How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal
When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city detention center in Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the Fort Bliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, Acquisition Logistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia. Almost nobody had heard of it. “A random house…just won $1.26 billion from ICE,” wrote the New Republic.
As it turns out, ICE had tried to award the contract, in April, to the firm Deployed Resources. It canceled the deal days later “for convenience,” according to a government website that cited an executive order about “wasteful spending.” Such a move is extremely unusual, and some current and former ICE officials speculate that Deployed lost the job for political reasons. Back in 2023, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the firm had snagged no-bid contracts for immigrant detention under President Joe Biden, and that a member of its board was married to Doug Emhoff’s former chief of staff, who later joined a sister company, Deployed Services. (The DC Enquirer interpreted all of this as “Kamala’s cronyism.”) A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson dismissed the speculation, saying the contract was canceled due to an “inability to meet the specialized needs of the facility.”
How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal
To hold 5,000 human beings.Mother Jones
The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.Mother Jones
Blast at a Tennessee military explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says
An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, authorities said, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning field of debris.
The blast, which people reported hearing and feeling miles away, occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in rural Tennessee. The company’s website says it makes and tests explosives at an eight-building facility that sprawls across wooded hills near Bucksnort, a town about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Nashville.
“We do have several people at this time unaccounted for. We are trying to be mindful of families and that situation,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at a news conference. “We do have some that are deceased.”
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ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions
ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed for weapons instructions
NBC News found that OpenAI’s models repeatedly provided answers on making chemical and biological weapons.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
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Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return north as ceasefire takes effect; NY Attorney General Letitia James indicted; Peru swears in new president
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Israel kills 17 Palestinians over the past 24 hours in Gaza. Ceasefire goes into effect at 12 noon local time; Israeli troops withdraw to agreed upon lines, retaining control of 53% of Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return to the north. Exchange of Israeli and Palestinian captives expected on Monday. United States will send 200 troops to Israel to help oversee the ceasefire. New York Attorney General Letitia James is indicted in fraud case after pressure from President Donald Trump. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatens to fire air traffic controllers who do not show up for work during the government shutdown. Peru Congress swears in new president after ousting Boluarte. The Trump administration finalizes its $20-billion bailout of Argentina. A new UN report says violence in Haiti has displaced nearly 700,000 children. Russia claims to have captured 8 more villages along the Ukrainian front lines.
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return north as ceasefire takes effect; NY Attorney General Letitia James indicted; Peru swears in new president
Israel kills 17 Palestinians over the past 24 hours in Gaza. Ceasefire goes into effect at 12 noon local time; Israeli troops withdraw to agreed upon lines, retaining control of 53% of Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return to the north. Exchange of Israeli and Palestinian captives expected on Monday. United States will send 200 troops to Israel to help oversee the ceasefire. New York Attorney General Letitia James is indicted in fraud case after pressure from President Donald Trump. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatens to fire air traffic controllers who do not show up for work during the government shutdown. Peru Congress swears in new president after ousting Boluarte. The Trump administration finalizes its $20-billion bailout of Argentina. A new UN report says violence in Haiti has displaced nearly 700,000 children. Russia claims to have captured 8 more villages along the Ukrainian front lines.
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Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return north as ceasefire takes effect; NY Attorney General Letitia James indicted; Peru swears in new president
At least 9 National Guard troops seen patrolling tourist spots in Memphis alongside local police
At least nine armed Guard members began their patrol at the Bass Pro Shops located at the Pyramid, an iconic landmark in Memphis, and a nearby tourist welcome center along the Mississippi River. Wearing Guard fatigues and protective vests labeled “military police,” they were being escorted by a local police officer and posed for photos with visitors.
It was unclear how many Guard members were on the ground or were expected to arrive later.
Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, said he never requested that the Guard come to Memphis. But after President Donald Trump made the Sept. 15 announcement and Republican Gov. Bill Lee agreed, Young and others said they wanted the task force to focus on targeting violent offenders rather than use their presence to scare, harass or intimidate the general public.
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Norwegian Nobel Committee Investigates Possible Peace Prize Leak
People made large amounts of money from María Corina Machado being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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France | Macron forging ahead with plan to tap new PM, leaving opposition ‘dumbfounded’
A high-stakes meeting Friday concluded without any apparent breakthroughs.
