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From the United States of Absurdistan: a Trump family member 'slamming' someone else for corruption. 🤡
https://kyivindependent.com/son-of-president-who-shut-down-us-corruption-watchdogs-slams-ukraine-for-corru…

Son of president who shut down US corruption watchdogs slams Ukraine for corruption
Donald Trump Jr. warned on Dec. 7 that his father may walk away from Ukraine, parroting Kremlin propaganda about corruption in Kyiv driving Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

We watched one episode of High Potential (2024), liked it a lot, and then saw at the end credits that it's based on the French HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021). So we watched episode 1 of THAT.
It's fascinating to note the differences. The plots are basically identical, so the differences are nuance.
https://www.

Son of president who shut down US corruption watchdogs slams Ukraine for corruption: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/son-of-president-who-shut.html

"Have you ever watched a very tired person typing" - now in stereo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmuSekEoko

Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation into whether Temu is influencing the pricing of third-party merchants, potentially stifling competition (Mark Hallam/DW News)
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-investigating-temu-on-price-fixing-sus…

Germany investigating Temu on price-fixing suspicions
Germany's competition watchdog has announced an investigation of Chinese discount online retail site temu.com, suspecting it of influencing retailers' prices. The site is the fastest-growing of its kind in the world.

Watched Star Trek Section 31, a movie about the off-book starfleet characters trying to stop someone blowing up a quarter of the galaxy.
Might be the worst Star Trek ever made.
A crew with a mercenary ex-empressess from the mirror world, a mole, and no trust between 'em. They don't seem to get on but rescue the galaxy anyway. Maybe blow up a quarter of the mirror galaxy instead. Hurray. Genocide of our own galaxy averted.
Jokes aren't funny, characters aren't convincing, script full of dud. Somehow the murdering dictator is redeemed without any redemption arc.
Only for star trek completionists.
#watching #tv #starTrek

I only watched this movie during the month of December but I watch it a lot in December.

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

I watched this video on how UTF-8 actually works, on the plane yesterday, and I think it’s very good.
For example, I learned about how the bits in codepoint bytes work; I did not know that before.
Definitely worth the time to watch (especially if you skip through the intro parts near the start), if you’re a visual/audio learner, IMO.
https://

Zelensky blames ex-energy chief for grid’s failure to withstand Russian assaults amid talk of scapegoating: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/07/zelensky-blames-exenergy-chief-for.html