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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
“We're also not currently at the stage where resistance fighters are most necessary.”
presumably the person who wrote this are white.
we Black and Indigenous people have been at this point forever, but especially, since the Patriot Act. we just don't have the numbers.
lynchings by police sky rocketed after the Patriot Act was passed and what did white folks do?
ask for more cops.
white people's REFUSAL to see themselves in the faces of BIPOC lynched by police is gonna get us all killed.
A new iOS 18 security feature makes it harder for police to unlock iPhones
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images
There is an apparently new iOS 18 security feature that reboots iPhones that haven’t been unlocked in a few days, frustrating police by making it harder to break into suspects’ iPhones, according to 404 Media.
404 Media, which first reported police warnings about the reboots on Thursday, writes that restarted iPhones enter a more secure “Before First Unlock,” or BFU state. Now, it seems Apple added “inactivity reboot” code in iOS 18.1 that triggers iPhones to restart after they’ve been locked for four days, Chris Wade, who founded mobile analysis company Corellium, told the outlet.
The code appears below in screenshots posted by Dr. -Ing. Jiska Classen, a Hasso Plattner Institute research group leader.
Apple indeed added a feature...
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katiefenn@front-end.social ("Katie Fenn") wrote:
Another good excuse to drag this video out.
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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:
Woah woah woah! Too fast
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Officials say Qatar has decided to suspend its mediation efforts on Gaza
Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, officials said Saturday. The announcement comes after growing frustration with the lack of progress on a deal.
Seagate’s 2TB Xbox Expansion Card has returned to its best price to date
Seagate’s proprietary storage solution ain’t cheap, but it remains the easiest way to outfit your Series / X with additional space. | Image: Seagate
Black Friday won’t be here for several more weeks, but the holiday promos are beginning to take shape at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers. We expect to see steep discounts on a number of gaming goods when many of the early sales kick off next week, but if you want to shop ahead of time, Seagate’s 2TB Storage Expansion Card for the Xbox Series X / Sis already matching its all-time low of $199.99 ($160 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Seagate’s online storefront.
While pricey, Seagate’s proprietary expansion cards are a great way to expand the storage capacity of your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S. The NVMe-based, Microsoft-licensed cards — of which there are currently two — are incredibly easy to install, fast, and allow you to run...
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The only thing scarier than the looming Trump presidency, is watching half of liberals turn into the people they've been fighting for a decade, with the other half sort of just ignoring it's happening.
Election conspiracies, paranoia, vitriol, minority scapegoating, calls for collective punishment, revenge politics, black-and-white thinking, politician worship, apathy, news outlets calling for the Dems to move further right...
We are lost.
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masayuki60@vivaldi.net ("Masayuki60 🦮🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🐕🇺🇲📷") wrote:
A very foggy morning. Kengo is at his groomer, and I enjoyed the view of my yard. A spider with its intricately woven web. I hope its grand effort will pay off.
#fog #autumn #leaves #spider #colors #nature #photography #Fujifilm
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- A spider in its intricately woven web in front of a house (remote)
- A foggy morning in my yard with trees with various colors of leaves: green, yellow, orange... (remote)
- A foggy morning view of woody yard with male leaves in focus (remote)
- A foggy morning view of woods: yellow leaves on the left, a tree on the right, a bush on the bottom left (remote)
Donald Trump wins Nevada
Former President Donald Trump has won Nevada’s six electoral votes, according to a race call from the Associated Press. This is the first time in 20 years that Nevada has elected a Republican in a presidential election.
How to use the latest AI video editing tools in Google Photos
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
Google Photos continues to get new and improved features on a regular basis, and one of the most recent Android updates has focused on video editing. Even if you don’t have the latest Pixel 9 phone (which is required if you want to try out the weird new Reimagine tool), you can now speed up, slow down, and enhance your clips with a few taps as well as trim them down more easily.
You can also expect what Google calls “AI-powered video presets” on both the Android and iOS versions of Google Photos. After the app algorithm analyzes your clips, you get a choice of effects — trims, zooms, slow-mos — you can apply with a tap. The app takes the role of director and chooses where and how these tweaks should be applied.
