Using the term "national security" does not give you the right to do everything your twisted power trip demands, TOM.
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Tom 'General Zod' Homan Wants To Roust 7th Grade MS-13 Members
You know Tom Homan wants to put on his Halloween General Patton uniform.John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
“I think he doesn’t understand how terrorism investigations work.”
Our top story: Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent contract at one of the country’s most prominent MAGA-aligned television networks. texasobserver.org/the-border-p…
#border #politics #media #Trump #DonaldTrump #police #news #USpol #politics
The State Policeman-Turned-Propagandist Pushing Trump’s Extreme Border Agenda
Jaeson Jones, a confidante of incoming federal border czar Tom Homan, is helping lay the groundwork for mass deportations and conflict with Mexico.Monica Camacho (The Texas Observer)
#Engineering #Environmental #MaterialScience #sflorg
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FAU Engineering Develops New Weapon against Harmful Algal Blooms
Few studies have looked into how algal biomass, especially cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can be used to create materials that removewww.sflorg.com
It's been 80 years since the Red Army liberated 7,000 prisoners from Auschwitz. Here's what to know about Holocaust Remembrance Day: lessons we shouldn't forget, survivors' experiences, and the ongoing fight against antisemitism.
A collection of stories curated by us: flip.it/msdcgM
#Holocaust #HolocaustRemembranceDay #History #Auschwitz #Antisemitism
Holocaust Remembrance Day
It's been 80 years since the Red Army liberated 7,000 prisoners from Auschwitz. About 50 Holocaust survivors will mark the international day of commemoration on Jan. 27 at the largest German death camp.The Features Desk (Flipboard)
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Bahnrad-Nationalteam: Schwerer Trainingsunfall auf Mallorca
Ein Autofahrer fährt auf Mallorca in eine Gruppe Radfahrer. Es stellt sich heraus: Bei den Sportlern handelt es sich um das deutsche Bahnrad-Nationalteam bei einer Trainingsfahrt.ZDFheute
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Andrea Orlando: Schlein ha scelto il plenipotenziario per l'economia
L'ex ministro del Lavoro ha il compito di intessere i rapporti cool mondo delle imprese, da Confindustria all'Ance. Entro maggio dovrà mettere a…Alfonso Raimo (HuffPost Italia)
The Short Case for Nvidia Stock | YouTube Transcript Optimizer
Will the bull run go on ? Not sure...
Cazzo, qui siamo in #AllertaGiallo fino alle 13 di domani, ma sul centro è #AllertaArancione e sul Levante #AllertaRosso (anche là fino alle 13).
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You can grab a refurbished 2021 Kindle Paperwhite starting at $90
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24352997/kindle-paperwhite-2021-amazon-e-reader-deal-sale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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You can grab a refurbished 2021 Kindle Paperwhite starting at $90
Woot is selling a refurbished 2021 Kindle Paperwhite with 16GB of storage and ads for $89.99. New customers can score an extra $10 off when they use code FIRETENOF.Sheena Vasani (The Verge)
PM 03/25: Moderner Rechtsstaat statt Big Brother
Berlin (DAV). Ende Februar wird ein neuer Bundestag gewählt. Der Deutsche Anwaltverein (DAV) hat in einem Eckpunktepapier rechtspolitische Forderungen für die anstehende Legislaturperiode formuliert.Deutscher Anwaltverein
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#Überwachung #Überwachungsstaat #Privacy #Privacymatters #Datenschutz #Cryptowars
PBS channels are streaming free inside Amazon’s Prime Video app
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24352980/amazon-prime-pbs-fast-channels?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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PBS channels are streaming free inside Amazon’s Prime Video app
Amazon Prime Video has launched a series of new FAST channels featuring PBS shows and local affiliate feeds.Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge)
Apple’s Sports app now tells you where you can watch nationally broadcast games
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24353035/apple-sports-app-ios-iphone-broadcast-information-where-to-watch?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Apple’s Sports app now tells you where you can watch nationally broadcast games
Apple’s Sports app has been updated with broadcast information for games and improved navigation letting you quickly swipe between teams and league pages.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
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| Institute for Social Ecology:
In June, 1910, Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, began a speaking tour of Norway with a lecture to a large and attentive audience in Oslo. The lecture series was titled "The Mission of National Souls in Relation to Nordic-Germanic Mythology."
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🇷🇺🛢 #Russia's Ryazan oil refinery has suspended operations after an attack by Ukrainian drones late last week, Reuters reports.
#News reports coming on from DeadBirdSite that #ElonMusk is apparently upset that people are calling #Tesla #ElectricVehicles "#Swasticars", after his open and flagrant use of #NeoNazi rhetoric and the #Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration last week.
The bigger question... Can we make #Swasticar the new trending hashtag for talking about #Teslas on the #Fediverse?
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#TwitterMigration #Resist #FediResistance
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That really doesn't mean anything. What the Chinese government (not simply "the Chinese") wanted at the time was for Japan to stop aggressing upon them and committing genocide against their people: this was the Asian theater of the Holocaust, in which millions of Chinese people were murdered, and was part of the lead up to Pearl Harbor.
