Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.
I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here, and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis, who have no f**king clue. I mean those guys are corporate terrorists. Lemme explain the core problem here, so many of the passive funds vote along the lines of what ISS and Glass Lewis recommend. Now, they have made many terrible recommendations in the past that if those recommendations had been followed would have been extremely destructive to the future of the company. Now, If you’ve got passive funds that essentially defer responsibility for the vote to Glass Lewis and ISS, then you can have extremely disastrous consequences for a publicly traded company if too much of the publicly traded company is controlled by index funds. It’s de facto controlled by Glass Lewis and ISS. This is a fundamental problem for corporate governance, because they’re not voting along the lines that are actually good for shareholders. That’s the big issue, I mean, that’s what it comes down to. ISS Glass Lewis corporate terrorism. -Elon Musk, Tesla Q3 shareholder conference call, October 22, 2025
Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla’s robot army. Yes, really.
Elon Musk, who's spent years engaging in questionable public advocacy, just said he wants to "control" an "enormous robot army."Jameson Dow (Electrek)
China is using America’s own trade weapons to beat it
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What makes export controls so powerful for China is its industrial heft. Its manufacturing output—35% of the global total—is threefold America’s and exceeds that of the next eight countries combined.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/10/23/china-is-using-americas-own-trade-weapons-to-beat-it
Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash
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AWS Just Fired 40% of Its DevOps Team — Then Let AI Take Their Jobs!
AWS Just Fired 40% of Its DevOps Team — Then Let AI Take Their Jobs! Leaked internal tools show how Amazon’s cloud is now self-healing, self-scaling, and self-negotiating — no humans …Mohab AbdelKarim (Stackademic)
Sharks from species once thought harmless kill and eat snorkeler in feeding frenzy
Sharks from species once thought harmless kill and eat snorkeler in feeding frenzy
Attack could be due to sharks’ previously unreported ‘begging’ behaviour, scientists sayVishwam Sankaran (The Independent)
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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
Has this impacted your self hosted instances of Immich? Are you hosting Immich via subdomain?
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Autopsia dell’io — Giuseppe De Grado: un viaggio nella fragilità e nella rinascita
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- Un taccuino dell’anima
- L’io come bussola della coscienza
- Fragilità e immagine
- L’autore si confida: la risposta completa
- Il tempo e la presenza
- Estratto significativo
- Conclusione: un viaggio da condividere
Un viaggio nel profondo dell’essere, tra introspezione, arte e psiche. Con “Autopsia dell’io”, Giuseppe De Grado firma un libro che è confessione, ricerca e poesia.
AUTOPSIA DELL’IO
GIUSEPPE DE GRADO
AUTOBIOGRAFIA/SAGGIO
Kimerik EDITORE
27 FEBBRAIO 2025
128 PP
15 x 21 x 1 cm
Un viaggio introspettivo che tocca tematiche sia puramente intimistiche che antropologiche e sociali. Un unico lungo racconto con tappe ben definite, caratterizzate da continui salti temporali, che l’autore propone per far meglio immergere il lettore nel proprio mondo presente e passato. La linea di confine tra mondi visibili (la realtà delle cose) e invisibili (i pensieri e le forze implicite che li scaturiscono) è molto sottile, ma ciononostante si riesce sempre a restare perfettamente in bilico tra i due. Si potrebbe facilmente pensare a un labirinto della mente esposto narrativamente ma, seppur la sensazione primaria possa essere tale, una bussola concettuale è sempre presente per evitare il disorientamento. A far da padrone è l’autore che al contempo è protagonista di un’idilliaca storia d’amore con lo sfondo del tempo che passa e che corrode cose e persone, senza però intaccarne i significati; un romanticismo palpabile e accattivante, che quasi tende a contaminare chi ne legge, data la sua avida veemenza. In conclusione, volendo sintetizzare in poche parole l’essenza di questo libro, resta da dire che il percorso di esso è lungo, tortuoso ma morbido, con zampilli di marcata malinconia verso un’epoca vicina ma comunque lontana anni luce, in cui sembrava che i valori fossero mastodontici e i sensi molto più svegli a favore della vita e di un cuore sempre messo in prima linea; insomma, un viaggio a ritroso nel tempo che tende a sbiadirsi, con una velocità sempre maggiore, tra l’autobiografia e l’autoanalisi.
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Un taccuino dell’anima
In Autopsia dell’io (128 pagine), Giuseppe De Grado si mette a nudo in un percorso di introspezione che mescola prosa, poesia e immagini.