When the changes arrive on...
Instagram stops the ‘rug pull’ that disappears videos while you’re watching them
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge
You know that thing where, just after you’ve opened Instagram and become invested in whatever video was already loaded, a new video pops in and seemingly yeets the old video into the void, never to be seen again? That’s a thing of the past, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who says in an AMA from his Instagram Story yesterday that the app now waits for you to scroll to show you the new stuff.
That behavior — which Instagram apparently called “rug pull” internally — wasn’t just some weird bug. Mosseri says the app did it “because we were trying to load new content, and it was taking a while, so we showed you something that was already downloaded in the meantime, and it is generally good for engagement.”
But that’s “really...
I got a desk treadmill to relieve stress — instead, it stressed me out
This walking pad was supposed to help me relieve stress. Then I overcomplicated it.
I became so mired in the smart features, I forgot to walk.
Wise Words From Dragon Age: The Veilguard And An Unboxed PS5 Pro Got Us Through Election Week
We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next four years.
Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe
There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.
Opinion: Witnessing my daughters' first votes was a moment to remember
NPR's Scott Simon accompanied his daughters to the polls, as they voted in their first presidential election.
Foreign Interference Recap
We look at the various threats sent to polling places on election day this week, as well as the extent to which foreign actors tried to interfere with the presidential election.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as I have been saying for a while now: although computing brought us new general-purpose *tools*, AI brings us new forms of *agency*. we confuse the two at our peril.
“AI can process information by itself, and thereby replace humans in decision making. AI isn’t a tool—it’s an agent.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/6PULswa
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am as guilty as anyone else in this. I let my very real past experiences of the good of individuals become a delusion of inevitability.
the moral arc of the Universe does not bend on its own.
“We should not assume that delusional networks are doomed to failure. If we want to prevent their triumph, we will have to do the hard work ourselves.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/c904k6y
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“While each individual human is typically interested in knowing the truth about themselves and the world, large networks bind members and create order by relying on fictions and fantasies.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/hDeTClk
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Our tendency to summon powers we cannot control stems not from individual psychology... The main argument of this book is that humankind gains enormous power by building large networks of cooperation, but the way these networks are built predisposes us to use that power unwisely. Our problem, then, is a network problem.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/fpyjfpE
They split the ticket. Meet the abortion rights voters who also went for Trump
Data from a large survey of U.S. voters found that a significant subset of voters who supported abortion rights ballot measures also voted for Trump.
From Taiwan to technology, China ponders what's to come under Trump 2.0
Chinese business people may be able to find creative ways to avoid U.S. tariffs, but for Beijing, its concerns for the incoming Trump presidency go beyond trade.
The Best Way to Restore a Rainforest Is Simply to Leave It Be
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Johnny Appleseed’s heart was in the right place when he walked all over the early United States planting fruit trees. Ecologically, though, he had room for improvement: To create truly dynamic ecosystems that host a lot of biodiversity, benefit local people, and […]
The transition to the Trump administration is underway. But it’s already behind
The presidential election is over, and the complicated two-month sprint has begun to hand over the levers of power from one administration to the next.
New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims
The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.
2020’s debunked election fraud claims are coming back due to Trump’s 2024 victory
Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.
Mail ballot challenges are dropped in Pennsylvania shortly after Election Day
Within two days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications.
Why it’s so hard for parents to let their kid quit
Piano lessons and soccer practice can encourage grit. But if your kid isn’t into it, it can become a stress-inducing obligation. Here’s how to have hard conversations with your child about quitting.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
More from the shoot.
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
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Death toll rises to 20 in powerful bombing at rail station in southwestern Pakistan
The bomb exploded when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province, said a senior police officer.
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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
You can read about the Debian contributions made by Freexian Collaborators in October, now available at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-10-2024/
Thanks to the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) who made this possible.
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This guy gets it, one of the better explanations of what many people are feeling right now.
