Tesla’s real struggles have only just begun
Trump’s budget bill could cost Tesla billions of dollars in credit sales. And Elon Musk’s promise to create a third political party is creating its own headaches.
Ted Cruz Denies Flash Flooding in Texas Was Caused by Weather Manipulation
"Look, the Internet can be a strange place," Cruz said.
How did Israel manage to avoid being expelled from Eurovision? | The whole story behind it
How did Israel manage to avoid being expelled from Eurovision? | The whole story behind it - Eurovision News | Music | Fun
Israel narrowly avoids exclusion from Eurovision during the EBU General Assembly in London. Key players, backstage insights, and what lies ahead for Eurovision 2026.Giannis Argyriou (Eurovision News | Music | Fun)
Georgia Librarian Fired After Displaying Book Featuring Transgender Child
“The library is for everybody,” said the Pierce County library manager, who had served for 15 years before her firing.
Provision in Trump Budget Law Subsidizes Private Jet Owners Amid Climate Crisis
Analysts say private jet owners will be able to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase.
Trump Dodges Questions on Texas Floods, NWS Cuts, Claiming He “Can’t Hear” Reporter
Several National Weather Service offices in Texas are considerably understaffed.
[Opinion] Amid Gaza’s Devastated Infrastructure, Donkey Carts Function as Ambulances
Protecting donkeys helps protect the people who depend on them to survive the ongoing crisis, says a Gaza veterinarian.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/truthout.org…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
[Announcement] Secrets of the Atlas Fan Art Competition
It's been a while since we've had a fan art competition for community artists, so we're very excited to bring it back! We're launching a fan art competition themed around the Secrets of the Atlas expansion and everything introduced in it. The prize pool includes Path of Exile merchandise and in-game microtransactions.
Prizes
Top Three Winners
- Forum avatar based on the winning submission
- Path of Exile 1 Art Book
- Your choice of one signed Path of Exile poster
- Your choice of two Path of Exile T-shirts
- Chaos Orb Socks
- A random Path of Exile Pin
- Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
- Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
- Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)
4-5th Place
- Path of Exile 1 Art Book
- Your choice of one Path of Exile T-shirt
- Chaos Orb Socks
- A random Path of Exile Pin
- Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
- Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
- Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)
6-10th Place
- Your choice of one Path of Exile T-shirt
- Chaos Orb Socks
- A random Path of Exile Pin
- Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
- Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)
11-20th Place
- Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
Runners-Up
- Your choice of a Helmet/Helmet Effect (a Helmet/Helmet Effect from the list below)
Microtransaction Prize Pool
::: spoiler List of Armour Sets
- Arcane Armour Pack
- Alabaster Seraph Pack
- Arctic Crystal Armour Pack
- Automaton Armour Pack
- Black Armour Pack
- Bleached Demon King Armour Pack
- Blood Guard Armour Set
- Carnage Armour Pack
- Coldsnap Armour Pack
- Coliseum Armour Pack
- Corsair Armour Set
- Darkprism Armour Pack
- Deicide Armour Pack
- Demon Parasite Armour Set
- Deepwater Armour Pack
- Desert Armour Pack
- Dragon Armour Pack
- Elven Knight Armour Pack
- Elite Armour Pack
- Executioner Armour Pack
- Extinction Armour Set
- Faith Guard Armour Set
- Fallen Angel Armour Pack
- Fire Armour Pack
- Gargoyle Armour Set
- Ghostflame Armour Pack
- Gloom Armour Pack
- Gore Armour Pack
- Gorgon Armour Pack
- Gothic Armour Pack
