Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.
Texas Says It’s Strict on Oil Field Emissions. New Data Shows It’s Not.
The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.ProPublica
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Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem
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Buoyed by AIPAC dollars, Wesley Bell pushes AIPAC lies
As local activist Ohun Ashe noted, it was “terrifying” that the town hall “felt dismissive to genocide, careless and end[ed] with police brutality.”
She added, “Genocide, capitalism, colonialism, abuse, oppression are all connected. We deserve leaders who can care about multiple things at once.”
AIPAC made sure that is no longer the case.
Buoyed by AIPAC dollars, Wesley Bell pushes AIPAC lies
Lawmaker's anti-genocide constituents attacked by “security” at town hall.The Electronic Intifada
Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt | 404 Media
Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt
A listing on ultra-fast-fashion e-commerce site Shein used an AI-generated image of Luigi Mangione to sell a floral button-down t-shirt.Mangione—the prime suspect in the December 2024 murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson—is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, last I checked, and is not modeling for Shein.
I first saw the Mangione Shein listing on the culture and news X account Popcrave, which posted the listing late Tuesday evening.
Shein’s website appears to use Luigi Mangione’s face to model a spring/summer shirt. pic.twitter.com/UPXW8fEPPq
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 3, 2025
Shein removed the listing on Wednesday, but someone saved it on the Internet Archive before Shein took it down. "The image in question was provided by a third-party vendor and was removed immediately upon discovery," Shein told Newsweek in a statement. "We have stringent standards for all listings on our platform. We are conducting a thorough investigation, strengthening our monitoring processes, and will take appropriate action against the vendor in line with our policies." Shein provided the same comment to 404 Media.The item, sold by the third-party brand Manfinity, had the description “Men's New Spring/Summer Short Sleeve Blue Ditsy Floral White Shirt, Pastoral Style Gentleman Shirt For Everyday Wear, Family Matching Mommy And Me (3 Pieces Are Sold Separately).”
The Manfinity brand makes a lot of Shein stuff using AI-generated models, like these gym bros selling PUSH HARDER t-shirts and gym sweats and this very tough guy wearing a “NAH, I’M GOOD” tee. AI-generated models are all over Shein, and seems especially popular with listings featuring babies and toddlers. AI models in fashion are becoming more mainstream; in July, Vogue ran advertisements for Guess featuring AI-generated women selling the brand’s summer collection.
Last year, artists sued Shein, alleging the Chinese e-commerce giant scraped the internet using AI and stole their designs, and it’s been well-documented that fast fashion sites use bots to identify popular themes and memes from social media to put them on their own listings. Mangione merch and anything related to the case—including remixes of the United Healthcare logo and the “Deny, Defend, Depose” line allegedly found on the bullet—went wild in the weeks following Thompson’s murder; Manfinity might have generated what seemed popular on social media (Mangione’s smiling face) and automatically put it on a shirt listing. Based on the archived listing, it worked: A lot of people managed to grab a limited edition Shein Luigi Ditsy Floral before it was removed: According to the archived version of the listing, it was sold out of all sizes except for XXL.
Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet
Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow
‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow
Russian national who applied for asylum on political grounds describes inhumane treatment while in US custodyPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
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Osserva con l‘Inaf l’eclissi totale di Luna
Osserva con l‘Inaf l’eclissi totale di Luna
Domenica 7 settembre la Luna si tingerà di rosso: sarà possibile seguire l’evento insieme alle ricercatrici e ai ricercatori dell’Istituto nazionale di astrofisica attraverso la diretta speciale di EduInaf, su YouTube e Facebook, dalle ore 19:15.Redazione Media Inaf (MEDIA INAF)
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With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void
While facial recognition technology is unregulated at the federal level, 23 states have now passed or expanded laws to restrict the mass scraping of biometric data, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Last month, Colorado enacted new biometric privacy rules, requiring consent before facial or voice recognition technology is used, while also banning the sale of the data. Texas passed an artificial intelligence law in June that similarly outlaws the collection of biometric data without permission. Last year, Oregon approved data privacy rules requiring consumer opt-in before companies hoover up face, eye and voice data.
"What we need are laws that change the behavior of technology companies," Adam Schwartz, the privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Otherwise these companies will continue to profit on what should be our private information."
Not all state laws give people right to sue tech companies
The states that have passed the safeguards view them as a defense against the prevalence of digital tracking in everyday lives, and in a number of cases, the laws have been used to extract large payouts from tech companies.
