on petty or trumped-up charges. On Fight Back! Radio, a DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression activist described how agents have detained people for legally smoking weed.
But these occupations have prompted a wave of mass resistance. Protests have sprung up in every city that Trump has targeted, and even local politicians are speaking up. “Training grounds” indeed – for the united front against Trump.
The court system is taking notice. The Guardian reported that DC has seen unprecedented lows in indictments by grand juries on charges related to the Trump takeover, even if a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.
Pushed on by the fightback from civilians, soldiers up and down the chain aren’t buying that there’s an “enemy within.” One officer told Politico that these deployments “distract warfighters.” At least eleven former generals criticized the Los Angeles takeover. The Guardian reported that dozens of troops deployed to LA voiced anger about being political pawns. One said the assignment was “shitty.”
“Disoriented, demoralized, and ineffective”
This isn’t to say there’s a revolt within the armed forces. But they face a different kind of problem – disorganization.
In Foreign Affairs, Peter Fever writes: “Over the course of their professional lives, these military officers are likely to serve a large chunk of their time under both parties. If they become identified as partisans of one, they may be viewed as enemies of the other—starting a cycle of partisan purges that leaves the military disoriented, demoralized, and ineffective, as has happened in other purge-prone militaries.”
To complicate things further, this divided force is running up against a fragmented legal system. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the federal military from participating in general law enforcement without a state’s consent. It’s the basis for the California ruling against the occupation of Los Angeles. Effectively, cities in blue states have this legal avenue against the deployments. States like Louisiana, where Trump crony Governor Jeff Landry requested federal assistance, are a different terrain.
Polarization in the military, like in the rest of the U.S., is a sign of imperialism’s decline. Hegseth admitted to this decline when he compared the aftermath of Vietnam to the U.S.’s position today. In Vietnam, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. tried to rally other imperialists under the banner of “spreading democracy.” But out with these ambitious, ideological wars. In with the wars of naked and narrow self-interest. It’s the desperate gambit of an empire losing its grip. Mounting abuses of military power come with the territory. But, after all, Americans have resisted the likes of this since 1776.
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Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.James LaPorta (CBS News)
First lawsuit filed challenging Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee
First lawsuit filed challenging Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee
The lawsuit claims Trump does not have the authority to override the law that created the H-1B visa programme.Al Jazeera
Arkansas man seeks to have visa status restored after being arrested for ‘Opium’ perfume bottle
Arkansas man seeks to have visa status restored after being arrested for ‘Opium’ perfume bottle
Police thought bottle contained drugs and arrested Kapil Raghu, who was then taken into custody by IceCoral Murphy Marcos (The Guardian)
Hegseth Says Four ‘Narco-Terrorists’ Killed in Latest US Attack on Venezuela Boat
The US has attacked multiple Venezuelan boats in recent weeks, with US officials saying the goal of the strikes is regime change in Venezuela as opposed to the war on drugs. Along with the airstrikes of boats, a US destroyer boarded and seized a Venezuelan boat in mid-September, which the Venezuelan government insists was a tuna fishing vessel.
Hegseth Says Four ‘Narco-Terrorists’ Killed in Latest US Attack on Venezuela Boat - News From Antiwar.com
A day after President Trump informed Congress that the US is in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, the US carried out yet another strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, alleging it was loaded with drugs.News From Antiwar.com
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I hope not. I also see that one of the few smart things Maduro has done recently is to not give the USA an excuse to attack Venezuela.
It feels similar to what happened in the first Trump administration against Iran.
‘No, You Cannot!’ Kristi Noem Denied Bathroom Access at Illinois Government Building
‘No, You Cannot!’ Kristi Noem Denied Bathroom Access at Illinois Government Building
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was barred from entering the Village of Broadview Municipal Building in Illinois to use the bathroom on Friday.Kathryn Wilkens (Mediaite)
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California resident who tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh jailed for eight years
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California resident who tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh jailed for eight years
Sophie Roske pleaded guilty in April to attempted assassination and faced potential sentence of life in prisonGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report? mistaking detection for emergence
Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?
mistaking detection for emergenceAndrew Dessler (The Climate Brink)
This seems to be as close as they get:
This serves as a litmus test for the report’s scientific credibility. A commitment to scientific integrity requires the authors to produce a point-by-point response to the expert comments, overseen by an independent review editor.A refusal to do so would suggest that the report should be viewed as an advocacy piece rather than a scientific document, and its conclusions should be treated with caution.