- Gryffon Armour Pack
- Harpyon Armour Pack
- Heartseeker Armour Pack
- Huntsman Armour Set
- Ice Armour Pack
- Innocence Armour Pack
- Ivory Chaos Armour Pack
- Lightning Armour Pack
- Lunaris Armour Pack
- Mageguard Armour Set
- Malachai Armour Pack
- Merchant Armour Pack
- Miracle Armour Set
- Mystic Armour Set
- Necrotic Armour Pack
- Obsidian Seraph Pack
- Project Armour Pack
- Pure Light Armour Pack
- Purple Crystal Armour Pack
- Purple Pyre Knight Armour Pack
- Pyre Knight Armour Pack
- Radiant Armour Pack
- Raven Armour Pack
- Ringmaster Armour Set
- Scientist Armour Pack
- Seawitch Armour Pack
- Sin Armour Pack
- Sphinx Armour Pack
- Steam-powered Armour Pack
- Stormcaller Armour Pack
- Ultimate Chaos Armour Pack
- Vampiric Armour Pack
- Verdant Armour Pack
- Viper Armour Set
- Warlock Armour Pack
- Wasteland Armour Set
- Wasteland Warrior Armour Pack
- White Armour Pack
- Wrangler Armour Set
:::
::: spoiler List of Portal Effects
- Arcane Portal
- Arcane Voidgate Portal Effect
- Arctic Crystal Portal Effect
- Arctic Portal Effect
- Automaton Portal
- Balefire Portal Effect
- Black Portal Effect
- Corsair Portal
- Daresso Portal Effect
- Darkprism Portal Effect
- Demon King Portal Effect
- Divine Arcane Portal
- Divine Demon King Portal
- Divine Stygian Portal Effect
- Dreadspire Portal Effect
- Fire Portal Effect
- Frost Viking Portal Effect
- Ghostflame Stygian Portal Effect
- Golden Angel Portal
- Gore Portal Effect
- Havenwood Portal
- Huntsman Portal
- Infernal Demon King Portal
- Infernal Stygian Portal Effect
- Innocence Portal
- Kaom Portal Effect
- Kraken Portal Effect
- Legion Portal Effect
- Madcap Portal
- Malachai Portal Effect
- Maraketh Portal
- Miracle Portal
- Mist Portal Effect
- Myrmidon Portal Effect
- Mystic Portal
- Necrotic Demon King Portal
- Project Portal Effect
- Pure Light Portal Effect
- Ringmaster Portal Effect
- Scientist Portal Effect
- Seraph Portal Effect
- Spectre Portal Effect
- Steam-powered Portal Effect
- Stormcaller Stygian Portal Effect
- Sulphite Portal
- Temple Portal Effect
- Vampiric Portal
- Wasteland Portal
- Wild Portal
:::
::: spoiler List of Helmets and Helmet Effects
- Abyss Eyes
- Antlers
- Apocalypse Helmet Attachment
- Aquila Crest Helmet Attachment
- Arcane Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
- Arcane Halo
- Arcane Mark of the Phoenix
- Arcane Visage
- Arctic Crown
- Arctic Skull
- Assassin Halo Helmet Attachment
- Assassin Seer Helmet Attachment
- Aureate Halo
- Automaton Halo
- Bent Horns
- Black Headband
- Black Pirate Bandana
- Bleached Skull Helmet
- Blood Guard Helmet Attachment
- Brilliant Crown
- Brilliant Feathers
- Cephalopod Tricorne
- Chaos Orb Helmet
- Coliseum Helmet Attachment
- Corrupted Skull
- Cow Skull
- Curved Horns
- Darkprism Helmet Attachment
- Demon King Horns
- Despair Helmet Attachment
- Divine Ice Crown
- Divine Sign
- Divine Skull
- Dragon Mask
- Druidic Helmet
- Eye Patch
- Faith Guard Helmet Attachment
- Fiery Eyes
- Fiery Visage
- Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
- Flambeau Helmet
- Frost Viking Alternate Helmet
- Frost Viking Helmet Attachment
- Ghostflame Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
- Ghostflame Skull
- Glowing Red Eyes
- Glorious Helmet
- Gore Skull
- Gorgon Snakes Helmet Attachment
- Guardian Mask
- Harmonious Helmet Attachment
- Harmonious Hood
- Holy Eyes
- Ice Crown
- Ice Horns
- Incursion Hood
- Infernal Skull
- Innocence Laurel Helmet Attachment
- Iron Brand
- Iron Maiden
- Lightning Eyes
- Lightning Skull
- Mark of the Phoenix
- Medusa Snakes
- Misery Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
- Misery Helmet Attachment
- Nightfall Helmet Attachment
- Oriath Helmet Attachment
- Oshabi's Headdress
- Phoenix Helmet
- Plague Doctor Helmet
- Purple Divine Sign
- Purple Eyes
- Purple Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
