Me: Could you briefly explain this report to me?
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Me: Okay.
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The video captures a heartwarming moment where a baby is being fitted with glasses for the first time. The baby, dressed in a white outfit with a pattern, is being held by an adult wearing a yellow top. The adult carefully places the glasses on the baby's face, with another person in a blue top assisting. The setting appears to be indoors, possibly a home or a clinic, with a decorative garland visible in the background.
Text overlays in the video include "RESPECT 🔥💯" at the top, expressing admiration for the baby's new vision, and "My baby seeing clearly for the first time 💕" at the bottom, highlighting the significance of the moment. Additional text at the bottom reads "Oh My God 😱 Wait For The End 👏😲," building anticipation for the baby's reaction. The video concludes with the baby wearing the glasses, looking around, and the adult smiling, capturing a tender and joyful moment.
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The odd nooks and crannies: underrated, overused, and totally deserving of art.
Where do you think “Red Canoe on Log Cabin” would fit in, in your home?
A red canoe leans against moss-covered log cabin, a striking contrast in greens and browns.
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#landscape #art #photography #logcabin #pinebarrens #mastoart #mastodonart #bernadettelongo #mosstodon #boesegalleries
>>Surprise ---- NewsGuard Audit Finds Rate Nearly Doubled in One Year - Not!
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Da giovedì 4 a domenica 7 settembre il Palasport di Borgo a Mozzano ospiterà uno degli appuntamenti più sentiti e attesi del panorama nazionale della ginnastica ritmica: il 4° Trofeo in memoria di Francesco Tontini. La manifestazione è organizzata da Albachiara, in collaborazione con il Comune di Borgo a Mozzano, l'associazione "Il noitv.it/2025/09/memorial-fran…
KRON: AI could replace 99% of workers in five years, warns AI researcher
"...“We’re looking at a world where we have levels of unemployment we’ve never seen before... Not talking about 10% unemployment, which is scary, but 99%.”..."
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#AI #AIpocalypse #jobs
a paradox for sure
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If this isn't the serpent eating its own tail. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros#/media/File%3ASerpiente_alquimica.jpg /3Vivaldi Social
I have thought about creating a business that uses no AI and call it "Fucking Human Beings".
While the sales pitch would practically write itself, I'm betting the screening process would probably involve a lot of deeply disappointed applicants.
Many thanks to the people who boost and help this fundraiser! I'm trying to close it out ASAP so that I can repay my former roommate as quickly as possible!!!
Hoping to get $100 towards the goal this weekend. 🙏🏾🤞🏾
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BlackMutualAid #TransCrowdFund #TransMutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 #QueerCrowdfund #BIPOCCrowdfund
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We need to bring back poetry fights.
3 verses.
Must rhyme.
5 turns each.
No personal attacks.
Audience decides winner.
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad. By ordering the U.S.The New York Times - Charlie Savage
Online security veteran?
Advanced guides to enhance your surveillance self-defense skill set. Congratulations! You've already taken steps to improve the safety of your online communications. Now you want to take it to the next level, and with this playlist, you can.ssd.eff.org
Andrew Tate Agrees to 3-Year Restraining Order, Can't Possess Firearms in U.S.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/andrew-tate-restraining-order-guns-brianna-stern-1235421647/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Andrew Tate Agrees to 3-Year Restraining Order, Can’t Own Guns in U.S.
Andrew Tate is under a new 3-year order that bars him from possessing guns in the U.S. or contacting model Brianna Stern.Nancy Dillon (Rolling Stone)
"Publicly available government contracts show that Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has since embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes the use of American influencers widely reported on last month. It also includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for Google, YouTube, X, Meta, and other tech platforms.
“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by Israel’s foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video sharing platform in late August and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45 million (NIS 150 million) advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in late June. The contract—which is with both YouTube and Google's advertising campaign management platform, Display & Video 360—explicitly characterizes the ad campaign as hasbara, a Hebrew word whose meaning is somewhere between public relations and propaganda.
Records show that the Israeli government similarly spent $3 million (NIS 10 million) for an advertising campaign with X. The French and Israeli advertising platform Outbrain/Teads is also set to receive roughly $2.1 million (NIS 7 million)."
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#Google #Propaganda #BigTech #YouTube #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Google’s $45 million contract to spread Netanyahu's propaganda
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million propaganda contract with Netanyahu’s office and was described as a “key entity” supporting Israel's messaging.Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence)
Does anyone still remember "FURY 3" ? As one of the earliest titles for Windows 95, it was used extensively in Microsoft's advertising campaign for the system. The game is actually fairly simple and runs smoothly even within an 86Box VM!
"Shoot 'em up!"
#Microsoft #Windows95 #RetroGaming #Emulation #90s #PCGaming #History #Retro
I absolutely remember Fury³. It was sort of a followup to Terminal Velocity and a really fun game for its time. Though even then I hated the fact that your ship could never ever stop. Seemed really stupid when you're shooting at an unmoving target.
