“White House staff apparently had to get creative with some of the items Trump wanted hung around the fireplace, as they blocked hidden doors built into the room.”
They also block the viewports in those doors that allow staffers to keep an eye on what is happening in there. Interesting, no?
huffpost.com/entry/donald-trum…
Look What Donald Trump Has Done To The Oval Office
Trump has taken an unusually personal interest in redecorating the iconic seat of the American presidency.Sara Boboltz (HuffPost)
conspirator0.com/p/a-picture-i…
A picture isn't always worth a thousand words
Grok's capacity to detect AI-generated images leaves something to be desiredConspirador Norteño
Weird that I can't think of this off the top of my head but... who on the fedi is based in the PNW and is an implementer of / contributor to Fediverse software?
(small projects fine! tinkerers too! technical role or not! just trying to consider who I might be able to wrangle together to talk about stuff because I feel professionally isolated sometimes)
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This is the fascist state. Do you accept this? Support this? Stay quiet? Or resist?
#Together è un horror indipendente scritto e diretto dal semisconosciuto #MichaelShanks che sta facendo molto parlare di sé
Il tema alla base del film è quello delll'unione in una relazione tra due persone, esplorando questo tema quasi ancestrale con il più cronenberghiano dei modi: estremizzando l'archetipo della fisicità del corpo come un agglomerato di "carne" (in questo senso alcune parti mi hanno ricordato le creature di #robbottin in #lacosa di #johncarpenter),
#recensioni #cinema 1/5
ilarità e spaeamento stimolanti, e pur non essendo eccezionale o particolarmente originale, tuttavia è sicuramente interessante. Uno dei limiti del lavoro di #shanks, IMHO, è quello di aver giocato in modo troppo asimmetrico con la componente horror pura, relegandola ad una dimensione troppo inconsistente, e quindi ben presto le ripetute situazioni comiche (fino al debolissimo finale) sfociano quasi in macabre comedy che tende a sovrastare il mistero
4/5
dell'indagine sull'unione, e questo depotenzia l'impianto di un film che invece poteva dire la sua in modo meno sbrigativo
Certamente alcune scene sono molto iconiche, e penso che questo sia uno dei motivi per cui il film sta avendo così tanto riscontro, ma a parte ciò è un film che prova veramente a discostarsi dal solito horror e pertanto ne consiglio vivamente la visione
5/5 END
Democracy Atlas rule 4: Leadership lives in everyone
Cambodia demonstrates the value of leaders from all backgroundsMichael Angeloni (If you can keep it)
So tonight, I was looking for something in a drawer, and I stumble upon my Samsung NC10 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_…), a netbook that I bought while studying.
I totally forgot what I was looking for, and instead, I decided to check this old piece of equipment, that is now 16 or 17 years old!
It was installed with some old and unmaintained #Fedora with a dual boot #haikuos installation.
I wiped the disk, and installed #mxlinux . I had to manually create the partitions because the installer would fail to automatically partition the disk.
After that step, the installation went smoothly. Did a system update after first boot, and oh boy, did the two DKMS packages took ages to compile. So after the update was done, and before rebooting, I uninstalled broadcom-sta-dkms and rtl8812au-dkms, because there is no hardware requiring these modules in the netbook.
So this little netbook is still functional, but I must admit, I don’t really know what to do with it:
* the screen resolution of 1024x600 is really on the low end,
* the 2 cores, 32 bits, Atom CPU is really not that fast.
#retrocomputing #netbook #linux #NostalgiaNerd
Ho cambiato il "display name"
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Mezzo secolo di fotografie. Il circolo Fotocine Garfagnana festeggia i 50 anni di attività
Oggi pomeriggio appuntamento in Sala Suffredini, sarà presentato il libro edito da Mpf .
From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life
AI in Prison? Robot Guards? How the Criminal Justice System Is Adopting Tech
Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.Rebecca McCray (The Marshall Project)
UN condemns ‘endless’ Gaza horrors as Israel kills 31 more people
US to refuse visas to Palestinian Authority members seeking to attend UNGA.AFP (DAWN.COM)
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Smurfs Log
* Cheech and Chong (Me and mum, planning to go for a ride…)
#Alzheimers #Caregiving #Dementia #Photography
(Look it up on your favorite player, or use this #EVIL link)
youtube.com/watch?v=mZoIjNDkPC…
- YouTube
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.www.youtube.com
Happy anniversary to us.
