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ryper

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  • Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them

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  • If you're not ready to quit your job, at least if you get caught in a round of layoffs you'll have enough savings to not need to bother looking for a new job.

  • Might have been useful on a number of occasions

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  • It annoyed me so much that Discovery basically wrote off all the propulsion technologies that didn't quite work in the 24th century, just so the spore drive could be special in the 32nd century.

  • Republican lawmakers warn of ‘disastrous mistake’ as Trump nears deal with Iran

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  • South Carolina's primaries are on June 9. Please Sen. Graham, talk enough shit about Trump's plan to get him to endorse someone else before then.

  • Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender. He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.

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  • The article also speculates that Trump's surrender in Iran could be very bad for Israel, thanks to Iran's control of the Straight of Hormuz:

    In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Trump reportedly explained that the United States was negotiating a “letter of intent” with Iran that would “formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations” on Iran’s nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The purpose and effect of such an agreement should be clear: The United States is walking away from the crisis.

    According to one U.S. official, Netanyahu’s “hair was on fire” after the call with Trump—for good reason. The Iran war may end up as the single most devastating blow to Israel’s security in its brief history. On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world, all of which will have an acute interest in keeping Iran happy. They will be unlikely to take Israel’s side in any conflict that it has with Tehran or with its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, because Iran will have the means to punish them if they do. Israel will emerge more isolated than it has been at any time in its history—and not least from its only reliable protector, the United States. When Trump turns his back on Israel, as he must do to implement this policy, MAGA will gladly follow. The bipartisan anti-Israel consensus in the United States will grow and harden.

  • There's plenty to like from season three, if you can see it on the screen

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  • PIC season 3 is good, season 1 has stuff that matters for season 3, and season 2... happened. It's so weird to me that seasons 2 and 3 were shot back-to-back but 3 totally ignored 2's loose ends.

  • I still have a bunch of them

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  • When I was in the market for one a few years ago, an internal drive and a USB enclosure was a safer bet for making backups than a USB drive. It's usually not too hard to find out the recommended drives for the backup software.

  • The Real World Transportation Secretary Finally Reminds America What He’s Really Doing Here -- Who’s paying for Sean Duffy to go down waterslides?

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  • Both NPR and the New York Times did the legwork to find that Duffy’s reality show isn’t funded by public money—it’s being underwritten by a nonprofit chartered in 2025 called, you guessed it, The Great American Road Trip Inc. Who are its sponsors? A ton of corporations subject to Duffy’s regulations, like Toyota, United Airlines, and Boeing. (A Toyota logo is given a conspicuous glamour shot in the trailer, something I clocked immediately.) Oh, also, the person behind the nonprofit is Tori Barnes, who previously lobbied for General Motors and the U.S. Travel Association, the latter of which is an organization that lobbies Duffy’s own department on behalf of the tourism industry.

    So, basically, a recently created nonprofit—bankrolled by a laundry list of corporate interests—has facilitated a reality show that doubles as a cross-country pleasure trip for a high-powered Trump Cabinet member and his family. When the Times asked Barnes about the naked potential for graft in this arrangement, she pointed to a memorandum signed by the Department of Transportation and The Great American Road Trip Inc. that reads, in part, that the nonprofit won’t be compensated with “any favorable consideration for any future federal financial assistance, action, contract, or other financial award” by the federal government. But as the paper points out, there is no language in the memorandum extending that agreement to any of the companies sponsoring the organization. (A few more, while we’re at it: Shell, Chase Travel, Yellowstone Vacations, and, tellingly, Royal Caribbean Group.)

    Basically it's just one more avenue for paying bribes.

  • Attributes include: miracle worker, union rep, expert in suffering, and sage

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  • It probably wasn't that many takes, he'd had plenty of practice delivering technobabble by that point.

  • What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?

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  • You left out one important piece of the Timeless Child plotline: Time Lords were supposed to have a limited number of regenerations, and the writers kept having to find excuses for the Doctor to go past the limit, but the Timeless Child plotline made it so the Time Lords have the limit because they got the regeneration ability from the Doctor, while the Doctor has the ability naturally and has no limit on regenerations. Makes it much easier to keep changing actors, which was probably the point of the whole thing.

  • Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • There's also a description in real units:

    All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy in the form of waste heat.

  • Klingons must have been absolutely riddled with STDs in their history

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  • "Blood-borne diseases" would make more sense, given that you're talking about blood and not sex.

  • Parent company of Truth Social reports $400M loss

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  • A Trump company losing lots of money makes a good headline, but this is mostly because crypto is down, not because they're spending more than they're making:

    TMTG is also active in financial services, and the company announced US$2.5 billion in funding a year ago to invest in cryptocurrencies, one of Trump’s recent passions.

    But the plunge in digital currencies hit this part of the business hard as the price of Bitcoin tumbled from over US$126,000 in early October to below US$70,000 in March.

    It has since rebounded somewhat to over US$80,000.

    Because the company is required to reveal the value of its investments, even if it hasn’t sold them, it recorded a loss of US$406 million for the first quarter.

    “The vast bulk” of the loss was due to digital assets, the company stated.

  • Judicial Supremacy Has Arrived. Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too.

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  • Technically you're right, but with the court having skewed the system to favour Republicans so much, it will be very difficult to get more people on to the Surpreme Court who want to overrule this one's decisions.

  • Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

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  • The Republican justices thought December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas's gerrymandering that favored white poeple/Republicans, but somehow last week wasn't too close to the election to shoot down Louisiana's changes that boosted minorities. That's pretty clearly policy at work, not the law.

  • Google updates AI search to include 'expert advice' from Reddit and other web forums

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  • Hasn't their AI search always included "expert" advice from Reddit, like eating rocks, and putting glue on pizza?

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • Is it extra servings if it's fried in vegetable oil?

  • Calvin Duncan cleared to take office after federal judge grants temporary restraining order

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  • Gov. Jeff Landry and Secretary of State Nancy Landry

    I fully expected nepotism, but apparently these Landrys aren't related.

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    Which instances have the most ban-happy moderators? Analysis inside

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  • What makes you so sure the moderators are the problem, and not users? Maybe assholes gravitate toward certain instances, or people just don't bother to check whether an instance's rules match how tend to they post.

  • AMD will finally add HDMI 2.1 support to Linux

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  • The first paragraph:

    It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions.

    How much more of an explanation do you need?