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DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’
America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and, immediately upon his return to power, pardoned almost everyone who engaged in an attempted insurrection on his behalf.
DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’
America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and…Techdirt
Scottish doctors threaten industrial action after Holyrood reneges on pay deal
BMA Scottish Resident Doctors' Committee has voted to enter a formal dispute with the Scottish Government after a pay agreement was reversed
Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown
The White House budget office says mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.
Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho
Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho
The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.Kathryn Watson (CBS News)
Russian Forces Unleash Massive Strike on Ukraine Overnight, Including With Kinzhal Missiles
Russian Forces Unleash Massive Strike on Ukraine Overnight, Including With Kinzhal Missiles
Russian armed forces launched a massive strike, including with Kinzhal missiles, on energy facilities supplying Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.Sputnik International
Ukraine Blows Up 'Togliatti – Odessa' Ammonia Pipeline - MoD
Ukraine Blows Up 'Togliatti – Odessa' Ammonia Pipeline - MoD
The Ukrainian armed forces blew up the Togliatti–Odessa ammonia pipeline in order to slow down the offensive of the Russian forces in Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.Sputnik International
US says Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho
US says Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho
The facility in Idaho will be used to train Qatari pilots to fly F-15 fighter jets, the US defence secretary says.Jaroslav Lukiv (BBC News)
Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho
Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho
The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.Kathryn Watson (CBS News)
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Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE
The independent digital startup has been on the ground covering ICE’s surge and the attacks on journalists.
By Josh Hersh
October 10, 2025
This is Why You Don’t Let Libertarians Run Your Country
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: data di uscita, trama e cast del nuovo prequel de Il Trono di Spade
Il mondo di Westeros si espande con A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, nuova serie ambientata circa un secolo prima di Il Trono di Spade. Il debutto è fissato per il 18 gennaio 2026 su HBO/Max con una prima stagione di sei episodi a durata contenuta. Basata sulle novelle di George R. R. Martin dedicate a Dunk & Egg, la serie promette un taglio più intimo e quotidiano rispetto ai precedenti capitoli dell’universo televisivo.
LEGGI I DETTAGLI: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: data di uscita, trama e cast del nuovo prequel de Il Trono di Spade
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: data, trama e cast del prequel di Game of Thrones
Il prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms debutta su HBO/Max il 18 gennaio 2026: sei episodi su Dunk & Egg, cast e primi dettagli.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
California’s “anti-discrimination,” “antisemitism prevention” bill: A bipartisan assault on democratic rights and public education
The signing of California Assembly Bill 715 (AB 715) by Governor Gavin Newsom on October 7 marks a milestone in the bipartisan campaign to criminalize political dissent and rewrite history in the service of imperialist policy. The timing of the bill’s signing, two years since the events of October 7 and the beginning of Gaza’s genocide, was no accident.Passed under the fraudulent banner of “antisemitism prevention,” AB 715 embodies a reactionary fusion of state power, corporate censorship and Zionist ideology. It is part of a nationwide effort to equate opposition to the Israeli state with hatred of Jewish people, silencing criticism of the Gaza genocide and US imperialism in the Middle East.
The unanimous passage of AB 715 exposes the class character of American politics. In May, the Assembly approved it 68–0; the Senate followed 35–0; and the Assembly concurred 71–0. Not a single Democrat or Republican voiced objection. The “progressive” state that boasts of diversity and inclusion has united the entire establishment behind a law attacking freedom of speech, placing in grave danger academic freedom and democratic principles.
Unanimity among the ruling class is not progress but a warning. The American capitalist class achieves consensus when preparing war, abroad or at home. AB 715 is a declaration of war on democratic rights and public education, part of the ideological groundwork for dictatorship in the United States which will only facilitate the Trump administration’s war on the working class.
California’s “anti-discrimination,” “antisemitism prevention” bill: A bipartisan assault on democratic rights and public education
California’s AB 715, passed unanimously by Democrats and Republicans, weaponizes “antisemitism prevention” to criminalize anti-Zionist thought while censoring educators and preparing the ideological foundations for dictatorship.World Socialist Web Site
"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
HagenOne of the stories we have in the book is about that Apple Crush ad. There was that ad where they had all these instruments and drawing materials, et cetera, like all these art related things. on the hydraulic press, and then the hydraulic press crushes it. The piano keys shudder, the trumpet gets crushed, the paint gushes out, and at the end of the hydraulic press, there’s, the iPad.