The game also had great music, though the surround effect was mostly just weird (didn't sound surroundy to me anyway.)
Actually, Terminal Velocity recently got a remake with ports to systems like the Switch. Now that was out of the blue!
"Putin ha legato l'identità russa del XXI secolo al campo culturale e politico del neoconservatorismo contemporaneo, portatore di una modernità antilluminista e avversa ai valori del liberalismo"
— Andrea Borelli: Nella Russia di Putin, p. 27
Journalists Stumble Across Real Estate Listing With a Photo of a Nazi-Looted Painting Hanging Above the Couch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/journalists-stumble-across-real-estate-listing-with-a-photo-of-a-nazi-looted-painting-hanging-above-the-couch-180987284/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Meu atual toque de ligação:
🎶 Pourquoi ci, pourquoi ça?
Pourquoi c'est comme ci?
Pourquoi ci, pourquoi ça?
Pourquoi c'est comme ça? 🎵
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Meu atual alarme no celular:
🎶 In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind, we've gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCR 🎵
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South Korea’s Depressed Art Market Puts a Damper on Frieze Seoul
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/korea-s-art-market-slowdown-casts-shadow-over-frieze-seoul-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Private Credit Leans on Secondaries as Investor Payouts Dwindle
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/private-credit-leans-on-secondaries-as-investor-payouts-dwindle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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An Oystercatcher sporting a pair of Seaweed shoes.
Helsford, Cornwall
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
Vi pregherei di apprezzare il mio stoicismo e la mia profonda abnegazione.
Tutte le sere, tornando a casa, passo davanti a una pizzeria dove si mangia ottimamente (e @sabrinaweb71 e @kappazeta possono confermarlo) e riesco a NON fermarmi.
È dura, ma ce la faccio.
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L’impatto delle sanzioni Usa sulla Relatrice Onu Francesca Albanese
Come le misure sanzionatorie senza precedenti disposte dall’amministrazione Trump colpiscono Francesca Albanese, Relatrice speciale sui Territori palestinesi occupati. Il ruolo del governo italiano e del sistema bancario.
Giovedì 4 settembre 2025, ore 12.00
Sala Caduti di Nassirya – Piazza Madama, Roma
#FrancescaAlbanese #gazagenocide
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#photography, #365photodgraphy2025, #potd2025, #photoaday, #everydayphotographer, #photooftheday, #pad2025-247, #beautifulday, #onotalake, #berkshires, #mountains, #landscape, #summerslaststand
Haier “reinventa” la lavatrice con la Candy Multiwash a tre cestelli
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/haier-reinventa-lavatrice-la-candy-multiwash-tre-cestelli-AHRY3dSC?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Haier “reinventa” la lavatrice con la Candy Multiwash a tre cestelli
BERLINO - - Parte dalla visione di una casa “naturalmente connessa” e con al centro le persone l’affondo che il Gruppo cinese, detentore dei marchi ...Il Sole 24 Ore (Il Sole 24 ORE)
Io boh.
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"Americans will suffer and die...".
Bro, they don't care. They don't care if you lose your house, your job, your life. They don't care if it's illegal, immoral, unneccessary, cruel or wrong.
They don't care about you now, they never have, and they never will. They don't care if your kids are killed at school or if the cops murder you. They don't care if you're sick, disabled, in constant pain...
They don't fucking care.
This is fucken Capitalism. You are livestock to them.
Do you fucken get it?
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Last Flag Flying actually exceeded my very tall expectations.
And I mean tall. With a cast like Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, you’d already assume this would deliver. Add Richard Linklater—yes, the guy behind Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life—and the bar shoots into the stratosphere.
Yet what he turns in here is one of his most conventional films. Not a head trip, not a cinematic experiment—just a straight-up, well-cooked meal. Think less molecular gastronomy, more perfectly grilled steak.
The setup: it’s 2003, and a grief-stricken ex-Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Carell) reconnects with his old Vietnam buddies—ex-Marine loudmouth Sal Nealon (Cranston) and buttoned-up Reverend Richard Mueller (Fishburne)—to bring Doc’s son home after he’s killed in Iraq.
That’s heavy material, but Linklater isn’t interested in a grim war movie. Instead, he gives us a road trip comedy-drama where the fireworks come from putting a holy man and a barfly in the same car and letting them go at each other for two hours.
Cranston dials Sal up to 11—he’s reckless, vulgar, and eternally needling. Fishburne matches him with quiet fire as the Rev, exuding dignity until he finally snaps. Their banter is where the film sings.
There’s that unforgettable U-Haul scene: Sal sneers about a rapper on the radio, asking Mueller if he feels ashamed of his race. Without missing a beat, Mueller flips it—because the rapper is Eminem. Sal, now on the back foot, gets roasted. It’s Linklater’s gift: letting a scene unfold like a conversation you could’ve overheard on a long drive.
