@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 06:55:58
Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/pd…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-20 22:49:23
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115584342649529214
A district court judge dismissed most of the SEC’s claims in July 2024. SolarWinds and the SEC recently reached a settlement on the remaining charges.
The SEC's lawsuit was flimsy, …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 06:06:29
The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …
@zack@mamot.fr2025-11-21 00:07:33
On ne pourra pas toujours compter sur l'incompétence des méchants et la méticulosité de certaines vigies pour sauver l'Etat de Droit.
On ne sera peut-être pas aussi chanceu.x.ses que les Tazunien.ne.s sur ce point. Parce que niveau incompétence des damnés de la méchanceté, ils posent la barre super haut.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-11-19 12:48:59
I love minding my own business while listening to kids chatting in their own slang, dissing grown-ups, catching each other saying 6-7, being deadly serious about school exams 😄 Language is a fascinatingly human thing when it's flowing without the imposition of scientifically derived rules and years of societal integration. It just can't stay put and tries to explore every crack, break every convention.
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-11-18 10:24:04
Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-11-15 04:33:25
feeling right levitated by chuck smith's fugs film! at doc #nyc, with glorious archival footage & fresh interviews, including ed sanders, the elusive & charming ken weaver, crumb & kominsky together & more. streaming thru 11/30 then up in the air. https://w…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-29 09:56:11
Filing: Fox News seeks to dismiss Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, after a Florida judge dismissed an earlier version of the case in September (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/fox-moves-to-dismiss-second-newsmax-anti…
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2025-11-11 20:30:56
The Instagram reel lays out the facts more clearly than the CNN article
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJKaNAkdfY/?hl=en
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