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And people hated it. They had to apologize for it.
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Yeah, they apologized—for an ad. So there’s this sense of, “yes, this is actually about transferring knowledge and skills into a tool so that you can pay people who use the tool less.” This is happening over and over again in capitalism. And we’re going to dismantle by force all of these things that you love and that create beautiful art.
It’s such a useful metaphor that they handed us. It was so beautifully clear that this is a way of bulldozing precisely the aspects of like human creative activity, which labor should be. Labor should be, you’re changing something in the world in accordance with your will. And that’s what it means to be alive as a human.
"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
The author of 'Why We Fear AI' on why he sees generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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This is a good time to mention how we have been propagandized about the Luddites.
This is precisely the issue they had with the newindustrial tooling up they were facing, it wasn't the tools, per se, that they objected to, but the de skilling and Disenfranchisement of the way those tools were being deployed by industrialists.
Being a luddite was and is about ownership of the tools and abuse by capitalists on skilled workers, and the disruption of our important knowledge base and skill sets.
Maria Esposito è Melania Rea nella nuova serie HBO sul caso Parolisi: cast, regia e riprese
La storia di Melania Rea diventa una miniserie HBO: nel ruolo della giovane donna uccisa nel 2011 ci sarà Maria Esposito, pronta a lasciare alle spalle l’iconico personaggio di Rosa Ricci per misurarsi con un racconto di forte impatto civile. A interpretare Stefano Parolisi sarà Daniele Rienzo, mentre la regia è affidata a Stefano Mordini. Il progetto nasce come crime in quattro episodi e punta a ricostruire uno dei casi più discussi degli ultimi anni.
SCOPRI I DETTAGLI: Maria Esposito è Melania Rea nella nuova serie HBO sul caso Parolisi: cast, regia e riprese
Maria Esposito è Melania Rea nella serie HBO sul caso Parolisi: cast e riprese
Maria Esposito interpreta Melania Rea nella miniserie HBO sul caso Parolisi diretta da Stefano Mordini. Quattro episodi, set a metà novembre.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Interview with John O’Nolan about Ghost 6
We were excited to see the recent release of Ghost 6 with ActivityPub features. The Ghost team have been an active participant in our Long-form Text project. John O’Nolan, founder and CEO of Ghost.org, was kind enough to answer our questions about the software and its community.
SWF: For our readers who don’t know Ghost, how would you describe the platform?
JO: Ghost is an independent publishing platform for people who take writing seriously. We’re open source, non-profit, and built to give creators complete ownership of their content and their audience. We’ve helped indie publishers generate over $100 million in revenue from sustainable modern media businesses like 404Media, Platformer and Tangle News.
SWF: Tell us about your user community. Can you paint a picture of them with a broad brush? What kind of people choose Ghost?
JO: Ghost attracts people who care about owning their home on the internet, rather than having another profile on a social media platform. Our publishers range from solo journalists and creators, to established news outlets and large businesses. They value independence, and they’re willing to do the work to maintain control of their brand, distribution, data, and relationship with readers.
SWF: What is it like to be a Ghost user in 2025? What kind of problems are your users facing today?
JO: The big challenge today is the same one that’s haunted independent publishers for two decades: discovery. You can own your platform and serve your audience beautifully, but if people can’t find you, none of it matters. Email newsletters have been a solid answer, but they’re still dependent on deliverability and inbox placement. Algorithms on social platforms actively suppress links now, so sharing your work there is like shouting into a hurricane.
SWF: Tell us about your experience with ActivityPub. Why did you decide to add ActivityPub support to your software?
JO: Ghost has had support for delivering content by email newsletters for a number of years, and email has remained an unassailable distribution platform for publishers because it’s an open protocol. No company controls your email list except you, so it’s one of the best investments you can make. ActivityPub is now doing the same thing for social technology. It allows publishers to own and control a distribution channel that allows their work to spread and be discovered by others. For the first time, you can publish independently and grow faster than ever before.
SWF: What stack is Ghost built on? What development tools does your team use?
