2024-03-01 15:49:13
Trump's claims that immigrants are driving a surge in murders is ... just the usual racist libel.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trumps-claims-migrant-crime-wave-are-not-supported-natio…
Trump's claims that immigrants are driving a surge in murders is ... just the usual racist libel.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trumps-claims-migrant-crime-wave-are-not-supported-natio…
Disney's streaming strategy and losses led to the Disney-Peltz proxy fight but placating Peltz in Wednesday's vote to reshuffle the board may not fix the issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsle…
Scaramucci's 11 days in Trump's Whitehouse are obviously hilarious, but this interview is actually quite interesting
[Leading] 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director #leading
RT by @NatalieAmiri: #BREAKING The Israeli airstrike has targeted the Iranian embassy's consular building, killing six people, @syriahr reported.
Iran's Student News Network says Iran's ambassador Hassan Akbari and his family have not been harmed in the attack.
Quelle:
Trotz Alstom-Zusage: Berlin und Brandenburg lehnen Ausgleich bei S-Bahn-Vergabe ab
Im Ringen um den milliardenschweren Auftrag für neue Berliner S-Bahn-Wagen schlug das Kammergericht einen Interessensausgleich vor. Alstom, das klagende Unternehmen, stimmte zu - doch Berlin und Brandenburg sagen jetzt nein.
A Chinese seller details how he ships civilian electronics, which could be repurposed for military uses, to Russia via distributors and Russian e-commerce sites (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/KCp6bGmE6X
Kuleba: Russia's attacks damage 50% of Ukraine's energy system: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/kuleba-russias-attacks.html
> RFK Jr.'s sister Rory says she's "concerned" his presidential campaign could help Trump over Biden.
She's not the only one!
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfks-sister-rory-concerned-p…
NFL Draft 2024: Here's why QB Michael Penix Jr.'s stock has reportedly climbed
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-2024-heres-…
👻 Snap CEO says 20 million U.S. teens use Snapchat, but only 200,000 parents use its Family Center controls
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/31/snap-ceo-says-20-million-u-s-teens-use-snapchat-b…
Justice for Dontay includes accountability at the BC Government level!
“"This demand letter to cease and desist any discussions is profoundly anti-democratic," he told CBC News. "It attempts to stifle public debate about the well-being of Indigenous children in care and it's entirely inappropriate.””
#PortAlberni
Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Judge Orders NSO Group to give WhatsApp its spyware code
--Privacy experts wary of FBI's access to push alerts,
--UnitedHealth confirms hack by ALPHV,
--Jack Teixeira to plead guilty,
--Widely-sold video doorbells rife with security flaws,
--Hackers stole sensitive military data from Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom,
--NTT CEO resigns following customer data theft report,
--Fulton Co. called LockBit's bluff,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/judge-orders-nso-group-give-whatsapp-spyware-code
Genealogy Updates for February 2024
My genealogy site has a What's New listing that's pretty generic. Here's more information on the February 2024 updates.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/genealogy-updates-for-february-2024/
A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than all of Earth's oceans #space
vor einigen wochen habe ich einem musikkollegen von meinem lieblings-comic aus "orson's farm" erzählt: von dem mit der weihnachtspostliste.
die reihe gabs früher in den garfield-magazinen als "gast-comic". ich hab mal nachgeschaut, ob's die auch in buchform gibt: gibts. dank ebay hatte ich in den letzten wochen viel spaß damit. :)
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14935 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
Good morning and happy Wednesday to the #Fediverse today!
It's a new day, so let's all discuss what the day has in store for each of us.
For me, it's just the usual work stuff. It's super busy today and will be for the next several days due to us releasing Nova 8.0.16 to the stable channel with a 30% staged roll out. Lots of emails coming in.
Fortnite wit…
Holy fuckedifuck #Energydrinks
https://deutsch.medscape.com/s/artikelansicht/4913344?…
Anyone who peruses the cereal aisle at the supermarket knows two things:
1. It ain't cheap.
2. It ain't food.
The sugar-coated, chemically flavored crap that Kellogg's sells should never pass your lips. Hard to imagine that Kellogg's started out as a health food company,
https://
The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs.
