‘Petty and unserious’: Padilla blasts Vance for calling him ‘Jose Padilla’
Sen. Alex Padilla snapped back at JD Vance Saturday, calling him “petty and unserious” after Vance referred to the senator as “Jose” during a press conference in Los Angeles the previous evening.
The squabble between Padilla and Vance is the latest clash between Trump administration officials and California Democrats as hostilities brew over Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration in the city, which has seen numerous ICE sweeps and significant counterprotests in recent weeks.
“He knows my name,” Padilla told MSNBC Saturday morning. “Look, sadly it’s just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. He’s the vice president of the United States. You’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/alex-padilla-jd-vance-fight-00416393
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Jack Matlock: Superpower Illusions - Reviving the Cold War
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How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/40679506
So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board.
And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time.
One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!!
going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it
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Inheritance tax referendum spooks Swiss super-rich
Inheritance tax referendum spooks Swiss super-rich
Bankers and lawyers warn of exodus ahead of public vote on 50 per cent rate for the very wealthyMercedes Ruehl (Financial Times)
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Feature suggestion: built-in visibilitychange blocker
This needs to be a native feature due to its importance. Guess which browser had visibilitychange first. Quoum.
Visibilitychange is one of the many anti-features invented by Google. Mainly used to block background playback.
Document: visibilitychange event - Web APIs | MDN
The visibilitychange event is fired at the document when the contents of its tab have become visible or have been hidden.MDN Web Docs
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Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
The real revolution isn’t artificial intelligence — it’s redefining our purpose and ourselves.Kim Carson (Long Now)
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
The real revolution isn’t artificial intelligence — it’s redefining our purpose and ourselves.Kim Carson (Long Now)
Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models
Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Multimodal large language models are shown to develop object concept representations similar to those of humans.Nature
The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/41958593
Add yours here: metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-ou…thanks Mike Taylor for the inspiration
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NFC will work from further away to improve 'reliability' in tap to pay and more
NFC is an increasingly useful technology in the modern world, and now it’s getting a range boost as the standard will now operate at 2cm away, nearly four times the previous requirement in a change aimed at improving the reliability of actions such as tap to pay.
NFC will work from further away to improve ‘reliability’ in tap to pay and more
NFC is an increasingly useful technology in the modern world, and now it’s getting a range boost as the standard...Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly firedGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Your Rock Concerts Recommendations
hey gang! do you have any recommendations for concerts available on the high seas? don't have to be rock per se, whatever rocks your boat... here are mine!
edit: well, that didn't go as planned. I thought it's obvious I'm looking for a) the video kind and b) they're available via torrents and such. I've added a few of the suggestions to my *arr stack and so far there isn't a single seed to be found.
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Smashing Pumpkins 1996-05-15 at Brixton Academy, London
It starts off kind of low-energy and then for whatever reason about halfway through they just start blasting it.
सोशल मीडिया धमकी: हिमाचल पुलिस ने डिप्टी सीएम और विधायक को धमकी देने वाला युवक गिरफ्तार
Himachal News: हिमाचल पुलिस ने सोशल मीडिया धमकी मामले में एक युवक को गिरफ्तार किया है। उसने फेसबुक पर डिप्टी सीएम मुकेश अग्निहोत्री और गगरेट विधायक राकेश कालिया को धमकी दी थी। हरोली यूथ कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष शुभम जोशी की शिकायत पर हरोली थाने में एफआईआर दर्ज हुई। डीएसपी मोहन रावत ने बताया कि युवक इंजीनियरिंग स्नातक है। पुलिस ने उसे हिरासत में लेकर जांच शुरू की।
धमकी की शुरुआत
पुलिस के अनुसार, युवक ने गैंगस्टर अमरीश राणा की गिरफ्तारी पर फेसबुक पोस्ट के कमेंट में धमकी दी। उसने लिखा, “लोग फिर से तलवार मांग रहे हैं,” और जवाब में कहा, “इस बार इसका इस्तेमाल राजनेता पर होगा।” सोशल मीडिया धमकी ने स्थानीय लोगों में दहशत पैदा की। हरोली निवासी अरुण कुमार ने पुलिस को सूचित किया, जिसके बाद कार्रवाई हुई।
पुलिस की त्वरित कार्रवाई
डीएसपी हरोली मोहन रावत ने बताया कि शिकायत के आधार पर युवक की पहचान की गई। उसे सरेंडर करने को कहा गया, जिसके बाद वह हरोली थाने पहुंचा। पुलिस ने उसे हिरासत में लिया। सोशल मीडिया धमकी की जांच में पुलिस यह पता लगा रही है कि क्या इसके पीछे कोई साजिश है। हिमाचल पुलिस इस मामले में गहन छानबीन कर रही है।
युवक ने मांगी माफी
गिरफ्तारी के बाद युवक ने फेसबुक पर माफी मांगी। उसने “शार्प शूटर नबाही वाला” नाम के अकाउंट से कहा कि उसने गलत टिप्पणी की थी। हालांकि, पुलिस ने पहले ही एफआईआर दर्ज कर ली थी। सोशल मीडिया धमकी ने हिमाचल में राजनेताओं की सुरक्षा पर सवाल उठाए। पुलिस अब यह जांच रही है कि युवक का कोई आपराधिक संबंध तो नहीं।
जांच में गहराई
पुलिस यह पता लगा रही है कि युवक ने धमकी स्वतंत्र रूप से दी या किसी साजिश का हिस्सा था। उसका गैंगस्टर अमरीश राणा से कोई संबंध है या नहीं, इसकी भी जांच हो रही है। हिमाचल में ऐसी घटनाएं चिंता का विषय बनी हैं। पुलिस ने कहा कि वह इस मामले को गंभीरता से ले रही है और जल्द पूरी सच्चाई सामने आएगी।
Apology after threat to Himachal Dy CM on Facebook - The Tribune
A youth has apologised for making threatening comments on his Facebook page against Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri and Congress MLA Rakesh Kalia.Tribune News Service (The Tribune)
New "subguides" on my guide to Pocket alternatives
There are a lot of different types of people in the world. These 3 groups made sense to start with:
- Self-hosters: getoffpocket.com/self_hosted
- eReaders: getoffpocket.com/ereader
- Apple enthusiasts: getoffpocket.com/apple
Also, a first blog post with details on how to move to Wallabag: getoffpocket.com/blog/get-off-…
I hope these guides help!
Best Pocket Alternatives
Find the perfect Pocket alternative that works for you. Compare features, pricing, and hosting options.Get Off Pocket
Google releases Magenta RealTime, an open source AI model for live music creation
Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model
Magenta RealTimeToday, we’re happy to share a research preview of Magenta RealTime (Magenta RT), an open-weights live music model that allows you to interact...Magenta
Google releases Magenta RealTime, an open source AI model for live music creation
Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model
Magenta RealTimeToday, we’re happy to share a research preview of Magenta RealTime (Magenta RT), an open-weights live music model that allows you to interact...Magenta
FundMECFS
in reply to misk • • •This proposed tax only applies to the ultra ultra ultra rich. Like it only applies to about 2000 people in the entirety of switzerland, which is a billionaire haven.
Both chambers of Swiss parliament plus the executive branch rejected it by large margins (unsurprisingly, parliament has a bourgeois majority).
(Also this financial times article is ludicrously biased, but it’s the financial times so no suprises there…)