"A visit by the Guardian to downtown Portland on Saturday morning confirmed that the city is placid, the farmers’ market was packed and the protest against immigration enforcement in an outlying residential neighborhood remained small. There were just four protesters on the sidewalk near the Ice field office Trump claimed was “under siege”. One, wearing a chicken costume and draped in an American flag, held up a sign that read: “Portland Will Outlive Him.” Passing motorists honked in appreciation."
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"“The President has sent agents here to create chaos and riots in Portland, to induce a reaction, to induce protests, to induce conflicts. His goal is to make Portland look like what he’s been describing it as,” Oregon’s junior senator, Jeff Merkley said. “He wants to induce a violent exchange. Let us not grant him that wish. Let us be the force of orderly, peaceful protest.”"
edit: links in replies for different protest ideas; I saw the stuffed animal toss, but I'm not sure I'd want to be the test case for whether that counts as assault
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Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon
President made announcement on social media, but the White House did not immediately provide detailsRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
L'immagine mostra una schermata di un post su una piattaforma di social media. Il post è stato pubblicato da Giorgia Meloni il 14 ottobre 2016. Il testo critica la decisione del governo italiano di schierare truppe NATO in Lettonia a partire dal 2018, definendola "una idiotezza" e una "provocazione" senza interesse strategico. Meloni sostiene che l'Europa e l'Italia non hanno bisogno di creare un clima di guerra fredda con la Russia e che la decisione è stata presa senza avvertire gli italiani e il Parlamento. Il post è stato evidenziato con colori diversi per sottolineare le parole chiave. In alto a sinistra, c'è il nome dell'utente "nicola.furini" con la data e l'ora del post.
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Winter lake
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Yvette Cooper suggests international community on brink of Gaza peace deal | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
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No mention of whether any Palestinians were consulted.
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Yvette Cooper suggests international community on brink of Gaza peace deal
Exclusive: Foreign secretary says world has ‘reached moment’ it wants to end war after Donald Trump signals plan within reachPippa Crerar (The Guardian)
Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
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> Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees.
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OpenAI und SAP laden ChatGPT in deutsche Behörden ein – für 'souveräne KI'? Läuft alles in der Microsoft Cloud, während Gigadeals mit Nvidia laufen. Ist das Unabhängigkeit oder US-Abhängigkeit? Der kritische Take von @themorpheus.tuts macht neugierig! #OpenAI #KI #TechNews
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Autumn in the mountains of southern New Mexico.
Some aspen have only partly turned golden.
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Cansou do Google Docs? 5 alternativas que você precisa conhecer
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The #OpenPrinter Is a #RaspberryPi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible #Inkjet #Printer
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The decision by #MegaCorps to follow the #enshittification path of things forces us to re-gain control over various parts of our life one by one.
Please, creative #hackers of this world, more of that! 🙇
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The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer
Sick of printer manufacturers locking you out of third-party cartridges and refills? The Open Printer doesn't mess around like that.Gareth Halfacree (Hackster.io)
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Yashica FX3 S2000 135mm/f1.7 f8 @ 1/1000s
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Das hat es auch manchmal wenn das Macbook eingesteckt hat.
Irgendwas muss ich da tun. So klingen alle Aufnahmen gleich nochmal schlechter.
@mc Das hängt alles am selbem Mehrfachstecker.
Aber auch ohne, wenn das Macbook lädt, ereugt das ein Brummen.
Ich werde morgen mal testen. Den kann ich auch an eine andere Dose hängen. Vielleicht hilft das ja schon.
China’s Crackdown on Pessimistic and Hostile Content Becomes a Battle Over Narrative Control | Comuniq
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During our walk, we kept seeing this butterfly, sadly each time I tried taking its photo, my camera settings were off and then a car drove by and had it fly away after I got these photos 🤦🏼♀️ they turned out okay, but I still feel like they don't give this beautiful butterfly the justice it deserves
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New Comic found: Blondie by Dean Young for Sat, 27 Sep 2025 arcamax.com/thefunnies/blondie…
Blondie for 9/27/2025
Created by Dean Young, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead are the quintessential American family: working, raising kids, and pointing out the humor in everyday life. At over seventy years old, Blondie is still going strong.ArcaMax
Oggi in Bundesliga l'Eintracht Frankfurt era in trasferta col Borussia Mönchengladbach.
L'Eintracht ha dominato andando sullo 0-6.
Poi si è addormentato permettendo al Borussia di farsi sotto.
Finale: 4-6.
