https://youtu.be/xbjxDMDTdEU Tech You can now claim your piece of Apple's $95 million Siri privacy settlement Panasonic will slash its global workforce by 10,000 Google settles lawsuit that accused it of fostering systemic bias against Black employee…
#DOGE has turned its attention to small, #independent entities
NPR has identified close to 40 entities — inside, adjacent to & OUTSIDE of the #government — where DOGE & the #Trump admin have turned their attention in recent weeks.
It's the latest example of how DOGE is attempting to expand its reach beyond high-profile Cabinet agencies, & in some cases far beyond the #ExecutiveBranch & the #FederalGovernment entirely.
"and interviews with employees who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly and fear retaliation from the Trump administration."
I don't get it, how else will they retaliate but cutting their jobs, which they are slated to do anyway.
Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere And build them a home, a little place of their own The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings
And they can appear to themselves everyday On closed circuit TV To make sure they're still real It’s the only connection they feel
Most of the filthy rich and the filthy rich wannabes are all like Trump. Shocking, I know. One of them finally came out of their closet. All of them make me cringe.
My take: he has lots of discoloration and random "age spots" on his face. He looks his age, which he doesn't want people to see. Many of these marks/spots are in the color range that orange slop hides.
Physically, I’m nearly his age, and I remember Man-Tan coming out when I was a teenager.
Old 60s civil-rights song: “Well, there’s just one thing, / I don’t understan’: / Why the Southern Whites / Use Man-Tan.”
But the thing about Man-Tan is that’s not traditional make-up. It’s a chemical lotion that turns skin dark. And if you abuse it, it turns skin orange. It appears that, after about 60 years, the Syphilitic Orangutan hasn’t yet worked that out.
I swear, Americans are the most sprawl-pilled, density-phobic population on earth. It’s wild how little understanding there is of the true costs of sprawl and car dependency.
The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only because we turn it on. If enough of us turn it off, it is gone. Think of it: It is in your power to plunge Bill Gates into poverty, to send Peter Jennings off to 'Good Morning, Saskatchewan,' to rid the world of Disney-licensed products, to see Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer reduced to talking only to each other. Disconnect now! -- Michael Kelly (Editor-in-Chief, National Journal)
I'm preparing a presentation for a conference. The title: "The Rebellion will be self-hosted: Resisting the Digital Coup with #YunoHost"
I'm trying to describe how @yunohost has had a positive impact on my life. It's so hard to do so in 10 minutes or less 😅
A routine reminder that #YunoHost has a fundraising drive for the year so if you self-host through them and can afford to donate, any euro / dollar / yen counts: yunohost.org/donate.en.html Their volunteers are amazing ❤️
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.
I'm using yunohost within political collectives to bootstrap independent organizational infrastructure (mostly nocodb+n8n for custom systems, mattermost for chat, plus nextcloud for file sharing).
If you ever want to produce content, either educational or agitprop, about similar stacks, feel free to reach out. I have an endless backlog of stuff I have no capacity to self-produce.
"Former White House lawyers, diplomatic protocol officers and foreign affairs experts have told the Guardian that Donald Trump’s receipt of overseas gifts and targeted investments are 'unprecedented', as the White House remakes US foreign policy under a pay-for-access code that eclipses past administrations with characteristic Trumpian excess."
“If it was in any way clear what Starmer actually believes in and wants to do with the job, then it would matter far less which advisers he does and doesn’t choose to hire”
Le maestranze tutte della #mastofficina si riuniscono in un caloroso abbraccio collettivo per ringraziare @rapitadaglialieni per questo splendido cartello 😍
Air vent cover, comes in two flavours. The hex grid let light pass, while the striped one hides the view of the inside of the air vent, if correctly positioned.The hole diameter is 130mm, but you can scale it to fit almost any hole size.
🔴 Today: 237 days #Agadez #Niger #refugees #NoCPR ⚫️ Names, dates, places change, but the strategy is always the same: normalize and forget. 🔴 #KeepEyesOnSudan & #KeepEyesOnAgadez are links in the same chain: remember this & follow the tags to learn more. Lo sfruttamento dei #rifugiati e il ricatto dei loro diritti a mangiare, bere e avere una vita dignitosa sono totalmente inaccettabili e non negoziabili.
