I remember back when Philip Müller announced his company and went wild with Manjaro laptop and Pinephone projects. I think it was a decent idea to explore those frontiers and the company is the appropriate form for that. The bad thing is that the devs and the community remained unorganised (legally undefined) and the company exploited them without pay or any return.
So they are organising now, as they must. And it's clearly without and in opposition to Philip Müller.
Democracy is back to 1978 levels for the average global citizen.
Nearly three quarters of the world population (74%, or 6 billion) live in autocracies.
The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy - for the first time in over 50 years.
In other news, my employer has set out a goal to replace people with AI by 2030, this in the environment of atrocious data quality and digital disconnectedness within the firm...
The above account is largely true, except for a few caveats. It's not true that there are "murky" aspects to it, things that "we may never know". Epstein's and Trump's sex trafficking operations have by orders of magnitude more evidence than Lee Harvey Oswald's connection to the shooting of JFK. The affair is in broad daylight even given the missing files and active cover-up by the Trump administration.
And notice a big omission. Russia is mentioned all over the place, but Israel hardly at all. In reality, Epstein's connections to Israel are at least as dense as his connections to Russia, and it's equally common knowledge.
Trump and his entourage did not give any forethought to the particulars of the Iran war. They thought it would go as easily as the abduction of Maduro. They did not foresee the possibility that Iran would pose a danger to the strait of Hormuz. They paid even less attention to any wider ramifications.
...which, again,, shows only your penchant for scoffing. Or do you really believe the U.S. Central Command had not considered the things you mention?
You saw the hearings yesterday. It showed that the intelligence community is not getting through to the president. Also, by all signs, the central command is not in command. The war started purely because Israel wanted it, just like the 12-day war last year, Trump being led along by Netanyahu.
I must repeat (because you did not understand the first time and you will not understand this time either): Trump had no choice because Netanyahu got him by his member. Namely, Epstein files - a thread you started but stopped caring about as soon as it turned out that it's bad for Trump. Both Netanyahu and Putin have their hands on the juiciest Epstein files.
Geez, how blind do you have to be... Just consider this: Just before the war, Trump declared he was sending an "armada" to Iran's coasts. Yet now he is asking for everybody else's ships to secure the strait. Do you understand? Of course you don't. U.S. Central Command my ass...
I'm always amazed at how easily you read the minds of others — indeed, it makes me think you've never actually met others... Are you a bot?
You're projecting again. You're the bot. You never say anything substantive.
In this case - as usual - I indirectly quoted yourself back to you, yet you say that you're amazed that I'm reading minds. Which says what? Which says that you have no clue what just happened (namely, a little elementary dialogue) and you have no clue what any single word means.
This is what Oakdale meant when he said to pay attention how Russia and China react.
But, indeed, these were some of my considerations.
No, they are not your considerations. Russia and China are brought in to justify Trump's second Iran war by pro-Trump neocons - when you regurgitate this talking point it places you in that specific cult AND demonstrates that you have zero considerations of your own.
In Venezuela, The Cuban security and the Chinese air control and protection equipment failed — miserably. In Iran, the Russian/Chinese air defenses were outright destroyed almost immediately.
As the 12-day war last year demonstrated, Iran never focused on its air defences, definitely not to the level of Israel. Iran's drone cooperation with Russia is more massive than the input the other way round - $700m for Russia's air defence technology in Iran as opposed to $3b (more directly $2b) for Iranian drone technology in Russia. Iran is okay with having depleted all gulf nations of interceptors and is now expecting to welcome American boots on the ground who have well-known (therefore unknown to Trump and his entourage) difficulties with the terrain in the area.
So, you were saying? Nothing, that's what you were saying. You have no facts, no mind to read and you do not know what words mean.
Amusingly (?), the previous entry on that website argues it's all about China.
This is what Oakdale meant when he said to pay attention how Russia and China react. In Trumpite-neoconmen universe of alternate reality, Trump is playing 4D chess magically undermining the power of China and Russia by means of the Iran war. In reality, Russia is uberbusy with Ukraine, no time for anything else, and China never reacts to anything, certainly not militarily.
Or actually, now that Trump got U.S. army and navy bogged down in Iran, China may begin seriously contemplating taking over Taiwan. The opportunity for this will be ripe once U.S.A. puts boots on the ground in Iran. And Trump will do nothing to save Taiwan. Trump likes both Xi and Putin, something that neoconmen have not figured out yet.
Trump and his entourage did not give any forethought to the particulars of the Iran war. They thought it would go as easily as the abduction of Maduro. They did not foresee the possibility that Iran would pose a danger to the strait of Hormuz. They paid even less attention to any wider ramifications.