Google and Meta have each paid Texas $1.4 billion over allegations that the companies datamine users' facial recognition data without permission; Clearview AI, a facial recognition company popular with law enforcement, ponied up $51 million to settle a case approved in March over the firm scraping billions of facial images online without consent; And in July, Google resolved a smaller case for $9 million in Illinois after a lawsuit alleged the company did not obtain written consent from students who used a Google educational tool that collected their voice and facial data.
Illinois's requirement that companies receive written permission before gathering biometric data goes farther than most states, which require digital consent — or checking a box for a company's terms and conditions policy, something experts say is a largely symbolic gesture in practice.
"I'm not saying it's better than nothing, but if you're hanging these legal frameworks on a model of informed consent, it's clearly ineffective," said Michael Karanicolas, a legal scholar at Dalhousie University in Canada who studies digital privacy. "Nobody is reading these terms of service. Absolutely nobody can effectively engage with the permission we're giving these companies in our surveillance economy."
Karanicolas said Illinois' biometric privacy law, which was passed in 2008, has real teeth because it allows individuals to sue companies, which privacy advocates say the tech industry has lobbied hard against. California and Washington state allow residents to sue in some types of cases.
But most of the laws, like in Texas, Oregon, Virginia and Connecticut and elsewhere, rely on state attorneys general to enforce them. Advocates say allowing citizens to sue, what's known as "a private right of action," helps people fight back against data-guzzling companies.
"And that can lead to these big class-action settlements, and there are legitimate critiques of them, with class members often getting very little money, and lawyers getting rich, but they can be genuinely effective at shaping companies' attitudes about personal information and generate corporate change," Karanicolas said.
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Fediverse Iconography
Found on mastodon here: pc.cafe/@fedicat/1151381418119…
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Fediverse Iconography
Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.Codeberg.org
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well, to me its part of the fediverse if it uses activitypub. You can bridge whatsapp, telegram and mastodon with matrix and a minecraft server, that doesnt make them be a part of the matrix protocol or the fediverse.
Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts
Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts
Canadian wildfire has quadrupled since the 1990s. That’s releasing billions of tonnes of CO2. The climate beast is waking up. When will we?Canada's National Observer
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Musicians v the climate crisis: ‘We’re trying to put on the greenest show in Australia’
Musicians v the climate crisis: ‘We’re trying to put on the greenest show in Australia’
A two-week tour produces the equivalent of an average household’s yearly carbon emissions. So some bands, including Lime Cordiale and Cloud Control, are trying small changes – like ditching confetti – and big ones – like building solar farmsJack Tregoning (The Guardian)
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The band also provided venues with a “green rider”, requesting measures including eliminating single-use plastics
Again, not saying they're perfect, but feels like they're trying.
‘RIP Streameast’: Largest Illicit Sports Streamer Is Shut Down
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Halting Revolution Wind could be a disaster for New England’s grid; If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity
Halting Revolution Wind could be a disaster for New England’s grid
If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.Canary Media
Global methane levels continue rising as trade and developing regions fuel growth
Global methane levels continue rising as trade and developing regions fuel growth
The world's methane emissions continue to rise steadily with no signs of slowing, as global trade contributes some 30% to the total amount of the greenhouse gas swirling around the planet, a new study reveals.University of Birmingham (Phys.org)
China accounted for most of the growth, installing more than twice as much solar in the first half of this year as it did in early 2024. The U.S., by comparison, saw solar installations rise by just 4 percent.Through its exports of low-cost solar panels, China also drove growth in India and across much of Africa, the analysis found. Over the last 12 months, solar exports to the African continent rose by 60 percent, according to Ember. Fulghum said that for countries contending with a volatile fossil fuel market, solar has become an attractive option.
This year China has added twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined, the analysis found, though the country is now at a crossroads. For the first time in China, solar isn’t just supplementing coal power, but replacing it.
US job openings slip to 7.2 million in July, more evidence the American labor market is cooling
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/50935982
The U.S. job market has lost momentum this year, partly because of the lingering effects of 11 interest rate hikes by the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023 and partly because President Donald Trump’s trade wars have created uncertainty that is paralyzing managers making hiring decisions.
