Packers pass rushing standout Micah Parsons hurts left knee against Broncos
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I replied “brt” jokingly to a 20-something person when they said they were baking chocolate chip cookies. They said “I didn’t know what that meant. I had to look it up. lol”
You mean the hip young people’s lingo I went to some pains to learn 15 or more years ago isn’t hip young people’s lingo anymore?? lol
Now they’re going to think I’m old
Formosan sweetgum trees and their fallen leaves on the campus of Kyoto Prefectural University🌳
A quiet, final touch of autumn hues🍂🍂
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City
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Kast won the presidential elections here. The far-right guy.
[...] 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.
Also see: harpers.org/archive/2021/12/a-… - Harper's "How everyting became Trauma"
"I shall be advancing the heretical notion that trauma as we now understand it is not a timeless phenomenon that has affected people in different cultures and at different times in much the same way, but is to a hitherto unacknowledged extent a function of modernity in all its shocking suddenness."
Another big one is the "#DIDTok" trend, in which TikTok (and increasingly Instagram) users feign Dissociative Identity Disorders, often claiming "Systems" of literary or pop cultural characters. A whole subculture inside this subculture "hosts" alters related to Naruto, Harry Potter, or Dune.
""Recent global popularity of social media content about dissociative identity disorder (DID) has coincided with increased self-diagnosis among children and young people who have formed large online communities and presented in clinical settings seeking to affirm their self-diagnoses."
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This development is not unique to DID; it has been documented in relation to other psychological conditions, including tic disorders, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorders (BPD). DID self-diagnosis based on social media information has been the subject of extensive media commentary, but relatively little published clinical writing to date.
The ethnic cleansing of the United States will destroy it | Heba Gowayed | The Guardian
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The ethnic cleansing of the United States will destroy it
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveal his vision for the US as a white Christian nationHeba Gowayed (The Guardian)
Toro, la lista di Petrachi: Marianucci per la difesa
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Toro, la lista di Petrachi: Marianucci per la difesa
Il direttore sportivo granata tra colloqui con la squadra e mercato: piace anche GiorginiGianluca Oddenino (La Stampa)
Formosan sweetgum trees and their fallen leaves on the campus of Kyoto Prefectural University🌳
A quiet, final touch of autumn hues🍂🍂
📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City
#photography #nature #leaves #kyoto #japan #fallfoliage #sceney #fallenleaves #naturephotography
10 jogos curtos perfeitos para zerar no fim do ano
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Some D.C.-area school systems to open two-hours later Monday
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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
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
#landscapes #photography #landscapephotography #Blackandwhite #BW #bwphotography #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
#landscapes #photography #landscapephotography #Blackandwhite #BW #bwphotography #Maine
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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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.
#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm
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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!
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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)
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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:
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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:
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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”.
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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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