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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I might be getting too real here, but:
Saying things like "this is all part of God's plan" and "God is in control" during a fascist uprising is just writing their propaganda for them.
Arcane’s second season is a revolutionary powderkeg
Netflix
Arcane’s final season puts an even finer point on its story about revolutionary war.
Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump's 2020 election case after presidential win
The judge overseeing Trump's 2020 election interference case canceled remaining court deadlines as prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the presidential victory.
Southern California firefighters gain ground over wildfire thanks to decreased winds
Firefighters gained ground Friday against a wildfire that has destroyed at least 132 structures, as favorable conditions were expected to continue through the weekend after two days of gusty winds.
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Some wingnut I've never spoken to before (or again (foreshadowing!)) accused me of living in an "echo chamber" because I block people.
Fuck the "echo chamber" discourse. I reject it entirely.I am not here to wear an ascetic's hair shirt because you think that surrounding myself with dickheads builds character.
Block early and block often. I expanded on this in some detail in my "On Blocking" post from a few years back, but it bears repeating. Especially now.
Wrote a tiny, thumbor-eque remote-image resizer service in #rustlang.
Pay as-needed, and as little as possible were goals, so it runs on ARM64 Lambda, with lots of caching.
"Batteries included" (devenv, ITs), to make it easy to start hacking on. Includes example TF modules, to show deployment w/ CDN caching in layers etc. PRs welcome.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Spent most of my day on Threads pushing back against disinfo and election fraud conspiracies. 🙃
The conspiracies have spread to X and TikTok now. Bigger, more trustworthy accounts are just spreading baseless claims.
It’s like half of the libs are blue pilled and the other half are just sort of ignoring that it’s happening. I’m at a loss.
I'm either blind or this is a really tough one.
[No guessing mode, evil]
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prehensile@assemblag.es ("Henry Cooke") wrote:
in addition to the ‘train wifi test’ (whereby anyone building a complex webapp with a heavy download upfront and a lot of data requests should be forced to use it on train wifi), I propose the ‘spirited children test’, whereby anyone building a kiosk system for public use should be forced to use it while managing two children under 10 with excitingly divergent needs and agendas.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Think of it like this— The right understands that Trump wants to burn it to the ground. That's the whole point. They hate the left so much that Trump is their revenge.
The fatal flaw in their logic is that they think they can control the direction of Trump's destruction.
If we know this, how can we then also believe that our revenge politics would be any different?
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Interesting how we've reserved zero vitriol for the moderate conservative who never showed up, but have no problem telling Latinos to have fun when they're deported.
And because there aren't many progressive Latine voices on the web, we'll just ignore it. Because we don't do anything about racism until we're embarrassed by it.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We must strongly reject the American predilection for revenge politics, collective punishment, and conditional allyship.
This is from a Democratic strategist. It's almost gleeful.
This is not okay. We are losing ourselves to righteous indignation and justifying our darkest propensities with a false sense of justice.
I don't want to be associated with this type of rhetoric. Revenge is not a gun with a scope. It's a bomb loaded with shrapnel.
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- johnnypalmadessa: I mean this sincerely: If you protest voted, then don't come crying to any of us about Palestine. We're about to have a lot bigger problems right here in America - and you had the chance to avoid all of this by voting for Kamala Harris. Save the tears. You'll need them when Donald Trump annihilates Gaza. Be best.
- johnnypalmadessa: Dear protest voters who refused to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris because 'Free Palestine, Do you think Jared Kushner's condos in Gaza will have a river view or sea view? After all, that's what you voted for by protest voting.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
This tech newsletter is very entry level tech stuff so maybe Mastodon is not the target audience per se.
But if you wanted to sign up to offer feedback, suggestions, or to even write a guest post, I would honestly love that.
My goal is to help non-techie folks navigate the internet, and understand the politics of it all, under the current circumstances. I believe, like many of you, a more tech-literate community is valuable.
DOJ brings charges in an alleged Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump
Federal prosecutors charged a man who said he had been tasked by a contact in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect.
