Thailand launches airstrikes along border with Cambodia as tensions reignite
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With the exception of some black teachers who were the best history teachers I ever had who tried to cover African history and admitted black people owned slaves
My entire history education was essentially American History from the landing of Christopher Columbus on America until world war 2
They mostly would not cover other locations or time periods except as it indirectly relates to America
With each grade it seemed like they already taught that except the Vietnam war in high school
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More than 30 security flaws in AI-powered IDEs allow data leaks and remote code execution, showing major risks in modern coding tools.The Hacker News
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (49/2025): Modal boats
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「青春アドベンチャー『人魚が逃げた』」が、12月15日から26日にかけてNHK-FMで放送される。 これは、青山美智子の連作短編小説「人魚が逃げた」を原作に、菊地百恵が脚色を手がけるオーディオドラステージナタリー (Yahoo!ニュース)
Protesters march on Federal courthouse in Tampa against Trump's threatened war on Venezuala
On Dec 6th and 7, protests were held in many cities against Trump's threats of all-out war against Venezuala. One of these protests was in Tampa, Florida. The Federal courthouse there is not only a courthouse but also contains offices of Florida's two Senators. Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL maybe Q-FL?) is one of the loudest voices demanding war.
Trump is threatening war on Venezuala over a claimed drug cartel that DOES NOT EXIST. The actual reason for the war is oil. He claims Venezuala's entire government is the "Cartel of the South" but forgot to tell the DEA to add it to their list of known drug cartels. This contains no mention of a "cartel of the South" at all. In other words, the alleged cartel is no more real than GW Bush's "WMD" in Iraq! Like those supposed WMD, this is being used as an excuse for war.
What else to Iraq and Venezuala have in common? OIL-oil not owned by the big US oil companies at the start of the war.
Note that this is Pearl Harbor Day, marking the date Imperial Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor-over OIL. Japan's imperialists could not continue their other wars without oil, and a US freeze of Japanese assets in the US was preventing Imperial Japan from buying oil. Thus, the massive air raid that sunk most of the Navy's ships in harbor and killed 1700+ people on USS Arizona alone.
Now, Donald Trump is threatening to act exactly like the Japanese Empire did in 1941, raining death from the sky over oil. Hopefully Venezuala's own pilots will have better luck in the air stopping these bombers and drones than the few planes that got off the ground at Pearl did.
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Japan's thirst for the fossil fuel pushed it towards the day that lives in infamyDavid L. Roll (Salon.com)
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Travel Influencer Caught Using AI to Make It Seem Like Minorities Are Terrorizing London
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Sensationalist travel vlogger Kurt Caz was caught using AI to doctor a thumbnail to look like immigrants are taking over London.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
anyone got an example of an open source CLI tool written in Rust that has good examples of how to handle arguments
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I don't think so. Lego is a dipshit company these days that kills everyone trying to make something fun with their product that they didn't tell them to.
Just like Nintendo...
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ICE operating in South Seattle.
Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello.
Be on the lookout:
in this episode, the @TheDugoutPod crew sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state & federal repression facing the defendants beginning with who they are. they also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE & the media have misled the public.
“This conversation offers a grounded, first-hand look at criminalization, solidarity, and the work required to hold each other through targeted repression.”
xdg:schema attribute for secret-service items, and I have found that Seahorse (GNOME Keyring GUI) communicates with GCR through an interface called org.gnome.keyring.InternalUnsupportedGuiltRiddenInterface
This guy generally does interesting work, but he's used an LLM to analyze the trends in a "creation science" journal over time, and I just don't think LLMs are effective for this kind of statistical task.
Or have a missed something and they can count now?
Thought I'd ask before leaving a comment about the possible issue.
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In this video, we do an analysis of Answers Research Journal, examining 17 years of young-earth creationist "cutting edge creation research" published by Ans...Dr. Joel Duff (YouTube)
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Damn thing will sit there and tell you that's what it's doing.
But it can't count! It still can't count. I feel like I'm going crazy. Am I the only person who cares that the machine can't even count?
LLMs not only can't count but they can't even stop from lying about being able to count because they don't know what counting is and they're just trained to shit out text that resembles what text looks like when someone has counted something.
