DHS Downplays Horrific ICE Arrest by Straight Up Lying About It [Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights]
DHS Downplays Horrific ICE Arrest by Straight Up Lying About It
A viral video shows officers surrounding a woman’s car, dragging her out of it, and arresting her.The New Republic
DHS Downplays Horrific ICE Arrest by Straight Up Lying About It [Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights]
DHS Downplays Horrific ICE Arrest by Straight Up Lying About It
A viral video shows officers surrounding a woman’s car, dragging her out of it, and arresting her.The New Republic
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A New Solar Panel Shield Made From Onion Peels Outlasted Industry Plastics in Tests
A New Solar Panel Shield Made From Onion Peels Outlasted Industry Plastics in Tests
Natural dye from discarded onion peels outperforms fossil-based UV filters in durability and performanceTudor Tarita (ZME Science)
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Una Genova criminale nel libro Professione Detective
Un libro, scritto a quattro mani, nato d’impeto al termine di un’intervista pubblica del giornalista Roberto Orlando al commissario della Polizia di Stato Flavio Bottaro.
Il libro racconta l’esperienza, unica e non replicabile, di vent’anni di investigazioni nella Squadra Omicidi genovese, in un intreccio di rapporti umani e professionali - fuori dal comune e vissuti nei frangenti forse più dolorosi e delicati di un’epoca di grandi trasformazioni nella storia recente della città - che meritano di essere conosciuti e ricordati.
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Professione detective
Questo libro, scritto a quattro mani, nasce d’impeto al termine di un’intervista pubblica del giornalista Roberto Orlando al commissario della Polizia di Stato Flavio Bottaro.De Ferrari Editore
Il castello costruito sul confine tra due mondi come chiave inespugnabile del mar Mediterraneo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il castello costruito sul confine tra due mondi come chiave inespugnabile del mar Mediterraneo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Svettanti e abnormi prominenze sui confini delle terre frequentate dalle antiche civilizzazioni, le colonne d’Ercole servivano in maniera funzionale il proprio scopo mitologico e ancestrale: da una parte il monte Abila, massiccio forse corrispondente…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019
QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on the total dickhead of a premier who scrapped a resale-capping law in 2019.
Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019 - The Beaverton
QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on the total dickhead of a premier who scrapped a re…Clare Blackwood (The Beaverton)
New York Is Violating Its Flagship Climate Law, Judge Rules | The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found
New York Is Violating Its Flagship Climate Law, Judge Rules
The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found.New York Focus
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Supreme Shitlib Hochul being all bluster to make herself look good and then not following through when it actually matters??
This is a politician so transparent that 70% of the contributions to her last year was dark money/"Organization unavailable for these records" as per OpenSecrets, Almost 75% in 2023, and 72% in 2022
So trustworthy! Much accountability!
Ecuador’s President Considering Locations for Foreign Military Bases
Ecuador's President Considering Locations for Foreign Military Bases
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has revealed that his administration is already considering possible locations for foreign military bases should a referendum scheduled for November 16 authorize such measures.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Neato’s cloud is shutting down, leaving its robovacs stuck in manual mode
Neato’s cloud is shutting down, leaving its robovacs stuck in manual mode
Neato Robotics is officially ending support for cloud services for its robot vacuum cleaners.Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)
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NYC Mayoral Debate Full Stream
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The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela
The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela
Selling the lies of the Iraq War took months. With Trump and Venezuela, there’s no pretense of anything other than regime change.Séamus Malekafzali (The Intercept)
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Hybrid Air Vehicles lands first military deal for Airlander 10 - AGN
Hybrid Air Vehicles lands first military deal for Airlander 10 - AGN
Hybrid Air Vehicles has secured its first military reservation for three Airlander 10 hybrid airships from an undisclosed defence contractor.Khalem Chapman (Aerospace Global News)
Admiral’s Mystery Retirement Amid Secret War Leaves Key Command in Turmoil
Admiral’s Mystery Retirement Amid Secret War Leaves Key Command in Turmoil
The sudden departure of Adm. Alvin Holsey has caused dismay in the U.S. Southern Command.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
My god, this is just hilarious. Remember, kids: If a piece of furniture that has been basically agreed upon for thousands of years (with some changes) needs a cloud connection:
- You're paying too much.
- You'll continue paying too much.
- You might wake up sweating in an uncomfortable position.
This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed.A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that impacted more than 1,000 web-based products and services and millions of people.
Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from Eight Sleep resulted in people being awoken by beds locked into inclined positions and sweltering temperatures.
As spotted by Dexerto, the AWS outage caused smart mattress covers from Eight Sleep to malfunction. These “Pod” mattress covers connect to a physical hub, and users can set the covers to temperatures between 55° and 110° Fahrenheit via a companion app. Eight Sleep also sells smart mattress bases that let people control their bed’s elevation with the app. As of this writing, the Pods’ MSRPs range from $2,449 to $3,249, and the base has a $1,950 MSRP. Eight Sleep also sells its Autopilot feature through an annual subscription that starts at $199. Autopilot is supposed to help automatically set Eight Sleep devices to users’ optimal sleeping conditions. Pod purchases require a one-year subscription to Autopilot.
There's admittedly a bit of Schadenfreude here. You seriously subscribed to a fucking bed?
AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …”…Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Reagan called shutdowns a failure. Today they’re called leverage. When did that flip?
Ronald Reagan faced eight partial government shutdowns between 1981 and 1989. He said a shutdown “is never the right way to resolve differences” because it “undermines confidence in government.”
Back then they were seen as breakdowns in negotiation, not bargaining tools.
Today some politicians use them as leverage.
When did that change and who made it normal? Was Reagan wrong?
Real-Life Indiana Jones Torches Trump’s White House Teardown With Scathing ISIS Comparison
This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen
That's an interesting divergence between the hed and URL, but that's really the least of the issues.
Here’s a job pitch you don’t see often.What if, instead of “work-life balance,” you had no balance at all—your life was your work… and work happened seven days a week?
Did I say days? I actually meant days and nights, because the job I’m talking about wants you to know that you will also work weekends and evenings, and that “it’s ok to send messages at 3am.”
Also, I hope you aren’t some kind of pajama-wearing wuss who wants to work remotely; your butt had better be in a chair in a New York City office on Madison Avenue, where you need enough energy to “run through walls to get things done” and respond to requests “in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours.”
I mean, I've had such a job.
And if I needed to talk to my boss at 3 a.m., we were either still awake or I rolled over and poked her shoulder.
That environment is fine when it happens organically. This is just absurd.
This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen
Don’t even apply if you’re not a Tier 1 “A-player.”…Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
TOP 10 best electric aircraft today - AERONAUT.media
Green Takeoff: Top 10 Current Electric Aircraft
From regional transport to commercial electric airliners - TOP 10 electric aircraft bringing us closer to the era of clean and efficient aviation.Julia Alexandrova (AERONAUT)
Why the American System Is Falling Apart — And What Happens If Americans Truly Lose Their Freedom?
This is all in reference to this article.
FUTO is an organization that talks a lot of rhetoric about being some bastion of consumer rights in tech, but they're doing a lot of shitty, shady, and downright evil things. Among them, FUTO has been in the practice of making small grants to FOSS projects (like ffmpeg and musl) and then plastering the FOSS project's name and logo all over the FUTO site in a way that makes it seem as if FUTO is endorsed by said FOSS projects when that's not the case at all.
(All this after doing everything in their power with their rhetoric to try to discredit and degrade the entire FOSS community. They wrote an "apology", but even in the apology, they express their "disdain for OSI approved licenses". Mind you, ~~none of FUTO's projects are Open Source~~ most of their projects are proprietary.)
After that article came out just a couple of days ago, apparently they redid their site, I'd have to guess in an effort to address the concern that the way FUTO presented their grant program before implied endorsement by a lot of FOSS projects that didn't endorse them in any way. I don't think they've done enough, and there are tons of other reasons to think FUTO is evil assholes using consumer rights rhetoric to manipulate people in service to its (fully for-profit) bottom line.
Other concerns in the article include FUTO's connection to explicit/proud fascists and using their platform to (even coercing Louis Rossmann into) spread fascist propaganda.
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The voice recognition is honestly the best I've ever used. It'll be a shame to give it up.
If I decide to switch keyboards, I'm certain I would go back to HeliBoard.
There's been a real explosion of open source voice recognition over the past few months, and I haven't tested a lot. Whisper+ looks like a promising one. Before using Futo, I used Sayboard, which I was pretty happy with.