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Apparently he's a gaming YouTuber now
I can't believe that after nearly two decades of absolute anti-vax hysteria her son appears to be fine.
I'm not challenging his diagnosis, but... his condition doesn't really match her rhetoric.
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And if you want one with Mrs. McCarthy:
I feel bad for him, it's hard not for the comments to be political - he didn't choose this life for himself.
Gaming USA
Hello! I’m Evan Asher, and welcome to my official YouTube channel! Step into the thrilling world of Gaming USA, where you’ll join me and my friends in creating original live-action adventures and movies.YouTube
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My parents suck! I can't wait for them to die! I pray for it.
I can't imagine what having Mrs. McCarthy as a Mom is like. It has to be a nightmare.
I'm happy he's gaming and is YouTubing. His YTs need to join the Fediverse!
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Are EBIL CHINESE Solar panels to blame for Pakistan's water crisis? The answer will shock you! (tl;dr: NO)
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Kansas special session on trans law would be 'more important than redistricting'
Top Kansas Republicans want the Legislature to hold a special session to amend a state law related to transgender people, which they say is "even more important than redistricting."The move comes after the Kansas Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Attorney General Kris Kobach related to Senate Bill 180. That 2023 law is the subject of a legal dispute over whether it blocks trans people from changing their gender marker on their driver's license.
It also comes at a time when Republicans are moving toward calling a special session on redistricting with a goal of gerrymandering the congressional district maps.
Kansas special session on trans law would be 'more important than redistricting'
Top Kansas Republicans want a special session on SB 180, a law affecting transgender people, they say is "even more important than redistricting.", The Topeka Capital-Journal (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
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Breaking down the justification behind Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s ‘pipeline to nowhere’
Breaking down the justification behind Danielle Smith’s ‘pipeline to nowhere’
Oil production in Canada hit record highs last year, the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline is in operation, and more fossil fuel infrastructure keeps getting built, yet in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's new pipeline pitch, the oil industry is nothi…Canada's National Observer
casini palestrinesi e la rogna del popolo quando puzza di niente o di tutto
La giornata d’oggi è andata tutto ok, per me, senza incidenti costosi… motivo per cui è proprio il momento perfetto per fare la democristiana — come al solito, ma pericolosamente più del solito; si prega di godere a riguardo — parlando circa la più attuale attualità che ha visto il più sventurato resto del nostro […]
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casini palestrinesi e la rogna del popolo quando puzza di niente o di tutto
La giornata d’oggi è andata tutto ok, per me, senza incidenti costosi… motivo per cui è proprio il momento perfetto per fare la democristiana — come al solito, ma pericolosamente più del solito; si prega di godere a riguardo — parlando circa la più attuale attualità che ha visto il più sventurato resto del nostro paese (o del mondo?) oggi… perché non riesco a capire tutta l’ultima questione a proposito dello sciopero per la Palestina; nel senso che pure stavolta non si riesce ad essere non dico d’accordo tra le parti, ma a stare un minimo tranquilli… 😓Con lo sciopero di settembre già avevo sentito rogne, ma tutto sommato niente di ché; hanno fatto cose non buone in 1 sola città (il tugurio che già è Milano… quindi in realtà niente di valore fu perduto), e ovviamente i governanti hanno strumentalizzato la cosa, e le pecore che gli vanno appresso hanno quindi urlato… ma per il resto andò tutto bene e poca gente si è lamentata (almeno, su Internet ho visto meno cose cringe, poi boh). Con quello di oggi, però veramente ho letto cose… da un lato troppi cortei disordinati e sfocianti comunque in un dato livello di violenza, dall’altro gente “alternativa”, “contro il pensiero unico” che fa tutta l’indignata ed insulta o augura il male a chi supporta lo sciopero, e di risposta quelli della prima categoria che fanno lo stesso indietro a loro… che schifo. 💔