Carell, meanwhile, is the quiet heart of the movie. He plays Doc like a man already hollowed out by grief. He rarely raises his voice, but when he smiles—it’s like sunlight breaking through after days of storm clouds. It’s the kind of restrained performance that makes the louder ones pop even more.
Of course, standing in their way is the uptight Lt. Col. Willits (Yul Vázquez), who embodies the military’s obsession with appearances. He wants Doc’s son buried in Arlington with a polished story about heroic sacrifice. The vets know better. They’ve been lied to before, and they’re not about to let history repeat itself. That push-and-pull—truth vs. propaganda, dignity vs. authority—gives the film its backbone.
And yet, for all its darkness, Last Flag Flying keeps bursting back into humor and soul. There are cell phone mishaps, road trip detours, and old men griping about the modern world. Cicely Tyson even shows up for a brief scene that absolutely breaks your heart.
Linklater himself said this isn’t really a war movie—it’s a road movie. That tracks. It’s about aging vets wrestling with what their service really meant, and how the ripples of war never stop spreading.
In fact, this whole story began as a sequel to Darryl Ponicsan’s novel The Last Detail (famously adapted by Hal Ashby with Jack Nicholson in ’73). Linklater couldn’t make an official sequel—rights tangles, Navy vs. Marines, all that—but he captured the spirit. Call it a “spiritual sequel” if you will.
Sure, the film can drag when it leans too hard into the “war is hell” sermon. But it always redeems itself with lived-in humanity. It never preaches so much as lets three men argue their way through grief, faith, and the lies we tell ourselves to survive.
I’ll put it this way: if I ever met these guys in real life, I’d happily sit down, crack open a non-alcoholic beer, and let the stories roll. Because this isn’t really about war—it’s about friendship, pain, and the strange joy of finding people who can still laugh with you even when life has knocked you down.
Thats nice.
A kind thing to do.
Should we remind ourselves,
to aim for a FIX!
So that we dont have to do this AFTER,
the murder and carnage.
Over and over again, every time.
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Las tormentas solares son cada vez más amenazantes para la #Tierra. La #NASA quiere prepararse con un gemelo #digital del Sol
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Las tormentas solares son cada vez más amenazantes para la Tierra. La NASA quiere prepararse con un...
El Sol, esa estrella que nos da vida, también tiene un carácter impredecible y potencialmente destructivo. Tanto es así que una tormenta solar de gran...José A. Lizana (Xataka)
We're being asked to bet on life—and shown exactly how to do that. Today we highlight a team of volunteers helping fifteen displaced families in Jabalia, most of them disabled, survive. This is a lesson for all of us.
Help them. Give / find their link here. 3438/4100 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope-givin…
@palestine @mutualaid
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.Chuffed
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MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Why wouldn't we look at vaccines and autism?
HUNT: We have looked at it and the studies show there is no connection
MULLIN: So we shouldn't look at it again?
Lagoon View Residential Complex / Mobil Arquitectos + Álvaro Arancibia Arquitecto
Completed in 2024 in Cerrillos, Chile. Images by Cristóbal Palma, Álvaro Arancibia. The concept of the project emerged from the challenge of rethinking social integration in high-density buildings, exploring new forms of vertical...Valentina Díaz (ArchDaily)
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"More than three years ago, noyb had filed a complaint against Google for sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inboxes of Gmail users. Contrary to EU law, the company never asked the people concerned for their consent. That's how the competent data protection authority sees it, too: Today, the CNIL has issued a decision siding with noyb – and fined Google €325 million."
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#EU #France #Google #DataProtection #Privacy #GDPR #Gmail #Spam
noyb WIN: French DPA fines Google €325 million for “Spam Emails” in Gmail
The CNIL fined Google €325 million for creating spam emails in Gmailnoyb.eu
⚡️🇺🇦Trump’s FOMO! Watching the Dictator parade made Trump have a Fear Of Missing Out moment (Channel 24 - Ukrainian Media VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #NukesForUkraine #Germany #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
And there are ketchup stains from flying hamberders 🍔 on #WhiteHouse walls to prove it!
#Resist hilariously!
How many A's we have to put next to each other before we admit something has to be done with inequality in this industry?
kotaku.com/gta-6-aaaaa-silkson…
#videogames #gaming #capitalism #communism #inequality
GTA 6 Called First 'AAAAA Game' In Sign Of Industry Confidence And Panic
Rockstar's next game being too big to fail is a symptom of the current blockbuster malaiseEthan Gach (Kotaku)
I remember back in 2016 when stories like the one below started appearing in US newspapers. People were dying at growing rates, and not just any people, but specially *white* people, which is the sort of thing that isn’t supposed to happen in the US racial caste system.
They were dying of opioid overdoses or alcoholism or suicide, what researchers came to call “deaths of despair.”
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1/8
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