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i like the part in
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF THE LOGICAL DESIGN OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTING INSTRUMENT
(28 june 1946)

I learned a long time ago that the smell of fruit helped me identify the better tasting produce (and without bruising the fruit by squeezing it). This article raises a much broader discussion topic:
Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
ht…

Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
Exclusive: Dr Will Tullett says better understanding of scents can improve wellbeing and perception of the world

I learned a long time ago that the smell of fruit helped me identify the better tasting produce (and without bruising the fruit by squeezing it). This article raises a much broader discussion topic:
Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
ht…

Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
Exclusive: Dr Will Tullett says better understanding of scents can improve wellbeing and perception of the world

WZB-Diskussionspapier "AI images, labels and news demand"
https://wzb.eu/de/publikationen/discussion-papers/markt-und-entscheidung

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
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Discussion of how evolution, under #capitalism, systematically selects for #psychopathy. Which is obvious, when you think about it, but it's interesting to hear it argued explicitly.
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game …

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here

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Posting some typical north American power infrastructure in response to a discussion earlier today.
This pole is in a downtown area and is mixed transmission, distribution, and communications.
Top lines with largest spacing are transmission, feeding to a substation the next block over. Probably 100 kV.
The ones on the cross arm are distribution, probably around 10 kV. Both 3 sets are 3 phase.

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Is prompting chatbots training you to bully your subordinates—demanding outcomes, ignoring process, then shrugging when it breaks? A Transformers discussion on why expertise still matters when the machine does the work, with @… @…

😐😐 Maybe other clients like @…, @… or @… can try out this idea 🙏

multiple pages of columns · cheeaun phanpy · Discussion #1572
The maximum number of columns I can confortably keep on a standard monitor without sacrifice too much the content is four, maybe five. If you had others you see a slice of them, you can of course m...

Taking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.
https://theprivacydad.com/its-ok-to-take-a-break-from-thinking-about-digital-privacy/

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The Sideline Story: Rugby League Podcast
Take the discussion of Rugby League to another level, delving into the hottest topics from the NRL, Super League, international game, women's game, lower grades, and much more...
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I love this nerdy #Slidebean discussion into colorspaces (sRGB, HDR10), gamuts, dynamic range, gamma curves, nits, monitors, etc.! 🖥️
https://youtu.be/6hAVA6_Sczs

The Fedi just *shines* when we do Big Ideas. Herewith a very civilised conversation about gender, power, violence, colonialism, and how to unthink all the rubbish we get taught. Follow the thread right through; the original claim that "testosterone is more dangerous than CO2" is not the best way to challenge toxic masculinity, but the discussion includes more measured voices.

The most accurate philosophical discussion about LLMs. I only disagree in the point that I don't think embodiment is a prerequisite for consciousness. https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kv4vtdwrteaxv8e1eghe8dew

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious | annotated by Samuel
"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are."

I recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…

Well Color Us Surprised—This SC Can Be a Tricky Customer [Quiz] - Vispero
SC 1.4.1 Use of Color can sometimes be misused as a tool to enforce underlines on links, but it's not quite as simple as that. Do you know when it's a genuine pass/fail?

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Yes, this blog post is relevant, and nicely lays out the difference between shared language and shared understanding:
https://kolektiva.social/@tiotasram/116843095949394078
It’s worth pairing that with Wittgenstein’s discussion of “the language game” in _Philosophical Investigations_. That’s a subtle and deeply worthwhile investigation indeed, and one I strongly recommend reading in the full original text and not just in summary.

Her inclusion of Kristin Leachman’s “Longleaf 2” invites us to look at minute details of our surroundings, while a woven Gullah basket made from sweetgrass invokes discussion about how we take from the land. One piece that McCaskill is excited about is an untitled work by Radcliffe Bailey because of the artist’s ability to construct polyvocal stories that cross time, generations and space.
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Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) sounded the alarm about Trump's international diplomacy tactics during a discussion with CNN's John Berman.
"What's clearly happening is Donald Trump ... still can't stop the war that he started,
and Americans are paying the price," said Amo.
"My constituents are paying the price. And people across the region are less safe."
Amo, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, explained the problem as he saw it…

'Stop this madness': Lawmaker sounds alarm as Trump's 'fairy tale' spirals into chaos
President Donald Trump needs to act fast to solve a massive new problem, his failed diplomacy with Iran, a Democratic lawmaker warned Thursday morning. Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) sounded the alarm about Trump's international diplomacy tactics during a discussion with CNN's John Berman. "What's clearly ha...