Racist Trolls Celebrated the Election By Texting Black Voters to “Pick Cotton”
The day after Election Day, predominantly Black recipients in at least six states received racist, trollish text messages telling them they had been “selected” to “pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” The messages were sent from varying numbers and area codes, and sent to recipients in at least eight states, including Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, […]
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The United States is anti-Latino. There is no avoiding that fact, and yet, avoiding us is what makes this flavor of American racism so distinct.
This is something I've known for years, but this election cycle has really bubbled the issue to the top. I don't think it stops there.
The Beatles’ final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy
Paul McCartney in 2022. | Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images
The Beatles have been nominated for two Grammys — nearly 50 years after the band officially split up. Their final song, called “Now and Then,” was restored last year with the help of AI, and is now up for record of the year alongside the likes of Beyoncé, Charlie XCX, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift. It’s also been nominated for best rock performance, where it goes up against Green Day, Pearl Jam, and The Black Keys.
Released in November 2023, “Now and Then” started as a demo recorded by John Lennon in the late 1970s. This recording, as well as “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love,” was given to Lennon’s three surviving bandmates in the ‘90s, with the hopes of including it in The Beatles Anthology project.
However, “Now and Then” was never...
The 10th Anniversary Return Of Interstellar Is Another IMAX Debacle
Interstellar is returning to IMAX for the sci-fi film’s 10th anniversary on December 6. Normally, this would be a time for fans of the impressive space epic and its director, Christopher Nolan, to celebrate. Finally, a chance to once again see all 64 minutes of those glorious 70mm shots of blackholes and planetary…
YouTube Premium’s legacy price breaks are going away for more users
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
YouTube’s premium subscriptions are about to get more expensive for long-time subscribers with legacy plans in more places. In December, YouTube told US subscribers with legacy YouTube Premium plans (stemming from discontinued services Google Play Music or YouTube Red) they’d need to start paying the current $13.99 per month price in the new year.
YouTube Music users in Europe have posted emails they received announcing a price increase for them, too, and just like the US, some report getting three more months at the current price before the hike.
In an email to The Verge, YouTube communications manager Paul Pennington confirmed prices are increasing for both YouTube Premium, which removes ads on the streaming videos and includes access...
Magnets are witchcraft and I won't accept another explanation.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Six Games For Election Week Escapism
What a week, huh? Yeah. Well, here we are, at the end of it, at the very least, and now looking toward the future. So how about some video games to take our minds off things for the weekend? This week we’ve got some fun shooters, some beat ‘em up action, and a digital spin on a classic trading card game.
It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Advocates want that to end
Ten states have passed laws to ban the practice of lying to juveniles in custody during police interrogations. Now, one state wants to extend the ban to adults too.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I will accept no "why this happened" take that fails to acknowledge voters were misled into voting for the exact opposite of what they actually want.
It's utterly pointless to bikeshed policy and messaging when half the population clearly has zero ability to discern truth in the first place.
Ballot measures to upend state election systems failed across the country
Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year’s election, delivering a stinging setback to the election reform movement.
Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit
Jesse Keighin liked to stream Nintendo Switch games online before they were officially released and then gloat about it right in Nintendo’s face, according to a new lawsuit filed by the Mario maker in Colorado District Court earlier this week. “[I] can do this all day,” he allegedly wrote in a letter to Nintendo. The…
How to choose which Apple Watch to buy
Image: Cath Virginia. / The Verge
Between the Apple Watch Series 10, the Ultra 2, and the second-gen SE, there are more options than ever. We’ll help you sort through them.
DJI just added the two most requested features to its $199 Neo drone
“DJI’s $199 Neo selfie drone is going to be everywhere,” we wrote in September — while noting that the budget self-flying drone did have two major weaknesses over the competing $350 Hover X1. First, DJI’s drone didn’t shoot vertical video (a dealbreaker for TikTok and Instagram Reels influencers) and second, it couldn’t track our movements nearly as quickly as the competition.
But DJI is now fixing both, adding vertical video and dramatically increasing the Neo’s flight speed while tracking. According to DC Rainmaker, it’s now so fast it can keep up with cyclists, and surprisingly flies faster in tracking mode than it does with a controller.
