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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia


With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
in reply to BrikoX

That is not when they launched their AI. A link in that very link of yours goes to an article from August 2024 about Google’s AI overview being updated then:

tomsguide.com/computing/search…

It came out loooooong before March 2025 lol

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Ove…

AI Overviews was first introduced as part of Google's Search Generative Experience (SGE), which was unveiled at the Google I/O conference in May 2023.[1] In May 2024, the feature was rebranded as AI Overviews


Then there was months of crap like this:

politifact.com/article/2024/au…

Where “bugs” in meta, Google, etcs products all just so happened to not autocomplete for trump, pretended the assassination attempt was “misinformation”, returned pro Harris results if you searched for trump, and so on.

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in reply to FreedomAdvocate

AI Overviews is content taken from existing sites, AI Mode is content generate entirely by an LLM model (which article in this post talks about). PolitiFact in reference to Google talks about autofill search feature which predates "AI" since it was released in 2004.

If you want people to take your aguments seriously, don't mistort the facts to get your point across. Maybe Google fucked with their search algorithm or modified the weights to prefer some sources over others in the AI Overviews, but they couldn't fuck with AI Mode since it didn't exist then.




Louisiana governor asks for national guard deployment to New Orleans


Jeff Landry’s request comes as crime trends analyst says New Orleans has had fewest murders since 1970

The Donald Trump-supporting Republican governor of Louisiana has asked for national guard troops to be deployed to New Orleans and other cities through fiscal year 2026, saying Monday that the state needs help fighting crime and praising the president’s decision to send the military to Washington DC and Memphis.

Governor Jeff Landry asked for the Trump administration to support an extended deployment of 1,000 troops in a letter sent to the Pentagon’s top official, Pete Hegseth. It comes weeks after Trump suggested New Orleans could be one of his next targets for deploying the national guard to fight crime.

Preliminary data from the New Orleans police department shows that there had been 75 homicides so far in 2025 – including 14 who were killed on New Year’s Day when a terrorist aimed a truck attack on Bourbon Street. There were 124 homicides in 2024. In 2023, there were 193.


in reply to toomanypancakes

I have a playlist of songs that I can’t stop myself from singing along to. That usually helps a ton.


Raspberry witbier


Regular infusion mash, light belgian style witbier bill. Perle, IBU about 15. Wild forest raspberries in secondary, 200g/L. Yeast BLG201, our own.

OG 1057, final does not make much sense because with berries, but it's 1008.

Very pronounced spices, hops, and raspberries, balanced! Apparently, berries accentuated the hops. Slightly tart, dangerously drinkable. Well carbonated naturally under a month.

in reply to Alexander

So you just throw some berries in to secondary?

I will finally make my cherry beer next week (had a issue with strong ale so I didn't had free fermenter), so I am interested in the use of berries.

My plan is to put some in primary and then put few in each bottle, because I don't have the setup to bottle from keg.

in reply to plactagonic

Yes, it was fermented for a week or two before addition of berries, and about same time again on secondary. I do not use kegs at all, those are just glass jars with locks. Most simple gear. This gorgeous foam comes from just a bit of sugar priming on bottling.

Putting berries in primary is imo not very good approach: mostly because most of the flavor would bubble away, but also because there is somewhat higher contamination chance.

in reply to Alexander

Do you freeze or sanatise the berries at all or just ride the wild yeast wave if it happens?
in reply to PortNull

There is no chance anything would survive with fresh vigorous yeast and at high alcohol levels/low oxygen on secondary. I used to sanitize berries in my first attempts, but later found it to be unnecessary. I even boiled my first mead!

Sometimes I freeze berries though, but only to save them till beer is ready, or to promote conversion in cranberries or rowan.

in reply to Alexander

I've staved off using fruit for those reasons but it's good to hear from someone who's done it that just dropping them in works just fine. Thanks
in reply to Alexander

Looks lovely, congratulations! Amazing carbonation result too. I'm going to do a take on this one day, since we have raspberry all over too.


How big.... Is my Privacy Penis 🍆


Am typing this message with FUTO keyboard, on GrapheneOS, using Voyager APP to access the Fediverss, installed via Obtanium, routed through a TOR VPN 🤔

Am I private yet?