Non un semplice diario, ma una mappa emotiva in cui dolore e speranza convivono, dando voce a quella parte di sé che spesso restiamo a ignorare.
De Grado racconta con delicatezza e precisione i tormenti e le gioie di un uomo che non ha paura di guardarsi dentro. Ogni pagina diventa uno specchio in cui il lettore riconosce la propria umanità imperfetta, tra perdita, desiderio di appartenenza e bisogno di autenticità.
“Scrivere significa scendere nei miei abissi: ogni volta non ne salgo intatto, ma trovo la via di casa passando vicino al cuore.”
L’io come bussola della coscienza
Uno degli aspetti più interessanti del libro è la riflessione sull’io — il centro della coscienza, quell’equilibrio fragile che media tra pulsioni, regole e realtà esterna.
De Grado intreccia la sua narrazione personale con richiami a Freud, Jung, Erikson e Rogers, esplorando l’identità come processo in continua costruzione.
L’autore ricorda che l’io non è una struttura immutabile ma un flusso, un processo cerebrale e psicologico fatto di memoria, emozione e percezione.
La parte dedicata alle neuroscienze amplia la visione: l’io non è solo psiche, ma anche materia viva, movimento, esperienza.
“Comprendere il mio io è stato come scoprire una presenza silenziosa: non qualcosa da giudicare, ma da ascoltare. È lì che si nasconde la mia verità.”
Questa dimensione teorica non appesantisce il testo, anzi, lo arricchisce di profondità. Autopsia dell’io diventa così un ponte tra letteratura e psicologia, tra conoscenza e emozione.
Fragilità e immagine
La fragilità è il filo conduttore dell’intero volume.
De Grado la descrive in versi e in prosa, con una lingua limpida e musicale.
Le illustrazioni di Roberta Lanzi, realizzate con penna, matita e acquarello, accompagnano e amplificano il testo, raffigurando l’autore come figura sospesa tra realtà e sogno, in atmosfere che ricordano Monet, Van Gogh e Degas.
L’arte, qui, diventa introspezione visiva: ogni tratto rivela qualcosa che le parole non dicono.
L’autore si confida: la risposta completa
Nell’intervista che chiude il libro, De Grado racconta la genesi del suo lavoro con una sincerità rara:
«In questo libro ho dato tutto me stesso — i miei sentimenti e i miei pensieri — e l’ho fatto anche grazie alla forza dell’amore per mia moglie. Scrivere significa scendere nei miei abissi: ogni volta non ne salgo intatto, ma trovo la via di casa passando vicino al cuore.»
Quando gli si chiede cosa significhi spogliarsi così tanto davanti al lettore, l’autore risponde:
«È stato un momento, e come tutti i momenti si va incontro a una trasformazione: come dal bruco nasce una farfalla. Mi sono spogliato delle mie paure e ho accettato di mostrarmi. È stata una liberazione.»
E aggiunge ancora, con intensità:
«Scrivere Autopsia dell’io è stato come tornare a casa dopo anni di smarrimento. Ho scavato nella mia memoria e nei miei silenzi per ritrovare la voce che avevo perso. Non ho paura di chiamare questo percorso con il suo nome: guarigione.»
Le sue parole, autentiche e vibranti, restituiscono il cuore pulsante del libro: la scrittura come atto terapeutico, come possibilità di rinascita.
Il tempo e la presenza
Il tempo attraversa il libro come tema ricorrente: tempo che passa, tempo perduto, tempo da ritrovare.
De Grado invita a rallentare, a riscoprire la presenza, a smettere di vivere per abitudine.
È un messaggio che risuona forte in un’epoca dominata dalla distrazione e dalla corsa continua: solo fermandosi si può davvero ascoltare.
“L’attitudine all’abitudine, alla paura del cambiamento, fa sì che l’animo non si evolva.”
Estratto significativo
«Non volevo richiudere questa crepa, non volevo farmi sopraffare dalla paura… L’attitudine all’abitudine, alla paura del cambiamento, fa sì che l’animo non si evolva.»
Questo passo riassume la filosofia dell’autore: accettare la crepa come parte della crescita, trasformare il dolore in consapevolezza.
Conclusione: un viaggio da condividere
Autopsia dell’io non è soltanto un libro: è un’esperienza di autenticità e coraggio.
Un invito a riscoprire se stessi, a riconciliarsi con la propria vulnerabilità e a comprendere che la fragilità è parte della bellezza umana.