While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace.
The wealth of U.S. #billionaires is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸
The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renew…
JD Vance isn't worried Trump will try to kill him if he's tapped for VP
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/2/2238531/-JD-Vance-isn-t-worrie…
There’s a petition to save the Electric Cinema in Birmingham. It’s the UK’s oldest working cinema.
https://www.change.org/p/designate-birmingham-s-station-street-a-historic-cultural-and-civic-asset
BREAKING (the climate):
Based on daily values, the April average of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 426.5-426.6 ppm. That's a big jump of ~3.2 ppm from last year's 423.35 ppm!
It's also the highest CO₂ concentration the world has experienced in 14 million years.
#emissions #co2
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Zeus sleeps with everyone, even sea goddesses:
"Zeus Kronides had hurried to Plouto's bed, to beget Tantalos, that mad robber of the heavenly cups; and he laid his celestial weapons well hidden with his lightning in a deep cavern."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.145
Plouto is an Okeanid-nymph and minor goddes…
"Encumbered again"
"Because you're carrying Halsin's body"
"Sweetie, I can't just drop Halsin's body — he's been through enough at this point"
@…
#BaldurGate3
I am enjoying listening to non-Linux-using Factorio YouTubers attempting to explain what Wube's latest news item about improved Linux support means. It's like an "only wrong answers" thread.
"So they've fixed this on Linux?"
"Well on GNOME"
"So all of Linux?"
"No, I think it wasn't an issue on KDE"
"Which one's KDE?"
"There's like 15 different desktops on Linux"…
She was so fcking fabulous. I hope that wherever she's gone, she's enjoying a wonderful new adventure! #IrisApfel https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/10-life-le
Cowboys News: Trey Lance's immediate future set, CeeDee's clock ticking, Pollard's Philly fit? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/news-notes-february-29-2024-trey-lance-cee-dee-lamb-tony-pollard/
Ah yes, cops trampling those pesky first-amendment rights in order to raise a symbol of our freedom.
#HellgateNYC
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CEVEDIC: [Off-screen whisper] Docholli's in there somewhere, but he's not a problem. First we get Travis.
UN-NAMED HENCHMAN: Okay.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/211/421 📺 B7B2
Looking at the monthly dataset update for busrouter.sg, saw this new bus stop named "S'pore Rail Test Ctr". Turns out it's a bus stop near the new Singapore Rail Test Centre (SRTC), located at Tuas, the 1st railway testing facility in Southeast Asia 😲 https://www.<…
Daily Inspiration: "Even when you think you have nothing, you’ll always have something!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
That's because the possibilities are infinite when you start with nothing - there's nowhere to go but up! It's a simple fact that when you have absolutely nothing, you still have the chance to have everything!
Nothing? I started my day today without my normal inspiration post idea ready to go - normally, I would at least have pulled together the im…
RT by @NatalieAmiri: #BREAKING The Israeli airstrike has targeted the Iranian embassy's consular building, killing six people, @syriahr reported.
Iran's Student News Network says Iran's ambassador Hassan Akbari and his family have not been harmed in the attack.
Quelle:
Nachts in der Werkstatt: Diese Menschen halten die Münchner S-Bahn am Laufen
Türen reparieren, Graffiti entfernen, Züge reinigen: Im Instandhaltungswerk in Steinhausen schlagen sich Mechaniker, Elektriker und Reinigungskräfte die Nacht um die Ohren, damit es tagsüber läuft bei der S-Bahn. Ein Besuch in der Werkshalle.
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Wow, Iowa is just shredding LSU. #lsuvsiowa
Justice for Dontay includes accountability at the BC Government level!
“"This demand letter to cease and desist any discussions is profoundly anti-democratic," he told CBC News. "It attempts to stifle public debate about the well-being of Indigenous children in care and it's entirely inappropriate.””
#PortAlberni
What the fuck did i just watch?
Planet Fitness are you fucking insane?