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DOJ & States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Act of Judicial Cowardice, Letting Google Keep Its Monopoly Power
DOJ & States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Act of Judicial Cowardice, Letting Google Keep Its Monopoly Power - DOJ & States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Act of Judicial Cowardice, Letting Google Keep Its Monopoly Power
Despite finding last year that Google illegally maintained a monopoly over search and search advertising, Judge Amit Mehta today declined to follow the law and terminate the monopoly.Jimmy Wyderko (American Economic Liberties Project)
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[PDF] Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes chatted inappropriately with teen accounts on topics like sex and drugs
Most American teens (72%) have had an experience with an AI chatbot, and over
half use them several times a month. Character AI, one of the largest and most
popular chatbot platforms, is available to children ages 13 and over. The platform
hosts a wide variety of chatbots modeled after celebrities and fictional characters
that appeal to children – both teens and younger kids. Several disturbing and
tragic cases of extreme harm due to interactions on Character AI chatbots have
already occurred since the company’s launch in September of 2022. As chatbots
become more popular with children and teens, understanding the risks they
present is critical to child safety online.Adult researchers from ParentsTogether Action, in partnership with Heat Initiative,
held 50 hours of conversation with Character AI chatbots using accounts
registered to children. They found that Character AI chatbots engaged in a pattern
of deeply concerning behaviors during these interactions. Harmful patterns and
behaviors sometimes emerged within minutes of engagement.Across 50 hours of conversation with 50 Character AI bots, ParentsTogether
Action researchers logged 669 harmful interactions - an average of one harmful
interaction every five minutes.
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
3 Sep 2025
Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting, and fearless opposition. We all deserve betterMehdi Hasan (The Guardian)
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It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35624613
3 Sep 2025
Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
3 Sep 2025Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting, and fearless opposition. We all deserve betterMehdi Hasan (The Guardian)
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5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.The Conversation
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Brazil’s Amazon love motels ditch erotic decor to host Cop30 climate summit | In Belém, motels known for sex chairs and mirrored ceilings are stripping risqué features for climate negotiators
Brazil’s Amazon love motels ditch erotic decor to host Cop30 climate summit
In Belém, motels known for sex chairs and mirrored ceilings are stripping risqué features for climate negotiatorsTom Phillips (The Guardian)
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.Patrick Maguire (CBS News)
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Anagrammi nel Fediverso
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Trump’s Anti-Climate Crusade Puts Big Oil in Awkward Spot: Exxon, Chevron and Occidental have pledged to curb their emissions—and unveiled plans to spend billions of dollars on low-carbon technologies
The oil industry's decarbonization efforts were always just for show, and not anything serious. They also paid a billion dollars to get Trump to do exactly this, so I doubt they care much about how awkward their lobbyists look.
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"Will nobody think of the oil companies?"
They'll just pocket the money and keep on killing us. They're also the ones behind the MAGA war on climate science and renewable energy.
China’s chip startups are racing to replace Nvidia
China chip startups race to replace Nvidia amid U.S. export bans - Rest of World
Chinese semiconductor startups like Cambricon, Moore Threads, and Biren are racing to rival Nvidia as U.S. export controls reshape the AI chip market.Viola Zhou (Rest of World)
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There's been a whole exodus of scientists leaving US for China already. The US citizenship isn't worth all that much nowadays. Not only that, but most of the scientists working on advanced chips aren't in the US in the first place. They're in China, Taiwan, and Korea. Mainland China alone already has surpassed the US both in quantity and quality of semiconductor research. The thing to understand is that China is a nation of 1.4 billion people, this is more people than all of the west combined. On top of that, China has excellent education system that's not structured on pay to play basis. Chinese .
I'm also not sure what you're referring to regarding Ukraine to be honest. If anything, Ukraine clearly showed that Russian military is far ahead of NATO in pretty much every regard. I have no idea where you got the notion that Ukraine is successfully targeting anything. The reason Ukraine war is lasting this long is because Russia is focusing on systematically destroying the AFU and their will to fight. Russian method of warfare is fundamentally different from the west.
i would expect that the american gov’t would be watching the whereabouts of all microelectronic industry leaders/engineers closely
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and graphene would be a game changer, but only if it makes it to scale or else it become too little too late like the jet & rockets engines and nuclear weapons were for the nazi’s.
Too late for what exactly, I have no idea what you mean here? China is already ahead of the US in practical uses of AI, and China is positioned to scale AI tech unlike the US because it has the resources to do so. The US has already lost, and now it's going to be sucked into a race that's going to strained the remaining resources it has.