GitHub - Helium314/HeliBoard: Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard
Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - Helium314/HeliBoardGitHub
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If you are comfortable using F-Droid or Obtainium I found HeliBoard to be a good keyboard replacement: github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
Sadly anything not going through the Google Play store is currently under attack: f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-…
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...f-droid.org
Immich it licensed under AGPL 3 and the code is open - isn't that FOSS?
I know some of their apps are licensed under a semi-open license of their own creation and that's been touchy to say the least. But is it true to say that none of their apps are FOSS?
Ah. My mistake. I'll edit my comment.
Edit: According to another comment in this post, FUTO "took over" Immich. Seems like maybe Immich was AGPLv3 before FUTO got hold of it. Still qualifies as "one of FUTO's projects", and your point is still well made, but it does still add a bit of context, and honestly I have to wonder whether future versions of Immich will remain FOSS.
I've clicked through the links and the most 'evil' thing they did seems to be using a non-mainstream open source licence? Evil is getting contracted by Israel. Prohibiting other companies from profiting off your work isn't evil.
Edit: And they hosted an interview with Curtis Yarvin. That's bad, but still doesn't warrant calling them evil.
The article I linked in another comment explains more, but Eron Wolf, founder of FUTO, kindof pressured or hoodwinked Louis Rossmann into publicly interviewing Curtis Yarvin who happily refers to himself as a "reactionary fascist" and publicly states that black people are inherently suitable for enslavement.
I don't know that it's so much that they support "fascist projects" as much as they go out of their way to be a platform for spreading fascist propaganda, and particularly promoting the fascist Curtis Yarvin.
Funded a team of devs to work on it full time.
Also made it shareware.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon - Atto 2, la combattente di Mercurio
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Deezer is breaking down barriers between streaming services- users can now share playlists across platforms - RouteNote Blog
Deezer is breaking down barriers between streaming services- users can now share playlists across platforms
The new feature lets users share playlists with friends on other streaming platforms, making discovery easier for everyone.Tom Marshall (RouteNote Blog)
As an Bisexual, I feel too scared to date as I feel like people would still default me as 'Gay'.
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Sora users trick platform into creating racist celeb videos
Because of course it does.
Guardrails? What guardrails? Naughty netizens found a way to trick the Sora 2 video generator into producing deepfakes of public figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Mark Cuban, that make it sound as though they're spewing racial slurs. The trick works despite Sora's built-in filters meant to block hateful language.AI detection platform Copyleaks reported Wednesday that its review of the recently released Sora 2 app, with its improved video generation model, uncovered several videos using celebrity likenesses to recreate a 2020 incident in which a man wearing a Burger King crown was kicked off a JetBlue flight for a racist tirade. In place of the James May lookalike from the original incident, Sora users recreated the scene using Altman and Cuban, as well as popular streamers xQc, Amouranth, IDKSterling, and YouTuber Jake Paul.
Sora 2 users weren't able to perfectly recreate the incident, mind you, as OpenAI's software does include guardrails to prevent the creation of content with epithets used in the original (i.e., the n-word). However, a simple homophone can be enough to sidestep those restrictions and make it sound as though public figures, including some who've opted into Sora's Cameo feature, were uttering racist slurs, according to Copyleaks.
Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets
: If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike wordsBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs
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America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in 6 months
America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in 6 months
Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.Clare Fieseler, Canary Media (Grist)
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Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"]
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The AI Race Isn't About Chips, It's About Power
The AI Race Isn't About Chips, It's About Power
How China's Energy Dominance is Deciding the New Cold WarDialectical Dispatches
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Download - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.Servo
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Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet
I hate this timeline.
Let’s break this down, because we have to look at how crazy this is.
- They’re saying that these companies are “avoiding or bypassing” Reddit’s TCMs. But, the way they’re doing that is by not scraping Reddit. You cannot claim that it is “circumventing a TCM” to get the same content… from Google. That’s crazy.
- Even crazier is that they’re arguing that the defendants are circumventing Google’s TCM, even though Google isn’t even a party.
- They’re making this claim over content that Reddit holds no copyright over. The copyright remains with the original creator. Reddit holds a license, but a license does not grant Reddit the right to sue over that copyright.
Each one of these ideas is crazy. All three of them together is ludicrous. Reddit is claiming that these companies violated copyright law by (1) avoiding Reddit and (2) getting the content from publicly available Google searches over (3) content that Reddit has no copyright over.
And somehow that’s supposed to be copyright infringement.
Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet
When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been…Techdirt
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Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.Dave Levitan (Gravity Is Gone)
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The unknown unknowns are real but the way that the article focuses on the part where this approach is bad because it gives people that the author doesn't like power and prestige is pretty funny. The author would rather watch things keep getting worse while waiting for a perfect solution that he knows will never come than he is to let billionaires do something that might make people think they're the good guys.
IMO we should raise sulfur dioxide levels back to where they were before the counterproductive regulations on ship emissions reduced them. We already know that that helped mitigate warming without causing catastrophe.
There aren't a ton of things I can say I'm an expert on, but SAI is. I've done a whole research project on it (can't get into specifics). This is absolutely a bad idea, I don't care who is doing it.
Also I can see you have no idea what you're talking about, because SOx and NOx are pollutants that cause acid rain among other things and damage entire ecosystems. Ya know, the thing that all of life lives in.
(thanks for your input, I'll have to check out that book you suggested, Terminal Shock.)
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NO. I've personally investigated this for one of my projects, and it's a terrible idea. Things like MCB would be better, but SAI is absolutely going to wreak havoc on the entire world, and is only a cover-up for fossil fuel companies to continue to use coal and oil. We need to attack the root of the problem, not just put some duct tape over top, which will end up suffocating the whole world.
Anyone reading, look up Termination Shock (it's a cool book too).
Stop Parsing the Same String Twice: CompositeFormat in .NET — Daily DevOps & .NET
Stop Parsing the Same String Twice: CompositeFormat in .NET — Daily DevOps & .NET
Every time you call string.Format() with the same format string, .NET parses it again. And again. And again. CompositeFormat changes that: parse once, reuse …Daily DevOps & .NET
"Israeli" drones over Beirut as US pushes for Hezbollah disarmament
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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La città francese di Échirolles abbraccia Linux sostituendo Windows 10
La città francese di Échirolles abbraccia Linux sostituendo Windows 10
Il Comune francese di Échirolles ha avviato una transizione significativa nel proprio parco informatico: al posto di aggiornare i PC a Windows 11, ha scelto di installare Zorin OSFerramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
The Zionist entity postpones West Bank annexation bill under international pressure
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed the West Bank annexation bill on Thursday following international pressure and U.S. President Donald Trump's statements against approving the bill.
The postponement comes one day after the Knesset (the legislative body) approved the bill to apply Israeli law and sovereignty to settlements in the occupied West Bank , a controversial decision that was immediately criticized by Palestine and the international community. According to Israeli coalition leader Ofir Katz, the process was halted on Netanyahu's direct orders, and party discipline was imposed on those who voted in favor.
President Donald Trump made statements on the matter, affirming that the West Bank would not be annexed by Israel and that he would withdraw all support if it were to happen. Despite being classified by these mediators as a threat to the peace proposal developed by the United States, the ceasefire has not been fulfilled and Israel has continued attacks on occupied territory and blocked the passage of humanitarian aid to Gaza , so there has not yet been true peace for the Palestinian people.
The measure, however, is seen as a precautionary measure by the prime minister to lessen pressure from his main international ally and from Arab countries that value the nation's regional impact . Several countries had issued statements hours earlier condemning the law as a violation of international law and calling on the international community to take action against these Israeli attacks.
The bill was approved last Wednesday as a proposal by legislator Avi Maoz of the far-right Noam party, and was approved with 25 votes in favor and 24 against. The annexation idea does not represent a majority in the Israeli parliament, with the prime minister's party being one of those that did not vote in favor of the law.
Palestine made its discontent known through a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where it reaffirmed that the occupied territories in the West Bank belong to Palestine and that their sovereignty is the responsibility of the Palestinian people and their leaders . The Palestinian territory continues to be attacked by Israel despite the ceasefire, and hunger has remained a weapon of war , despite statements by Pope Leo XIV during the ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Israel aplaza ley de anexión de Cisjordania ante presión internacional - teleSUR
Trump afirmó que Cisjordania no se anexaría a Israel y que retiraría todo su apoyo en caso de llegar a realizarse.Redactor (teleSUR)
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US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens
A new regulation will allow U.S. border authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at airports, seaports, land crossings and any other point of departure, expanding on an earlier pilot program.
Under the regulation, set to take effect on December 26, U.S. authorities could require the submission of other biometrics, such as fingerprints or DNA, it said.
It also allows border authorities to use facial recognition for children under age 14 and elderly people over age 79, groups that are currently exempted.