Nach meiner Meinung habe ich alles richtig gemacht. (siehe Foto) Habe einen Testbeitrag erstellt der neuer ist und schon rutscht der angeheftete Beitrag runter.
Mir ist durch den Kopf gegangen, dass wir auch mal eine Linkliste von unserem Lieblings-Fotoladen erstellen könnten. Also da wo wir persönlich beraten werden und dort auch einkaufen.
Das Bild zeigt eine Benutzeroberfläche mit dem Titel "Status und Sichtbarkeit" in einer deutschen Sprache. Es ist eine Liste von Optionen, die verschiedene Status für einen Beitrag oder eine Seite in einer Website darstellen. Die Optionen sind:
Entwurf: Nicht bereit zur Veröffentlichung.
Ausstehend: Auf die Überprüfung vor der Veröffentlichung warten.
Privat: Nur für Website-Administratoren und Redakteure sichtbar.
Geplant: Automatisch an einem ausgewählten Datum veröffentlichen.
Veröffentlicht: Sichtbar für jeden.
Passwortgeschützt: Nur sichtbar für diejenigen, die das Passwort kennen.
Oben gehalten: Diesen Beitrag im Blog oben halten.
Die Option "Veröffentlicht" ist derzeit ausgewählt, was bedeutet, dass der Beitrag für alle sichtbar ist. Darunter befindet sich eine Option "Oben gehalten", die aktiviert ist, was bedeutet, dass der Beitrag im Blog oben angezeigt wird.
Bereitgestellt von @altbot, privat und lokal generiert mit Ovis2-8B
As a male I enjoy their generous amount of anger and violence, and as a father of 1.5 little musicians, I love the colorful seven string guitar. I wonder if junior has enough finger skills for that, or if he's better off with his bass. As opposed to our oldest, who spent way more than a hundred hours, that year when we gave her a little ukulele, caved up with just her and all the easy tunes.
BRICS+ stands at a critical crossroads, navigating the delicate balance between reforming existing global governance structures and ambitiously seeking to redefine them.
When the starsbegan to pixalatethe serious realization hitthat we were all trappedwithin a glitchof the space/time continuum Somehow our Universe rippedand unless we can quickly repairthis torn cel…
Good afternoon. It's 4PM, Saturday, 17th May. The headlines: #Israel has initiated a significant assault in #Gaza, resulting in over 260 Palestinian deaths since Thursday. The UN Secretary-General urges an immediate halt to hostilities. A Russian drone attack in #Ukraine has claimed at least nine lives. In the #UK, three Iranians face charges under the National Security Act. Excitement mounts ahead of the Eurovision 2025 finale. #BBC #News
Gemini-2.5-Pro is awesome - almost as good as a human labeler with a PhD 😎😁
With the initial prompt I shared, it tends to be way, way better than the other LLMs used internally for validating labeling decisions.
Ultimately, however, for the time being, I think every decision will have to be reviewed and manually validated by a human being - i.e., me.
Gemini-2.5-pro only helps me to speed up a bit the process, by reinforcing my initial intuition after a quick Google search. From 30 seconds to 2 minutes to about 5 to 20 seconds.
Trump’s Saturday AM meltdown: Accuses “Radical Left Democrats” of using an illegal AUTOPEN to cover up a “stolen” 2020 election. Claims millions know the truth and vows, “THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN!” #press
With fewer than two weeks to go before the Atlantic hurricane season begins, a new report from FEMA says the disaster response agency is not ready. Nicole Sganga has more.
The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.