Because on a dark and stormy night some times I feel I should just buy an iPhone and be done with it 🤣

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don't like this

in reply to AshCircuit

privacy is measured in vaginas, not penises!
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in reply to rnercle

i agree
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in reply to rnercle

Deeper you go, darker it gets.
in reply to AshCircuit

Did you also register your account with a unique name and email?


'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech




With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”


With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft's chat bot. Two distinct products were announced, each using different models and accessed from within different tools—though the similar names Microsoft chose make it confusing to parse what's what.

Driven by OpenAI's GPT-5 large language model, Agent Mode is built into Word and Excel, and it allows the creation of complex documents and spreadsheets from user prompts. It's called "agent" mode because it doesn't just work from the prompt in a single step; rather, it plans multi-step work and runs a validation loop in the hopes of ensuring quality.

It's only available in the web versions of Word and Excel at present, but the plan is to bring it to native desktop applications later.

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Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote


Archived copies of the article:
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* ghostarchive.org — still loading when I posted


Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu


Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.


in reply to jankforlife

Imperial core drones in the comments be like
in reply to Sleepless One

The Falun Gong one is legit though, they're actually against free healthcare and want a totalitarian theocracy. The repression of those is legitimate.
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in reply to jankforlife

Clearly the top image is better and more practical, cars are the most versatile form of transport after all.


Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu


Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Can't imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. "Israel" gov doesn't need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.
in reply to geneva_convenience

This topic made a cameo into a Fireship video lol

youtu.be/hkSj-QapfZo


in reply to jankforlife

A bit on information from the DPRK I wrote earlier:

The problem with reporting on the DPRK is that information is extremely limited on what is actually going on there. Most reports come from defectors, and said defectors are notoriously dubious in their accounts, something the WikiPedia page on Media Coverage of North Korea spells out quite clearly. These defectors are also held in confined cells for around 6 months before being released to the public in the ROK, in... unkind conditions, and pressured into divulging information. Additionally, defectors are paid for giving testemonials, and these testimonials are paid more the more severe they are. From the Wiki page:

Felix Abt, a Swiss businessman who lived in the DPRK, argues that defectors are inherently biased. He says that 70 percent of defectors in South Korea are unemployed, and selling sensationalist stories is a way for them to make a living.


Side note: there is a great documentary on the treatment of DPRK defectors titled Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul, which interviews DPRK defectors and laywers legally defending them, if you're curious.

Because of these issues, there is a long history of what we consider legitimate news sources of reporting and then walking back stories. Even the famous "120 dogs" execution ended up to have been a fabrication originating in a Chinese satirical column, reported entirely seriously and later walked back by some news outlets. The famous "unicorn lair" story ended up being a misunderstanding:

In fact, the report is a propaganda piece likely geared at shoring up the rule of Kim Jong Eun, North Korea's young and relatively new leader, said Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor of Korean studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Most likely, North Koreans don't take the report literally, Lee told LiveScience.

"It's more symbolic," Lee said, adding, "My take is North Koreans don't believe all of that, but they bring certain symbolic value to celebrating your own identify, maybe even notions of cultural exceptionalism and superiority. It boosts morale."


These aren't tabloids, these are mainstream news sources. NBC News reported the 120 dogs story. Same with USA Today. The frequently reported concept of "state-mandated haircut styles", as an example, also ended up being bogus sensationalism. People have made entire videos going over this long-running sensationalist misinformation, why it exists, and debunking some of the more absurd articles. As for Radio Free Asia, it is US-government founded and funded. There is good reason to be skeptical of reports sourced entirely from RFA about geopolitical enemies of the US Empire.

Sadly, some people end up using outlandish media stories as an "acceptable outlet" for racism. By accepting uncritically narratives about "barbaric Koreans" pushing trains, eating rats, etc, it serves as a "get out of jail free" card for racists to freely agree with narratives devoid of real evidence.

It's important to recognize that a large part of why the DPRK appears to be insular is because of UN-imposed sanctions, helmed by the US Empire. It is difficult to get accurate information on the DPRK, but not impossible; Russia, China, and Cuba all have frequent interactions and student exchanges, trade such as in the Rason special economic zone, etc, and there are videos released onto the broader internet from this.