Almeno 36 persone sono morte nella calca a un comizio politico in India - Il Post
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Zelensky says Trump understands battlefield, has ‘faith in Ukraine’
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SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
Link: github.com/francoismichel/ssh3
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
GitHub - francoismichel/ssh3: SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3, checkout our article here: arxiv.org/abs/2312.08396 and our Internet-Draft: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-michel-ssh3/
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The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa by Francis Galton
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Tiny fossil reveals an unknown species of prehistoric crocodile
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myrmepropagandist
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Could someone who understands how this kind of thing is supposed to work have gotten through to the guy?
Seems unlikely. But, I'm a little disipointed that these are being panned like the other tariffs that made no sense. You can make a case for these. Is it a good case? The Free Trade fans will say no way.
Personally I think shipping cabinets halfway across the world is kind of inefficient.
And the drug thing could be bad.
Hm. 2/2
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@btuftin
True. I just wish we could talk about trade policy without all of the free trade absolutism. First of all because I don't think it works, but also when big news channels act like no tariff could ever be good they loose a lot of credibility with people who have seen how things have gone for the losers under these policies.
Things have gone badly.
One can point to a higher GDP, but there are towns that have never recovered from free trade. People hate it.
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They can't scale up fast, but furniture isn't the kind of thing that people can't just wait and buy later. It's not like food or something.
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@btuftin
In fact, until recently there was cabinet manufacturing in the Bronx, tile floors too. But over the past two decades Home Depot has become the only place you can buy cabinets unless you want a luxury job done by the tiny firms in the village. (Think 20k remodel vs. 50k remodel)
Home depot has very limited selection of mostly low quality imported cabinets.
The Bronx manufactures hung on by doing high end custom luxury work but they are gone now.
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Home Depot's monopoly on kitchens and bathrooms in the greater NY region is kind of disgusting.
Not that I expect to see anyone care about monopolies any time soon. I will be over in the corner singing old US Steel Union songs sadly if anyone needs me.
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I used to go to anyplace else but now all the hardware shops are closed, all the locksmiths and keymakers too. It's just home depot who claims they have a locksmith but they guy they sent knew nothing and was trying to follow a wikihow to article.
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@DarthAstrius
The perfect tariff target has a struggling domestic industry, employs a lot of people, isn't something like food, clothing, or medicine that people have no choice but to buy.
So, more luxury and differ-able goods. Bonus if it's big and bulky and shipping is eating up a lot of the value with the imported goods.
This could be... fine?
Will it be around long enough to do anything?
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Who knows, honestly.
Everything is so uncertain nowadays.
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His initial moves have set a BAD tone. I'm not running to invest in US furniture makers, and I doubt they will start hiring because of this. Unless it proves to be different from the other chaos.
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Yeah, I have to admit I also think the furniture and cabinets are less wrong than his other "tariffs" in that they actually are protectionist.
All this actually makes me think is that there's some hidden wrong thing about them that I don't know about, though. I am no longer capable of believing the Trump administration *can* do something that would benefit America.
And the money taken in is still just disappearing into a Trumpcoin bucket as far as I can tell.
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@vivtek
Some TN cabinet guys gave him big donations. This might be their ask. An ask that has been perhaps wrongly ignored for decades by free-trade-drunk liberal and right wing admins.
The answer for all tariffs has been NO for everything and maybe it went too far IMHO.
So he could have stumbled into this through corruption.
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@vivtek Tariffs are generally destructive.
For them to be NOT destructive, they have to be assisting import replacement (=making something you currently import), time-limited, and not result in retaliatory tariffs from trading partners. There isn't any framework for that, and it takes really stable trade policy to make it work. (You need a stable five to ten years minimum.)
It may help to think of tariffs as taxes that could be collected in pre-modern times.
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@graydon @vivtek
"Tariffs are generally destructive."
Yes. If you look at the GDP level, and if you are thinking long term.
But also sometimes I think they can be fine. Shipping big bulky goods halfway around the world to save a few bucks on labor costs is kind of ... it's not efficient.
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@graydon @vivtek
no matter which way anyone "reforms" capitalism, it will always be war on the working class. "free trade" isn't good because labour and goods can move but workers cannot due to nation state borders. "pay to trade" isn't good either because it still puts more money in the pockets of the bosses and will not undermine wage exploitation.
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@vivtek "Externality" is an accounting term for "a cost we can make a diffuse group pay" and ocean shipping is mostly externalities. The real cost of decarbonized shipping would drive efficiency; tariffs not so much, because they're also externalities.
(Once the incumbents decided that labour was a cost, their goal became never paying for labour. Which creates incentives to move production as close to slavery conditions as possible. Much rationalization follows.)
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