Giuseppe De Grado ci regala una testimonianza toccante, fatta di parole e immagini che sanno parlare al cuore e alla mente.
Per chi: ama la narrativa autobiografica, la psicologia del sé, l’introspezione poetica e i libri che fanno riflettere.
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La Lanterna non è più il simbolo di Genova, l'email settimanale di L'Unica - Genova
L'intelligenza artificiale di Google ha privato la Lanterna del primato assoluto, definendola «uno dei» simboli e non più «il» simbolo del capoluogo ligure, anche perché probabilmente lo è sempre meno nella testa dei genovesi.
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No Donations for Days 💔 Winter Is Coming
There have been no donations for days… and winter is almost here. We’re still sleeping under the open sky with nothing to keep us warm. They announced a ceasefire, but the bombing hasn’t stopped, and our suffering continues.
All I want is to protect my family — to buy a tent, warm clothes, and some food. Every night, I watch my family shiver from the cold, and it breaks my heart.
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Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified
More than 100 police officers are under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were "falsely or erroneously recorded", RNZ can reveal."From the audit which covered over 4.6 million breath tests performed between 1 July 2024 and 17 August 2025, the initial analysis suggested there were tests conducted that were simulated without the involvement of a driver.
The audit indicated that some staff had recorded breath screening tests that hadn't occurred.
Johnson said that despite this, Police's obligation to deliver 3.3 million tests for NZTA and Ministry of Transport had been met and was not compromised.
Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified
Acting Deputy Commissioner Michael Johnson says the numbers are "incredibly disappointing and concerning".Sam Sherwood (RNZ)
Consacrata finalmente a Bucarest la più grande chiesa nella storia dell'Ortodossia Orientale - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
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Le aspirazioni e desideri di un popolo possono costituire un’energia del cambiamento, soprattutto ai fini di dar forma a cognizioni spirituali oltre le mere aspettative del quotidiano.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Il robot umanoide domestico è in vendita: Neo di 1X costa 20.000 dollari, ma per ora deve essere teleoperato
Il robot umanoide domestico è in vendita: Neo di 1X costa 20.000 dollari, ma per ora deve essere teleoperato
Il robot di 1X è autonomo, ma per le faccende di casa ha bisogno di un operatore che lo controlli da remoto. Fa parte del contratto e serve ad addestrare Neo, però significa che una persona guarderà dentro casa tuaSergio Donato (DDay.it)
Is Justice Done?
Is Justice Done?
You’ve probably seen or read at least something about the story that is the subject of tonight’s post.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
The ‘Chinese owner’ of Nexperia: How Zhang Xuezheng’s tech empire fell to geopolitics
The ‘Chinese owner’ of Nexperia: How Zhang Xuezheng’s tech empire fell to geopolitics
Once the scrappy entrepreneur who helped make smartphones affordable, Zhang Xuezheng now finds his semiconductor empire under siege. The Dutch takeover of Nexperia marks a dramatic turn in his high-tech odyssey amid global power rivalries.China Desk, Lianhe Zaobao (Think China)
Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot
Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot
: People, Files, and Calendar companion apps gain an auto-installed dose of AIBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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Are there Jews out there that support the Palestinian resistance (such as Hamas)?
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/9609767
Besides some people here of course.
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The first honest American president - Trump’s shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.
By the time Trump arrived, corruption had been normalised as realism. Trump merely stripped it of its polite fictions – not only in domestic politics but in foreign policy, where the US has long cloaked its violence in the language of democracy and human rights. Trump’s extrajudicial killings of unidentified individuals via unilateral military strikes in Latin American waters, for example, are not a break with American precedent but its most naked expression, the open performance of practices that past administrations enacted beneath the cloak of deniability and euphemism. Likewise, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brutality and cruelty under Trump are not new. It is instead largely a dramatised, made-for-TV version of what Barack Obama – who earned the title of “deporter in chief” – pioneered over the years in which he built the career of Tom Homan, now Trump’s so-called border czar. Like Trump, Obama was a great admirer of Homan, awarding him a 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service to honour his passion for rounding up immigrants, separating children from their parents and caging people in detention camps.
The brazenness of Trump’s corruption and cruelty – the nepotism, the grift, the self-dealing, the open auctioning of government contracts and justice – does not shock us because it feels like an honest expression of what we already knew: that American government and institutions serve the wealthy individuals who own them, whether directly or indirectly through their donations and lobbyists or via networks of influence, bribery and extortion. The outrage that might once have followed is replaced by a weary recognition that things have always worked this way.
