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Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped vehicles between specific destinations around the city's Strip (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e9b65862-81b4-44b6-a311-8ec6340ec22d…

LOL right-Ctl no longer exists on Windows laptops, that’s now the CoPilot key.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381341532349661184

Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating… | Kuba Wojciak | 10 comments
Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating over text with cursor keys while holding right ctrl key down. For those of you who don't do it: it skips over entire words. Now ALL of the Windows laptops you can buy come with a Copilot key replacing right ctrl. On a vanilla machine I end up getting Copilot popups all the time, as I habitually rea…

Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn-stepping-down/

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battle.

from my link log —
How potatoes evolved.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/july/we-finally-solved-the-mystery-of-how-potatoes-evolved.html
saved 2025-08-10

We finally solved the mystery of how potatoes evolved | Natural History Museum
Crisps and mash owe their existence to a series of precise events that took place nine million years ago.

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/12/09/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-bernadette-meehan-as-chief-executive-officer/

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer – Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer.

SCOTUS appears ready to give Trump greater firing powers, over sharp liberal warnings (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p134#a251208p134

Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/lip-bu-tan-intel-ceo-investor.h…

Does the Job of C.E.O. or Private Investor Come First? Intel’s Chief Is Juggling That Question.
Lip-Bu Tan, who was appointed chief executive of Intel in March, is also a longtime venture capitalist. His dual roles have caused some consternation.

Apple extends free access to satellite connectivity features for an additional year for existing iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775309/apple-iphone-14-15-satellite-connectivity-free

Apple is giving iPhone 14 and 15 users another free year of satellite features
iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users are getting an additional year of free access to satellite connectivity features, according to Apple’s iPhone 17 press releases.

At a three-day Intel event in Arizona, executives repeatedly asserted that 18A is the most advanced chip production tech developed and deployed in the US (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Intel (INTC) Debuts New Technology in Big Moment for Comeback
Intel Corp., the embattled chipmaker now backed by the US government, introduced new products and manufacturing technology that are central to its turnaround bid.