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Las Vegas’ long standing gap in specialized pediatric care meets a franchise level response as the Raiders deliver a $25 million gift to Intermountain Health https://www.raiders.com/news/las-v…

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/6/17/plastic-poisons-primates-one-focus-of-2026-american-s…

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference
Plastic pollution is among the topics of discussion at the American Society of Primatologist's 2026 Conference.

For those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU

European Digital Identity
Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) of the European Digital Identity Wallet: main narrative, annexes with normative high-level requirements, technical specifications, and discussion topics.

RE: https://discuss.systems/@activegroupgmbh/116799591020374428
It took many hours of thought and discussion - I'm infinitely grateful to our team at @…

The Speakers
This is a spoken word poem read on top of a vaguely hip-hop backing track posted on the "Twanger Central" section of the guitar-oriented discussion board www.tdpri.com by a player whose screen name is "cminor9." The poem was a morning poem (sometimes I wake up with some lines) that I didn't know what to do with. It fit here. "Speakers" is a synonym for "humans" in this context.

A new concept of government: “pathocracy” and, I suppose, this leads to #pathocrats. Well worth reading, especially the the discussion after the concept of #pathocracy is raised.
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’

How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

A new concept of government: “pathocracy” and, I suppose, this leads to #pathocrats. Well worth reading, especially the the discussion after the concept of #pathocracy is raised.
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’

How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

What I’m missing in the discussion of the OpenAI LLM hacking Huggingface:
The fact that a LLM even considered an illegal activity (not to mention putting it into practice) reveals crass misalignment. Disabling the guardrails is one thing. Having the LLM commit a crime is another.

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RE: #Wikipedia Talk …

It has begun 🌀

A friend is a member of the #DAR and is a local delegate to the recent national convention. She says there was a faction that tried to amend the bylaws to preclude the admission of #trans members, forcing the hiring of a professional parliamentarian to run the discussion up to the eventual vote on the motion, w…

Discovered a segfault in #FastAPI very strange, does only happen on MacOS with Python 3.14.0 ALPHA
The reason was that I was unaware that I ran an alpha version of Python 3.14.
FastAPI segfaults with Python 3.14.0 on MacOS · fastapi/fastapi · Discussion #15819

“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…

Hanno Hauenstein on Twitter
Read full article HERE: https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/publish/post/201012022?back=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fscheduled

Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…

Maxx Crosby's Raiders future questioned as Cowboys emerge as potential trade partner https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-ashton-jeanty-injury/f721912a0c5e8f7c90a1989b…

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

Beyond Rumi: Sufi Art and Practice - New Smithsonian Online Initiative
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The feds have returned to Black Hat/DEFCON
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716737340/en/Black-Hat-USA-2026-Keynotes-to-Address-AIs-Impact-on-Cyber-Operations…

Every time I visit a #StackExchange site I get a little bolt of joy as I find someone upvoted a decade-old answer of mine. Sometimes on Meta SE, of all places.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/2

User Nemo
Q&A for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&A websites

Some recent discussion on one of the OpenTTD groups led me to reminisce about SimCity, and I wondered what it would take to start playing again.
Read more 👉 #FortMcclellan

Old Memories, New Discoveries, and a Few Reasons to Worry – Bob Mueller
Fort McClellan memories, an Alabama snowstorm, lighthouse libraries, SimCity nostalgia, surveillance concerns, and more.

I was a bit disappointed to see the #T2TRG (Thing-to-Thing Research Group at #IRTF) focusing on AI, but @…'s take and the discussion after that made it all worth it.

""Several times in my life I’ve tried to break in with a new social group. […] Pretty quickly I learned that the best and fastest way to join a group is to organize events where we do the group’s core activity. […] there is far more demand for social events and things to do than there is supply. […] I’ve found this true everywhere from niche online fanfiction discussion groups to vanguard intellectual movements directing hundreds of millions of dollars annually.""

Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian This article is also available in Dutch There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…

@… the Roave Discord holds a monthly discussion/show and tell/banter. Not sure if Roave itself is on Mastodon /cc @… @…

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These days, we often read that the richest person in the world is getting even richer. There is hardly any discussion of the nature of this wealth – namely, that it consists largely of fictitious capital, the capitalization of a claim to wealth to be produced in the future.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116768002223420962
This could also end the discussion about the toot length. 140 characters should be enough for everyone.

