Pam Bondi als US-Justizministerin bestätigt
Nachdem der Ex-Abgeordnete Gaetz das Feld räumte, rückte die ehemalige Staatsanwältin Bondi als Trumps Kandidatin für das Justizministerium nach. Jetzt hat der Senat sie im Amt bestätigt - doch die Demokraten sind skeptisch.
Trump's first day gave Israeli extremists a green light to attack the West Bank. (Near zero news coverage from corporate media, of course).
Now feverish plans in the works for US troops to be deployed, and 2m in Gaza to be put on trains and detention camps "for their own good".
Sounds just like Old Times.
That, and the book burning, the cultural erasure of entire groups and classes of people, threats of military invasions on every continent.
All to favor a Master Race.
Charming.
Good morning! On this first Tuesday in February, you are all invited to read through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…) per ancient xkcd custom.
#xkcd #xkcd843 #misconceptions #Wikipedia
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Me:
- The majority of the Sahara consists of rocks, rather than sand.
- A chloroform-soaked rag cannot instantly incapacitate a person. It takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious.
- When a meteor or spacecraft enters the atmosphere, the heat of entry is not primarily caused by friction, but by compression of air in front of the object.
“Busting the ‘Dark Ages’ myth
Labelling this large period of history as a time of little cultural advancement and its peoples as unsophisticated is, however, a sweeping generalization and regularly considered to be incorrect. Indeed, many argue that ‘the Dark Ages’ never truly happened”
That is, until today, we are now, truly living through the “dark ages”.
In Ukraine, Zelenskyy takes a stand,
With US, Europe, and Putin, he'll band,
Seeking peace in the fight,
For a future so bright,
Together, they'll try to lend a hand.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
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Ukraine war briefing: I will sit down with US, Europe and Putin, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian president ready to ‘move to the diplomatic track’; Russian strike kills five civilians including pregnant teenager. What we know on day 1,078Warren Murray (The Guardian)
The RSV vaccine RSVpreF (Abrysvo) was evaluated using a test-negative control study in a high-risk general older clinical population (>60 years) with a lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) episode requiring hospitalisation or emergency department visit.
Of the 280,000 severe cases annually, 1,120 could be prevented in older adults.
The study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
I went out to dinner with my boss and we chatted about work and stuff and I'm feeling better. I once again feel like I'd be way better off psychologically if I just moved to Michigan and worked in the office all the time.
The idea of moving right now makes me anxious though. It feels like a trap.
I’m glad that helped you! It helped me this morning to learn my manager has been feeling much the same as me about, well, everything going on.
I think that, right now, if we could move, it would only be outside of the country. Or, on the other extreme, within a hundred miles or so of here. I don’t think anything else would be worth it.
(It’s a moot point, though, as this house needs major work and we’re nowhere near a financial position where we could move anywhere. 😅)
This is brilliant!
(source unknown... WA-group)
What do you get when you cross a crowbar with a screwdriver?
A bar full of drunk crows. 🍺🐦⬛
Treffen mit Netanjahu: Trump will US-Kontrolle über den Gazastreifen
US-Präsident Trump hat bei seinem Treffen mit Israels Premier Netanjahu angekündigt, die USA würden "die Kontrolle über den Gazastreifen übernehmen". Die Palästinenser dort sollten umgesiedelt werden. Gegenwind von Netanjahu gab es nicht.
Trans youth and their families are suing Trump over canceled healthcare
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trans-youth-and-their-families-are-suing-trump-over-canceled-healthcare/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trans youth and their families are suing Trump over canceled healthcare
"I am heartbroken, tired, and scared.”Mother Jones
New medicine cat apprentice 🐈🌿
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Trump: USA werden Gazastreifen übernehmen
US-Präsident Donald Trump will, dass die Vereinigten Staaten die Kontrolle über den Gazastreifen übernehmen und das vom Krieg zerstörte palästinensische Küstengebiet wirtschaftlich entwickeln.ZDFheute
Nazis in Palästina: "Es ist schon eine ganz nette Hitlergemeinde hier"
Das Gelobte Land eine Nazi-Hochburg? Genau. Vor 1939 war jeder dritte deutsche Siedler in Palästina Mitglied der NSDAP, die Hitler-Jugend von Haifa bot Hebräisch-Kurse an.Ralf Balke (DER SPIEGEL)
This is what fine table salt looks like magnified 150 times with an electron microscope.
