Imagine believing in Intelligent Design… and then buying damn nose spray because your main air ducts like to close the moment you get sick or lie down.
Damn, you are sick? Guess you don't need that much oxygen! Prepare for your mouth to dry out and become a desert as you sleep.
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom's VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools software, exploited by Chinese hackers since October 2024.
6 Tricks for Introverts Who Want to Be More Social
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How to Be More Social As an Introvert, According to Experts
Meeting new people is harder than it seems. Here’s how to be more social as an introvert, according to therapists.Jenna Ryu (SELF)
A man with a heart vs a heartless man
#JBPritzker, gov of #Illinois, has urged the #Trump admin to suspend its #immigration crackdown in his state from Friday to Sunday, to allow #children to “spend #Halloween weekend without #fear”.
In a letter addressed to #DHS Secy, #KristiNoem [dog killer], & the heads of #ICE & #CBP, Pritzker said federal agents were “ignoring their duty to protect the public & uphold the #constitution”…
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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Illinois governor calls on Trump officials to halt ICE raids for Halloween
JB Pritzker urges suspension of immigration crackdown to let children ‘spend Halloween weekend without fear’Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
Democrat #JBPritzker said such raids had “endangered the lives of innocent community members & #traumatized #children”.
Pritzker’s letter, which was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times & Politico, came as a federal appeals court blocked an order which would have required a senior border patrol official to give daily briefings to a judge about #immigration sweeps in #Chicago.
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Illinois #Trump #children #Halloween
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Gov. Pritzker asks Noem to pause ICE enforcement for Halloween: 'Please let children be children'
The request, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, comes four days after ICE agents fired tear gas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood as families and children walked to a Halloween parade.Chicago Sun-Times
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@MakersHour Q1 Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
The name my parents chose for me can neither be spelt nor pronounced correctly by them. (Happens if you choose a foreign name and don't speak the language). I have two birthdays, one actual and one when I should have been born, they're almost 3 months apart. If you misspell my surname I have a famous artist for a name sake. I used to have an own pen for each writing project.
Crumbs, that is awkward.
I remember a contestant on a tv quiz show in the 80s who had to explain her name.
Her mum chose it but her dad, when he went to register it, didn't know how to spell it.
So she became 'Melony'.
It was something like that with my parents, too. My mother doesn't even get the first syllable right and couldn't care less.
I'm one of the few people who have to show their passport to their own mother.
What to make of Trump's wild nuclear threat.
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What to Make of Trump’s Wild Nuclear Threat
Let's break this down, sentence by sentence.Fred Kaplan (Slate)
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Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
A1: Hello, I am Alfred, maker, carer, caretaker, and miniaturist story teller.
When I was about 7 years old I ‘borrowed’ some aluminium sheet from Dad’s work stash. I did my first bit of metal cutting and panel beating to make a knight’s armour gauntlet because I had seen one in a book. It was fitted around a rubber washing up glove and included all the movable joints hinged on copper wire ‘rivets’. I wore it to school, and the teachers took it off me until home time as I wasn’t allowed to play with it during the breaks. While wearing it, I could play at having a robot hand.
Tonight’s soundtrack is: The Essential Status Quo – Volume 3.
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Un CRS alcoolisé tire «accidentellement» sur son collègue à la sortie d'un fast food
L'histoire pourrait prêter à rire si elle n'avait pas mis en danger de mort de nombreux clients d'un Burger King de l'Allier.B (Contre Attaque)
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I've been playing around with Kimi K2 on Groq (with a Q) via TypingMind, and it's been an eye-opening experience to see just how much *truly fast* inference changes my perspective of LLMs for work.
Make sure to watch the video: macstories.net/notes/ai-experi…
AI Experiments: Fast Inference with Groq and Third-Party Tools with Kimi K2 in TypingMind - MacStories
I’ll talk about this more in depth in Monday’s episode of AppStories (if you’re a Plus subscriber, it’ll be out on Sunday), but I wanted to post a quick note on the site to show off what I’ve been experimenting with this week.Federico Viticci (MacStories)
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Der #Journalist Dawit Isaak wurde 2001 in #Eritrea festgenommen. Er hatte sich beim Informationsministerium über die Schließung unabhängiger Medienkanäle beschwert. Seither wird er ohne Kontakt zur Außenwelt festgehalten. Die Behörden verweigern die Auskunft über seinen Aufenthaltsort oder seinen Gesundheitszustand.
Die Inhaftierung von #DawitIsaak und anderer #Journalisten ist rechtswidrig. Wir fordern ihre Freilassung!
