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  • Trump Slams Supreme Court, Says America ‘Cannot Give Everyone a Trial’

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  • The 5th and 6th amendments say otherwise.

  • An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious

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  • Is it still passing the Turing test if you don't think either one is human?

  • China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech

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  • Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

  • TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days

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  • Get ready for a bunch more 1 and 2 day outages because someone forgot/missed the deadline to renew some crusty server somewhere. This is such massive overkill for most servers. End users should start getting used to that expired certificate warning in their browser of choice and the process to tell it to continue to the site anyway.

  • How a $200 check can put you on a government watch list

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  • The point is that's not a watchlist, that's just a panopticon authoritarian state. Big Brother is always watching.

  • Trump’s team has no idea what to say about his sudden tariffs reversal

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  • Nothings been saved yet, this is just a pause. There's pretty good evidence (although circumstantial) that this was just for a last minute pump and dump, and that once they've finished extracting more money from the market he'll resume tanking it.

  • Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them

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  • I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. The current DNC is too afraid that they'll scare off the rich donors if they attack Republicans. They're worried about collateral damage if they take pot shots and accidentally hit one of the rich donors.

    Both the GOP and the DNC want to focus on culture war bullshit rather than anything class related because neither wants to do anything that would run counter to the interests of the ultra wealthy.

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    If the U.S. were to rewrite all of its laws tomorrow, what are the things that Democrats and Republicans would agree on?

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  • Nothing. Anything a Democrat proposed the Republicans would object to on principle. The only thing they'd agree on would be things they were paid to agree on.

  • Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

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  • Yeah, the article is right, but for all the wrong reasons. China is taking the lead globally less because of anything it's doing but more because of what everyone else is. In many ways the US was doomed from the moment one of our two political parties decided its future was best served by appealing to the ignorant and uneducated.

    The GOP has spent decades attacking our education system and painting experts and the educated as the enemy all because they had the temerity to say the emperor had no clothes and point out the many ways in which conservative dogma fails. China got incredibly lucky to have just the right economy and connections in the 80s to become everybody's outsourced manufacturing hub and has further benefited by the US attacking its own educational and research institutions.

    China hasn't so much sprinted past the US as they have maintained their steady pace while the US shot itself in the head because the right hand wanted to be the one in charge of everything.

    Trump and the MAGA idiots are just the natural progression of the policies the GOP embraced starting all the way back with Nixon and his southern strategy and accelerated by Reagan and his economic policies.

    It turns out it's hard to be a leader in a technological society when you put the dumbest people you can find in charge of things.

  • 'Trust in President Trump,' White House says, defending his tariffs amid backlash

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  • The real irony of course is that this will have literally the exact opposite effect from what he wants. For some unknown reason Trump is thoroughly obsessed with trade deficits, specifically the eliminating of them. He actually used a formula based on each country's trade deficit when deciding what each tariff would be.

    Ultimately though these tariffs are going to massively increase the trade deficits though as the counter tariffs hurt US exports of goods that are either luxuries or else readily available from other countries. Meanwhile while the tariffs will somewhat reduce US demand for imports the fact that there's no real domestic alternatives for the overwhelming majority of goods means they'll still be imported. The net result will be little if any reduction of imports combined with a significant reduction of exports leading to record trade deficits.

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  • Looking at his history I'm a bit confused. I do see one instance where he was apparently accused of posting a Russian misinformation site and banned for it, although playing devils advocate I could see that as a genuine mistake as well. Looking at the rest of his history nothing really jumps out at me as being that unusual. Most of the articles do seem to have a slightly anti-European bent to them, and I did see one exchange that seemed slightly anti-Ukraine, but I'm not really seeing anything else that looks like actual propaganda.

    It seems like a tough call to make. On the one hand propaganda works best when it's subtle so the fact nothing jumps out is somewhat expected, but on the other hand we don't want to start witch trials and start branding people as agents with only really flimsy evidence. McCarthyism was a terrible point in US history and did far more harm than any possible good and I'd hate to see something like that happen again. Equally though Russia is known for spreading propaganda on social media though, and there is danger there.