Before the firmware update, the drone wasn’t able to keep up with him cycling at even 13 miles...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Has A Staggering 12 Different Currencies, And Counting
We’ve already very carefully been over the grimly insidious nature of Pokémon TCG Pocket’s unpleasant free-to-play model, but an aspect of this peculiar and enormously successful mobile spin-off from the long-established card game is just how many in-game currencies it has you juggle. So far, there are twelve, and…
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Stats Reveal Most Players' Choices Are Basic
My favorite part about talking to other people who play choice-based RPGs is comparing choices. Whether it’s about the characters we make or the ways we nudge the story, I am always down to hear how people are playing games like Dragon Age: The Veilguard. We’re just a week out from launch, so a lot of people haven’t…
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Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Politics @politics-CNN
Live Action Stich Is Giving Me Ugly Sonic Deja Vu
Today, during Disney’s D23 Brazil event, the company showcased a bunch of first looks and new teasers for upcoming projects. And during the event, Disney shared the first still of Stitch from the upcoming live-action Lilo & Stitch remake. And well... hmmm... I’m not sure, folks!
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BeauBoboBonobo ("francefrance7@gmail.com :masto") wrote:
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eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
The road ahead will not be easy, and some of it is not yet mapped out, but our work isn't a sprint—it's a marathon. EFF is not merely fighting against individual companies or elected officials or even specific administrations. We are fighting for you. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Unfortunately, our current situation is going to need a lot of heroes.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/08/witness-them/
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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
I worked at this company that had a shitty product. I'm sitting in a meeting with the leadership team and the Director of Engineering is going off on how customers are too stupid to understand the product.
So I interrupted him and gave a demo of our product which could have been titled why this product sucks. It was devastating. Even our own engineers couldn't correctly operate the product.
So you know what they did?
They fired me.
PS this a post about the Democratic party.
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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
for educational purposes: https://hackerone.com/reports/2823554
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jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:
#MAGA #TrumpEconomy #TrumpTariffs #InflationIsComing #YouGetWhatYouDeserve
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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
A deep dive into a specific example of racialized disinformation I'll seeing a lot of ...
#uspolRE: https://infosec.exchange/users/thenexusofprivacy/statuses/113449041226691510
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I miss when Matt Mullenweg was our biggest villain.
Exclusive: RFK Jr. Is Crowdsourcing Cabinet Picks for Trump
Just days after former President Donald Trump won the presidential election, his onetime-opponent turned supporter, the anti-vaccine superstar Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has set up a website to solicit suggestions for key Cabinet roles. Anyone can submit a name and vote for their favorite nominees across 12 areas of government, including health, food and agriculture, […]
Heretic’s directors on crafting their new horror villain: ‘This has to be Hugh Grant’
A still photo from the film Heretic.
When codirectors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods started thinking about who could play the antagonist in their new horror flick Heretic, they knew he had to have a few specific characteristics. The film is about a man who lures missionaries into his home, eventually turning a pleasant chat about religion into a nightmare scenario. So he had to be able to disarm with charm and humor, before switching gears to become intense and terrifying. “He had to have these moments of feeling dangerous, of feeling safe, contradictory traits that had to coalesce into something,” says Beck.
Early on in the casting process, the pair landed on a surprising name — and they couldn’t let it go. “As soon as we thought about him we were like: ‘This has to be Hugh...
Someone Found A Hidden Cheat Code In A 28 Year Old Donkey Kong Game
Suprise! A new, preivously undocumented cheat code has been discovered in the classic Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country 2 nearly three decades after it hit store shelves.
ESPN host Kirk Herbstreit's beloved game day-crashing dog, Ben, has died
Ben, Kirk Herbstreit's certified emotional support animal, had been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. Audiences grew to love the 10-year-old golden retriever who appeared on TV with his owner.
