Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier
On wretched display this week: the three ugly faces of MAGA.The New Republic
Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating
Link: ft.com/content/e456ea34-c6ad-4…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Moody’s strips US of top-notch triple-A credit rating
Agency warns of rising debt and deficit paymentsPeter Wells (Financial Times)
Trump Says He’s Willing to Travel to China for Xi Meeting
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/trump-says-he-s-willing-to-travel-to-china-for-xi-meeting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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William Lindsey :toad: (@wdlindsy@toad.social)
"Late Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration could not justify the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants with the Alien Enemies Act.toad.social
«When maddening behavior becomes the standard of a society, people learn to compete for the right to engage in it. Envy blinds people and makes them compete for addiction.»
Ivan Illich, "Tools for conviviality":
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
#Gaza: #Israel hat am Freitag die Operation "Gideon's Chariots" gestartet, die offenbar grösste Offensive bisher überhaupt. Nach zahlreichen Luftangriffen rücken jetzt massiv Panzer ein. IDF hat außerdem damit begonnen, das Dorf Jabalia und das Flüchtlingslager Jabalia einzukesseln. 1/2
IDF starts renewed ground offe...
IDF starts renewed ground offensive in the Gaza Strip
The military said that it had launched several strikes and deployed forces to secure swaths of land in the Gaza Strip to renew its offensive in the enclave.By CORINNE BAUM, DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD (The Jerusalem Post)
"Unlike the more charitably inclined members of the laity, moreover, the clergy never issues acts of grace that relieved their debtors of their burdens."
— Daniel Lord Smail: Legal Plunder, p. 269
New location unlocked thanks to my new artist buddy Gill 🔥 Came here for foxes, seen none this time, made a sketch
#dailysketching #sketchbook #walktosee #sketchbookartist #drawingoutside #mastoart
When you’ve realize imitation isn’t flattery, just pure envy. I’ve passed this way before, interesting to see it half a decade behind trend elsewhere.
Anyways, a throwback to March, 2019.
#35mm #filmphotography #photography #darkshadowsandemptyhallways #pointrichmomd #flashbackfriday
Interesting (but nerdy) discussion of the current geopolitical #economic situation.
#US needs a sustainable model to reduce consumption, the #budget #deficit, and current account deficit.
Why not assess #tariffs on financial and #capital flows? e.g. tax stock and financial transactions. Of course there would be downsides and it might not be politically feasible (#oligarchs will oppose).
#economy #economics #finance #oligarchy #tradewar #geopolitics #China #Trump
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Why Global Imbalances matter
Podcast Episode · The Eurointelligence Podcast · 05/16/2025 · 35mApple Podcasts
The Labour party losing votes to the Reform party is pathetic. The UK is a dead country.
Reform U.K. Wins Special Election by Just 6 Votes, in Blow to Labour:
nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/e…
Archive:
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OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/16/openais-planned-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-would-be-bigger-than-monaco/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco | TechCrunch
OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco, according to a report from Bloomberg.Connie Loizos (TechCrunch)
Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations
More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024. To combat the rise of sophisticated conversational scams that deceive victims over the course of a phone call, we introduced Scam Detection late last year to U.S.-based English-speaking Phone by Google public beta users on Pixel phones.
We use AI models processed on-device to analyze conversations in real-time and warn users of potential scams. If a caller, for example, tries to get you to provide payment via gift cards to complete a delivery, Scam Detection will alert you through audio and haptic notifications and display a warning on your phone that the call may be a scam.
New AI-Powered Scam Detection Features to Help Protect You on Android
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Ab...Google Online Security Blog
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Somehow I don't think crying about "biological males in toilets" is really going to make any difference in this, but that's all the 'effort' the State will give.
"Boys will be boys..."
Incidentally, I notice Mark Francois is back in Westminster again.
theguardian.com/society/2025/m…
#Misogyny #Patriarchy #UK #UKPOL #UKpolitics
Ministers ‘oblivious’ to UK’s scale of violence against women and girls, say MPs
Refuges turn down 65% of requests for support, says parliamentary committee calling for better monitoringJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
Trump Says India Offered to Cut US Tariffs But He’s in No Rush
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/trump-says-india-offered-to-cut-us-tariffs-but-he-s-in-no-rush?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"In cases where the consul was the victim of predation, responsibility for warehousing the items seized from his place of residence, bizarrely, was often assigned to the consul himself."
— Daniel Lord Smail: Legal Plunder, p. 203
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The UK’s Clean Power Future Relies on a 100-Year-Old Technology
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-16/uk-s-clean-power-future-relies-on-100-year-old-hydropower-technology?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Even seemingly innocuous objects were worth something. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand why, in Marseille in the year 1331, a man named Peire de Sepeda should have chosen to make good on a debt by invading the home of his debtor and removing, of all things, a tablecloth and two napkins. There is always the possibility, of course, that the debtor, Antoni de Serra, was eating off them at the time of the home invasion: the record carefully specifies that the tablecloth was on the table when Peire seized it. In this case, the value of the linens may have been incidental to the insult delivered by their seizure."
— Daniel Lord Smail: Legal Plunder, pp. 144-145
Pakistan Celebrates Ferdowsi Day, Honoring the Persian Epic Legacy
In a tribute to one of the most influential Persian poets, Pakistan commemorated Ferdowsi Day with a ceremony in Rawalpindi, highlighting the enduring legacy of Shahnameh and its impact across regional languages and cultures.iranpress.com
How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/doge-social-security-musk-trump-cuts/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-WashPost
50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →The Technium
If you love architecture and design, there are some spectacular projects on The Local Project, beautifully filmed and well narrated.
17 May 1908 | A Polish Jew, Abraham Mandelbaum, was born in Nowy Sącz. A merchant.
In #Auschwitz from 16 April 1942.
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He perished in the camp on 5 June 1942.
tripurastarnews.com/nada-india… #cleansport #antidoping #datajournalism
NADA India Hosts WADA’s Global Anti-Doping Intelligence & Investigations Network Workshop In New Delhi. - TRIPURA STAR NEWS
New Delhi, Delhi, 16th of May, 2025 : National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) India with support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, hosted the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Intelligence & Investigations (I&I) Workshop from 12 to 16 May 2025 in…tripurastarnews30 (TRIPURA STAR NEWS)
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この日の畑仕事のミッションは、びっしり生えているスギナ退治だったのですが、むしる前に美しいスギナのポートレート。
#nature #photography #マストドン写真部 #fedibird
Election Truth Alliance
Election Analysis: Ensuring Fair and Transparent ResultsElection Truth Alliance
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in reply to btaf45 • • •Nice, wholesale illegal wire tapping. It's OK, it's legal because it's AI and Google is totally not storing any recordings. They say this is all on-device, but that's an "oops" or equivalent from them hoovering up recordings of every phone call you use one of their ~~surveillance endpoints~~ phones on.
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in reply to plz1 • • •What do you mean, "illegal?" If the phone user consents to turning it on, that makes it legal.
I hate to defend Google, but I will absolutely defend single-party consent for recording. Don't like it? Don't fucking call me in the first place. It absolutely grinds my gears when shitty software (including from Google) plays an obnoxious warning message when I want to record a call, even though I have the right to do so without warning.
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