Federal judge halts Trump effort to expand speedy deportations of detained migrants
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-halts-trump-effort-to-expand-speedy-deportations-of-detained-migrants?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Federal judge halts Trump effort to expand speedy deportations of detained migrants
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the interior of the United States.PBS News
Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything
Link: wsj.com/business/retail/trump-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
He must resign.”
That’s how U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member #Bernie #Sanders (I-Vt.) began a New York Times op-ed on Saturday,
amid mounting calls for Kennedy to leave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
by choice or force,
following the ouster of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez
nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion…
Trump’s Pentagon Pick Accuses Online Astrologer Of Stalking Him, And It Just Gets Messier From There
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-tata-amy-tripp-defense-astrology-stalking-affair_n_68b35202e4b0733c061ab135?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-huffingtonpost
Trump’s Pentagon Pick Accuses Online Astrologer Of Stalking Him, And It Just Gets Messier From There
“I should never have gotten into this relationship," said astrology influencer Amy Tripp, aka Starheal.Pocharapon Neammanee (HuffPost)
DXVK 2.7.1 Brings Improvements for Team Fortress 2, Crysis 3, and Other Games - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.7.1 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Day 2 with NetBSD is proving challenging, but now that the basic pieces are in place, I've been able to get the core applications I need and added some functionality.
I've got office software, e-mail, text editing, a music player (and volume control!), and I can restart/shutdown from within Xfce. It's been a busy day of getting things sorted, but I feel like it'll be easier from this point.
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Calcio in tv: in campo Juve e Toro
https://www.lastampa.it/sport/calcio/2025/08/31/news/calcio_in_tv_in_campo_juve_e_toro-15289179/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su La Stampa Sport @la-stampa-sport-LaStampa
Calcio in tv: in campo Juve e Toro
Le partite di domenica 31 agosto, quattro i match di serie ADaniele Cavalla (La Stampa)
Uno dei miei rimpianti è di non essere mai entrato in un centro sociale. Non ho la più pallida idea di come fosse lì dentro.
Però ho letto e sentito cose, e un centro sociale me l'immagino come un ritrovo di gente un po' strana, con idee un po' strane, e la voglia di starsene lontana da un mondo di squali.
Persone strane, sì, ma che se si facesse come dicono loro alla fine in questo mondo staremmo tutti un po' meglio.
'Sto Fediverso gli assomiglia un po', mi sa.
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Well it appears that the 1630 fund has given the Omidyar Network money.
You don’t say?
RE: threads.com/@juanch0panza/post…
Juan Delgado (@juanch0panza) on Threads
Reading more into the recent spat between Taylor Lorenz and claims about funding ties to the Sixteen Thirty Fund via Omidyar Network. Taylor insists no money from Sixteen Thirty reaches her or the Reporters in Residence program.Threads
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hiii!
I’m preparing a presentation of #Silex for @11ty meetup on 17 Sept 2025
11tymeetup.dev/
@11tyCMS would you like to do a rehearsal and share feedback?
Of course @sia you’re very welcome too 😀
cc @silex #NoCode #OpenSource #JAMStack
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Chinese eyeing US degrees turn more discerning – is opportunity worth the risk?
Chinese eyeing US degrees turn more discerning – is the opportunity still worth the risk?
US has ‘pre-eminent global research universities, for now,’ professor says as data shows Chinese still want American degrees but are pickier.Ralph Jennings (South China Morning Post)
Justin
in reply to Darius Kazemi • • •We have a good group of Linux and Foss enthusiasts on our Matrix chat.
seattlematrix.org/ has more info and links to various Foss items the group host for others. 😀
Dave Clark
in reply to Darius Kazemi • • •Darius Kazemi
in reply to Dave Clark • • •Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Darius Kazemi • • •@bedirthan No idea how this notification slipped 😅 Yes, I'm based out of Seattle! More than happy to join any efforts to get open social web-interested folks in a room to chat.
I've been considering starting a monthly group to meet up at a bar or something with no pressure as far as presentations, agendas, etc. - just networking and sharing ideas?