JO: Ghost is all built in modern JavaScript; mainly Node and React. Our ActivityPub service is built on Fedify, and everything we build is released under an open source MIT license. Our development tools are constantly evolving, and now more quickly than ever before with the advent of AI tools, which seem to change on a near weekly basis.
SWF: What was the development process like?
JO: Challenging, honestly. ActivityPub is beautifully designed but the spec leaves room for interpretation, and when you’re building something new, there’s no roadmap. Building interoperability between other platforms, who’ve all interpreted the spec in their own unique ways, has been a real challenge. The approach we took was to ship early versions as quickly as possible to beta testers so we could learn as we go, using real-world data and issues to guide our process. We’re in a good spot, now, but there’s still a lot to do!
SWF: Ghost produces long-form blog posts, articles and newsletters. How was the experience adapting Ghost articles to the microblogging interfaces of Mastodon and Threads?
JO: In some ways really easy, and in other ways quite tricky. We’re at a pretty early stage for long-form content on ActivityPub, and the majority of other products out there don’t necessarily have interfaces for supporting it yet. The easy part is that we can provide fallbacks, so if you’re scrolling on Mastodon you might see an article title and excerpt, with a link to read the full post – and that works pretty well! The dream, though, is to make it so you can just consume the full article within whatever app you happen to be using, and doing that requires more collaboration between different platforms to agree on how to make that possible.
SWF: You’ve been an active participant in the ActivityPub community since you decided to implement the standard. Why?
JO: ActivityPub is a movement as much as a technology protocol, and behind it is a group of people who all believe in making the web a weird, wonderful open place for collaboration. Getting to know those humans and being a part of that movement has been every bit as important to the success of our work as writing the code that powers our software. We’ve received incredible support from the Mastodon team, AP spec authors, and other platforms who are building ActivityPub support. Without actively participating in the community, I don’t know if we would’ve gotten as far as we have already.
SWF: Ghost has implemented not only a publishing interface, but also a reading experience. Why?
JO: The big difference between ActivityPub and email is that it’s a 2-way protocol. When you send an email newsletter, that’s it. You’re done. But with ActivityPub, it’s possible to achieve what – in the olden days – we fondly referred to as ‘the blogosphere’. People all over the world writing and reading each other’s work. If an email newsletter is like standing on a stage giving a keynote to an audience, participating in a network is more like mingling at the afterparty. You can’t just talk the whole time, you have to listen, too. Being successful within the context of a network has always involved following and engaging with others, as peers, so it felt really important to make sure that we brought that aspect into the product.
SWF: Your reader is, frankly, one of the most interesting UIs for ActivityPub we’ve seen. Tell us about why you put the time and effort into making a beautiful reading experience for Ghost.
JO: We didn’t want to just tick the “ActivityPub support” checkbox – we wanted to create something that actually feels great to use every day. The idea was to bring some of the product ideas over from RSS readers and kindles, where people currently consume long-form content, and use them as the basis for an ActivityPub-native reading experience. We experimented with multiple different approaches to try and create an experience with a mix of familiarity and novelty. People intuitively understand a list of articles and a view for opening and reading them, but then when you start to see inline replies and live notifications happening around those stories – suddenly it feels like something new and different.
SWF: If people want to get a taste of the kind of content Ghost publishers produce, what are some good examples to follow?
JO: Tough question! There are so many out there, and it really depends on what you’re into. The best place to start would be on ghost.org/explore – when you can browse through all sorts of different categories of creators and content, and explore the things that interest you the most.
SWF: If I’m a Fediverse enthusiast, what can I do to help make Ghost 6 a success?
JO: Follow Ghost publishers and engage with their content – likes, replies, reposts all help! Most importantly, help us spread the word about what’s possible when platforms collaborate rather than compete. And if you’re technical, our ActivityPub implementation is entirely open source on GitHub – contributions, bug reports, and feedback make the whole ecosystem stronger.
Ghost 6.0 - Grow faster.
Connect to the world's largest open publishing network, understand your audience with native analytics, and build a sustainable publishing business.Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform
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Where Is Politicians’ Urgency Over Donald Trump’s ICE Raids?
Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal?