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-t…

OpenAI in Talks to Lease 10 Gigawatt Ohio Data Center with Backing From Nvidia
OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The campus under discussion would be among the ...

Peter Alexander & Jen Psaki have an wicked, almost intense discussion about Trump, Karoline Leavitt & the WH Press Corp.
▶️ Psaki reacts to Leavitt stepping down from being WH press secretary
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ialjwTS5l4Y&si=LzZpu_OODJgc3tWw…

Wouldn't an itinerary tracing various culinary stples be fun? I've often pondered a food-centric tour - either around the Mediterranean, or along a cost of the Mediterranean and then through the Middle East into India. (Working in a semiconductor company, with employees from pretty much everywhere, I remember the intense discussion between an Iraqui, an Indian (Mumbai) and a Korean on the right way to cook rice.)
Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed m…

Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd
Migration and cultural exchange have always been the norm between coastal European and African nations. We should celebrate this shared history, says Federico De Blasi, an Italian food writer based in Barcelona

Wouldn't an itinerary tracing various culinary stples be fun? I've often pondered a food-centric tour - either around the Mediterranean, or along a cost of the Mediterranean and then through the Middle East into India. (Working in a semiconductor company, with employees from pretty much everywhere, I remember the intense discussion between an Iraqui, an Indian (Mumbai) and a Korean on the right way to cook rice.)
Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed m…

Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd
Migration and cultural exchange have always been the norm between coastal European and African nations. We should celebrate this shared history, says Federico De Blasi, an Italian food writer based in Barcelona

We could avoid so many fights if we could just agree to disagree.
And - 🤔 maybe - a disagreement might even lead to some reflection and discussion later on. Maybe more than hardened fronts. Well at least in my case. But maybe I'm not representative for the majority of people..
Well... Just thinking.. Feel free to disagree - or agree - or not to take a position at all.

The course also includes works of theater, dance and literature along with the visual pieces in the study gallery. For example, Johnson chose Joyce Kozloff’s “Maui: Sugar Plantation” to connect the colonization of Hawaii to current discussion of Puerto Rico after she noticed her students’ interest in Bad Bunny’s popular Super Bowl halftime show.
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Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Hoax alert: that legal threat supposedly sent by Flock to a discussion group telling them not to "analyze or speculate" about Flock's security vulnerabilities was made up by the group.
What Flock *actually* does is evil enough, so don't muddy the waters by making stuff up, geez. Also I was mildly suspicious of this but boosted it anyway so my bad I guess.

Nonya Bidniss (@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image ‪UPDATE: The letter was a fake. Per Benn Jordan, ‪Saturday Salon forged a cease and desist letter and shared it on their official profile. They put themselves and others in legal jeopardy and handed Flock a win by making critical press seem hyperbolic. I apologize for not fully vetting this, as Flock had sent frivolous letters in the past. His original post below: Benn Jordan‬ ‪@bennjordan.bsky.social‬ Flock threatens to sue a private group in Southern Cal…

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Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…

Policy on accepting PRs that include LLM generated code? · helix-editor helix · Discussion #15408
Hello! I've just been checking out Helix recently, and I quite enjoy what I've seen so far! It's fast, intuitive, ships a lot of nice defaults, and works well with what I've used it for thus far! I...

Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606

I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.

CfP, Conference in Innsbruck, 7-8 April 2027: Religion, Meteorology and Climate Anxiety in Late Antiquity
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Capture of #interstellar objects during stellar encounters: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18551 -> discussion: https://bsky.app/profile/planetplanet.bsky.social/post/3mrppvl5x422r

Watch Dr. Rick Altice, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, discuss the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS. Moderated by the Rev. Peter D. Thompson '15 M.Div.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yCTtPwW0kSQ?si=dsuUGAeac9fxtdap

About "86% of all new power generation in the world this last year was in the form of renewable energy,
so that's real progress.
The problem is we still have a lot of legacy fossil fuel energy."
-- Michael E. Mann .
https://bsky.app/profile/thebulletin.o

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@thebulletin.org)
You can watch the full discussion below. https://youtube.com/live/ckVZrqJ1bUc

Just thinking about the political discussion going on here these days... Seems to me we need better labels. 'Right' in English has the unfortunate connotation of 'correct', and 'Left' the connotation (but perhaps only among the better read) of 'sinister'... I think new terms without that baggage are required. I propose that the Left<->Right spectrum be replaced by the Nobel<->Ignoble spectrum, which is more objective accurate in any case.