In fact, many citizens who flee the DPRK actually seek to return, and are denied by the ROK. Even BBC is reporting on a high-profile case where a 95 year old veteran wishes to be buried in his homeland, sparking protests by pro-reunification activists in the ROK to help him go home in his final years.

Finally, it's more unlikely than ever that the DPRK will collapse. The economy was estimated by the Bank of Korea (an ROK bank) to have grown by 3.7% in 2024, thanks to increased trade with Russia. The harshest period for the DPRK, the Arduous March, was in the 90s, and the government did not collapse then. That was the era of mass statvation thanks to the dissolution of the USSR and horrible weather disaster that made the already difficult agricultural climate of northern Korea even worse. Nowadays food is far more stable and the economy is growing, collapse is highly unlikely.

What I think is more likely is that these trends will continue. As the US Empire's influence wanes, the DPRK will increase trade and interaction with the world, increasing accurate information and helping grow their economy, perhaps even enabling some form of reunification with the ROK. The US Empire leaving the peninsula is the number 1 most important task for reunification, so this is increasingly likely as the US Empire becomes untenable.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

The problem with reporting on the DPRK is that information is extremely limited on what is actually going on there.


There are news website hosted in DPRK which are accessible internationally. The main 3 are KCNA, Rodong Sinmun, and Minju Joson. KCNA is the main news agency. Rodong Sinmun is the newspaper of the Worker's Party of DPRK. There are a few others. DPRK controls the .kp TLD, so every website that ends in .kp is hosted in DPRK.

These websites post a lot of articles about building project in DPRK. Today KCNA announced a new hospital opening. Yesterday KCNA showcased one of their new warships. DPRK has been increasing trade with Russia, so there's a lot of articles about partnering with Russia.

Although these website have English versions, the Korean version of Rodong Sinmun has additional articles. I use a translator to read the Korean version. The Korean version of Rodong Sinmun has many articles on international news. I've seen Rodong Sinmun do reporting on the ongoing ICE raids in the US, the genocide in Gaza, etc. Just this past week, KCNA mentioned the US not releasing the Epstein files in an opinion article.

kcna.kp/en/

rodong.rep.kp/en/

minju.rep.kp/home/index/first/…

dprkportal.kp/guide (dprk website list)

There's also a DPRK television channel which can be viewed internationally, KCTV. There's a live stream of KCTV at the link below. KCNAWATCH (owned by NKNews) is a US company which is anti-DPRK.

kcnawatch.org/korea-central-tv…

in reply to dead [he/him]

Great resources! My comment was more directed at people that would be against any form of state media from the DPRK from the outset, but this is great for those that want a clearer picture!
in reply to jankforlife

I’ve always respected the Amish for including the Rumspringa in their faith to ensure that everyone gets a chance to explore the whole world and themselves before making a choice to continue their faith or not.

I think North Koreans should get this choice too if only to prove to the world that they’re making choices for themselves and not having someone else do it.



Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36904019

At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.



Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.




Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36904019

At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.



Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.


#USA


Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.
in reply to Peter Link

Israel is leading the way to regular old colonialism without neo-liberal dressings, and the US, china, and Russia are more than willing to ride that wave; they too would like to expand violently without the red tape.


in reply to Anarcho-Bolshevik

Losurdo calls this period (From ww1 - ww2), the Second Thirty-Years War, because war and pogroms never really halted in eastern europe after ww1.
in reply to Anarcho-Bolshevik

Capital has always been a tool of racism. From colonialism to the Tulsa Race Riots to the Holocaust to the modern pearl clutching at China's economic status. There is no racially just capitalism, it's a seed of racism planted into racist soil and watered with racism. It's not even covert either, capitalism emerged in the same time as race "science" and the justification for both are exactly as shoddy and presumptive of white superiority as you'd imagine. If you want the world to be racially just, capitalism has to go first and foremost before any other progress can be made.
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Is there someplace I can get a VPS that I can seed from without issues?


I'd like to have the storage local and connected to the box via wireguard, then have a public IP that's not my residential one I can seed on.
in reply to black_flag

local storage over WireGuard for privacy and speed, plus using a public IP for seeding keeps your home network protected. Curious to see how you handle port forwarding and bandwidth management with that geometry dash config!


AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds


"No Duh," say senior developers everywhere.

The article explains that vibe code often is close, but not quite, functional, requiring developers to go in and find where the problems are - resulting in a net slowdown of development rather than productivity gains.

in reply to Evotech

Writing new code is easier than editing someone else's code but editing a portion is still better than writing the entire program again from start to end.

Then there is LLMs which force you to edit the entire thing from start to end.

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in reply to jackeroni

A must read on what life in Tibet was like before it was liberated historicly.net/p/tibet-china-a…
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

tiktok has a bunch of easier to digest & ultra short videos that i would share if they didn't make urls traceable to your user account.

at least for now until the isreali gov't is done with tiktok.

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in reply to dude

Brave Sir Robin ran away
Bravely ran away, away
When danger reared it's ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled


in reply to hanno

I know flexbox isn't perfect, but this seems kind of-- ohhh, nevermind.
in reply to hanno

The problem with biomethane is that there isn't going to be enough of it.


Verdir sert à rien si personne n'a les moyen de vivre là!


Ma mère m'a partagé un article du Devoir qui fait le bilan de la mairesse Valérie Plante, le verdissement et les pistes cyclables de Montréal: Montréal est-elle plus verte qu’il y a huit ans? En gros, ça célèbre l'augmentation des arbres plantés et des pi

Ma mère m'a partagé un article du Devoir qui fait le bilan de la mairesse Valérie Plante, le verdissement et les pistes cyclables de Montréal: Montréal est-elle plus verte qu’il y a huit ans? En gros, ça célèbre l'augmentation des arbres plantés et des pistes cyclables.

C'est vrai que c'est une belle amélioration. Mais l'article m'a aussi déçu. Alors j'ai répondu à ma mère, mais aussi aux journalistes. Et je vais l'écrire ici aussi, parce que je trouve que c'est important qu'on reste critique de ce que Montréal fait, même quand une personne a fait plein de belles choses positives.

C'est super de verdir


C'est super de verdir. Pour vrai. J'adore. Et c'est super d'avoir plus de pistes cyclables. Je ne faisais pas de vélo à Montréal avant l'arrivé du REV en ~2021. Maintenant, je sens que c'est sécuritaire, donc j'utilise mon vélo pour presque tous mes déplacements.
Un espace qui a été récemment converti en jardin de plantes, devant un mur coloré de Montréal

Sauf que...


Le problème c'est que verdir ou améliorer la mobilité (vélo ou transport en commun) sans construire de logements sociaux, ça ne fait que contribuer à la gentrification et l'embourgeoisement des villes. Ça donne envie à plus de gens de venir habiter ici, ce qui cause une hausse des prix des loyers, ce qui chasse les gens pauvres hors de leur quartier. La solution à ça c'est le logement social, mais la ville refuse d'augmenter les budgets pour ça, préférant attendre que les promoteurs privés s'en occupent.

Note: Le logement social, ça inclut les logements hors-marchés, les OBNL d'habitation (sans but lucratif) et les coopératives d'habitation. C'est pas des guettos de pauvres!

Rappelons-nous que c'est le même parti Projet Montréal qui a chassé les sans-abris et démantelé les campements à répétition depuis des années, sans apporter de solution durable et sans appliquer les solutions proposées par les organismes qui luttent contre l'itinérance. Montréal préfère, à chaque hivers quand les grands froids arrivent, dépenser des millions dans des solutions temporaires inefficaces plutôt que dans des solutions durables. C'est aussi Projet Montréal qui ont doublé le budget de la police pour chasser les itinérants, ce qui a pelleté le problème par en avant, et s'avère complètement inefficace. Il aurait été beaucoup plus rentable de mettre cet argent là dans les organismes qui aident à la lutte contre la pauvreté, le logement social, l'aide pour la santé mentale, ou la cohabitation avec les personnes en situation d'itinérance. Ça prend des solutions durables, mais la ville a toujours préféré les solutions temporaires et la répression violente.

Où trouver l'argent?