Se devo essere sincera e dire la mia precisamente — più o meno, perché su tutta la storia ho idee che non si assimilano né al mainstream né ai complottari malefici di cui sopra, e servirebbe un post solo per spiegarle bene, quindi evito ora (…ma, se qualcuno proprio ci tiene, si può presentare di fronte casa mia e andiamo al bar; e, ovviamente, il caffé mi deve essere offerto, quindi astenersi poveri) — questo sciopero non mi sta super a genio… perché, per quanto Israele non mi stia per niente simpatico, neanche certe cose palestinesi le trovo buone… però, capisco e non critico, e anzi farei i complimenti a chi partecipa, perché comunque dietro c’è un’idea di bene e pace (magari poco pensata, ma oggettivamente c’è)… Non è che, visto che le premesse secondo me sono fallate, allora ho il diritto morale di dire le cose brutte. 🙄
…Certo, al contempo non mi piace per niente se, da idee apprezzabili, ci si fa trasportare troppo di lato e si finisce per fare il disastro, e si usa quindi la forza, come stavolta invece è successo in diverse città; qui “da me”, per dire, hanno provato a forzare il blocco anti-blocco della polizia (…non si dice così, ma ci siamo capiti) al porto, che non è buono… così come non è buono che la polizia abbia risposto a sua volta con la violenza fisica, contro anche dei minorenni… ma a cosa mai può portare la violenza se non ad altra violenza? Stop violenza, porca troia. Stop violenza qui da noi e, ovviamente — lo auspico ogni volta che mi ricordo, quindi da diverse volte al giorno a quantomeno svariate volte alla settimana — stop violenza in medio oriente, ma stop violenza sempre e ovunque, che non ce la faccio più a vivere sapendo queste cose. 😭
…Ah, e stop anche ignavismo; c’è tanta gente che all’apparenza sarebbe simile a me in questi pensieri, ma in realtà semplicemente non se ne frega proprio… e anche questo, per me, non è buono affatto, perché non bisogna mai chiudere gli occhi ai mali del mondo solo perché non ci toccano personalmente. Io agli scioperi in piazza non ci sono andata, perché come detto non sono d’accordissimo, e poi stamattina (purtroppo!!!) le mie lezioni c’erano regolarmente… Ma, ieri pomeriggio, all’università, in più di un’ora in cui non avevo nulla da fare, essendo passato lo strambo corteo palestinese (circa ricollegabile ai poli umanistici) che faceva semplicemente un giro con le bandiere e i canti, di mia spontanea volontà l’ho seguito, pur senza spiccicare una sillaba, così, per sfizio… mentre tizi altrettanto strambi e che non conosco (pochi eh, ma comunque), ma lì del polo di informatica, quando questi sono passati a far casino per invogliare gente ad unirsi, hanno ridacchiato o detto cose inutili (…e, stranamente, ma strano solo per modo di dire, questi erano solo ragazzi… le altre ragazze lì non hanno fiatato, similmente a me, pur rimanendo magari nelle proprie cose e non unendosi). Da come fanno, sembra che non gli possa fregare di meno dei bambini che muoiono e tutto quanto… boh, non mi piace che la gente sia così. 😶
Allego due (2) foto che ho scattato ieri, a proposito… di cui una fa ridere, perché vedevo il corteo fermo dove stavo io dalle fessure dell’aula studio… proprio come se li osservassi dalle pareti, dove normalmente vivo. E, nota a margine che forse può tornare utile per qualche burla, almeno per chi vive in ufficio o a scuola: questi qui usavano rotoli di scotch per fare rumore, sbattendoli su parti di metallo o plastica di interni ed esterni, come porte o infissi o boh… e non avevo mai visto niente del genere, ma è geniale, per quanto bordello fa pur essendo per via di un oggetto che in genere non appare rumoroso! (Anche se poi a me, tutto sommato, i cortei bordellosi manco piacciono… preferisco, per così dire, quelli più da anziani, ma pazienza.)
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[^1]: Science - Scalable entanglement of nuclear spins mediated by electron exchange
[^2]: SciTechDaily - "Like Talking on the Telephone" – Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before
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