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774979600184926242?s=61
MoffettNathanson forecasts YouTube TV will have ~12.4M US subscribers by 2026's end, passing Comcast and Charter to become the country's biggest pay TV provider (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/news/youtube-tv-surpass-charter-comcast-pay-tv/<…
RT by @NatalieAmiri: #BREAKING The Israeli airstrike has targeted the Iranian embassy's consular building, killing six people, @syriahr reported.
Iran's Student News Network says Iran's ambassador Hassan Akbari and his family have not been harmed in the attack.
Quelle:
Good morning and happy Wednesday to the #Fediverse today!
It's a new day, so let's all discuss what the day has in store for each of us.
For me, it's just the usual work stuff. It's super busy today and will be for the next several days due to us releasing Nova 8.0.16 to the stable channel with a 30% staged roll out. Lots of emails coming in.
Fortnite wit…
Below find the list of the most visited cities in the world by international tourists:
1 Istanbul, Turkey: 20.2 million
2 London, United Kingdom: 18.8 million
3 Dubai, United Emirates: 19.8 million
4 Antalya, Turkey: 16.5 million
5 Paris, France: 15.5 million
6 Hong Kong: 14.7 million
7 Bangkok, Thailand: 12.2 million
8 New York, USA: 11.7 million
9 Cancun, Mexico: 10.8 million
10 Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 10.8 million
Source: Eurom…
Putin's Gas Blackmail Failed: Europe Refused Russian Gas: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/putins-gas-blackmail.html
Browns RB Nyheim Hines says he's 'learned my lessons' following jet ski accident, recovery on track https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-rb-nyheim-hines-says-he-s-learned-my-lessons-following-jet-ski-accide…
One of the fediverse's great strengths is that you can block entire collections of ill-intentioned morons at once. My own policy is to defederate any server with "shitpost" in the domain name.
If only I could do that to my "fuck your feelings" magat neighbors.
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted "maybe a third" of Americans and it'll take "several months" to notify victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://tech…
"Encumbered again"
"Because you're carrying Halsin's body"
"Sweetie, I can't just drop Halsin's body — he's been through enough at this point"
@…
#BaldurGate3
Haha lol
“Caliber cited strong associations between Tesla's reputation and that of Musk for the scores.
"It's very likely that Musk himself is contributing to the reputational downfall," Caliber CEO Shahar Silbershatz told Reuters, saying his company's survey shows 83% of Americans connect Musk with Tesla.”
#tesla
Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
GAMBRILL: Painting, I imagine. That's how he spends most of his time.
BELLFRIAR: Oh, the man's space-happy, of course. This base is full of psychotics.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/207/151 📺 B7B8
What the fuck did i just watch?
Planet Fitness are you fucking insane?
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774979600184926242?s=61
The future, as seen from 20 years ago. Yes, it's been that long. This video was made in 2004.
https://youtu.be/DVfBuw1hCsw?si=7bGv5xZrK11iBoks
Union members strike at Gannett's Desert Sun, calling for a fair labor contract and saying they've been denied regular cost-of-living raises for three years (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1763581208070607034
US intelligence chief: Russia's war against Ukraine 'unlikely to end anytime soon': https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/us-intelligence-chief.html
Good morning and happy Friday #Fediverse
How is everyone doing today and what do each of you have planned for the day today and the weekend ahead?
It's work stuff here for me but with no meetings today. Those happen mostly just on Monday's, Tuesday's and Thursday's.
Might head to Walmart here later today, but not 100% sure yet. A place I hate with a pas…
Happy Dental Care Day Canada!! (at least if you're over 70 without private insurance)
I hope that in time this will become part of universal single-payer healthcare (along with Drug Coverage) and eliminate private insurance for health needs, but it's a start at least. And it happened because a centre-left party, the NDP, has an agreement to work with the minority government.
#CdnPoli
Mitten in Fürstenfeldbruck: Bahn vor dem Durchbruch
Der Aprilscherz der Bürgerinitiative "S4-Ausbau jetzt" über eine bevorstehende revolutionäre Erfindung klingt beängstigend realistisch.
https://www.
iiMedia Research: China's food delivery market reached $208B in 2023, 2.3x the size in 2020; Meituan and Ele.me employ over 10M gig workers combined (Takashi Kawakami/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/TXfYpEbLPr
Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
GAMBRILL: Painting, I imagine. That's how he spends most of his time.