- Purple Skull Helmet
- Purple Smoking Hood
- Rapture Helmet Attachment
- Red Headband
- Red Pirate Bandana
- Rose Skull
- Serrated Mohawk
- Shardcrown
- Sin and Innocence Helmet Attachment
- Sin Talon Helmet Attachment
- Skull Hood
- Smoking Hood
- Spirit Charm
- Steam-powered Skull
- Suffering Helmet Attachment
- Sunrise Helmet Attachment
- Swan Crest Helmet Attachment
- Thorned Skull
- Twilight Helmet Attachment
- Twisted Bone Horns
- Twisted Horns
- Undead Outcast Helmet
- Vaal Orb Helmet
- Wasteland Horns
:::
How to Enter
Create still art that is inspired by anything introduced in the Secrets of the Atlas expansion. This excludes video submissions but does include any painting, drawing or model creation. Then just submit your work in this thread.
Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged. Please note that the submission needs to be your own work and needs to have been created after the launch of the competition.
If you're unsure how to share an image on the forum, just follow these steps:
- Go to imgur.com
- Go to 'new post' and drag your images into the window.
- Once the image has been uploaded, right click it and click 'Copy image address'.
- Click reply to this post and paste the link into the window with
at the end.
- Click reply to this post and paste the link into the window with
- When you click 'post', your image should be displayed!
Conditions
- The competition starts at the time of this post and will end on Tuesday the 29th of July at 10PM PDT. Submissions made after this time will not be counted. We'll post the winners sometime in the following days.
- Any work that is submitted must be your own and must be created after the launch of this competition.
- AI generated art will not be accepted. We reserve the right to disqualify your entry if we believe that it is AI generated.
- Multiple submissions are welcome.
Best of luck to everyone who is participating in the competition!
Announcements - Secrets of the Atlas Fan Art Competition - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Ferrovie: Bruxelles contesta il passaggio di Gianpiero Strisciuglio da RFI a Trenitalia
Ferrovie: Bruxelles contesta il passaggio di Gianpiero Strisciuglio da Rfi a Trenitalia
La nomina violerebbe le normative Ue e italiane.Ferrovie.Info
Amid Gaza’s Devastated Infrastructure, Donkey Carts Function as Ambulances
Amid Gaza’s Devastated Infrastructure, Donkey Carts Function as Ambulances | Truthout
Protecting donkeys helps protect the people who depend on them to survive the ongoing crisis, says a Gaza veterinarian.Samantha Borek (Truthout)
The declining dollar faces more headwinds after posting worst first-half return in 52 years
The declining dollar faces more headwinds after posting worst first-half return in 52 years
The U.S. dollar faces a variety of headwinds heading into the second half of the year that could have important investing implications.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Bluesky’s latest update added more notification settings, as well as activity notifications to see whenever certain accounts have a new post.Richard Lawler (The Verge)
Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his “weekend project”, Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging iOS app that relies on Bluetooth mesh networks
Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has launched Bitchat, a new peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks.MacKenzie Sigalos (CNBC)
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk.Raksha Vasudevan (WIRED)
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk.Raksha Vasudevan (WIRED)
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Technology reshared this.
This is frightning, google giving law enforcement a list of users who did a particular keyword search.