Tancredi annuncia “DAY OFF”: nuovo album in uscita il 24 ottobre e presentazione live all’Apollo di Milano
Tancredi torna con “DAY OFF”, il nuovo album disponibile sulle piattaforme digitali da venerdì 24 ottobre per Pulp Music/Warner Music Italy. Un progetto che arriva a quattro anni di distanza dal precedente lavoro e che fotografa la sua crescita artistica: 12 tracce tra elettronica, cassa dritta e brani suonati, con una cura totale di scrittura e produzione.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Tancredi annuncia “DAY OFF”: nuovo album in uscita il 24 ottobre e presentazione live all’Apollo di Milano
Tancredi: “DAY OFF” esce il 24 ottobre, presentazione all’Apollo di Milano
“DAY OFF”, il nuovo album di Tancredi, esce il 24 ottobre per Pulp Music/Warner. Presentazione live il 23 ottobre all’Apollo di Milano.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Il giudice e i suoi assassini: al via le riprese della miniserie Rai sulla vita del giudice Rosario Livatino
Sono cominciate in Sicilia le riprese di Il giudice e i suoi assassini, la nuova miniserie destinata a Rai 1 che ripercorre la vicenda umana e professionale del magistrato Rosario Livatino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1990 e proclamato beato nel 2021. La regia è di Michele Placido, qui al suo esordio dietro la macchina da presa di una serie Rai, affiancato da una produzione che punta su luoghi reali, rigore storico e sguardo civile.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Il giudice e i suoi assassini: al via le riprese della miniserie Rai sulla vita del giudice Rosario Livatino
Michele Placido dirige “Il giudice e i suoi assassini”: riprese e cast della miniserie Rai
Iniziano in Sicilia le riprese de “Il giudice e i suoi assassini”, miniserie Rai diretta da Michele Placido sulla vita del giudice Rosario Livatino.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
NodeBB, alcune mie impressioni
E' da quasi due mesi che uso NodeBB, la piattaforma di forum federata, e le mie impressioni sono positive. Per apprezzare al meglio le caratteristiche e le potenzialità di NodeBB occorre loggarsi come utente amministratore e non come utente normale.
Quando mi collego a NodeBB come utente normale, ad esempio, è difficile seguire le vecchie discussioni, perché tanti post risultano eliminati, probabilmente dall'utente che li ha scritti o dalla piattaforma remota, come può essere Mastodon che tra le opzioni ha la possibilità di eliminare i post dopo tot giorni.
Questa caratteristica di eliminare i vecchi post post rende molto frustrante l'esperienza forum.
Se invece mi collego a NodeBB come utente amministratore riesco a seguire i thread delle vecchie discussioni molto meglio, perché i post "eliminati" me li ritrovo intatti al loro posto, probabilmente perché sono stati memorizzati da qualche parte da NodeBB che li riproduce solo agli utenti amministratori.
Comunque l'utente amministratore ha a disposizione una tale quantità di caratteristiche e opzioni di configurazione che non sono a disposizione dell'utente normale.
NodeBB poi, lo si apprezza decisamente meglio se lo si naviga dal browser del desktop sul monitor del PC, piuttosto che dallo smartphone. L'esperienza mobile di NodeBB, secondo me, è da migliorare, anche perché NodeBB ha caratteristiche evolute che per essere gestite e apprezzate necessitano di uno schermo ampio, poco gestibili invece dallo schermo di uno smartphone.
Tra le cose belle di NodeBB c'è quella di poter definire le categorie di argomenti e indirizzare i vari post degli utenti remoti seguiti nella giusta categoria, in base ai tag presenti nei post. Inoltre è possibile anche per le categorie seguire categorie remote, come se fossero degli utenti e ritrovarsi i post degli utenti delle categorie remote nelle categorie locali che le seguono. Così tante opzioni e caratteristiche che neppure io riesco ancora a capire il funzionamento di alcune, rendono inevitabile la presenza di bug da correggere.
Two Years of Genocide in Gaza, Seventy-Seven Years of Denial
Two Years of Genocide in Gaza, Seventy-Seven Years of Denial - CounterPunch.org
Following the revolt of the besieged against their jailors on October 7, 2023, the Zionist hasbara machine mobilized across the world to impose a false narrative.Jamal Kanj (CounterPunch.org)
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Tidal playlist downloader?
All these open source options seem to only do the first 60 seconds. What out there can batch do this automatically? I could just rip them in audacity but I'd get a quality drop, which will still be better than the microphone quality video recording I am trying to drop them over.