#menschenrechte #acatdeutschland #acatessen #folter #Pressefreiheit
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Re Carlo III avvia il processo per togliere i titoli ad Andrea - Europa - Ansa.it
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Re Carlo III avvia il processo per togliere i titoli ad Andrea - Europa - Ansa.it
Re Carlo III ha avviato il processo "formale" per rimuovere i titoli del principe Andrea, travolto dagli scandali, a partire dai legami col defunto faccendiere-pedofilo americano Jeffrey Epstein. Lo ha annunciato Buckingham Palace. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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AI Firm Udio Angers Users With Universal Deal Restricting Songs
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Bloomberg Talks: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright
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Q1: Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
#MakersHour
A1: US resident, embroidery and piecing are my crafts, or cutting up cardboard into stand-up figurines.
I started needlecraft as a non-media habit during graduate school. If I had finished my original graduate school programme, I might now be losing my civil service scientist job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as a result of government malfeasance. But I could have been a Mars Rover Driver. I could have been Somebody!
Missing out on JPL, is very like me missing out on doing my engineering degree at Brunel or Imperial. I got offers from both, but parents wanted me to go somewhere closer to home.
More of Rüdesheim
#filmphotography #blackandwhite #Germany #medieval
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The second roll I shot in Rüdesheim Am Rhein. I finished the roll closer to home in Cologne. Tomorrow I have a roll of something very special to share! Adox HR-50, a film I’ve never shot befo…Rose LaCroix
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Re Carlo III avvia il processo per togliere i titoli ad Andrea - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Re Carlo III ha avviato il processo "formale" per rimuovere i titoli del principe Andrea, travolto dagli scandali, a partire dai legami col defunto faccendiere-pedofilo americano Jeffrey Epstein. Lo ha annunciato Buckingham Palace. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
“UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND UDIO ANNOUNCE UDIO’S FIRST STRATEGIC AGREEMENTS FOR NEW LICENSED AI MUSIC CREATION PLATFORM”
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UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND UDIO ANNOUNCE UDIO’S FIRST STRATEGIC AGREEMENTS FOR NEW LICENSED AI MUSIC CREATION PLATFORM Companies settle copyright infringement litigation and collaborate on groundbreaking new creative product suite SANTA MONICA, Octo…Mallory Hinkle (Universal Music Group)
How to set up encrypted storage on Amazon EC2
Step by step instructions to create a remote and secure data storage unit with high availability and confidentiality using EBS volumes in Amazon Web ServicesBob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Blackthorn. A local favourite for sweet liquors, but they have to "get frost" first. Nowadays it hardly ever gets cold enough while they are ripe, so you have no other options but to put them in the freezer.
I once tried eating one just like that, it was not a pleasant experience.
After some weeks (or months?) in which I had no time for maintaining my collection of media acocunts in the #Fediverse (fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview…) it seems like #Ghost has grown too big: They have federated so many sites 🤯
All their news-sites are here:
explore.ghost.org/news
Just search with "@" + URL here and you'll see one of them is federated.
And if you find one, why not tagging me here, so I can include them?
Oh and boosting this post, may also help 😁
#News #Media #SocialMedia
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Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge
He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Buckingham Palace says "these censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him".BBC News
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Catting as intended 😻
Seriously, though, in case you are not familiar; unlike dogs, cats live in full 3D space, and higher up is always better in terms of observing anything. So expect him to spend more time up there. And on top of anything else you never expected him to be able to get onto 😂
Also, I have to compliment him on his choices; large window, good view of the approach angles, no dogs to bother him, AND a wall socket in case he ever needs to charge any of his personal devices.
Germany must not leave future tech leadership to US and China – Merz
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An old picture from 2014 shot with my first digital camera.
#canon #eos1000d #photography #fotografie #blackandwhite #schwarzweiss
#horse #Pferd
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> It's that time of year again so break out a Karlheinz Stockhausen Halloween mask!
Podcast feed unable to play in podcast apps.
Describe the current behavior Running the latest version of iOS, currently iOS 26, it appears as if no PeerTube RSS feed works in the Apple podcast app. For example, my RSS feed below does not seem...rkingett (GitHub)
Trump admin demands states exempt ISPs from net neutrality and price laws
US says net neutrality is price regulation and is banned in $42B grant program.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
If you don't know who Mastodon and Mockingbird are, you need to read another of his hilarious epics', "Squeeze Me"
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Blazing-fast distributed storage that scales to billions of files. O1 disk seek, with S3 and others compatible.Open-source Projects
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in reply to Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 • • •I think the intelligent design argument stems from the belief that God didn't make mistakes when making us.
I could argue that he didn't, he just didn't make us all at once, and he's still not done.
Not that I place much weight on my belief in him, however much I happen to, but it's a fun thought experiment.
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