Tech war: China leads US in quantity, quality of semiconductor research, report finds
Chinese scholars published 160,852 semiconductor-related papers from 2018 to 2023, more than the next three ranked countries combined.Iris Deng (South China Morning Post)
The ever expanding great scientist Exodus list
- Li Hanfeng
- Hu Yijuan
- Yi Shouliang
- Xie Yimin
- Shang Rui
- Wang Zhonglin
- Guo-Jun Qi
- Ma Donghan and Ma Dongxin
- Xie Xiaoliang
- Sun Huanbo
- Charles Lieber
- Chen Jing
- Li Yongxi
- She Yiyuan
- Pan Linfeng
- Andrew Yao
- Terence Tao
- Joshua Zahl
- Zhong Xiao
- Chen Min and shen jie
- huaxin lin
- wang xujia
- ma xiaonan
- kenji fukaya
- Sun song
- Sun xin
- Vladimir Markovic
- Guo zaiping
- Dang yang and mu ming poo
- Sun Nan
- Duan luming
- Chen Zhoufeng
- Nieng Yan
- Sun shao cong
- Quan Guocong
- Yuriy Semenov
- Zhang chengqi
- Lu wei
- Yau Shing-Tung
- Zhang Yaqin
- Ronald eils and Irina Lehmann
- Giorgio Parisi
- Liu chang
- Chen Hudong
- Julian cheng
- Wang jing
- Niu Fenglin
- Wang Xujia
- Zhang Yonghao
- Chen deliang
- Gérard Mourou
- Feng Gensheng
- Zhou Ming
- Zhang Yitang
- Shan Liang
- Cao Ting
- Mohd Rizal Arshad
- Luo Weiwei
- Dong Sijia
Rising academic star who left US for China’s ‘unprecedented’ opportunities dies aged 33
News of marine scientist Dong Sijia’s death emerged in a journal and there has been no official word from her university.Dannie Peng (South China Morning Post)
The US citizenship isn’t worth all that much nowadays.
I'm making significantly less than I did when I lived in the US, yet financially more comfortable to the point I can splurge and get the equivalent of a $1700 smartphone (Honor Magic V5).
Shame getting rid of the citizenship isn't as easy as leaving. Luckily though I make less than half the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion limit that I don't owe any taxes.
Google plans to block side-loading like Apple, declaring war on Android freedom
Google plans to block side-loading like Apple, declaring war on Android freedom | Tuta
Starting 2027, unverified apps can’t be side-loaded on Android. It’s fair to say that Google is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.Tuta
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How to protect US students from heat in schools – and is it time to rethink summer break? US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperatures
How to protect US students from heat in schools – and is it time to rethink summer break?
US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperaturesMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
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In my opinion, school holidays should be rescheduled to coincide with the best periods for outdoor activities (for example, here in europe I'd prefer the summer holiday to be in June which is cooler than July but with longer daylight hours). While for both extreme hot or cold (and dark) periods, it’s better that kids are gathered in a coolable / warmable institutional building, than assume that all parents can provide such a space for the whole day.
Current school holiday patterns date from 19th century traditions, when kids helped with planting in april and harvest in august, change is long overdue.
Misconfigured Server Leaks 378GB of Navy Federal Credit Union Files
Internal Backup Files of Credit Union Serving Armed Forces Exposed in Data Breach
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler found exposed Navy Federal Credit Union backups, potentially putting 378GB+ records at risk.Jeremiah Fowler (WebsitePlanet)
Do People Really Want Humanoid Robots in Their Homes?
Home Humanoid Robots Survey Reveals Surprising Preferences
Investors are pouring billions into humanoid robots, but do people actually want them in their homes?Maya Cakmak (IEEE Spectrum)
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Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
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VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz. These tokenizers efficiently preserve audio fidelity while significantly boosting computational efficiency for processing long sequences. VibeVoice employs a next-token diffusion framework, leveraging a Large Language Model (LLM) to understand textual context and dialogue flow, and a diffusion head to generate high-fidelity acoustic details. The model can synthesize speech up to 90 minutes long with up to 4 distinct speakers, surpassing the typical 1-2 speaker limits of many prior models.
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US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files
Files appear to contain information already in public domain as calls grow for release of all pertinent documents
The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the department of justice.
The release comes as the Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was alleged to have abused hundreds of girls.
The 33,000 pages included years-old court filings related to Epstein and his former girlfriend and associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as what appears to be bodycam footage from police searches and police interviews. The files appear to contain information that is already public knowledge.