The first honest American president
Trump’s shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.Eric Reinhart (Al Jazeera)
Nuclear-powered missiles: An aerospace engineer explains how they work – and what Russia’s claimed test means for global strategic stability
Nuclear-powered missiles: An aerospace engineer explains how they work – and what Russia’s claimed test means for global strategic stability
The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours.The Conversation
Kimi Linear is a hybrid linear attention architecture that outperforms traditional full attention methods across various contexts
GitHub - MoonshotAI/Kimi-Linear
Contribute to MoonshotAI/Kimi-Linear development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
CBS News just gutted its climate team
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.Sammy Roth (Climate-Colored Goggles)
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Portland won’t weaken its policy to phase out petroleum diesel and replace it with biofuels
Portland won’t weaken its policy to phase out petroleum diesel and replace it with biofuels
The rollback recommended by the Renewable Fuels Standards Advisory Committee would have allowed trucks to continue to emit black carbon, or “soot,” at a higher level and for longer than under the original plan.Gosia Wozniacka | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)
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As far as I know, mandatory use of biofuels is primarily a subsidy for farmers rather than a means of reducing emissions. I'm surprised to see an urban area focus on it.
In his decision, Engstrom said the feedstock restrictions are “core to the original policy intent” and must be preserved because they ensure the policy delivers on promised carbon reductions. Feedstocks made from virgin agricultural products and food crops – such as soybean, canola and palm oils – have been linked to much higher carbon emissions, displacing food production and causing deforestation and are not allowed under Portland’s policy.
It sounds like Portland is making an effort to avoid the farm-subsidy sort of biofuels, but then what is it actually demanding that biofuels be made from?
‘Fancy tool’: how China cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography
In a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography – a critical step in chipmaking – by up to 99 per cent.
The researchers achieved unprecedented clarity by using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to pinpoint, for the first time, the minute sources of common manufacturing flaws.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications on September 30, by Professor Peng Hailin from Peking University in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of Hong Kong, were hailed by reviewers as a “fancy tool” that “would benefit peer researchers and industrial users quite a lot”.
“The team has proposed a solution compatible with existing semiconductor production lines,” Peng said in an interview with Beijing-based Science and Technology Daily published on Monday. “It can reduce lithography defects on 12-inch (30cm) wafers by 99 per cent,” he added, indicating substantial cost benefits to the market.
Lithography is one of the most critical steps in chip manufacturing. “It can be understood as ‘printing circuits’ onto semiconductor wafers such as silicon,” Peng said. “Essentially, an ultra-precise ‘projector’ shrinks and transfers pre-designed circuit patterns onto a special film coating the wafer, which is then developed and fixed.”
How China’s ‘fancy tool’ cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography
Cryo-ET process pinpoints source of manufacturing flaws to achieve unprecedented clarity and a pathway to major industry cost cuts.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
A Chinese CEO was recently ousted by a Dutch court for alleged governance and financial misconduct. The company? Nexperia, which designs semiconductors.Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa (Asia Times)
WhatsApp on Apple Watch Is Real — Here’s the First Look
WhatsApp on Apple Watch Is Real — Here’s the First Look | iPhone in Canada
WhatsApp has officially launched its first app for the Apple Watch, available through the latest iOS beta version 25.32.10.71 via TestFlight. This means it’s only for beta testers right now.John Quintet (iPhone in Canada)
Ernest is alive
Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.
Just noticed he has a blog where he occasionally posts, latest post being from September, and in the "about me" section, he also mentions about having to drop Kbin.
Going by his posts and his repositories, he doesn't seem involved with ActivityPub anymore, at least in a public manner. But sharing in case someone worried about the person.
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To support this change, the autoencoder Compressor was upgraded with masked image modeling, switched from CNN to Vision Transformer architecture, and the World Model itself was scaled from 500 million to 1 billion parameters. All models now train on a much larger dataset of 2.5 million segments, up from 437,000, covering more vehicles, countries, and driving scenarios.
The UI has been completely rewritten, moving from Qt/Weston to Python with raylib. This reduces code complexity by about 10,000 lines, cuts boot time by 4 seconds, lowers GPU usage, and simplifies development.
Finally, the Driver Monitoring Model's training infrastructure has been streamlined with dynamic data streaming, though the model’s functionality remains unchanged.
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Funky Cafè Noir
Dalle note Funky al Jazz riarrangiato al nostro stile.
Piano, basso, tromba, batteria e voce.
Sul progetto musicale
"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.
Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.
I componenti del quartetto:
Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.
Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.
Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.
Fabio Ruggieri (🥁 batteria) – Batterista preciso e creativo, Fabio dà ritmo e dinamismo a ogni performance, valorizzando ogni brano con il giusto groove
DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
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The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.
Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.
“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.
DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.
Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.
“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.
DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
"They're stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar to private sector employment," Sean Timmons said.Anastasia Obis (Federal News Network)
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DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”
A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.
Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.
“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.
DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
"They're stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar to private sector employment," Sean Timmons said.Anastasia Obis (Federal News Network)
Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years
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Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown
Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Hurricane Melissa is the most devastating storm to hit Jamaica in recorded history, CNN reports. …Informed Comment
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Mushroom clouds over Vegas? What Trump’s nuclear weapons tests could mean for America and the world
But 10 months into his second administration, the president is commanding officials to resume nuclear weapons testing, which would end the U.S’s 33-year moratorium and invite a global arms race in a volatile political moment.
Claiming that the United States must reach parity with weapons development in China and Russia, Trump ordered the Pentagon on October 30 to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” a process that will begin “immediately,” he said.
The last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992 under then-President George H.W. Bush, who established a moratorium on all nuclear testing. China has reportedly not tested a nuclear weapon since 1996, and Russia’s most recent tests involved delivery systems, not actual detonation of a nuclear device.
Mushroom clouds over Vegas? What Trump’s nuclear weapons tests could mean for America and the world
Trump’s command risks a global arms race while the Doomsday clock ticks closer than ever to midnight, experts sayAlex Woodward (The Independent)
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Increased Spam on Lemmy Recently
I don't know if it's just me, but it feeks like there's been more spam posts than usual on Lemmy this October. Especially in instances like lemmy.world, lemdro.id, and others.
For example, this week, there has been a 3-day-old account on lemmy.world with over 480 posts. I also refreshed my feed today to find a <1 day old account from lemy.lol just posting Perplexity affiliate links to various places. I've blocked like 10 accounts in the past week alone for this reason.
With affiliate links I kind of understand the motivation. However, for non-promotional spam, upvotes on Lemmy aren't valuable in the same way that it is on Reddit, and there's no real value to an account with a lot of karma.
Is it just me that's noticed this increase? Does anyone know why this might be happening just now?
Sony WF-C510 connected on Linux, but never recognized as a headset
I've been fighting with my Sony WF-C510 for days.
I've tried it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint. Same result every time: It connects successfully, but never shows up as an audio output device.
I even bought a USB Bluetooth dongle, thinking my laptop’s chipset was the problem... but nope. It still connects as a device, not a headset.
I’ve restarted Bluetooth services, switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire, and tried every "set-card-profile" trick from AI and forums, but nothing works.
Has anyone actually managed to get a Sony WF-C510 working properly on Linux?
It's clear this is purely Sony's fault for not caring about or supporting Linux drivers. Are they just ignoring the entire platform at this point?
Any workaround or success story would save my sanity.
Distros Tested: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12-13, Mint 22
Issue: Connects, but no A2DP/HSP profile visible
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When was that epic photo taken?
EDIT: did my own research
Jun 18, 2012 3:29 PMLinus Torvalds Gives Nvidia the Finger. Literally.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't happy with Nvidia. And he wants you to know it.
Late last week, at a hacker meetup in Finland, Torvalds laid into Nvidia, calling it "the single worst company" the Linux developer community has ever dealt with, complaining that the chipmaker doesn't do as much as it could to ensure that its hardware plays nicely with his open source operating system. He even turned to the camera filming the event, flipped the company the proverbial bird, and dropped the proverbial F bomb.
Absolute fucking legend!
New York declares state of emergency to help food banks in shutdown
New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, has declared a state of emergency to raise $65m to help food banks as federal funding for the national food stamps program is set to expire on Saturday due to the government shutdown.
The move comes after Oregon and Virginia also declared emergencies to make funds available to cover the anticipated short fall in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), which provides food aid to nearly 42 million people.
New York receives nearly $650m a month in federal funding for Snap benefits, according to Department of Agriculture figures.
Oregon governor Tina Kotek on Wednesday pledged $5m to food banks and declared a 60-day food security emergency. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has said the state will draw on surplus funds to pay for up to a month of Snap benefits.
The declarations come amid an ongoing standoff between the Trump administration and the Republicans, on one side, and the Democrats, over a federal government funding package. Neither Congress nor the White House has acted to fund November Snap benefits, which cost around $8bn a month.
