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  • Pentagon says Hegseth campaigning against Massie in ‘personal capacity’

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  • It's all they have.

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • Is Satan controlled opposition? Is he heaven's Chuck Schumer?

  • Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras

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  • I'm glad they're keeping their cameras safe, but I do worry that a handheld laser could still reach a camera on a tall pole, though the operator might have to stand far enough away that they couldn't be recognized. I hope no one would try to damage a valuable camera like that.

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • We can pray for the demise of Christofascism, but it's going to be our job to make that prayer come true.

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • A lot of people chose Bitwarden because it was open-source, so they don't see the very closed Apple Passwords as a suitable alternative.

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • Or it's something you earn through transparency.

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    Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state's entire police budget

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  • Don't further the water and power that will be taken away from the people.

  • Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

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  • It also fosters a culture of non-cooperation with colleagues (because they are now your competition), where workers and teams try to sabotage each other, or at least not help, and throw each other under the bus. So there's mutual mistrust too. And no one wants to take a risk and innovate, leading to further stagnation.

  • Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

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  • Meta is doing the exact same thing:

    Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant will reportedly hand out roughly 8,000 pink slips on Wednesday, May 20, eliminating about 10% of its global workforce. Notably, though, these cuts will arrive on the heels of one of the most lucrative quarters in the company's history: $56.31 billion in revenue and $26.8 billion in net income for the first three months of 2026...

    https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/meta-layoffs-8000-workers-zuckerberg-ai-spending

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    Honda indefinitely suspends $15B EV plant in Ontario

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  • "EV demand has declined considerably, due to the rollback of environmental regulations in the U.S. and other factors," Honda said in a statement.

    We need an influx of affordable EVs to make it possible for car buyers to respond to the rising gas prices. The price threshold is still too high.

  • Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

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  • Yes, the obvious solution is to avoid it. I use it only for the most boilerplatey things. Anything else, I want to make sure I can still do it myself.

  • Trump Says Attorney General ‘Kept Me Out of Jail for Years’

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  • May his wish come true, and soon.

  • Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

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  • Also endless bullshit.

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    Former IT contractor convicted for wiping 96 US government databases

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  • Restraint or a realistic sense of how easily they could figure out who did it.

  • Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats

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  • It makes sense if it's a party of rich, comfortable, conservative-leaning liberals who aren't really all that bothered by rich fascists running the country, and aren't at all keen to hand any power to poor lefties who hate them and might challenge their privilege.

  • Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam?

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  • Consciousness is something completely different. It’s what makes you fully feel the present moment. It’s the fact of feeling alive. So it has nothing to do with the ability to crunch numbers or stitch words together into a logical sequence.

    And there’s one fact you can’t get around. Consciousness, in every case observed since we started studying it, only ever appears on biological substrate. Never on non-living matter. Never on stone, never on metal and never on silicon. So it’s a fact that looks an awful lot like a law of nature.

    This bit strikes me as odd. It suggests we've done experiments to check whether consciousness ever occurs in non-biological systems, and concluded that wherever we find consciousness it's in a loving organism. But has anyone done such an experiment? Could they? Do we understand well enough what consciousness is, what it is for it to be present in an entity, and how to test for that empirically, that we can simply do experiments to test when it occurs and draw conclusions about laws of nature involving it?

    You can't do an experiment until you can say, to a good enough approximation, what you're looking for and how you'll tell whether it occurs or not. I doubt we even have a clear enough notion of consciousness to agree on what we're talking about, let alone how to test whether it's present, to do empirical experiments and draw lawlike conclusions. And it's not that we just need to get a bit clearer about the kind of entity consciousness is: it's not even clear that it is an entity in the empirical world.

  • France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

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  • Right now if you use encryption the authorities have no proof you're doing something illegal, because you might not be. But if they make (secure) encryption itself illegal, then anyone they aren't sure about suddenly becomes a criminal they're sure about. Then it's just a matter of selectively prosecuting those whom they most dislike. So it doesn't matter to them that much whether lots of people find a technical workaround. If they can't read your messages that's all they need to be able to silence you if you're inconvenient.

  • MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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  • They won't understand. 33% of Americans will swallow whatever incoherent excuses he pulls out of his ass on the day. 33% will object. 33% won't be paying attention.

  • ‘The FDA is a complete mess’: Trump makes fate of agency chief unclear as public trust plummits

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  • Looks like they've changed it now.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    X-59 Supersonic Test Jet Takes To The Air

    www.twz.com /air/x-59-supersonic-test-jet-takes-to-the-air
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    Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates

    blog.cloudflare.com /bootstrap-mtc/
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    What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading

    f-droid.org /2025/10/28/sideloading.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Fury as ICE agents fire tear gas on street preparing for children’s Halloween parade

    www.independent.co.uk /tv/news/ice-tear-gas-chicago-residents-kids-video-b2852715.html
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    Stephen Miller Threatens to Arrest Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

    truthout.org /articles/stephen-miller-threatens-to-arrest-illinois-governor-jb-pritzker/
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    Corporate Power is Protected

    Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

    www.nytimes.com /2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html
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    How legacy media fails Trans people

    mronline.org /2025/10/25/how-legacy-media-fails-trans-people/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started

    cleantechnica.com /2025/10/22/the-sodium-ion-battery-revolution-has-started/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    What exactly does Vladimir Putin hold over the cowardly Donald Trump?

    www.irishtimes.com /opinion/2025/10/22/what-exactly-does-vladimir-putin-hold-over-the-cowardly-donald-trump/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

    www.yahoo.com /news/articles/amazon-ring-partner-flock-network-183505529.html
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    Pro-trans rival draws cheers after Rep. Seth Moulton booed at Boston No Kings rally

    www.advocate.com /transgender/seth-moulton-booed-no-kings-rally
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    'No Kings' protests against Trump planned nationwide, in what the GOP calls 'hate America' rallies

    apnews.com /article/no-kings-rallies-demonstrations-trump-4baa5de2fab057a0e6ab726f5d7747fd
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

    www.nytimes.com /2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conference-gunman.html
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    Vance Jumps to Defense of 'Young Boys,' Aged 24-35, Who Praised Hitler in GOP Group Chat | Common Dreams

    www.commondreams.org /news/jd-vance-racist
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    Mamdani Vows to Make NYC a “Sanctuary City” for Trans People in New Campaign Ad

    truthout.org /articles/mamdani-vows-to-make-nyc-a-sanctuary-city-for-trans-people-in-new-campaign-ad/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

    arstechnica.com /security/2025/10/hackers-bullet-proof-hosts-deliver-malware-from-blockchains/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats

    www.newsweek.com /full-list-young-republicans-involved-in-offensive-chats-10881250
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

    www.mediamatters.org /donald-trump/trump-administration-positioning-upcoming-no-kings-protests-excuse-crushing-dissent
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    He supported the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Now he may be deported to the Taliban.

    www.washingtonpost.com /investigations/2025/10/14/trump-immigratio-afghanistan-asylum-deportation/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their traffic is fake

    joindatacops.com /resources/how-73-of-your-e-commerce-visitors-could-be-fake