Credit: Todd Simpson/UWO Nanofab
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I hope you build the strength fight for your needs as a nonbinary person.
Learning to say no, accept help, and take up space are difficult for many people. When much of the world is on a mission to erase you, asserting your basic needs is a heroic act.
It's hard, but you are stronger.
OpenAI Partners With California State University System - Slashdot
OpenAI is partnering with the California State University (CSU) system to bring ChatGPT Edu to the 23-campus community of 500,000 students, calling it the "largest implementation of ChatGPT by any single organization or company anywhere in the world.news.slashdot.org
sigh Well, I ended up responding to that macports-dev@ mailing list thread about Ken stepping away.
I did my best to be polite, though I don't think Gagan actually merits being treated with kid gloves, his writing is as immature as a child so given that I am also reading a book titled: Positive Child Guidance? I thought I would put some of its suggestions into practice.
After clicking send, I spotted some typographical errors I wish I could correct, but SMTP isn't as gracious as ActivityPub.
More annoyingly: I lost track of time and ended up missing the start time for a movie I had been wanting to see this afternoon. Not a huge deal, it is screening tomorrow as well. It just means I will be doing a lot more driving I guess.
#opensource rocks! #linux rocks!
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@nextcloud @Umweltbundesamt
@S4F
Nextcloud Server | Blauer Engel
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Ich hab mich für einen Event der israelischen Firma Cellebrite bei fedpol eingeladen...
Die Registrierung klappte.
Einen Tag später wurde ich schon wieder ausgeladen. 🤣
Google just removed their promise not to use AI to build weapons
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
but you won't stop doing business with them, will you
Google Removes Language on Weapons From Public AI Principles (GOOGL)
Alphabet Inc.’s Google removed a passage from its artificial intelligence principles that pledged to avoid using the technology in potentially harmful applications, such as weapons.Julia Love (Bloomberg)
Early examples of that style are Tezuka Osamu's Black Jack (who had a scarred face) and Matsumoto Leiji's Captain Harlock (who had a scarred face and an eye patch) and the hair in their "eyes" was presumably more to show a bit of self awareness/vanity that they didn't want to be perceived solely for their scars? Or trying to "cover them up" somehow, in a visual shorthand?
Heck, I have one friend who was extremely grateful to have encountered Captain Harlock, as that friend does have scars, and for the first time he saw representation within pop culture of someone who was scarred, but a character with redeeming traits rather than portrayed as a villain as had been previously commonplace in stylistic shorthand.
All the other hair in eyes anime characters I am guessing are more stylistically inspired by their ancestors even if they may not share the scarring rationalization of their antecedents?
My job as a trans educator will only end once I die ... I hope I will continue after death too ... Hugz
Hugz & xXx
"There’s a term for a hostile takeover of a government – whether it’s bloodless or by military force.
That term, friend, is coup. ...
It is a five alarm fire – a rolling constitutional crisis billionaire power grab coupled with the largest cyber data breach in history.
And yes, it is a coup."
~ Michele Hornish
"Nothing is free in America, unless you’re a billionaire with access to a transactionally criminal President.
In America, it’s always good to be part of the broligarchy."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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Welcome to the United States of ‘Broligarchy, Inc.’
America’s descent into a broligarchy was an inevitable, steady, and calculated takeover of the country’s wealth, Supreme Court, political parties, and presidency by a cabal of selfish billionaires.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"So much damage — to U.S. credibility, to the Constitution and the rule of law, and possibly even to the very functioning of the government. And Trump only took power 2 weeks ago."
~ Paul Krugman
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #TechBros #broligarchy
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Boys More Likely Than Girls To Negotiate For Bigger Rewards, Study Finds
A new set of studies reveals that boys begin asking for more than girls in negotiations as early as elementary school.Kim Elsesser (Forbes)
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I didn't have egg heists on my 2025 bingo card but it's obvious in retrospect.
100K eggs stolen from East Coast supplier - oregonlive.com
oregonlive.com/business/2025/0…
100K eggs stolen from East Coast supplier
The eggs taken from the back of a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania are worth about $40,000.Jenna Wise | jwise@pennlive.com (oregonlive)
Giant Omelette
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"Musk’s total idiocy is structural: it goes back to the very origin of the Greek term idiotes, a person who cannot understand the shared political life of the city. These people cannot understand that their wealth and power are not their sovereign creations but the shared product of the wider state and society that supports and sustains them."
Roser 🤘
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