Authoritarianism of the kind that Americans are used to condemning abroad has become increasingly normal in the United States.

The cult of personality was apparent as Donald Trump’s cabinet convened on Wednesday in a marathon session that could have embarrassed even a seasoned strongman, providing for three hours and 17 minutes of fawning television coverage.

There was Steve Witkoff, the president’s top envoy and negotiator, standing up in the increasingly gilded Cabinet Room, offering praise that could have made even Vladimir Putin blush.
“There’s only one thing I wish for
– that the Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since this Nobel award was ever talked about,”
he said to applause from secretaries of state, defense and other top cabinet officials.

Or was it Stephen Miller on Fox News in effect criminalising the opposition to Trump and calling Chicago a “killing field” despite controverting facts.
“The Democrat party is not a political party, it is a domestic extremist organisation,” he said in a strident tone,
claiming that the party was devoted “exclusively to the defence of hardened criminals, gangbangers and illegal alien killers and terrorists”.

Was it the president calling, on social media, for the arrest of a wealthy financier and his son for their support for civil society?
“George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” he wrote on Truth Social.

Or perhaps it was the revocation of Secret Service protection for his electoral rival Kamala Harris,
or the FBI raid on the home of John Bolton, his former national security adviser, who has become an outspoken critic of the president’s national security agenda.
Or was it in the commonplace nature of a raid outside an elementary school in Mt Pleasant in Washington DC, where police staked out a school with a large Spanish-speaking population in what became just another immigration raid in America.

Don Moynihan, a political scientist and professor at the University of Michigan, wrote this week that “today, America is a competitive authoritarian system, with a rapidly increasing emphasis on the authoritarian part.”

The checklist to consolidate power, he wrote, includes efforts to control the government bureaucracy,
the military, internal security, the legal system, civil society, higher education, the media and elections.
The pursuit of those aims had been “systematic”, he wrote.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy?

People who have experienced the kind of authoritarianism the US used to condemn abroad highlight worrying signs

^{Andrew Roth (The Guardian)}

Despues de mucho tiempo he agregado un RSS a mi blog. Hasta ahorita tiene lo basico y parece funcionar bien.

Actualize algunas paginas y agregue un tema customizado con colores azul como primario, verde como secundario y un tono purpura como terciario.

Mañana en la mañana subire una nueva entrada. Veremos que tal se actualiza el Feed.

blog.iagosto.dev/rss.xml

#iagostoblog #blog #websencilla #simpleweb #rss

No. 10 Miami digs in late, tops No. 6 Notre Dame 27-24 in a thriller
https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-miami-football-score-f63f2d411e1a1f4c1ada7c0910d1de87?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sports @sports-AssociatedPress

Afganistan'da deprem! En az 250 ölü, 500 yaralı: Afganistan'ın Pakistan sınırındaki eyaleti Kunar'da meydana gelen 6 büyüklüğündeki depremde en az 250 kişinin hayatını kaybettiği en az 500 kişinin de yaralandığı açıklandı.

Kaynak: HABER7.COM

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#haber #gündem #sondakika #news #press #worldnews eshahaber.com.tr/haber/afganis… EshaHaber.com.tr #Afganistan #deprem #Kunar #sondakika #haber

I believe Judge Sooknanan was woken up at 3am today with an emergency motion in this case, and is still going strong holding the government's feet to the fire. In the middle of a holiday weekend.

I'm sure she's delighted.

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Enable Backports And Testing Repositories In #Debian #Linux 13

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Its clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...

"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”

Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."

#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc…

August 30, 2025

Just days before Labor Day, a holiday designed to celebrate the importance and power of American workers in the United States, the Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects, and the Department of Energy an…

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

53% of people in Singapore disapprove of gay sex

50% of people in Singapore disapprove of gay marriage

Who are the people who think gay married people are fine as long as they don’t have sex?

channelnewsasia.com/singapore/…

#Singapore #TootSea #LGBTQ

Singapore residents' views on gay sex and marriage liberalised over past decade: IPS study

Slightly over half of the respondents in the survey view gay sex and gay marriage as wrong.

^{Davina Tham (Channel NewsAsia)}

Taxes, Psychedelics, Crypto: Kyrsten Sinema Sees Opportunity Under Trump (Wall Street Journal)

wsj.com/politics/policy/kyrste…
memeorandum.com/250831/p115#a2…

Taxes, Psychedelics, Crypto: Kyrsten Sinema Sees Opportunity Under Trump

From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on memeorandum.

^memeorandum

What to do with C++ modules?