Senate passes bill to nullify Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on more than 100 nations – US politics live
Vote passes 51-47 in latest bipartisan effort to end tariffs, after resolutions on repealing Canada and Brazil tariffs passed earlier this weekAdam Fulton (The Guardian)
Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
But now, a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy,” created to keep census data from being used to identify individual respondents, has become the right’s latest focus. WIRED spoke to six experts about the GOP’s ongoing effort to falsely allege that a system created to protect people’s privacy has made the data from the 2020 census inaccurate.
If successful, the campaign to get rid of differential privacy could not only radically change the kind of data made available, but could put the data of every person living in the US at risk. The campaign could also discourage immigrants from participating in the census entirely.
The Census Bureau regularly publishes anonymized data so that policymakers and researchers can use it. That data is also sensitive: Conducted every 10 years, the census counts every person living in the United States, citizen and noncitizen alike. The data includes detailed information like the race, sex, and age, as well the languages they speak, their home address, economic status, and the number of people living in a house. This data is used for allocating the federal funds that support public services like schools and hospitals, as well as for how a state’s population is divided up and represented in Congress. The more people in a state, the more congressional representation—and more votes in the Electoral College.
Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
“Differential privacy” algorithm prevents statistical data from being tied to individuals.WIRED (Ars Technica)
US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for non-violent art museum protester
US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for non-violent art museum protester
‘It’s hard to fathom how a peaceful protester can receive more prison time than many of the insurrectionists’ said one researcher, of Timothy Martin’s sentenceNina Lakhani (The Guardian)
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Ktor Panel v0.4.0 Released
I just released v0.4.0 of Ktor Panel.
Ktor Panel is a lightweight, customisable admin interface generation library for Ktor servers. Ktor Panel provides a simple way to manage database entities through an intuitive and secure interface using minimal configuration.
Official docs: ktor-panel.readthedocs.io/
Please leave a GitHub star if you find it useful!
GitHub - believemanasseh/ktor-panel: Admin interface generation for Ktor servers
Admin interface generation for Ktor servers. Contribute to believemanasseh/ktor-panel development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Pritzker forms independent commission to document misconduct of federal agents
After urging Illinoisans last month to record concerning actions by federal agents, Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Thursday creating a commission to review documentation submitted by the public.
“The federal government has chosen to treat the people of this country as an adversary,” Pritzker said of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” targeting the Chicago area. “We will not meet intimidation with fear. We will meet it with truth.”
The newly formed Illinois Accountability Commission has been charged by Pritzker to create a public record of abuses, document the impact of those abuses on families and communities, and recommend actions for justice and reducing future harm.
The commission will investigate past actions by federal officials, according to its chair, U.S. District Judge Rubén Castillo, including the fatal shooting of unarmed father and Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after dropping off his two young sons at school and daycare in the Chicago area.
Pritzker forms independent commission to document misconduct of federal agents
Pritzker creates an Illinois commission to document misconduct by federal agents and recommend accountability steps.Maggie Dougherty (Capitol News Illinois)
Missed opportunity for OneShot to come to GOG?
I'd like to play Oneshot but it's not on GOG. I went looking to see if anyone had said why not and I found a post from the Oneshot dev GIR saying he submitted the game to GOG.
I'm curious about what happened. I'd love to see Oneshot come to GOG.
GOG? :: OneShot General Discussions
Will be this game released on GOG some day? I know that it is on Itcho but I prefer GOG.steamcommunity.com
apparently this is a big problem with GOG, they have a very strict and opinionated policy for accepting games on their store.
on one hand, this means GOG doesn't have much shovelware, unlike Steam or itch. this is good. but it also means incredible games get the pass for ridiculous reasons.
iirc they passed on Balatro because it "wasn't what they were looking for on the store right now", and they initially passed on Undertale because the game's graphics made them think it was unpolished... i wonder how many incredible indie games aren't on GOG because of this?
How do you propose GOG should handle forever support for a nearly endless number of shovelware games? Preservation is more than offering the downloads, the games also need to run on systems people actually have.
