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He was called ‘MAGA’s Man’ in Latin America.
Now he’s charged with hiring hitmen to murder his girlfriend
Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo helped fuel the rise of right-wing politicians in South and Central America.
Cerimedo now sits in a Bolivian maximum security prison, accused of ordering hitmen to murder his pregnant mistress, lawyer and activist Nadia Beller.
The brazen shooting, captured on security cameras, has taken on the color of gripping t…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-09-13 22:40:57

Satya Nadella says "we welcome" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right", and announces a "Code of Conduct" for Microsoft's MAI models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)
x.com/satyanadella/status/2099

Red scaremonger wanted.
Third Way, the corporate-backed “centrist” think tank pushing Democrats to the right,
is hiring a new
Director for “Anti-Extremism.”
That person will be responsible for overseeing a takedown of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
by “assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements,”
including a “repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions.”

The right-wing preacher turned politician Victor Marx has said that he first killed a man when he was 7.
He’s not sure how many deaths he’s been responsible for since.
Marx has been arrested at least twice for disorderly conduct and has described terrorizing a psychiatrist with talk of murdering him.
He told the Colorado journalist Kyle Clark that he can perform exorcisms by phone.
🔥On Thursday he was declared the winner of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Co…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-09-07 13:16:52

Just learning about Reticulum and NomadNet now, and they line up very nicely with thoughts I've been having for a while...
But does anyone have feelings one way or the other about these projects or the person behind them? I don't want to invest energy only to find out the crypto is broken or the projects are BDFL-style with a dictator that turns out to be right-wing.
I don't immediately see any evidence of governance documents, code of conduct policies, or even LLM-contributions-banned policies that would reassure me a bit...

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-07-02 22:20:28

"Dr. Chen’s lawyers said that Ms. Herridge’s “claimed right to protect her source(s) glosses over exactly what she is shielding from Chen, the courts, and the public: the identity of federal official(s) who broke the law, abused their access to sensitive records to harm a private citizen and laundered that corrupt, unlawful conduct through a reporter to escape detection.”
Supreme Court Allows Reporter to Be Fined for Failing to Disclose Source - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/poli