I have finished the outward architecture of #ProFed as a base for discussion. I've used AI to help me put my braindump into a more consistently readable text. be prepared to see a free AI-isms, though it isn't terrible, I think.

This month's Papers Club reading is titled
Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology
and we are inviting Toronto's makers, scholars, and thinkers of every stripe to come join the discussion. We are extending special invitations to fiber artists - that includes knitting, crochet, weaving, fashion design etc. So if you know a fiber artist friend, please forward them this message :)
Thank you, hope to see you on July 27th!

CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human, Natural, and Textual Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
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Well Played
Conversations on Marketing and Brand is a discussion through the lens of Kate Ware and Esther Kelleher; two career marketers who have seen the industry evolve from the inside since the early 2000's...
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Oh boy. The #Wikipedia article on the Iran war lists “Iranian victory” as the war’s result on the article infobox. (But this is tagged as disputed and there’s a lively discussion on the article’s talk page.)
I’m sure this will not help with the very dim view of Wikipedia already held by conservative, MAGA, and Israel-allied sections in the United States and Israel. 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/117107705258642031
This is interesting in the whole discussion about datacenters and AI. Ofcourse they are needed for training but the inference will be possible on local hardware.

Here's @… — who is fundamentally a spiritual person — leading a very serious discussion about how we do politics. Worth a listen.
Accidental Gods: Grown Up Politics: A Chance for Change - Round Table with Neal Lawson of Compass and Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project
Episode webpage:

Maxx Crosby's Raiders future questioned as Cowboys emerge as potential trade partner https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-ashton-jeanty-injury/f721912a0c5e8f7c90a1989b…

Tuesday 21 July, Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp (online or IRL in Millersville) will talk about the book, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” with @…

Lainey Feingold and DRA11y Turns One - July Event, Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Durham Raleigh A11y: The Accessibility Meetup - Triangle Style invites you to celebrate its first birthday via a virtual discussion with **Lainey Feingold** about the recen

Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at https://jonippolito.substack.com

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…

Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-stripe-exclusive-…

Exclusive: Stripe in Exclusive Talks to Buy Startup OpenRouter for Around $10 Billion
Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10 billion, according to people with knowledge of the discussion. This step means OpenRouter has effectively taken itself off the market while the companies negotiate price and other details to finalize a transaction. Terms of the deal could still change or it could

There should be more discussion about the costs of AI related to their actual added value in organisations. It is great to have an enormously capable model like Fable5, but is it worth it, can't we do the same tasks or parts of those tasks with much cheaper models?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price

Hurricane Lala began its path toward Hawaii’s Big Island on Saturday,
though the possibility of a direct hit, which would be the first in 155 years, was uncertain.
In its latest forecast discussion, National Hurricane Center meteorologists said the hurricane is displaying a possible new track,
making it “unclear if Lala will actually make a landfall on the Big Island.”
The tropical cyclone is unleashing what could be life-threatening rain on the Big Island
as it…

Lala strengthens into a hurricane and bears down on Hawaii’s Big Island with heavy rain
Tropical Storm Lala was already whipping and soaking Hawaii’s Big Island early Saturday, and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches land.

Kanga TV
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A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
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Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress
“should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.
The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist,
spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.
As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in J…

House Republican says Congress ‘should do a little more’ for the rich
Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, up for re-election in November, says he believes more should be done to support America’s wealthiest citizens

"More and more people are dying.
So the question arises:
wouldn't it be better to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
rather than, perhaps later, over Poland?
This is a subject for a very serious discussion,
one that should not become a hostage to party-political rivalry,"
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

The Polish Foreign Ministry reiterated the idea of shooting down missiles over Ukraine.
Radosław Sikorski responded to the former Polish prime minister's accusations regarding Patriot missiles.

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117095288273513669
Luigi Mangione’s case has drawn extensive global attention
as Thompson’s death spurred intense discussion about the US’s heavily criticized for-profit healthcare system.
The attention has also been fueled by M…

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