As far as I can tell they are fullfilling all their marketing promises by taking charge of updating games when developers stop doing so. I wish they would do that for the Linux versions as well as the windows versions, but it's absolutely better than nothing.
what GOG is doing is great and i commend their efforts (even tho i wish they’d relax their submission policies juuust a bit), and as a store, not having piles of shovelware is great!
but as a preservation platform, GOG’s approach is inherently limited. they can’t have every game, and they can’t keep supporting every game. that’s the fundamental problem with them as far as preservation is concerned.
the only way i can think of where we could have total game preservation is if every game ever made had it’s source code readily available, and all people were taught the programming skills necessary to make the games work on whatever future computers we have. that way, even the most obscure games which don’t have a passionate fanbase can be ported, fixed and played for years to come.
which, obviously, is not something that’s doable, by GOG or by anyone else
Farm-state Republicans finally reach their breaking point
Farm-state Republicans finally reach their breaking point - E&E News by POLITICO
President Donald Trump's plan to import beef from Argentina has unleashed a wave of protest from GOP loyalists.Meredith Lee Hill (E&E News by POLITICO)
A Court Ordered New York State to Issue Major Climate Rules. What’s Next? “We have time to work it out,” Governor Kathy Hochul said.
A Court Ordered New York to Issue Major Climate Rules. What’s Next?
“We have time to work it out,” Governor Kathy Hochul said.New York Focus
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EU imports of Russian LNG up seven percent in first half of 2025, study finds
EU imports of Russian LNG up seven percent in first half of 2025, study finds
Liquid natural gas future demand in Europe is uncertain, but the continent continues to import LNG from both the US and Russia in high volumes.EUobserver
Wrist-Cut Transformation Subculture ✡ Menhera-chan - Capitolo 2
Menhera-chan si trova a combattere contro un mostro sputafuoco a forma di nuvola incazzata che, a caso, ha già fatto 2000 vittime da quando è
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in reply to utopiah • • •utopiah
in reply to CheeseNoodle • • •Oh he is absolutely pulling himself up from his bootstraps, his are just made out of emeralds.
Echo Dot
in reply to cyrano • • •Fortunately he isn't going to build a robot army. His cars can barely follow the road so I can't imagine his robots would present much in the way of of a threat, except quite possibly in the extent that they would stand on your foot although even then they'd probably fall over.
There has never been another individual who's ability and ego are so at odds
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in reply to cyrano • • •Brooks (Roomba, Baxter, MIT, etc) says it's sill not enough rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-hu…
If you skim through his piece, at least watch the 2x 30s videos, really drive the point IMHO.
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks
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in reply to cyrano • • •I learned some advisors at firms who usually follow Glass Lewis recommendations are taking unusual steps to request investor input specifically on Tesla.
Apparently enough passive investors are dissatisfied enough to want a direct say on Tesla.
It was interesting to learn about shareholder voting.
- Apparently, shareholders get a non-binding vote on executive pay due to say-on-pay legislation.
- The SEC carries juicy documents on shareholder voting proposals & letters to shareholders by other shareholders urging them how to vote.
Voting proposals from shareholders & their letters reveal great dissatisfaction with Tesla.
Major shareholders (investment groups, pension managers, state treasurers & comptrollers) wrote a scathing letter urging other shareholders to vote against directors up for re-election & to vote against proposals the company favors.
Their clarifications are interesting: they highlight issues with the conduct of the board & CEO
- declining company performance (sudden decline in sales) & waning competitiveness with rivals like BYD & other manufacturers
- board's lack of independence from CEO jeopardizes shareholder value
- board members are CEO, friends of CEO, or have served long tenures
- the CEO lacks focus on the stable, sustainable returns of the company & its shareholders while the board still awards him extraordinary pay packages & shares at discount
- has leadership roles in several companies
- leadership of US DOGE negatively impacted company’s performance & brand
- the CEO fails to focus the company's own resources on the company (diverting them to other companies), and the board "seems uninterested in getting concrete commitments from Mr. Musk, and unwilling to develop a CEO succession plan of their own"
- the board of directors is overpaid by earning 8 figure compensation when the "Average director compensation in the S&P 500 in 2024 was $327,096.13"
- the board ignores mandates from previous shareholder votes, and acts to weaken accountability (supermajority voting rules, not all board seats up for reelection each year) & erode shareholders rights (adopted a Texas law to increase requirements for shareholders to sue the board for breach of fiduciary duty prohibitively far above federal standards)
- their proposal for a $1 trillion award in shares to the CEO lacks stringent conditions
- undemanding product goals
- vague terms
- conditions open to board discretion
This SEC 14A filing lists all the proposals up for shareholder vote.
A good number of shareholder proposals the board opposes concern board accountability to shareholders
- assert shareholder rights: either repealing restrictions or safeguarding them from restrictions enabled by Texas that would disqualify the vast majority of shareholders from submitting proposals or suing the board for breach of fiduciary duties
- elect each director annually
- require only simple majority approvals.