Rolling forward, the current Chinese government is very corporatist, very much treats the people as assets in some sort of capital gains scheme, where the state and its wild conservative values are Supreme, high-ranking members of the party rake in profits, and the individual is simply subject to them. This is the same as in North Korea, which is also a fascist adjacent government.
Remember that very few of the governments who called themselves communist actually embraced communist ideals. These people are running their countries on ideologies that are much closer to fascism.
It doesn't mean anything in the sense that Stalin also had massive losses in World War II, and that his ideology was similar enough to Hitler's that people thought they might be able to compromise. Keeping mind also that the Chinese government that primarily fought against the Japanese was not the communists, they were rebel forces in the western part of the country: the group that fought against the Japanese were "Nationalists", much more close to fascists, who the Communists were fighting against.
Since then, the "Communists" have taken over mainland china, had the Maoist revolution, and then decades have passed in which they embraced capitalism as a method of empowering and enriching the party. What they have right now is much more similar to fascism than it is any sort of communist ideology, just as the North Korean government is effectively a fascist one.
People can have the same ideology and still fight. Fascist fight each other constantly over which group is superior.
@RustyFreewheel
I feel like you are altering the context of what I'm saying to the point it's hard to believe you aren't doing it on purpose.
The question was how Chinese government could support fascism when the fascists committed genocide against their people in the 30s, and I am saying that, in both the 1940s and today, both the Russian and Chinese governments were and are close enough to fascism to resemble it. Fascists have compatible belief structures in that they believe in rule by the strong and the supremacy of their races, but they inevitably conflict because they disagree on who that is that should be in charge.
So yes, it is irrelevant how many Russians and Chinese died in wars with fascist aggressors, or even how many of their own people died because of their own fascist movements: that doesn't make them any less fascist.
I quoted you directly, you wrote Chinese participation in WW2 "really doesn't mean anything". I posit that Chinese people are just as deserving of empathy as Americans. History shows that most often it has been young, working class men that are the victims of ideologues and oligarchs.
Meanwhile the World watches as the USA President threatens to invade Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama. The USA rhetoric against other nations while pervasive is hypocritical. The USA has a long history of Slavery, medical experimentation on people of colour, Racial Segregation and interference in the governance of other countries.
I suspect that the Chinese Government, possibly in response to the 'land of freedom' imposing exorbitant tariffs, may at some time decide they have no interest in making swasticars for Heir Musk and will repurpose the Shanghai factory and who could blame them.
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Una riflessione di Beatrice Sarzi Amade
Putin, Trump, Netanyahu: riflessioni a margine della liberazione di Auschwitz
Volevo scrivere qualcosa su l'anniversario della liberazione di Auschwitz, non dalla Russia, ma dall'Armata Rossa, dall'esercito, dalla multinazionale, dall'Urss, e non possoBeatrice Sarzi Amade (Globalist.it)
DeepSeek releases open-source AI multimodal model, Janus-Pro-7B.
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
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Unsere Kassenärztlichen Vereinigungen folgen dem Beispiel zahlreicher Institutionen in Deutschland + protestieren gegen .. Missbrauch v. X f. antidemokratische politische Positionen auf d. Social-Media-Plattform v. E. Musk. ..
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#Berlin #Brandenburg #Bremen #Machtmissbrauch #Musk #Sachsen #SachsenAnhalt #SchleswigHolstein #SocialMedia #Thüringen #Twitter #X
Holocaust survivors warn of rising antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/27/holocaust-survivors-warn-of-rising-antisemitism-on-80th-anniversary-of-auschwitzs-liberati?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Holocaust survivors warn of rising antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
Politicians were asked not to speak at this year's event, as it could be the last time survivors gather on 27 January, the date when the Soviets liberated the Nazi death camp in 1945.David O'Sullivan (Euronews.com)
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On the #80thAnniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz. I'd like to comment on the camp's notorious slogan "Arbeit macht frei" - work makes you free.
Anthroposophy teaches hard work is supposedly spiritually purifying, a teaching that's embodied in its Camphill communities
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@GinaMakesWaves: On the #80thAnniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz. I'd like to comment on the camp's notorious slogan "Arbeit macht frei" - work makes you free. Anthroposophy teaches hard work is supposedly s...…threadreaderapp.com
Marc or Marx? | TWiT.TV
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disasterSatya Nadella says he’s ’good for $80 billion’ after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn’t have the cashHow Chinese AITWiT.tv
where #Himmler established a biodynamic plantation, w/Weleda products for testing on (i. e., torturing of) its imprisoned inmates:
"Weleda supplied naturopathic materials for ‘medical experiments’ (i.e. torture) on prisoners at Dachau. Weleda’s longtime head gardener, Franz Lippert, asked to be transferred to #Dachau in 1941 to oversee the biodynamic plantation that #Himmler had established at the concentration camp."*
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Anthroposophy and Ecofascism (cont'd)
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Anthroposophy and Ecofascism | Institute for Social Ecology
In June, 1910, Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, began a speaking tour of Norway with a lecture to a large and attentive audience in Oslo.Peter Staudenmaier (Institute for Social Ecology)
fantastic article about the #DeepSeek brouhaha with gems like this that shows why true innovators make do with what they have:
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❝ So was this a violation of the chip ban?