I am glad it helped solve the murder case but it also implies that my search history when using google services will always be stored and can be shared without my permission.
Given that its almost impossible to not use google unless you want to be frustrated while trying to do basic stuff like email, searches etc. This basically mean every bit of data generated my anyone is permanently stored and its just about time until it will be searched for any useful stuff in case there is a situation like this again which there always will be.
Consider the people who were killed here also.
The first fire truck arrived at 2:47 am. By then, the inferno had shattered the windows and plumed the air with smoke. The stench of burning wood filled the neighborhood. When firefighters subdued the blaze enough to get in the front door, they found the small body of a child. Djiby’s daughter Khadija had been two months shy of her second birthday. Farther in sprawled Djiby himself and his 23-year-old wife, Adja.Next to Adja lay Djiby’s 25-year-old sister, Hassan. She’d only been living in the house for three months. Like Adja, she had dreamed of going back to school to study nursing. She died with her arms still wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter, Hawa Beye. Medical examiners would later conclude that all five died of smoke inhalation, airways coated in black soot, internal organs and muscles burnished “cherry-red” from the heat.
Kennedy Wants To Let Avian Flu Run Wild. What Could Go Wrong?
Kennedy Wants To Let Avian Flu Run Wild. What Could Go Wrong?
Instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should just let it spread through flocks!Susie Madrak (Crooks and Liars)
Epic reaches mystery settlement with Samsung days before new Galaxy phones
Epic reaches mystery settlement with Samsung days before new Galaxy phones
Epic Games has dropped all its claims against Samsung, saying it’s reached a settlement, days before Samsung is due to announce new phones at Samsung Unpacked.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Epic reaches mystery settlement with Samsung days before new Galaxy phones
Epic reaches mystery settlement with Samsung days before new Galaxy phones
Epic Games has dropped all its claims against Samsung, saying it’s reached a settlement, days before Samsung is due to announce new phones at Samsung Unpacked.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
[Aggiornamento F-Droid] ⟳ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:41:43 GMT: 1 apps added, 11 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
⟳ apt.izzysoft.de from Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:43:39 GMT updated on Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:41:43 GMT contains 1323 apps.
Added (1)
Torrent Search: search and download torrents from multiple sources
Updated (11)
Easter Eggs (version 65): Collections the Android release Easter Egg.
ETH & UZH canteens Zürich (version 34): Daily menu of the canteens of ETH & UZH.
APatch (version 11107): The patching of Android kernel and Android system
Transfer (version 305): A local file server Android app. Upload and download files over Wi-Fi
SoundCrowd (version 81): Music player with waveform support for music sets
Specifically Clementines (version 1010700): self hosted grocery shopping app
qBitController (version 22): Remotely control qBittorrent from any device
Bura (version 18): Modern weather app with graphs and thoughtful data visualization
Peristyle (version 880): Simple wallpaper manager app with Auto Wallpaper and Multi Folder support.
Capy Reader (version 1145): A smallish RSS reader
Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (version 9): Find out how mindful you are on a scale of 1 to 6
2025-07-07T17:52:07Z
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[Aggiornamento F-Droid] ⟳ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:41:43 GMT: 1 apps added, 11 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
⟳ apt.izzysoft.de from Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:43:39 GMT updated on Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:41:43 GMT contains 1323 apps.
Added (1)
- Torrent Search: search and download torrents from multiple sources
Updated (11)
- Easter Eggs (version 65): Collections the Android release Easter Egg.
- ETH & UZH canteens Zürich (version 34): Daily menu of the canteens of ETH & UZH.
- APatch (version 11107): The patching of Android kernel and Android system
- Transfer (version 305): A local file server Android app. Upload and download files over Wi-Fi
- SoundCrowd (version 81): Music player with waveform support for music sets
- Specifically Clementines (version 1010700): self hosted grocery shopping app
- qBitController (version 22): Remotely control qBittorrent from any device
- Bura (version 18): Modern weather app with graphs and thoughtful data visualization
- Peristyle (version 880): Simple wallpaper manager app with Auto Wallpaper and Multi Folder support.