Am I manually going to have to record each file with audacity which will be a time consuming pita or is there a way to batch download a play list for free?
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Should download whatever you want.
GitHub - exislow/tidal-dl-ng: Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz.
Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz. - exislow/tidal-dl-ngGitHub
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Yeah thats to be expected sorry. If you want to use a free option youll need to look into deezer or qobuz downloaders. Streamrip should work, but afaik tidal always requires a paid subscription to download from.
You might need a trial account to use qobuz but it should let you. You can also find 'paid' arls for deezer to allow downloading flac.
There are services that can migrate playlists across services for you also, but i dont know of any free ones.
GitHub - nathom/streamrip: A scriptable music downloader for Qobuz, Tidal, SoundCloud, and Deezer
A scriptable music downloader for Qobuz, Tidal, SoundCloud, and Deezer - nathom/streamripGitHub
Yeah I'm just manually downloading them with scdownloader and its quite a pain in the ass. Even if I pumped it full throttle for GPT to skeleton me a code that scrape the info and puts it into scdownloader, that'd still probably take longer than manually typing in the song title and copying a link and pasting it into a another tab and clicking download.
I'm not gonna pay for downloading these tracks. I was just hoping to not have tc spend so much time doing it. FLAC doesn't matter, it just needs to be better than the phone mic quality recording that the video has the audio files into. I'm just dropping them over before I publish the content to my odysee page.
MPA Highlights Rapidly Expanding “Hydra Sites” as an Emerging Piracy Problem
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Includes domains of the piracy websites.
MPA Highlights Rapidly Expanding "Hydra Sites" as an Emerging Piracy Problem * TorrentFreak
MPA has released its 2025 overview of the world's most notorious piracy markets, flagging Hydra Sites and a new threat.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Megathread for all your needs 😀
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➜ Quick reminder ✔️ All links have been reviewed and approved by moderators, but proceed with caution. 👍🏻 Rather having an enormous variety, our Megathread provides only the finest options. 🐐 GOAT status = Highly regarded by the pirate community.rentry.org
Generative AI Ethics
The rise of hyper-realistic deepfakes and AI-generated content is a huge problem. How do we, as a community, push for better provenance and authentication tools to combat misinformation and protect intellectual property?
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I'm curious. Maybe some of our fedizen on the threadiverse use microblog ? Or follow this community from their microblog account ?
Well, let's do a little poll ! 😎
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- I don't use microblog and i don't want to try them. (0 votes)
- I'm a microblog user (0 votes)
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Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions | A 7-fold increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation
Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions | Climate & Capitalism
700% increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires…Ian Angus (Climate & Capitalism)
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Do the tears of an innocent child mean nothing to you!?
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6311985
What is her fault? Why is she crying?She cries because there is no food… she cries out of fear for her father and brother who sleep outside the tent because it is too small, after we were displaced and forced to put the women inside the tents to cover them.
This is my little sister Montaha… Please, donate and extend your helping hand.
I am her brother, unable to provide for her needs. I deprive myself of food just to feed her… Please help us, people of kind hearts, true humanitarians… Make a difference in our lives.
I am dying of grief over my family and the children around me… and I am dying of hunger.
An extremely urgent plea for help
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Tags vs flairs
The two serve similar, but different purposes. A quick guide:
Post Flair
Post flair are created per-community by the community moderators. Categorizing posts with flair makes it easy for users to just look at posts within that community with just that flair. To see what I mean, try checking out !fediverse@piefed.social and click a post flair in the sidebar there. It will filter all the posts in the community feed to just posts that have that flair. If you are familiar with post flair on reddit, this is intended to work pretty much the same way.
Tags / Hashtags
Within a community
Tags are a thing that can function in a similar way to post flair when we are talking about within a community, so I understand the confusion some people have. For example, if you click on a hashtag in the sidebar of !fediverse@piefed.social, it will similarly filter the community to just posts that have that hashtag. So...same thing, right?
Across communities
Well, hashtags can also serve another role. They can help group similar posts across multiple communities as well. For example, clicking the #Mastodon hashtag in the sidebar of !fediverse@piefed.social community takes you to this page, where all the posts within that community using that hashtag are listed. However, posts in other communities can also use the #Mastodon hashtag...so how do we see those?