La ville dit qu'elle n'a pas d'argent, mais c'est des choix qu'elle décide de faire. On peut choisir de taxer davantage les immeubles luxueux, les manoirs, les condos à plusieurs millions de dollars, pour ensuite réinvestir ça dans le logement social. D'autres villes dans le monde l'ont fait. Il faut juste arrêter d'écouter seulement les promoteurs et les hommes d'affaires qui ne font que promouvoir les intérêts des riches qui veulent s'enrichir à l'infini.

Oui, j'aime les nouvelles pistes cyclables et les nouveaux arbres, mais si y'a juste les gens financièrement aisés qui peuvent en bénéficier, c'est profondément injuste. Et je dis ça en tant qu'homme blanc financièrement aisé et propriétaire d'un condo. Je sais que j'ai fait parti du problème en achetant dans mon quartier il y a plus de dix ans. Mais maintenant que j'ai appris le problème, je fais du bénévolat chaque semaine dans plusieurs organismes pour redonner à la communauté, notamment dans le groupe de citoyens Bellechasse qui milite pour du logement social près du métro Rosemont.

Dans environ 1 mois, on va aller voter aux élections municipales. C'est le temps d'aller voir ce que les candidats proposent. Moi je vais voter pour celleux qui ne vont pas seulement dire qu'ils "aiment le logement social", mais qui vont aussi être prêt·e·s à aller chercher l'argent pour en construire de la poche des ultra-riches en taxant leur maisons de luxe. Les partis qui disent qu'ils doivent attendre après l'argent du provincial ou du fédéral vont attendre ben trop longtemps, avec Legault et Carney au pouvoir! On n'a pas le temps d'attendre! Y'a une crise! Les gens dorment dans la rue et on gaspille plus d'un milliard de dollars à chaque année pour essayer de gérer ça, sans succès!

Et vous, est-ce qu'il y a des candidats audacieux dans votre ville? Ou si les candidats dorment au gaz?


Photo d'entête de Manh Cuong Le sur Pexels

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Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine





Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use


Imgur is one of the world's largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.


Follow up to: lemmy.zip/post/49898832


Imgur is now geoblocking the UK


This includes the ability to see images embedded into other sites.



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in reply to BrikoX

Imgur was my daily time-waste app. It has way more content than Lemmy and the memes are fresher (sorry).

I have a self-hosted VPN but its IP range is heavily throttled/blocked by many placces making it of little practical use. Also it is in a country which has also implemented fairly draconian age-check laws.

It seems to me that this age-related stuff could always have been implemented as a layer alongside HTTP(S) which declares whether the user is 18+. The legal aspect of it could be to force sites to comply with that declaration and block mature content to users who don't declare it. Locked-down devices for children would not be able to declare the user is >18, but adults' devices would. (Of course it would be bypassable, but what isn't)

IDK if there's a sane way to enforce this at the router so that the subscriber can set an 18+ password, hand it out to the adults that use the connection, and then you don't need to worry about "locked down devices". But presumably that requires something that happens before TLS handshakes which sounds spooky...

The remaining issue is catching sex ed in the 18+ net. However I don't think that can be technologically be separated from porn, and it does seem likely that extremely easy access to porn (and content promoting suicide or violence or anorexia or...) for children is a bad thing.

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in reply to FishFace

Privacy issues could be mitigated and to the specific "issue" of children and teenagers accessing adult content basic parenting and conversation would have a bigger impact than trying to forbid it. How has that worked out historically with alcohol or smoking?

By UKs definitions in OSA once considered family shows like Dancing with the Stars and other entertainment productions could be banned. Sexualized content is everywhere in real life, internet just mirrors it, not creates it.

The fundamental issue with age verification is censorship. Once framework is created it can be applied to any other content someone deems you shouldn't access. What is legal today can be illegal tomorrow.



EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Leaders VERY NEGATIVE On Trump Gaza Deal








United States Secretly Expands Exit Controls For International Air Travelers


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/49951317

The United States is greatly expanding the use of a "biometric exit" program, whereby travelers have their photo taken on departure.



United States Secretly Expands Exit Controls For International Air Travelers


The United States is greatly expanding the use of a "biometric exit" program, whereby travelers have their photo taken on departure.