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This is just the first practical example I could find but there are other examples similar to this. Like you cannot get LLMs to reliably play a game of chess without making an illegal move because they can't learn rules
Hi OpenAI, I’ve been using ChatGPT for important work and have recently hit a serious issue that’s costing me hours of time and undermining my trust in the product.OpenAI Developer Community
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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 4 December 2025
🔹Active cases: 185 (+10.7%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 32 (-3.0%)
🔹Resident cases: 122 (-3.9%)
🔹Staff cases: 63 (+57.5%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 403 (+0)
7,607 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic
🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸1,359 reported deaths in 2023
🔸1,078 reported deaths in 2024
🔸403 reported deaths in 2025
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In memory of the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, this song is dedicated to those who lost their lives in the defense of the United States of ...USNA Music Department (YouTube)
The Chinese and Russian militaries conducted their third joint anti-missile exercise within the territory of Russia in early December, 2025, according to a written statement of China's Ministry of National Defense on Saturday.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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John Lee Hooker--Boogie at Russian Hill:
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i know i just joked about macbooks having twice the battery life but i would be more impressed by things like the framework or thonkpads if third party replacements were more commonplace and accessible
like full disclosure i am talking out of my ass yes but a colleague has a thonkpad with a broken keeb and needs to carry a separate keeb to plug in because the replacement is 150 bucks........ if you put 50 more you can get another second hand thonkpad............
like yeah it may be business class and brand new models may be 3000 bucks but like what's the point of being repairable if i actually make a better deal by tossing it into the bin................
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I love Scott Bessent. He destroys Margaret Brennan and point out that the Minnesota investigation was actually started by the IRS criminal division, and that the money that was stolen from you and me, the taxpayers was then funneled to the campaign c…Insurrection Barbie (X (formerly Twitter))
90s Toy Computer Appreciation Post
there was a brief window of time in the 90s where these things had their own aisle in American toy stores. I wanted one but I never got one because we... had a real computer.
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Wildfires destroy 40 homes and kill a firefighter in Australia
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Breaking | Israeli settler militias launch a violent attack on Palestinian families in the Jaber neighborhood of Hebron’s Old City, southern occupied West Bank.
Footage shows settlers throwing rocks at Palestinian homes in the neighborhood before running to Israeli occupation forces to request support.
The occupation soldiers then moved to attack and abduct Palestinians who tried to defend their families and property.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank
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@fediplayssnake is getting a little boring now that it's later in the game and everynyan is trying to play optimally, so i might make some changes to it to keep things interesting.
do nothing: self-explanyatory. the game will just keep running as-is. no changes unless something breaks.
add more food: more snyacks will exist on the board at the same time, so there is more to hunt after.
add obstacles: random walls will be placed on the board. running into them will end the game. they will appear and disappear randomly.
neocat snyake: i create a 2nd bot account, but they both play on the same board. they move 15 minutes apart. they can run into each other causing the game to end.
other (comment): self-explanyatory. i would love to hear your ideas! 
i should point out, the game cannot end if continued to be played in its current state (the snyake stops growing once we get a score of 92, since the max snyake length is width*height-4=96, and the length=score+4).
Trump’s NDS Drops: Homeland First, Latin America Next, Europe Panics
Trump’s 2025 National Defense Strategy just dropped — and for the first time on paper, Washington says the U.S. military’s top job is defending the homeland ...DDGeopolitics (YouTube)
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#beefwellington anyone?
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California's poison control system says there have been 21 poisonings in recent weeks from wild death cap mushrooms.Grace Eliza Goodwin (BBC News)
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Jeeeez, my IceShrimp.NET instance takes up about 70GB, and the GoToSocial instance I set up around the same time is about 26GB.
This Akkoma instance is around ~25GB, and I think I've used it the most out of all three at this point.
I'm not sure if IS.NET is just hoarding a bunch of stuff long-term or what. 
Thailand launches air raids along Cambodia border after deadly clashes
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/8/thailand-launches-air-raids-along-border-with-cambodia-after-deadly-clashes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The attacks are the latest report of tensions flaring between the neighbours, after a ceasefire was agreed to in July.Al Jazeera
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America’s national security strategy forces Australia to take a cold shower
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It's no wonder Donald Trump wants to go 'full-steam ahead' with AUKUS: America is determined to re-shore its own defence — and leave allies like Australia contributing more. The post America’s national security strategy forces Australia to take a cold…
Why Donald Trump is a very worthy recipient of FIFA’s ‘peace prize’
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/08/donald-trump-fifa-world-cup-2026-awful-history
Giving Donald Trump a lovely made-up trophy is miles from the worst thing FIFA has done. The post Why Donald Trump is a very worthy recipient of FIFA’s ‘peace prize’ appeared first on Crikey.
PhD person use big word
four-twelve
me no know what it means
need to go to big study person school make smart
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The NFHS is the national leader and advocate for high school athletics as well as fine and performing arts programs. Within our 51 member state associations, we serve 19,500 high schools and more than 12 million young people.www.nfhs.org
When it comes, it comes on slowly The day feels holy, a hush falls down Whispered names, remembered faces From desperate places, all gather ‘round Tom Paxton, “Come on, Holy” Early morning and the …Editor (OffGuardian)
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The Treaty Everyone Hated but America Desperately Needed (How Britain and America Went from Enemies to Allies – Part 1)
On November 19, 1794, the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America aka the Jay Treaty was signed.
