"Over the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, CNN has erupted in regular shoutfests over the latest Trump outrage. Fox News, too, has had its moments of internal combustion, especially on its highest-rated show, 'The Five,' where rotating co-host Jessica Tarlov often snipes at her conservative peers," @EWemple writes.
"As for MSNBC: Does anyone ever debate stuff on this network?" wapo.st/4md3dKU
#Helferich ist ein Faschist und verortet sich selbst in der Tradition der NSDAP. Nun sitzt er im Bundestag. Und Helferich ist auch kein "freundliches Gesicht". Es ist die hässliche Fratze des #Faschismus. Er würde wohl gerne das Propaganda- Ministerium übernehmen. www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...
There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/… ) asking the EU parliament to ban "conversion therapy" (pseudo-medical efforts to "cure" queers). It's at 1.2 million votes over 1 million; surplus votes are good because some votes may be disqualified, so EU nationals, it's still worth voting!
One thing I notice, it looks like DENMARK and CROATIA are *so* close to passing— under 1000 votes each. Does anyone here know how to inject a message in the Danish internet?
Think I've found digital Nirvana. Following #esc and #eurovision tags on #Mastodon. Humour, music. All the nations chipping in their realtime thoughts. Died and gone to digital heaven 🎤🎶🇪🇺
Canale dell'Ateneo Libertario di Milano, trovi tutte le info anche sul nostro blog: https://federazione-anarchica-milanese-fai.noblogs.org/ E gli eventi su: https://puntello.org/place/Ateneo%20libertario
Sommet arabe à Bagdad : un appel international à "arrêter l’effusion de sang" tandis qu'Israël élargit son offensive dans la bande de Gaza#ISRAEL #ARABE #IRAK #ESPAGNE #BAGDAD #GUERRE #GAZA #QATAR
On Wednesday, Parliament's Privileges Committee released its final report into the MPs who protested the Treaty Principles Bill with a haka in the House in November 2024.
There was surprise and shock over the recommended punishments for Te Pāti Māori MPs, which seemed both unprecedented and extreme.
In retrospect, considering this week's response from Parliament's Speaker, the advice now available from Parliament's Clerk, and Committee Chair Judith Collins' public defence of her own report, that the initial reaction was overly calm. The committee report now appears partisan, indefensible and open to attacks of racism.
On Tuesday, 20 May, Parliament's House will debate whether or not to accept the Privileges Committee Report and its recommendations for punishments, namely that Te Pāti Māori's two co-leaders be suspended from Parliament for 21 days and their junior colleague for seven days, all without salary.
Talking to RNZ's Morning Report, Collins gave her view of the actions and motivations.
"This is not about haka, this is not about tikanga. This is about MPs impeding a vote, acting in a way that could be seen as intimidating MPs trying to exercise their right to vote.
"After Te Pāti Māori had exercised their right to vote, they then stopped the ACT Party from exercising theirs."
That is not true.
ACT had already voted. Every party had voted before Te Pāti Māori did. As the smallest party in Parliament, Te Pāti Māori is always the last to be called on for their vote.
It has been that way all Parliament.
Judith Collins could not fail to be aware of that.
The vote tallies and outcome had not yet been declared by the Speaker, so the fuller voting process was incomplete, and disrupting it was disorderly behaviour; but the claim that the MPs were intimidating another party to prevent it from voting is entirely unfounded.
The answer Collins gave RNZ was either misinformation (perhaps Judith Collins mistakenly believes the MP's actions were more serious than they were) or it was disinformation (in the aftermath of the report, she might have felt it necessary to convince the country the incident was more serious than it was).
Whatever the reason for the untruth, the claim suggests that Collins has a more jaundiced view of the MPs' actions than is realistic or defensible.
Did she fundamentally misunderstand the MPs' actions during the investigation (which would cast the committee findings into doubt), or did political or other prejudice make those actions appear worse than the evidence showed?
Research has repeatedly found that in any justice system, dark-skinned defendants are treated more severely based on ethnicity.