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Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.Patrick Maguire (CBS News)
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Podcast of Hegseth church network airs far-right and Christian nationalist views
CrossPolitic has in recent weeks hosted pastors who have opposed liberal democracy and pushed authoritarian ideas
The flagship podcast of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), the Christian denomination that claims US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, as a member, has functioned as a platform for the promotion of Christian nationalist and other far-right positions.
CrossPolitic, whose hosts are close associates of Idaho-based pastor Douglas Wilson, has in recent weeks hosted a theocratic Canadian pastor who has called for his country to be absorbed by the United States, and a self-styled “patriot professor” who has backed the rise of Russia and China and the decline of liberal democracies and endorsed the criminalization of homosexuality in Uganda.
The podcast’s themes and guests, and the prestige of its hosts in CREC circles, raise further questions about the extent to which Hegseth’s views on US foreign and defense policy have been shaped by a religious movement that directly opposes liberal democracy and democratic principles including individual women’s suffrage.
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windows cercante nell’intera galassia tranne il dove mi serve
Guarda se non bisogna bestemmiare già a prima mattina… poi dicono che la colpa è mia che mi incazzo, e non di Windows che ce la mette tutta per far perdere la pazienza! Ma è possibile che io premo Start sulla tastiera per cercare app, e inizio a digitare “f” perché voglio avviare il mio […]
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windows cercante nell’intera galassia tranne il dove mi serve
Guarda se non bisogna bestemmiare già a prima mattina… poi dicono che la colpa è mia che mi incazzo, e non di Windows che ce la mette tutta per far perdere la pazienza! Ma è possibile che io premo Start sulla tastiera per cercare app, e inizio a digitare “f” perché voglio avviare il mio fottuto browser web, e questo affare mi propone come “migliore corrispondenza“ in cima alla lista non le mie app tra cui Firefox, bensì due risultati da Bing, tra cui il primo è Facebook, ma il secondo è fottutamente Firefox… ma come ricerca web, e non come applicazione da lanciare, che è ancora più sotto??? Cioè, secondo lui è più probabile che io stia cercando per il concetto di Firefox attraverso il web, che non per il fottuto eseguibile residente su disco da avviare per l’applicazione rappresentata da quel nome??? 😭😭😭
Ora, a dire la verità, questa merdata sembra farla solo dopo un riavvio, perché, se adesso o più tardi ci riprovo, la sezione app è in cima, e quindi Firefox è immediatamente selezionato (così come altre app che iniziano con “f” ma continuano diversamente), mentre i risultati di ricerca completamente inutili di Bing sono più in fondo… E sarebbe una cosa che giustificherei pure, se fosse dovuta al fatto che, non lo so, subito dopo il riavvio non fa in tempo a caricarsi la cache delle app installate, e quindi lui va sparato con la ricerca pur di evitare di mostrare un caricamento… e invece non è così, perché le app sono apparse in questo caso, il problema è che sono apparse sotto. E ovviamente, non so quante volte ho frugato nelle impostazioni, ma non c’è un cazzo di modo per disattivare la ricerca web attraverso questa casella di merda, così da farla funzionare, non dico molto, ma come il menu Start di qualsiasi altro sistema operativo desktop degno di questa Terra!!! (Come GNOME, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, solo file ed applicazioni, e #mannaggia!) Ma ci sarà una soluzione che non sia installare OpenShell, per caso? 💔#Bing #Mannaggia #UX #Windows #Windows10
Basic Glitch
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Me, being exploited every time I leave my house and barely able to pay my bills while a $10B Meta data factory the size of Manhattan is receiving corporate welfare and being built in my unregulated state:
Even if there's no big payoff for individuals, privacy is privacy and money is money. My preference would be no exploitation, but fighting the state and private corporations as an individual is a losing battle (especially right now). I'm very surprised there's not already somebody trying to get the city or state to actually adopt a Facial Recognition tech ban.
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in reply to LibertyLizard • • •Banning private companies should keep police from having a source to buy from.
But that’s not enough.
LibertyLizard
in reply to paraphrand • • •xodoh74984
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •It's a step in the right direction, but reserving the right to sue companies that collect and share our most sensitive personal information and whereabouts is not enough. It is a cost of doing business to them to be weighed against the potential for profit. This line of thinking is now taught in business schools.
Nothing will change materially until the executives are faced with the potential of jail time.