Confused About Prestige in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6? Here’s A Simple Break Down
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been an exciting entry for the franchise, likely bolstered by its same-day launch on Game Pass. It also helps that there’s a healthy mix of new offerings and the return of beloved mechanics. When talking about the latter, the reintroduction of the classic Prestige system certainly…
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ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:
Who knew the enshittification of the internet would lead to the enshittification of the entire planet.
Everything Coming To Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 In Its Jam-Packed Season 1
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hasn’t even been out for a full month yet and Activision is already teasing a slew of season 1 content coming next week. The update is bringing more loadout options, maps, and teases for mid-season zombies reveals.
Feds investigate racist texts sent across the country post-election
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge
People across the country received racist text messages in the days after Donald Trump was elected to a second term for president, and now federal authorities are investigating.
“In multiple states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, Black women, men, and students have reported receiving racist text messages from an unknown source, urging them to report to a plantation to pick cotton,” the NAACP said in a press release. Messages said variations of, “You have been selected to be a house slave,” or “You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation,” according to screenshots and news reports. They also often instruct recipients on where to go or when to be ready “With all of your belongings.”
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julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social ("Sturm und Drag") wrote:
The stupidest thing about the outburst of liberal racism is that a bunch of them are saying that latinos are too machista to imagine a woman president when most Latin American countries have had women presidents
It's entirely a skill issue, maybe Harris should have tried taking advice from Cristina Kirchner rather than from Keir Starmer
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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
@julieofthespirits or, you know, you can make it all up in more ways than one. who are those latinos? they wont break them down by country and race and that's by design. now they’ll go after us Black and brown ones while los blanquitos stand by, complicit.
muchos de los resultados de estas elecciones no hacen sentido, pero son los mismos sistemas que nunca cambiaron. y los demócratas han sabido de ello y no hicieron nada cuando lo tenían que hacer 15 años atrás.
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julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social ("Sturm und Drag") wrote:
@blogdiva well since I wrote my post I finally saw some disaggregated data and yeah it seems "white miami cubans" are mostly to blame here
https://www.as-coa.org/articles/poll-tracker-latino-vote-2024-us-presidential-election
2024 is going to smash heat records
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It’s “virtually certain” that 2024 will go down in the books as the hottest year yet. The planet is on track to pass a worrying threshold when it comes to global average temperatures, warns the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
After a scorching summer, and with countries making slow progress on climate change, it’s not too surprising that 2024 is going to be off the charts. Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are pushing temperatures higher, forcing communities around the world to adapt to harsh new realities.
“Humanity’s torching the planet and paying the price.”
“Humanity’s torching the planet and paying the price,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks yesterday.
Both Copernicus and the World...
Is Blizzard Teasing An Overwatch ‘Classic’?
Overwatch 2 has been in such a rough spot as of late that it’s impossible to not be nostalgic for the original game’s heyday. The sequel hasn’t panned out the way Blizzard promised after it reportedly canceled the story campaign that was the whole point of a sequel. So it’s easy to look at all the changes Overwatch 2 h…
Bowers and Wilkins’ excellent sounding PX7 S2e headphones are $120 off
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We’re flush with great options for noise-canceling headphones that sound good, but if you care most about sound quality (without spending pricey audiophile money) a great choice is the Bowers and Wilkins PX7 S2e — which are on sale for $279 ($120 off) in all five color options at Amazon, Best Buy, and direct from Bowers and Wilkins.
The PX7 S2e may not have the most charming sounding name, but they do have a clean design and warm, detailed sound that even competes with the much pricier AirPods Max. In addition to sounding excellent and offering niceties like a transparency mode, they favor proper physical buttons and a proper on / off switch over the touch controls found on some other headphones like Sony’s WH-1000XM5. Their 30 hours of...
How to Play Queen Dizzy in Guilty Gear: Strive
Dizzy has been in Guilty Gear before but, as with many characters, she has been significantly reworked for Strive. Now called “Queen Dizzy,” she has access to some of her previous moves, and is still a considerable threat (despite her adorable appearance).