- Capy Reader (version 1145): A smallish RSS reader
- Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (version 9): Find out how mindful you are on a scale of 1 to 6
2025-07-07T17:52:07Z
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Fonte: reddit.com/r/FDroidUpdates/com…
GitHub - prajwalch/TorrentSearch: A Material 3 design Android app to search and download torrents from multiple sources.
A Material 3 design Android app to search and download torrents from multiple sources. - prajwalch/TorrentSearchGitHub
AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios
AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios
"This is not just hallucinations. There's a very strategic kind of deception."Thomas Urbain (Fortune)
AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios
AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios
"This is not just hallucinations. There's a very strategic kind of deception."Thomas Urbain (Fortune)
I don't necessarily disagree with anything you just said, but none of that suggests that the LLM was "manipulated into this outcome by the engineers".
Two models disagreeing does not mean that the disagreement was a deliberate manipulation.
I'm definitely not saying this is a result of engineers' intentions.
I'm saying the opposite. That it was an emergent change tangential to any engineer goals.
Just a few days ago leading engineers found model preferences can be invisibly transmitted into future models when outputs are used as training data.
(Emergent preferences should maybe be getting more attention than they are.)
They've compounded in curious ways over the year+ since that happened.
Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.
bitchat/WHITEPAPER.md at main · permissionlesstech/bitchat
bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes. Contribute to permissionlesstech/bitchat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.
bitchat/WHITEPAPER.md at main · permissionlesstech/bitchat
bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes. Contribute to permissionlesstech/bitchat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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passatanza crostanzica non salvata ma perduta (il casino coi salvataggi su ACNH)
Ieri ho casualmente menzionato gli Animali Crostini? E dunque, per volere del solito mio destino contorsionista, oggi proprio a riguardo dei Crostini Animali scopro una cosa che a suo modo fa sicuramente ridere, anche se non è per nulla divertente. Ho aperto il gioco su Swiss, circa al volo, perché mi serviva un’immagine, per scrivere […]
Romania faces reckoning with Brussels over soaring budget deficit - 07.07.2025
BRUSSELS — Romania’s fledgling government is made up of the country’s most pro-European politicians, but that hasn’t stopped them citing Brussels as a key reason why they need to impose a drastic set of tax hikes and spending cuts to avert financial collapse.
For the past five years, Romania has been spending way beyond its means — in the words of new President Nicușor Dan, eating a large pizza while only paying for a medium-sized one — and has a projected budget deficit of around 9 percent of economic output this year, the highest in the European Union.
That record of poor fiscal management has provoked repeated reprimands from the European Commission, which Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan now says can no longer be ignored. This week, ministers from EU countries will vote to decide on a strict plan setting out exactly what Romania must now do to restore order to its public finances.
politico.eu/article/romania-re…
Romania faces reckoning with Brussels over soaring budget deficit
EU ministers will pile pressure on Bucharest to impose austerity measures and bring the deficit under control.Tim Ross (POLITICO)
EU more ready to punish a country for spending too much than for literally becoming an autocracy.
Ahhh neoliberalism.
What Happened When Five AI Models Fact-Checked Trump
President Donald Trump has presented himself as a strong champion and consistent supporter of artificial intelligence. Upon returning to the White House, one of his first acts was to issue an executive order to “sustain and enhance America’s dominance in AI.” On his second day in office, he announced the Stargate Project, calling it “the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.”The president has courted AI luminaries, most notably Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. His “big, beautiful budget bill” contains a provision prohibiting states from regulating AI over the next decade, in the hopes that this will help secure U.S. supremacy in the global AI race.
However, though Trump appears to support AI, that does not mean AI supports him, as our recent AI analysis of some of the president’s many questionable public statements shows.