Link: nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Valle d'Aosta al voto il 28 settembre: autonomisti a caccia dell’exploit ma l’incertezza domina
https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/01/news/valle_d_aosta_al_voto_il_28_settembre_autonomisti_a_caccia_dell_exploit_ma_l_incertezza_domina-424818253/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Valle d'Aosta al voto il 28 settembre: autonomisti a caccia dell’exploit ma l’incertezza domina

Il Pd punta a rinnovare l’alleanza vincente con l’Union Valdôtaine che però stavolta guarda anche al centro. Il centrodestra unito vuole contarsi: la Lega non …

^{la Repubblica}

OpenStreetMap.org doesn’t have a cookie notice because we do not track people. #openstreetmap

From: @codinghorror
infosec.exchange/@codinghorror…

Jeff Atwood

2025-08-30 22:54:27

Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…

Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar

The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.

^{Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)}

The early days of #Linux

lwn.net/Articles/928581/

People who don’t know better laugh at me.

But I’ll say it outright: a well-serviced cassette deck will run circles around vinyl. Cleaner, warmer, more dynamic—without all the pops and skips people pretend are “character.”

The problem isn’t money. You can get a solid deck cheap. The real cost is time. You have to know which models are worth buying, then find one that’s been properly serviced. And here’s the kicker—even if it’s a great deck, leave it alone too long and it’ll start slipping.

That’s why cassettes are both the best and the most maddening format. They’ll give you sound that shocks skeptics, and then punish you for daring to neglect them.

AI NEWSWIRE: Startup Once Worth $1.5 Billion Now Worthless

Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid questions over the sales of an A.I. product. Its downfall hints at a broader downturn.....

nytimes.com/2025/08/31/technol…

My data have not been verified but my work is highly reproducible.
- Downloads (csv, img, dump) ➡️ decompwlj.com/
- Algorithms ➡️ oeis.org/wiki/Decomposition_in…

#decompwlj #math #mathematics #maths #sequence #OEIS #Downloads #Algorithms #graph #triangular #numbers #primes #PrimeNumbers #palindromes #animation #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #sequences #NumberTheory #classification #integer #decomposition #number #theory #equation #graphs #sieve #fundamental #theorem #arithmetic #research

When you write a #Unix system in #JavaScript to run in a web browser, and finally get it to the point you can write code inside it.

#programming #osdev

cc here is a 'code compiler' not a 'C compiler' stop being picky.

Kristi Noem Competes to Be Trump’s Biggest Sycophant. Via @bulwarkonline #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ youtu.be/oYoSu5rqP34?...

Kristi Noem Competes to Be Tru...

I want to share something I'm really proud of.

In late July, I came across a 2016 article from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. It discussed intersex women, including those with XY chromosomes, but the language was outdated, reductionist, and stigmatizing. It called them "genetically men," leaned on biological determinism, and framed their lives through a medical lens that undermined their dignity.

I couldn't let that stand, so I wrote to them. I explained why the language was harmful, pointed to current science and bioethics, and asked them to take responsibility.

To their credit, they listened. They replied quickly, acknowledged my concerns, and began reviewing the article. A couple of weeks later they sent me a revised draft. They had already removed the misgendering, replaced pathologizing phrases, and shifted the framing away from chromosomes as destiny. I suggested a few more adjustments to make the language even more accurate and affirming.

At the end of August, they published the updated article in English and Danish. The harmful wording is largely gone. The framing now centers human diversity, patient-centered care, and informed consent.

It may not sound dramatic, but these changes matter. Words shape how people see themselves, how they are treated by doctors, and how society understands trans and intersex lives. Correcting language in a piece like this helps chip away at stigma that has caused harm for decades.

Here's what this looked like in practice for me: I was assertive. I named where I disagreed. I brought factual evidence. I kept the exchange in good faith. I stayed open to change and supported it when it happened.

It is one article, one institution, one moment. Little by little, contribution by contribution, we are changing things. I'm proud that I stood up and made a difference here, and I'll keep doing what I can to push for a world where our communities are seen, respected, and affirmed. 💜

Link to the revised article: novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/m…

#Intersex #Trans #LanguageMatters #PatientCenteredCare

More women than expected are born with a hidden variation in sex development - Novo Nordisk Fonden

AF MORTEN BUSCH Kønskromosomerne giver normalt svaret på om du er kvinde eller mand. Kvinder har XX. Mænd XY. En lille gruppe af kvinder er dog rent genetisk mænd.

^{Novo Nordisk Fonden}