The others concern better public reporting & oversight on senior executive pay & transparent audits on child labor dependence throughout the supply chain.
To promote an independent board of directors accountable to shareholders & to restore shareholder rights, I suspect Glass Lewis and ISS will vote against all board members & company-favored proposals and vote for all shareholder-favored proposals.
Seems about right to follow their recommendations & oppose Musk on this.
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in reply to cyrano • • •I just want this guy to die. Oh, I will be so happy when it happens.
And all the other ones as well.
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in reply to cyrano • • •LOL
Elmo Musk literally is not an engineer or even understands basic engineering. All the real world engineering done at his company is done by actual engineers
What is his part in all those processes at jos companies, you ask?
Lying.
Literally lying. Its the only talent that Mr. Elmo has. Its the one thing he constantly does, at levels comparable to Trump.
Most claims he makes about any of his companies products are just plain lies. Tesla full self driving? Not even close, and by now i wonder if they're actually capable of getting a Tesla off a parking lot without crashing it, let alone do a full cross country.
Same for SpaceX, where we definitely will go to Mars!never mind that reaching low earth orbit is about 1% of that task and he still can't do that without blowing up his starshits. Hey, at least they blew up a banana over the Indian ocean.
Wanna know what Elmo's contributions are?
Cyber truck.
Launching the car that was supposed to be for the founder of Tesla into low earth orbit just to he an asshole
The "idea" to use intercontinental ballistic rockets to transport people to the other side of the world "in 30 minutes". This one I really really really do want him to try because tickets are CEO only expensive and nothing would make me laugh more than a bunch of stealing assholes all paying a million or so to just blow up on the launchpad.
Talking about launchpads, remember that Florida launch with a starship with a boat load of engines that also ~~failed~~ was a complete success because "it left the launchpad" and anything beyond that was extras? Yeah, that launchpad was absolutely obliterated, cars parked various kilometers away got pelted by concrete debris, an ecological area got polluted, and the launchpad was left in rubble because Elmo decided that flame diverters, you know, those things used since like the sixties of the previous century really weren't necessary.
That is of course keeping in mind that he US tax payer paid 3 billion to take the US to the moon and well, that too is about at 1-2% mission completed, there is nothing remotely ready.
Do I even have to mention Hyperloop? "Its just another air hockey table, its not that hard!"
Meanwhile he keeps asking Tesla for a trillion dollars as well, even though he just got a gold package from Tesla that was light the highest payout in human history, even though Tesla makes a fraction of the cars that large brands make, ans even though he sent the extremely overvalued company (overvalued thanks to his constant lying about aaaalll the great things that are right there ready, just around the corner if you only pay me more money!!) right of a cliff with his Nazi antics combined with the laughable Nazirustbucket he designed..
This is the guy asking for just a trillion dollar bro, I will make this work, bro! TRUST ME!
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in reply to Tollana1234567 • • •As far as they can, that is
That rocket launch that obliterated a launchpad was Elmo's meddling, for example
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in reply to Cethin • • •Actually he doesn't. Most of his 'wealth' is Tesla shares already. Even if he could toss everything he has just toward controlling more of Tesla, and if the shareholders accepted it at current market value, he'd only have a third of the company.
Tesla is crazy over valued for a company that has only been able to be a car company that is in 14th place, yet assessed as being more valuable than all the 13 more successful car companies combined...
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in reply to Beej Jorgensen • • •Sociopathic Oligarchs have a serious form of OCD/ Hoarding Disorder, that makes them crave even more money, no matter how much they have.
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
But if they are hoarding money on a historically mind-blowing scale, they call them a successful businessman, and give them government grants and tax breaks.
Beej Jorgensen
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in reply to BarneyPiccolo • • •This is a common misconception.
“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.
If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.
Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.
But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.
In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.
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in reply to cyrano • • •Was there ever a hope that the customers buying the robots would control them?
MechaHitler controlled robot in my home or business is not a good marketing plan. Chinese companies are well ahead in robotics, and they have manufacturing customers, battery and motor research/leadership, lower bill of materials, plenty of AI skill. No reason to believe Tesla will be first or better.
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in reply to humanspiral • • •When has Musk ever been first or better? he even botched his penis.
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in reply to humanspiral • • •Musk has nothing to do with either. The roadster was in production before he even bought into Tesla.
All the early Tesla engineers had left to start other companies. Everything since has been shit. The semi , the Cybertruck, the new roadster...
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