To counter any inadvertent bias or systemic failures, we asked each of five leading AI models—OpenAI’s ChatGPT; Anthropic’s Claude; X/xAI’s Grok (owned by Elon Musk); Google’s Gemini; and Perplexity—to verify the president’s most oft-repeated claims or assertions. The systems are completely independent, with no known ideological filters and no revealed perspective biases among the model trainers. Statisticians would call this methodological verification a check for inter-rater reliability.
Artificial intelligence discredited all the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking the president with startling accuracy and objective rigor.
Across all questions, AI model responses disproving Trump’s claims or rejecting his assertions were always in the majority (i.e., 3 out of 5 responses or greater). All five models generated consistent responses firmly denying the claims in 16 of the 20 questions. In 15 of those consistently firm responses, all five AI models debunk the claims. (Note: Question 19 in the comprehensive analysis addresses the models’ lack of inherent bias against Trump and is one of those 16 responses, bringing the technical total down to 15 instead of 16.) But even those responses that we categorized as “less firm” partially refute Trump’s claims.
Consider the following sample of responses. Most questions with “less firm” responses have been included and are denoted by an asterisk.
What Happened When Five AI Models Fact-Checked Trump
President Donald Trump is an AI booster, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-authors Stephen Henriques and Steven Tian. So they thought it was fair to ask the leading chatbots to evaluate some of Trump’s frequently repeated claims.Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld (Yale Insights)
Transistor - A new KDE app for Internet radio
About this app:
This project grew out of my Advanced Radio Player widget.
Now it’s a full-fledged radio app.
Features:
- Create your own library where you can add your favorite stations
- Easily search and discover new radio stations
- Automatic recognition of tracks if is possible
- Adaptive application layout, compatible for small and large screens
Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review
Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review
Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)
ICE’s Penumbra of Abuse
ICE’s Penumbra of Abuse
I wanted to elaborate on some points Theda Skocpol addressed in her reader email this weekend about ICE and the supercharged ICE the new Trump budget law…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Qual è stata l’anticamera del nazismo? - Focus.it
Qual è stata l’anticamera del nazismo?
L'ideologia del nazismo deriva dalla Società Thule: incubatrice del partito nazionalsocialista tedesco credeva nel “compito divino” delle razze superiori.Focus.it
Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review
While this governmentwide review will cut only a small fraction of .gov websites, some agencies are making more drastic cuts to their online presence than others.
The Small Business Administration, for example, is planning to eliminate more than half of its total websites. SBA is shuttering websites for defunct pandemic aid programs, and is consolidating some small-business certification websites into MySBA Certifications, a one-stop shop for federal contracting certifications.
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to eliminate more than 7% of its websites. Among them, HHS plans to eliminate vaccines.cdc.gov, a website that tracks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s state-by-state investments “in achieving national immunization goals and sustaining high-vaccination coverage rates to prevent death and disability” from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Documents obtained by Federal News Network state that vaccines.cdc.gov “is no longer maintained.” HHS also plans to cut 18 webpages that are part of cancer.gov, but the main site would remain.
Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review
Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)
‘What are they hiding?’ Florida lawmakers shut out of Alligator Alcatraz
In a surprising and possibly unlawful act, five state legislators were denied entry Thursday into a taxpayer-funded migrant detention center deep in the Everglades, raising questions about what will happen behind the razor-wire fences that are being erected surrounding the controversial facility the state has named Alligator Alcatraz.
Armed only with state law and a growing list of humanitarian concerns, state Senators Shevrin Jones and Carlos Guillermo Smith, along with Representatives Anna V. Eskamani, Angie Nixon and Michele Rayner, arrived at the gates of the facility to conduct what they saw as a legally authorized inspection.
What they encountered instead was silence, locked doors and a bureaucratic wall. The state’s shifting justification for not letting them in — first a flat denial, then vague “safety concerns” — only fueled suspicions.
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