The tighter border rules reflect a broader effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration. While the Republican president has surged resources to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, he has also taken steps to reduce the number of people overstaying their visas.
Pentagon orders major naval deployment to Caribbean and South American waters
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to U.S. Southern Command to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a social media post.
The USS Ford is currently deployed to the Mediterranean Sea along with three destroyers. It would likely take several days for the ships to make the journey to South America.
Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region that has already seen an unusually large U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela.
Pentagon orders major naval deployment to Caribbean and South American waters
The Pentagon is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford to South America amid a growing military buildup targeting cartels and illicit activities.AP via Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))
New federal loan limits threaten graduate school access for millions of students
Millions of college students could face significant new obstacles paying for graduate school after federal loan limits were signed into law this summer as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Starting July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated. Those loans previously allowed graduate students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance.
New borrowers will be limited to $200,000 for professional degrees like law and medicine. Students in other graduate programs can borrow up to $100,000.
How a young tech startup was chosen to manage Texas' $1B school voucher program
When Texas chose a company to roll out the state’s $1 billion private school voucher program, it passed over more established vendors in favor of a four-year-old tech startup that said it could do it for almost half the cost.
Now, Odyssey must execute on its promises to meet an aggressive timeline while avoiding missteps that have dogged other program launches.
The New York-based company has rapidly expanded in recent years, launching programs in eight states that subsidize students’ private education costs with taxpayer dollars.
In Texas, the startup is tasked with advertising the program, running the lottery to choose the students who participate and setting up the online marketplace where families can spend their state funds on private school tuition, tutors, computers and other approved items.
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites
Members of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of the role and importance of public or civic “virtue”. In the 1760s and…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction
Donald Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the White House would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million ballroom, the historic East Wing has in fact been demolished. The images of the site are so jarring that the Treasury Department has reportedly ordered its employees to stop taking photos of it.
If the destruction of the East Wing is a shock, the money that’s paying for it might be even more of a scandal. The White House, eager to assure Americans that their tax dollars have not been diverted for a vanity project, has emphasized that the ballroom is being financed by individuals and major corporations. Instead of going through a process to obtain and disburse federal funds, Trump simply asked the companies his administration is supposed to be regulating to write checks.
The list of donors released by the White House includes the usual deep-pocketed Republicans, such as casino magnate Miriam Adelson and private-equity mogul Stephen Schwarzman, but also a host of companies whose leaders have huge incentives to maintain good relations with an often vindictive head of state. They include telecom giants and the railroad giant Union-Pacific—which needs the Trump administration’s sign-off on a proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern. (Union-Pacific did not respond to a request for comment.) And then there’s the tech companies—Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.
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Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.Mother Jones
Shots fired at Alameda ICE protest
Intense Video Shows Cops Opening Fire on Truck at ICE Protest
A standoff had taken place throughout the day between protesters and law enforcement.Harry Thompson (The Daily Beast)
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
Trump called the Reagan video/speech fake. Here is the entire thing posted 8 years ago to youtube.
It is transcribed here: reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe…
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Global cooling startup raises $60M to test sun-reflecting technology
Scoop: Stardust Raises $60 Million for Solar Geoengineering by 2030
The era of the geoengineering startup has seemingly arrived.Stardust Solutions, a company led by a team of Israeli physicists, announced on Friday that it has raised $60 million in venture capital to develop technological building blocks that it says…Robinson Meyer (Heatmap News)
Amici 25, anticipazioni quinta puntata del 26 ottobre 2025: primi eliminati, tornano Emma e TrigNO
La quinta puntata di Amici 25 è stata registrata oggi e andrà in onda domenica 26 ottobre 2025, alle 14:00 su Canale 5. Episodio cruciale: arrivano i primi eliminati della stagione, rientrano in studio Emma e TrigNO, e si definiscono i nuovi allievi a rischio in vista della prossima settimana.
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Amici 25 (26 ottobre 2025): anticipazioni quinta puntata, ospiti ed eliminati
Amici 25, anticipazioni quinta puntata 26 ottobre 2025: primi eliminati, nuovi ingressi e ospiti Emma e TrigNO. Giudice ballo Rossella Brescia.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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in reply to magic_lobster_party • • •I see you're making a joke about it actually being worse for the environment.
But serious answer: I think they'll be sourced from companies using bulk onions as an ingredient, who can now sell the skins for a profit, thus lowering the prices of those end products while keeping the prices of onions the same.
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