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  • He still has over three years left in this term, why the fuck is he already talking about trying for a third? Particularly when there are already so many ways for him to fuck this up so badly he'd never even win a primary let alone a general election.

    My best guess is that he's already out of ideas for things to do that his base would support so he's floating a third term as a distraction from the ongoing trash fire that his brand new second term is already turning into.

  • Does Pentagon Chief Hegseth Have a Russian Email Account?

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  • He questioned on social media why the Pentagon chief would have a Russian email account, though he did not confirm whether it was genuine or fabricated.

    So, in short someone alleged that he has an email address at mail.ru but nobody has actually verified if that's actually true or utter bullshit.

    This is such a click bait-y non-story. Like I would not be surprised at all if it was true, and if it was this would be a pretty massive deal that raises a lot of questions (plus even if true there could still be reasonable explanations), but without verification this is nothing at all. I could just as easily claim I have photos of Trump fellating Putin and it would be just as big a story as this

  • Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees

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  • Teams meetings aren't really that much worse than Zoom, it's mostly minor gripes, although there are quite a few of those. The Teams chat client on the other hand is an absolute garbage fire that's significantly worse than Slack, Discord, or pretty much anything up to and arguably including IRC.

    An organization , "team", channel, and chat are confusing as hell, that breakdown does not in any way align with the way communication works in a large organization. Why is there so little configuration available for notification settings? Why can't I completely silence or ignore a "team", channel, or chat? Why do I not receive notifications half the time for the things I actually want to be notified about? Why aren't there threads or at least a sensible and easy to follow "reply to" option? Why can't anyone seem to agree on the correct way to organize things? Half our groups are creating gigantic "teams" that include half the company, while the other half are creating shared channels nobody knows about. Both options suck.

  • Trump demands Colorado take down ‘purposefully distorted’ painting

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  • That painting looks a lot better than the actual person. No idea what Trump is complaining about, the artist did him a huge favor.

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • Well it's kind of both. While I agree that is a goal it's ultimately about hoarding wealth to them. Power is wealth and wealth is power. The only reason they care about the peasants is because control over them ensures they can continue to harvest wealth and that nobody can become wealthier. Their goal isn't any specific amount of wealth but rather they treat it as a game they're competing in. They don't care if they have a million dollars or a hundred trillion as long as nobody else has more.

    Everything they do is in service to acquiring more wealth for themselves and denying wealth to others including the accumulation of power. They'll spend money to acquire power but only if that power then allows for the accumulation of more money. That's their current play with the US government. They're destroying the US in order to carve it up and add it to their personal hoard of wealth.

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • Different groups, different motivations, but they're headed in the same direction more or less so they're working together. Trump is working to install himself as a dictator under orders from Putin. He wants to be for the US what Lukashenko is for Belarus. Ultimately he'll be Putin's puppet but he'll largely have free reign within the US which is the only thing he cares about. He's destroying all the US soft power and doing everything he can to turn all the US allies against it. Domestically he's painting targets on the backs of as many minorities as he can in order to keep the useful idiots that elected him distracted.

    Musk meanwhile is working to establish an oligarchy and to steal or destroy as much of the US government as he can manage. Ultimately his goals are fairly transparent as he's motivated entirely by naked greed. Since his efforts hurt US foreign relations as much as the domestic situation he's a useful tool to Trump in his efforts to neuter the US for Putin.

    Then you've got the Christian nationalists in the GOP that don't really care about what's going on as long as they're allowed to trample all over the first amendment and declare Christianity as the official US religion with all the associated bigotry and discrimination. Since that plays to Trump's efforts to distract his supporters he's perfectly fine with it, but likely keeping a close eye on that group lest any of them think about usurping his crown, particularly when he still hasn't really gotten to go full dictator yet.

  • I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor

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  • They killed me with an IPO. How weird is that?

  • I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor

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  • Can't stop the signal.