BELLFRIAR: Oh, the man's space-happy, of course. This base is full of psychotics.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/207/151 📺 B7B8
Apparently we need legislation to force TV app developers to stop moving the closed-caption settings. Roku, clean this shit up.
US intelligence chief: Russia's war against Ukraine 'unlikely to end anytime soon': https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/us-intelligence-chief.html
Mitten in Fürstenfeldbruck: Bahn vor dem Durchbruch
Der Aprilscherz der Bürgerinitiative "S4-Ausbau jetzt" über eine bevorstehende revolutionäre Erfindung klingt beängstigend realistisch.
https://www.
Republicans want to rename Dulles airport after the orange one.
Maybe just call it Flying Felon Field.
A look at GM's risky bet to replace Apple's CarPlay with its own infotainment system, gambling on its software group, as carmakers worry over Apple's power (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/202…
Filing: Donald Trump's Truth Social lost $58M on $4.1M in revenue during 2023; Trump Media & Technology Group is valued at $7B after going public on March 26 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-truth-social-revenue-2023<…
Stable genius:
"Nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don't speak languages," Trump said in a fragment sentence. "They're truly foreign languages — nobody speaks them."
Allies' 'political games' limit Ukraine's defense, Zelensky says after Odesa attack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/02/allies-political-games.html
Filing: Donald Trump's Truth Social lost $58M on $4.1M in revenue during 2023; Trump Media & Technology Group is valued at $7B after going public on March 26 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-truth-social-revenue-2023<…
I keep reading how Facebook is removing the news tab, and wondering: Where is the news tab?
Must be thoroughly hidden.
And the news sources I follow disappeared long ago.
Why do ((((they)))) all look and sound like Laura Loomer?
🤔
https://x.com/9mm_smg/status/1763336260188504540?s=61
Blocked a domain due to a magat infestation. They should stay on "Truth Social."
An analysis of Musk's claims in his OpenAI lawsuit, which seeks to open up GPT-4's source code, end Microsoft exclusivity, and stop OpenAI's for-profit work (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-…
The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."
The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.
Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.
https://…
Culture in Flames: What Russia’s War Is About On February 26, 2024, UNESCO hosted a conference titled “Event of Solidarity with Ukraine” at the initiative of the Lithuanian and Canadian delegations. U Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/culture-in-flames-what-russia-s-…
Best part is the sublime fire alarm crying for a battery change
https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1763657372546093240?s=61
Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-twitter
Re-watching Dune for the umpteenth time in prep for Dune 2. Jason Momoa spits out his lines in compressed pellets. I imagine it was a challenge to voice actors dubbing into other languages.
Here‘s the video.
Don’t be this retarded, stealing is not acceptable.
https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1762665358748725571?s=61
AI has the potential to ease the US meat industry's labor vulnerability by letting robots perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher meat (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-…
„No my feet won’t touch this faggot of stairs“
What a chud move 😎
https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1763522912341090556?s=61
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the "benefit of humanity" over profits (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/elon-musk-sue…
I‘d love to see a KnuckleSandwich served hot.
Kurwa, I would even pay to see it .
https://x.com/steveinmanuic/status/1773371168701010257?s=61
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator's chief data officer and director of its data division (Mengqi Sun/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-financial
I‘d love to see a KnuckleSandwich served hot.
Kurwa, I would even pay to see it .
https://x.com/steveinmanuic/status/1773371168701010257?s=61
The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ETH is a security (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/30
🤣😂🤣
Let‘s all join the queer fat club.
🤣
This dude gets the April Fools medal 🎖️
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774464602065322294?s=61
It's taking so long to get F-16s to Ukraine that you'd think they were being disassembled and carried in by backpack.
🤣😂🤣
Let‘s all join the queer fat club.
🤣
This dude gets the April Fools medal 🎖️
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774464602065322294?s=61
It's taking so long to get F-16s to Ukraine that you'd think they were being disassembled and carried in by backpack.
Trump's real problem is all these prosecutors and judges and juries are biased against crime.