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The Canon R6 Mark III vs R6 Mark II vs R5 Mark II: The Differences That Actually Show Up
The Canon EOS R6 Mark III, R6 Mark II, and R5 Mark II sit closer together than their price gaps suggest. It comes down to how each body handles skin tones, missed exposure, and edge cases that appear mid-shoot.Alex Cooke (Fstoppers)
[...] rash of diagnostic claims and self-labeling that have swept the internet and mass-market publishing, creating a space where confessional zeal and memeified pseudoscience – sometimes abetted by therapists who should know better – have become almost routine.
Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bots Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast "Diary of a CEO.slashdot.org
⛐ Iran to attend World Cup draw after reversing its planned boycott
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Iran to attend World Cup draw after reversing its planned boycott
Iran has reversed its boycott of the World Cup draw, with team representatives due to attend the event in Washington DCPaul MacInnes (The Guardian)
The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT by Vanessa Chang, 2025
A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body
What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today's world of blinding technological change, of artificial intelligence and deepfakes and Chat GPT, it is easy to forget that we have always had complicated relations with technology
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In Chicago they mix their cheesey popcorn with their sweet popcorn and brag about it a lot HOWEVER if you want to make it classy get the caramel corn but serve it with little slices of real sharp cheddar cheese.
Forget the cheese powder.
You are welcome.
I... hmm. I don't know if that would be as good[1] as the classic mix.
[1] for very specific meaning of "good"
Oh interesting. Kiddo got popcorn at an event over the weekend. Thought the cheese/carmel mix was unusual, didn't realize it was a Chicago "thing." Didn't catch the label though.
It's made it to San Francisco theaters.
Cape Neddick, York, Maine
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Casio і Coca-Cola готують нову колаборацію: інсайдер поділився подробицями про майбутню модель
У 2026 році Casio може випустити нову лімітовану модель G-Shock у партнерстві з Coca-Cola. Про це повідомив інсайдер @geesgshock, який регулярно публікує витоки про новинки бренду.Володимир Стецюк (Gagadget.com)
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Cape Neddick, York, Maine
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I was thinking about the hippy, flower child, free love, anti establishment days this morning. How some of those people ended up right leaning as old people I can't understand.
In my opinion we all need to find our groovy again and shame on the people who would deny us peace just because they can.
I am working hard to get my body in a better place so I walked again this morning. I walked up the hill at the #HumboldtBotanicalGardens twice. Forty minutes of keeping my heart rate up. I am motivated. Lots of things rely on me staying healthy.
I took a couple of groovy photos.
Peace.
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Japan’s Factory Sentiment Improves, Firming Up BOJ Hike Case
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He was waiting for me to come to the dining room to eat MY supper. Have a good end of Sunday where it still is.
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And have a lovely start of the week, we all need that on these sad times we live in.
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Between the Best and the Worst: Some Thoughts on Not Surrendering
Dear readers, I'm setting off in a couple of hours on an overnight trip with a friend to go visit our mutual friend, Jarvis Masters, who's one of the many prisoners moved off Death Row but not actually relieved of that murderous sentence.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
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A new release of #Hachinan is out!
Read it for free at infinitenoveltranslations.net/…
Enjoy~
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"Meanwhile, Zuhrah’s friends repeatedly called the prison requesting an ambulance, who they said “kept hanging up” on them. They tried ringing for ambulances directly, but were informed that this would have to be arranged through the prison.
“We were being told by ambulance operators that they have no power over whether an ambulance goes to a prison or not, because it is up to the prison whether they will accept an ambulance," Moulsdale said.
“If someone collapses in a prison, they don't get an ambulance sent to them. The prison gets to decide.”
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How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor
The friends of a Palestine Action-affiliated prisoner currently on hunger strike say she was left to lie on her cell floor with worsening chest pains while the prison refused repeated requests to call an ambulance.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
Once Upon a Now in America
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L’odio di Trump per l’Europa dimostra la nostra potenza. Senza di lui rinasceremo
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L’odio di Trump per l’Europa dimostra la nostra potenza. Senza di lui rinasceremo
Da adesso in poi l’Unione deve agire come se fosse solaBill Emmott (La Stampa)
L’esercito di Kiev scudo per l’Europa
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L’esercito di Kiev scudo per l’Europa
Sul campo i soldati ucraini hanno già dimostrato di saper usare meglio di chiunque le armi occidentali. In caso di conflitto allargato, è a loro che chiederemo…La Stampa
L’Ue è costosa, bloccata e illusa su Mosca. La corsa al riarmo non la difenderà
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L’Ue è costosa, bloccata e illusa su Mosca. La corsa al riarmo non la difenderà
Il meccanismo di Bruxelles la rende impotente di fronte ai sovranismi. Che rapporto vogliamo con la vicina Russia?Massimo Cacciari (La Stampa)
Utah farm family in the orchard at peach harvest. Near Springdale, Utah
#Springdale #theUnitedStates #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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Hey all, if you're interested in learning more about renewables, check out this free webinar about heat pumps, geothermal energy, biomass and more on Jan 29. I'm not affiliated at all, just wanted to get the word out because education is neat.