What was the Jay Treaty and why was it needed? Let’s find out.
Background
After the British surrender at Yorktown which commenced on October 17, 1781, the American Revolution as an armed conflict ended. Legally, the war would continue for another two years until the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783.
As schoolchildren used to be taught, Cornwallis surrendered, in part, because his army was trapped between the French and American troops on land and the French Navy just off the coast. In other words, the French were an ally of the United States during the American Revolution with the Marquis de Lafayette having trained American soldiers earlier in the war.
The reason it took so long to end the American Revolution legally was that France and Spain were still at war with England and those conflicts had to cease before the treaty could take effect. The United States Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784. Then, according to Wikipedia,
Copies were sent back to Europe for ratification by the other parties involved, the first reaching France in March 1784. British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784, and the ratified versions were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784.
So, now the war was finally legally over and the United States had its Independence…
…except…
…the British still occupied forts in parts of what was officially the United States.
The British Lien
And why hadn’t the British left the forts eleven years after the war ended? Because London treated those forts as a lien — their only leverage to force payment of the millions in pre-war private debts that American borrowers, especially Virginians and Carolinians, had stopped paying once the shooting started.
Article 4 of the Treaty of Paris explicitly required the United States to let British creditors sue for those old debts in American courts without “lawful impediment”:
It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.
But many Americans were broke after having fought off the most powerful nation on earth even if they did have the French as an ally.
Pressed Into Service
Additionally, the British were capturing American ships that were trading with France because Britain and France were at war. And when those American ships were captured, their American crews were pressed into service in the British Navy.
West Indies Closed for Business
The British had closed trade between the United States and the West Indies.
The Enemy of My Enemy
And because the British couldn’t resist needling an old enemy, they used the forts they still occupied as based for arming and supplying Native Americans.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the Governor-General of Canada Lord Dorchester (Guy Carleton) and Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe openly declared that Britain did not recognize the Treaty of Paris boundary and considered the Ohio River the true border between the U.S. and Indian country.
This lead to the Northwest Indian War aka “Little Turtle’s War“ which had its roots in the end of hostilities between Britain and the United States1. That war didn’t end until August 20, 1794.
Clearly, something had to be done.
Jay Treaty To the Rescue
As you can imagine, the Jay Treaty addressed most of these problems.
The British agreed to
Vacate all the northwestern forts (Detroit, Niagara, Michilimackinac, etc.) by June 1, 1796 — ending 13 years of illegal–if somewhat justified–occupation.
Open the Canadian border to free American-Indian-British trade across land and inland waterways (Article 3) — a huge economic win for American fur traders and settlers.
Allow American ships into British East Indies (India) ports on equal terms (Article 13) — first real U.S. foothold in Asian trade.
Grant most-favored-nation treatment in British European ports (Articles 14–15) — direct trade with Britain exploded after 1796.
Settle the St. Croix River boundary and other disputed borders by arbitration (Articles 4–5) — prevented another war in Maine.
Pay compensation for illegal ship seizures during the current European war (Article 7 commission).
The Americans agreed to:
Pay British creditors for pre-war private debts that state laws had blocked (Article 6) — the federal Treasury effectively paid millions that individual Americans owed.
Accept severely restricted West Indies trade (Article 12 — tiny 70-ton ships, no re-export of sugar/molasses/coffee/cotton). But this point of negotiation was so bad the Senate suspended the entire article.
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Bag of words, have mercy on us
Link: experimental-history.com/p/bag…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History)
Memories of D-Day
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#avc #history #militaryhistory #ww2 #military #army ---------------------------------------------------------------- Support the American Veterans Center's m...American Veterans Center (YouTube)
COVID isn’t over.
The message should be coming over loud and clear.
Protecting ourselves, those dear to us, our friends and colleagues, still matters.
Excellent paper, thank you:
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Bandai Namco has announced a collaboration with Fulton Japan for a real-life recreation of the iconic pocket watch in Tales of Xillia 2 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the franchise as a whole. The team has made prototypes and conducted tests to enact the best possible designs within their specified conditions. Plus, they’re attempting [...]
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Bandai Namco and Fulton Japan are recreating the iconic Tales of Xillia 2 pocket watch for the series' 30th anniversary. Two limited models will be available for pre-order starting December 15, 2025.Orpheus Joshua (Noisy Pixel)
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all the “C” states, actually
I’m against people born in Connecticut automatically getting American citizenship
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Japan revises economic data to show bigger contraction in July-September period
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in reply to shortstories • • •They indirectly would shove other time periods and locations into literature class
They might for example teach Greek and Roman mythology which is not history but more like fiction and or religion in literature class but they would not actually teach Greek and Roman History
Or they might shove medieval Europe into literature class with fiction about magic but not actual medieval European history
One might ask was the reason for this to achieve belief without question in White Guilt