The answer to that is that there is a way to search for posts by tag. Here is the page for piefed.social. You can search for a hashtag, and then when you select it, you can see all the posts (across all communities) that use that hashtag. Following up on the example we used earlier, if you want to look at all the posts using the #Mastodon hashtag, here you go.
Across the fediverse
The other thing that hashtags do that post flair doesn't is that microblogging services like mastodon understand them better. So, it helps users on other fediverse software platforms find your posts better. @rimu@piefed.social wrote a bit about that just the other day over here.
i require some help to chose an non american is for phone
Hello,
I am European and I want to change phone but I want to avoid OSes maintained by American.
Do you have any suggestion ?
I am on graphene now, I know about postmarket os but it look like it's core maintainer are from US.
Regards
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.noyb.eu
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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
Mozilla is introducing profiles to its Firefox web browser that make it easier to separate and organize your online activity.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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Frieren - Capitolo 8
Questo capitolo 8 sembra avviare il nuovo volume in un modo che prevedo più incentrato su piccole riflessioni, con più capitoli in totale
tidderuuf
in reply to return2ozma • • •Like, every search engine would yield the exact same results. It doesn't mean the average person would have the means or necessary requirements to develop it.
Do these morons think that because someone uses ChatGPT it magically gives access to those materials to make a bomb?
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Chozo e riot like this.
artyom
in reply to tidderuuf • • •Echo Dot
in reply to artyom • • •Lol, yeah. The anarchists handbook has been in public domain longer than most people in this thread have been alive. Yeah it's absolutely available on a search engine you could have got it on alta vista.
How do you think people figure out how to make IEDs do you think it's some secret knowledge pass down from father to son, no, they get it online or they just working out from basic principles of scientific understanding. Trying to contain knowledge never works.
artyom
in reply to Echo Dot • • •Echo Dot
in reply to artyom • • •artyom
in reply to Echo Dot • • •0x0
in reply to artyom • • •Clown
bing.com/search?q=pdf+download…
pdf download anarchists cookbook - Bing
BingEcho Dot
in reply to artyom • • •shalafi
in reply to tidderuuf • • •I made a kilo of black powder a couple of years ago for my old-school guns. Sulfer, charcoal and stump killer is not exactly hard to come by. Neither is fertilizer and diesel fuel.
Biggest domestic terror attack in US history used a truck full of the later.
Cybersteel
in reply to tidderuuf • • •lemming741
in reply to Cybersteel • • •treadful
in reply to tidderuuf • • •Echo Dot
in reply to treadful • • •It's irrelevant anyway because the sorts of people who would want to make a bomb to harm others are not the sort of people that would be able to follow the instructions.
It is more likely than anything else that they would blow themselves up with some nitroglycerin. Even professionals used to do that back in the day because it was so unstable. I can imagine that a MAGA would be able to top 1900s scientists.
NoiseColor
in reply to return2ozma • • •Anyway, making explosives as a hobby is a real bad decision. Most people understand that. The ones that don't are not smart enough to make them. The ones that are smart enough and still want to make them, would not use chatgpt.
ceenote
in reply to NoiseColor • • •NoiseColor
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in reply to NoiseColor • • •CodenameDarlen
in reply to return2ozma • • •I downloaded local Llama Uncensored and it easily teaches me how to make a home made bomb, suicide methods etc...
This isn't news anymore, anyone can have access to such things.
FreedomAdvocate
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Echo Dot
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •MeThisGuy
in reply to Echo Dot • • •like this guy?
wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Ci…
1995 terrorist attack in the United States
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)CodenameDarlen
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •CubitOom
in reply to return2ozma • • •Remember kids, if you want to look up something that you don't want the government to know about, don't use the internet to do it.
Also, LLMs are not the best source for asking about how to make things that explode.
einkorn
in reply to CubitOom • • •United States Army manual
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)CubitOom
in reply to einkorn • • •Echo Dot
in reply to return2ozma • • •Oh no, not information that's already available online, whatever will we do.
If you need AI to tell you how to build weapon system you're not going to build the weapon system anybody who's an actual threat already has this information. This is just nonsense pearl clutching to sell a story, there's nothing actually here though.
pastermil
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