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Renewables 101: Heat Pumps, Geo-Exchange, Wastewater Energy, Biomass & More
Kickoff Session of the Material, Energy & Technology (MET) SeriesEventbrite
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My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #uxyoutube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
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Some amazing links found in this talk:
- inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ : Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
- dynamicland.org/ : Dynamicland is, among other things, a new kind of computer.
- huggingface.co/blog/starcoder : StarCoder is a Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data
- wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-w… : These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything ...
- jenson.org/boring/ : Ultimately, a mature technology doesn’t look like magic; it looks like infrastructure. It gets smaller, more reliable, and much more boring.
- couldshouldmightdont.com/revie… : A book about futurism
How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #uxyoutube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
This is from Alt National Park Service
Palantir’s involvement in fusion-center ecosystems has long raised alarms for enabling mission creep, a steady expansion from investigating serious crime, to monitoring protests, and ultimately to tracking lawful speech and political organizing.
Many people are aware that fusion centers exist, but far fewer understand how aggressively they are being used today. There are more than 70 DHS-funded fusion centers operating across the United States, originally justified as post-9/11 coordination hubs meant to help federal, state, and local agencies share intelligence about genuine security threats. In practice, their scope has grown far beyond that mandate.
Fusion centers function by combining federal intelligence streams with local and state law-enforcement data. This includes information from DHS, the FBI, ICE, and CBP, alongside police reports, license-plate readers, CCTV feeds, and increasingly, online activity. Public social-media posts, event pages, livestreams, fundraising links, and activist messaging are routinely monitored and analyzed, often under the broad and loosely defined banner of “situational awareness.”
This is where Palantir’s role becomes significant. While Palantir is rarely branded publicly as “fusion-center software,” its platforms are widely used by the agencies that feed data into fusion centers. Palantir tools excel at linking disparate datasets, identifying relationships between people, locations, and events, and visualizing networks over time. That capability makes it especially useful for mapping protest movements, identifying organizers or influential voices, and tracking how activity spreads across cities or regions.
The result is a system where lawful political activity can be pulled into intelligence workflows designed for criminal or terrorism investigations. Even when each individual data source is technically legal (public posts, permits, open-source information) the combined analysis can paint detailed profiles of movements and individuals who have committed no crime. Once that information enters a fusion center, it can be shared widely across agencies, often with limited transparency or meaningful oversight.
This structure blurs the line between public safety and political surveillance. Fusion centers, powered by sophisticated analytics and private contractors like Palantir, make it easier to justify continuous monitoring on the grounds of prevention (anticipating unrest before it happens) rather than responding to actual wrongdoing. That shift fundamentally changes how dissent is treated: not as a protected civic activity, but as a potential risk to be managed.
In short, fusion centers are no longer just passive information-sharing hubs. With advanced analytic platforms feeding into them, they have become active nodes in a nationwide intelligence network one that is increasingly targets speech, association, and protest, all under the cover of “security and preparedness”.
Australian antisemitism envoy renews calls to 'withhold funding from universities that fail to reduce hatred against Jewish students, monitor media organisations to ensure accurate coverage, and screen visa applicants for antisemitic views...'
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jake Evans (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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the current administration’s plan🤡
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‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire
Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day.Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)
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A long, dark tunnel stretches into the distance, with a bright white light visible at the far end. The tunnel appears to be made of concrete, and its walls are slightly curved. A yellow line runs down the center of the road, guiding the eye toward the exit. There are evenly spaced lights along the ceiling of the tunnel, creating a repeating pattern. The road surface is wet, reflecting some of the light and adding to the overall sense of depth.
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Company in Huge Trouble for Creating "Tinder for Kids" App. Via @futurism #Tech ⚙️💾📱🔌💻
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Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App
The company Wizz is coming under serious scrutiny by regulators and watchdogs for enabling child sexual predators on a huge scale.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
"Hey, Kola, you know how you have the day off tomorrow and you're going to shave in the morning?
You could have had a gorgeous white skirt to feel all pretty and gender in your hotel room. It was only $40! Such soft material too it could have been yours...~"
If you can't do a proper funeral procession in life, you will have to repeat it in death until you get it right.
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Still haven't been able to find a replacement job and contract work won't make enough to pay the owed rent in time by the 29th.
I really really need help with this, the landlord isn't going to give me any more time after this... Need $1600/$1800 still.
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Emmanuel Music perform Bach and Esmail in Boston - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Emmanuel Music directed by Ryan Turner perform: BACH: Lobet den Herrn (Praise the Lord) BWV 230/ Oboe Concerto in D BWV 1059R. Reena ESMAIL: A Winter Breviary. BACH: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen (Let honor be sung to you, O God) BWV 248. Recorde...www.worldconcerthall.com
Van Zweden conducts Mahler's Seventh in Chicago - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Jaap van Zweden conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing: MAHLER: Symphony No. 7. Recorded in March. The broadcast also includes Mahler's 'Rückert-Lieder' performed by Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano, and the orchestra led by ...www.worldconcerthall.com
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