Edit: Russia has actually helped Iran in two significant ways, namely shared intel about U.S. military targets with Iran and treats injured ayatollah in Moscow. Trump's reaction to this is dismissive, indicating that he has not really considered any possible moves by Russia and China and he does not care.
The Ayatollah leading Iran claimed to believe in an apocalyptic war as his duty!
As opposed to American evangelical commanders, according to whom Trump is anointed by Jesus to light the fire of Armageddon in Iran for Jesus' second coming? And as opposed to Netanyahu who is out to destroy Amalek?
(Yeah, I know you say "Zionism" but I'm not fooled.)
You fool yourself, so nobody else needs to.
Since you understand nothing about qualitative things, let's try quantity. How many wars has USA started this century? How many wars has Israel started this century? How many wars has Iran started this century? Compare.
(Note: he won't pay any attention to how Russia and China react.)
Oh, you mean you are paying attention to how Russia and China are reacting (and of course actively drawing lessons)? Please tell more!
I'm very much appalled by the official European response. Everybody is calling Iran to restraint. They have not even the slightest reproach to the aggressor. Europeans were always talking big about their values but since the Ukraine war these values are not even in rhetoric anymore. European values were never a thing.
Europeans are almost as bad as the American Congress who has de facto approved the Iran war. The approval of the war means that Trump has war powers, which means he has no obstacle to cancel or steal elections and declare himself a third term. The judiciary cannot interfere when war powers are active. That's the Peace President for you, law and order and constitution and all that.
Anthropic said the LLM detected a use-after-free bug in the browser's JavaScript after "just" 20 minutes of exploration, which was then validated by a human researcher in a virtualized environment to rule out the possibility of a false positive.
"By the end of this effort, we had scanned nearly 6,000 C++ files and submitted a total of 112 unique reports, including the high- and moderate-severity vulnerabilities mentioned above," the company said. "Most issues have been fixed in Firefox 148, with the remainder to be fixed in upcoming releases."
The AI upstart said it also fed its Claude model access to the entire list of vulnerabilities submitted to Mozilla and tasked the AI tool with developing a practical exploit for them.
... -I think- Trump recognized that America should not be the world's cop... (For which belief many still call him an Isolationist! A pejorative term, among the neo-conservative gaggle...)
How is this no-world-cop Peace President doing, in your opinion? Care to list his successes in his second term? How many Nobel Peace Prizes has he rightfully earned already for stopping so many wars? And he can stop this one too, increasing the number by a lot...
Nice to see such a cozily isolationist president after all those neocons and Democratic warmongerers and interventionists, isn't it? Killing Soleimani averted WWIII. The 12-day war last year obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities. And now we are re-obliterating them while staying out of wars half a globe away that are none of our business!
In actuality, the USA/Israeli Zionazis (of whom Trump is not an ideological member, but he has no choice because Netanyahu got him by his member, if you know what I mean - well, you don't of course, so, khm, Epstein that) killed the principled great ayatollah who had spearheaded the Iranian policy of strict avoidance of nukes. In Iranian theocracy it is a blasphemy to have nukes - this is why they don't have them and they were not developing them. Zionazis keep insisting that Iran must develop nukes, and the next great ayatollah might finally oblige because having nukes seems to be the only way to make Zionazi aggression stop...
Another Iran war by Trump. It started on weekend, so as to not impact NYSE immediately. What else did they give a thought to before launching this attack, what do you think?
A few days ago Iranians remarked that talks would continue on Tuesday or so. They had been evidently given the wrong impression. They have not learned the lesson: You must have nukes or else...
Of the entire New Atheist gang, Sam Harris was always the most far-right extremist one politically, openly pro-W and genocidally Islamophobic.
As such the shady dealings surrounding for example Israel, Russia, and Syria that are in there could also play a role.
No. Sam Harris's islamophobia was singularly informed by 9/11. He may have marginally updated his knowledge by now and maybe even introduced some nuance lately, but this was not the case even ten years ago.
Note: The heading "How the New Atheists merged with the far right" is wrong and the contents of the article do not bear it out. On my view, New Atheists are either politically quiet or very close to mainstream political establishment position. Harris is a meanstreamist. A "Muslim ban" and such views are perfectly mainstream in USA, not necessarily connected to Trumpism. As to misogyny and institutional grifting - and Epstein was institutionally embraced and embedded -, the article is spot on. Edit: The subheading "What once seemed like a bracing intellectual movement has degenerated into a pack of abusive, small-minded bigots" conveys the spirit of the article. Of course, I thought of New Atheism as small-minded bigotry since the moment they emerged.
On this forum we have also this foray into international relations by Sam Harris with Noam Chomsky. Sam Harris general view is very clear: When "we" attack, it's justified; when "they" do it, it is unjustified, no matter how they try to justify it. This view or sentiment was always mainstream in USA, W put it on steroids after 9/11 and Harris was 100% on board with it.