Here's The Most Annoying Thing About The PS5 Pro (Besides The Price)
Yesterday, the PlayStation 5 Pro launched. But I’ve been playing around with Sony’s most expensive console ever for the past week, and the biggest issue I have with it, besides the high price, is that its really hard to actually figure out what games run and look better on it.
The new Mac Mini takes a small step towards upgradeable storage
That Mac Mini SSD is removable! | Image: X user @L0vetodream
Apple’s redesigned Mac Mini M4 has ditched the previous M2 machine’s SSD that was soldered to the logic board, as confirmed by teardowns like this one posted on X showing it has a single removable SSD module. It’s not Apple’s first desktop computer to go in this direction, as we saw similar modules in the Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
Mac mini M4拆解
对比老款的机器 体积大大的减小 集成度提高很多 大家都在聊 这个机器的硬盘是可拆卸式的 我看了下 确实是 1插槽双盘位 最大颗粒1TB 用的是BGA315硬盘 最大升级容量可以到2T pic.twitter.com/vyhq3ZfGtL— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) November 8, 2024
However, as noted by MacRumors, it’s probably similar to their storage with only the NAND chips on board and the controller is still embedded in the SoC, tightly restricting any possible DIY upgrade or repair options.
In a...
Boycott men? South Korea's 4B movement gains traction in the U.S. after Trump's win
After Trump's win, there are growing calls among American women to boycott men. They're drawing inspiration from 4B, a South Korean feminist movement that rejects dating, sex, marriage and childbirth.
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:
echoing some things that @brettbalogh has been posting about, I'm also leaning harder than ever into #othernetworks. that alternative networks and network structures produce different ways of being in the world, with each other, is not a cute idea. it is at the heart of what we need to do next to wrest control away from big tech/billionaires. building yr own mini FM transmitter is also not a cute little time-wasting project. it is fundamental to this work & of taking back a small bit of autonomy over how we learn, relate, communicate w/each other. more on this in the coming years but in the meantime, https://othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/build-your-own-mini-fm-transmitter/
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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
There aren't more than like 10 people on fedi. The rest is just bots. Watch me post this from my other accounts
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am tempted to not bother getting out of bed in the morning anymore.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/08/if-its-not-one-thing-its-another-4/
Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL's 'You've got mail' alert, dies at 74
Edwards recorded the iconic AOL lines at home with a cassette recorder for $200. Little did he know, he would become the voice that welcomed millions of people to the world of email.
What a second Trump presidency means for tech
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Donald Trump’s second term means significant changes for AI, crypto, and EV policy.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure, As Told By Steam Reviews
The original Life is Strange, from developer Don’t Nod, launched as an episodic, story-driven adventure game published by Square Enix in 2015. That’s nearly a decade ago, surprisingly enough, and it’s making me feel old, as I remember seeing the previews and press screens of the game back in the day. But here we are,…
Sony President Promises Better PlayStation Quality Checks After Concord's Failure
There have been two massive questions hanging over Concord, the expensive PlayStation 5 hero shooter that almost nobody played. The first one is: how did a game that wasn’t busted or terrible bomb so spectacularly? The second is: how did a game seemingly destined to fail get through Sony’s quality checks, renowned…
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"Like many Black women have declared, I’ve washed my hands of this. Don’t look for us to protest or 'save the country.' It’s not our job. It wasn’t Harris’ job, and I’m glad she didn’t get it.
The people have spoken.
The have the president they wanted.
They have the president they deserve…
God, have mercy on us all."
https://rosalynmorris.substack.com/p/an-american-travesty-thoughts-on
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Election fraud conspiracies from the left are spreading like wildfire right now on Threads. Hundreds of posts are flooding my feed, many with search hashtags above promoting more conspiracies.
We are one fake video of someone stuffing ballots in a trunk away from something bad.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
such are the ideologues bringing ‘order’ to his next term of office and ruin to our Republic
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Threads is Mark Zuckerberg's magnum opus of toxic social media platforms.
The spectacular fashion in which everyone fell for it again; the way the popular kids of the tech community sold us out—all the apologist think pieces, the gaslighting, the doublespeak—it's truly remarkable.