Nope. H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around.❞
seams the 1990s #AI team went retro in coding… 🧵
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?Stratechery by Ben Thompson
which brings me to this:
❝ R1 undoes the o1 mythology in a couple of important ways. First, […] it exists. OpenAI does not have some sort of special sauce that can’t be replicated. Second, R1 — like all of DeepSeek’s models — has open weights (the problem with saying “open source” is that we don’t have the data that went into creating it). This means that instead of paying OpenAI to get reasoning, you can run R1 on the server of your choice, or even locally, at dramatically lower cost.❞
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YOU CANNOT OPTIMIZE ANY SOFTWARE FOR YOUR DATA UNLESS YOU CONTROL IT. that’s why you need to have that software running on your own computers/servers.
there is no omniscience.
there is no such thing as a brain, person, computer, robot, god that knows it all. not even the judeo-christian-islamic god knows it all. just read damn GENESIS which is canonic for the 3 religions.
so an all-knowing #AI is bullshit techbro smoke and mirrors. it’s a 100 billion dollars article of faith… 🧵
I've been using @Flipboard's new @surf app—it provides a fresh look for discovering content across the #Fediverse. Here are my thoughts on why it's useful for those looking to break free from Big Tech + how it better connects decentralized communities.
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#Flipboard #Surf #ContentDiscovery
Hands-On with Surf: Flipboard's App for Fediverse Discovery
Explore Surf, Flipboard's new app designed to simplify content discovery in the Fediverse and connect users with decentralized communities.Ken Yeung (Ken Yeung » TheLetterTwo.com)
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Tatort Saarbrücken: Clans, welche Clans?
Im aktuellen Sonntagskrimi aus Saarbrücken ist die grenzüberschreitende Kriminalität fest in den deutscher Hand.Sofia Taxidis (Tichys Einblick)
Derzeit wird die bewegende Gedenkfeier im ARD übertragen.
#Holocaustmemorialday.
Lasst uns alles dafür tun, dass die Straßen nicht anders werde.
Holocaust-Überlebende Friedländer: "Die Straßen waren anders als sonst" | tagesschau.de search.app/ur5hmAUkU5cT...
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Gerne, hier ist eine Alt-Text-Beschreibung des Bildes:
Das Bild zeigt eine große Halle, die mit vielen Menschen gefüllt ist, die in Reihen sitzen und auf eine Bühne blicken. Im Vordergrund stehen mehrere brennende Kerzen in Glasbehältern. Im Mittelgrund stehen einige Personen, die scheinbar an einer Zeremonie teilnehmen. Im Hintergrund ist ein großes Publikum zu sehen. Die Atmosphäre wirkt würdevoll und andächtig. Das Bild könnte eine Gedenkveranstaltung oder eine ähnliche Zeremonie zeigen.
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Hier ist eine Beschreibung des Bildes für Menschen, die es nicht sehen können:
Das Bild zeigt eine Gedenkveranstaltung, die in einer großen Halle stattfindet, vor dem Hintergrund eines Nachbaus des Eingangs des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz. Die Halle ist mit zahlreichen Menschen gefüllt, die in Reihen sitzen und stehen. Im Vordergrund ist ein Sarg zu sehen, um den herum mehrere Personen stehen. Die Atmosphäre wirkt würdevoll und still. Die Architektur des Nachbaus des Konzentrationslagers ist deutlich erkennbar und bildet einen düsteren Hintergrund für die Veranstaltung. Große Bildschirme sind an den Seiten der Halle angebracht. Das gesamte Bild vermittelt einen Eindruck von Trauer und Erinnerung.
Bereitgestellt von @altbot, generiert mit Gemini
New #blog post: Playing around with Deepseek (NSFW)
Content-warning: there's strong and sexual language, as well as reference to some (IMO unpleasant) celebrities in this post.
After seeing a post by @alecmuffett recently, I decided to play around a bit and see just how censory #deepseek is.
Most of the answer is unsurprising, but it also turned out the #LLM's ruleset is surprisingly liberal in other areas
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Playing Around With Deepseek (NSFW)
Over the weekend, I saw some discussion of Deepseek and it's limitations around Chinese political topics. I decided to have a play around with it to start to map out its boundaries and it's susceptibiwww.bentasker.co.uk
Eight Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling for in 2025
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/eight-natural-phenomena-worth-traveling-for-in-2025-180985898/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Eight Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling for in 2025
You won’t regret experiencing bioluminescence, swimming with sperm whales or witnessing the rush of a horizontal waterfallEmily Matchar (Smithsonian Magazine)
If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharmaceuticals to roadworks to (of course) rockets, and then make the rich pay their taxes.
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