Sam Harris is in the Epstein files. Not in a depraved way like Lawrence Krauss or Richard Dawkins, but the wrongness of his perception on the Epstein saga is revealing enough.
Of the entire New Atheist gang, Sam Harris was always the most far-right extremist one politically, openly pro-W and genocidally Islamophobic. This warps his perception of Trump. He thinks Trump is politically incoherent and ludicrously psychopathic, which in Harris's mind is so damning that he cannot imagine adding sexual perversions à la Epstein to it. After all, Trump is the president, and Americans would not vote for a totally-totally sick and pervert guy, right? The American "system" would not allow for it...
Except that the "system" allows for it just fine. In addition to his warped picture of politics, Harris is here exercising his defective character judgement. The corrective to the character judgement would be a more thorough familiarity with the factual extent that Epstein and Trump were close friends + business partners + the exact business they were in + how their private lives were inseparable from their business.
The Melania movie is interesting for reasons other than Melania. There is a scene where Trump wins the elections and Biden greets him together with Kamala. According to Joanna Coles, there is an "iceberg" (revulsion) between Biden and Kamala Harris, and Biden appears to smirk implying that USA now got Trump because Biden was not allowed to remain the candidate.
Another little piece of information in this video is that someone in Australia (one person in the entire country) bought a ticket to the Melania movie. It is not known who that was.
Also, Trump hates the movie. He hates that Melania gets any attention of her own - and especially that Melania used the movie strictly for her own purposes, not Trump's. A partial consolation for Trump is that the worst PR events in the history of the White House are timed for the release of the movie, tanking its reception.
Not in the movie: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. However, Melania is sure enough in the Epstein files exactly the way Michael Wolff said she would be.
- A dozen MAGA fans in Arkansas have reportedly begun a hunger strike they vow will last until either Donald Trump releases the Epstein Files like he is legally required to, or they die. - The man who got a Trump tattoo on his forehead said he now has to tell people a lot that he got the tattoo before Trump started protecting pedophiles.
It's satire. It's not supposed to be funny necessarily. It just drives a point home.
One might have thought that it takes a bit of time and brainwashy propagit to normalise gross overreach of power. But in USA murders of white citizens got normalised instantly, no explanations required. These are Bolshevist style extrajudicial executions on the spot, a new normalcy in USA. And it's murder of citizens by ICE, a federal agency that is supposed to have no interaction with citizens at all.
Tusk said that so far there is no definitive evidence to identify the perpetrators, but he did say that much of what has been gathered points to the involvement of groups connected to the Russian security services. He said that as in earlier attempted cyberattacks on Polish infrastructure, the key was early detection and robust response mechanisms.
European allies of Ukraine said in December that Russia is waging a campaign of "hybrid warfare" through sabotage, assassinations, cyberattacks and disinformation to sow division in Western societies and undermine support for Ukraine.
That comes after a series of incidents in countries such as France, Denmark and Sweden, in which critical infrastructure has been targeted.
European intelligence agencies say investigations into Russian interference now consume as much time as terrorist threats.
The cyberattack went completely under the radar. It has been treated as less consequential than drone landings, which have prompted no reaction from either NATO or the EU.
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of opposition to U.S. control of Greenland.
He said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would face the tariff, which would be raised to 25% on June 1 if a deal is not in place for "the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland" by the United States.
Anybody up for a discussion on, idk, how we exchange Greenland for, say, American Samoa and call it even? Or just give it all away or whatever pleasantly rocks your boat...
Linux package npm (a javascript thing) got targeted massively by a backdoor attack called Shai Hulud. I searched my computer as per instructions here and found some suspected files under npm package and Vivaldi. No mention of Shai Hulud on Vivaldi forums.
Instead we get paid for things that would not possibly be a vocation in the past. We got professions like streaming your game play online.
It's not a profession. It's an activity that may or may not earn you money. And this is already a major sign that it's not a profession. A profession always earns you money.
Streaming your game play online earns money to the top streamers. Others may sometimes get something, depending on - who knows what. It does not depend on the level of polish of their "content". You either are famous or not. You might go through the effort of faking your ratings and become famous that way and thus earn money. The platform where you stream is not yours, its behaviour does not depend on you, and neither is it properly regulated. Its so-called algorithm does what it wills, or rather what its owners will - namely the earnings of the platform members are seen as a cost (kind of like in ordinary employment) and the cost can be randomly and ruthlessly cut (because the contract is far less on your side than in case of ordinary employment).
The point is that there are no "professional" characteristics that ensure you a living salary as a streamer, so it's not a profession. They live on clicks, but nobody knows what guarantees clicks, except networking and cheating which have no necessary connection with whatever it is the streamer is streaming. To be a profession, there should be advertised vacancies for streamers.