Gli Stati Generali della Lingua Italiana e l'annuncio di una Comunità italofona globale Mercoledì 16 aprile 2025, dalle ore 9.00 alle 12:00, si sono tenuti presso l’Auditorium del Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo di Roma, MAXXI, gli Stati Generali della lingua italiana nel mondo, principale appuntamento dedicato alla promozione della lingua italiana nel mondo. Cominciato... italofonia.info/gli-stati-gene…
Moody’s declassa il rating del credito degli Stati Uniti a causa delle crescenti preoccupazioni sul deficit federale
Moody’s ha abbassato il rating degli Stati Uniti da ‘AAA’ a ‘Aa1’, facendo perdere al paese il suo ultimo giudizio perfetto. La decisione è stata motivata dall’aumento costante del debito federale e dei costi degli interessi, che ormai superano quelli di altre nazioni con valutazioni simili. La mancata inversione di rotta da parte delle ultime…
Moody’s ha abbassato il rating degli Stati Uniti da ‘AAA’ a ‘Aa1’, facendo perdere al paese il suo ultimo giudizio perfetto. La decisione è stata motivata dall’aumento costante del debito federale …
L'immagine presenta un testo in italiano su uno sfondo rosso. Il testo è scritto in caratteri bianchi e si estende per tutta la superficie dell'immagine. Il testo è una lettera ironica rivolta a un tecnico di computer, che esprime frustrazione per un problema con il PC. La lettera critica il tecnico per il suo approccio, descrivendo come si comporta come se stesse parlando con un imbecille, e sottolinea che il PC non accende e che camminare le fa male al piede. In basso, in caratteri più piccoli, c'è una frase in italiano che dice: "Non c'è nulla di speciale ad essere Normale." L'autore della lettera è indicato come "ILMARZIANO."
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
"It’s very hard to have a serious conversation about whether Joe Biden had cognitive decline when the current president is ranting about groceries to the dictator in the UAE. If someone got onto the metro… sat next to you and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen’s skin or about being lord of the world or the reincarnation of Jesus – which is stuff that Trump has said –"
Mehdi joins ‘The Jim Acosta Show’ for a wide-ranging conversation on the news of the day, and his anger and frustration over ongoing political and media double standards.
✹✹✹ personal website moment - maintenance ✹✹✹ >>> still possible to join, just email me! <<<<
Hi BXL, We, Marie & Martin (@clemtre) have this idea to organize a day to take care of our personal websites communally. We'd like to come together in an informal in-person on-comptuer work-session, sharing food, drink & advice
You are welcome to come, learn next to us and ask questions, yet this day is not intended as an introduction making websites.
Where? In Bruxelles, probably at my co-working space near Zuid Station. When? Sunday, June 1st 2025
Are you interested, wanna comme? let us know here or via email > marie(at)verdeil(dot)net
Friends, I'm pleased to announce that I will be hosting a free to attend photo walk in conjunction with London Drugs for May is Photo Month, right here in Saskatoon.
The 24th, meeting place is outside the front entrance to Nutrien WonderHub at 10am. Comfortable walking shoes, water, and sun screen are recommended and not supplied by me.
Wondering whether this works... just in case you are, like me, trying to avoid certain ongoing musical events, feel free to boost this and add here your favourite small band or artist that never got the attention deserved. No matter the genre or whether still active or not. Starting:
Our top story: The Observer carried out a wide-ranging investigation into whether #Texas Partnerships, state-backed charter arrangements. have actually benefited Lone Star State kids in struggling schools. The results were troubling. texasobserver.org/texas-partne…
The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.
L'immagine mostra un panorama mozzafiato di un paesaggio montano. In primo piano, si vedono alberi di conifere verdi, che si stagliano contro un campo erboso di un verde brillante. Questo campo si estende verso le colline e le montagne che si ergono imponenti sullo sfondo. Le montagne, con le loro cime rocciose e sporgenti, sono coperte di vegetazione verde, creando un contrasto con il cielo azzurro punteggiato di nuvole bianche. La luce del sole illumina il paesaggio, accentuando i colori vivaci e creando un'atmosfera serena e tranquilla. Questo paesaggio è tipico delle regioni alpine, con le sue vallate verdi e le montagne maestose, che offrono un'immagine di bellezza naturale incontaminata.
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Yesterday I spent the day visiting the Cité du Train museum at Mulhouse, that bills itself as the largest train museum in Europe.
All in all a worthwhile experience, though it focuses primarily on trains rather than, say, signalling, network development, or things like block systems.
I think one of the highlights was a look into a DC electric power car…
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