Findings based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the sequence of events would be highly embarrassing. Findings tainted by political or other prejudice would bring both the committee and the Parliament into disrepute.
#avviso: Ehi state andando in manifestazione? Fate sapere che succede anche qui su mastodon, abbiamo aperto l'istanza per questo! Potete anche mandare foto, ma considerate di oscurare i volti e qualsiasi altro segno di riconoscimento (scarpe, loghi dei vestiti, tatuaggi etc), tramite l'app ObscuraCam (f-droid.org/en/packages/org.wi…). Usate invece Scrambled Exif (f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ja…) o le note personali di signal per togliere i metadati all'immagine.
this was Verizon's reward for buckling under Trump's demands that they be more racist, and sitting on their hands while Elon Musk steals their $2 billion FAA contract
I’ve unfollowed so many people and there’s still more carefree #eurovision chatter showing up on my timeline. It’s gonna be a long night. A genocide? What? Shh! We’re trying to have fun here!
You can’t even boycott entertainment to show solidarity with a people facing genocide as we speak? Entertainment with an entry by and whose main sponsor is a company from the country committing the genocide?
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Eurovision news:
Today, on the day of the #Eurovision song contest finals, one of the competitors killed over 70 people in heavy bombardment.
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources (Bloomberg)
Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair…
In the world of independent labels, where cash flow is measured in single units and release schedules hang by a thread, even a whisper of a change in cost
Almeno 140 palestinesi sono stati uccisi a Gaza nelle ultime 24 ore, in un'escalation letale mentre Israele sembra pronto a lanciare una nuova grande offensiva nel territorio assediato.
UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
Government legal guidance urging retailers in England to offer millions of consumers deals and discounts on minimally processed and nutritious food was dropped after a lobbying campaign
How thin is spider silk compared to the wiring on a chip? Here's a close-up of a spiderweb strand diagonally across an Intel 386 processor. The spiderweb is 4 µm thick, just a bit thinner than this 1985 chip's 5 µm metal wiring. Wiring in modern chips is 100 times thinner.
Solder fumes are not nice on the lungs; nor are fumes from superglue, epoxy, or a whole mess of other things we often find ourselves using on the bench. Some people might be able to go the fume hood route to toss that all outside, but for the rest of us, there’s fume extractors. [Raph] has produced an extra-large, carbon-filtering, two-stage fume extractor that by all accounts really sucks — it is effective at hoovering up solder fumes up to 10″ from its inlet. Note the 18V tool battery in the base. That’ll go for a bit. Even better, [Raph] built a battery box for an 18 V cordless tool battery, and broke out banana plugs so this doubles as a variable power supply via a cheap LM2596 based DC-DC converter. It also serves as a speed controller for the fans, which makes us wonder if you can adjust the PSU output and the fan speed independently…
Maximum suckage is achieved through careful baffle design. Check out the blog to see the trial-and-error process at work. Of course, having a 200 mm axial fan and 140 mm blower fan front and rear is going to move some air no matter what. Which is required to get air flow through the 38 mm thick activated carbon filter that should scrub all nasties quite nicely. We aren’t filtration experts but we can agree with [Raph]’s estimate that it will last “a while”.
Das Bild zeigt eine atemberaubende Sonnenuntergangslandschaft. Der Himmel über dem Horizont ist in warmen Farben wie Orange und Gelb erstrahlt, während er sich nach oben in tiefes Blau verändert. Einige wenige, spärliche Wolken schweben im Himmel, die in der Abenddämmerung leicht schwarz erscheinen. Im Vordergrund sind die Silhouetten von Bäumen und Hügeln zu sehen, die sich gegen den Himmel abzeichnen. Die Landschaft wirkt ruhig und friedlich, mit einer sanften Übergangsfarbe zwischen den Farben des Himmels und der dunklen Umgebung.
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Today, we analysed the first act of #returntomonkeyisland and created a puzzle graph. This gives us an idea of how many puzzles can be fitted into one hour of gameplay.
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