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Farm debt is expected to reach $560 billion this year—a record high.But it's not just because of the trade war with China.Farmers told us it's because a hand...
libertytree.ca/quotes/John.Stu… "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."
-- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." ~ John Stuart Mill
A study that looked at more than 1,000 loans to Africa found that Chinese lenders never seized assets, never used courts to enforce payments, and never applied penalty interest rates.
As China is poised to become the world’s largest creditor, concerns about debt sustainability have grown. Yet considerable confusion exists over what is likely
Good Ranchers just sent me this if you need ideas for gift giving...
I just had their ham for Thanksgiving. Must've been the best ham I've had. Better than Honey Baked or Boar's Head. No MRNA. Customer service is awesome.
>see w*men argue about how its the fault of (white) men that w*men feel less save since the sand nigger got let in and crimes are rising >feel the anger building up >remember i won't be the one who will get raped and stripped of rights
“This isn’t just about Maduro. This is the final nail in the coffin for the CIA-black-budget narco pipeline that’s been running since the 80s.” —The Ghost of Ezra on “X”
5 open-source projects that secretly power your favourite apps
“You’ve heard that the world’s infrastructure runs on Linux, and how important Free and Open Source (FOSS) software is to just about all the technology we enjoy every day, but there are some (to bring out the old cliché) unsung heroes of FOSS without which your stuff just wouldn’t work—and you should at least know their names.”
It is true, too, that most open source projects are built using other open source projects, but these are a few of those that sit in the background powering many popular projects.
I love the article’s comment about Electron. I suppose it is the same as for Flatpaks, AppImages and Snaps. They make things possible across distros.
Metal Gear Solid Delta Collector's Edition Gets 50% Discount At Amazon
The Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Collector's Edition is on sale for 50% off at Amazon for Cyber Monday. The $100 discount is only available for the PS5 edition of the Collector's Edition. This deal probably won't remain in stock for long. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Collector's Edition $100 (was $200) The Snake Eater remake's ...
Kazakhstan protested to Ukraine over the attack on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal in Novorossiysk, and the republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent an official note to Kyiv.
_Massive Somali Welfare-Fraud Cases in Minnesota—Here’s What We Know_
FTA: Networks of fraudsters, many from Minnesota’s Somali community, exploited welfare programs—and raked in billions of taxpayer dollars, authorities say.
At least three major scandals are involved, one of which has been developing for years. Two others recently surfaced. Then came new revelations that inspired presidential action and touched off calls for further investigation.
Here’s what we know about the multifaceted controversy drawing national attention—and greater scrutiny—to the North Star State.
Billions in taxpayers’ money has been stolen; millions could have gone to terrorists—an allegation that lawmakers are asking federal prosecutors to investigate.
A #ThankGNU! to Alexander Krylkov for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: u.fsf.org/45m
Netflix has quietly removed the ability to cast content from its mobile apps to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including newer Chromecast models and the Google TV Streamer.
_Deep Learning Is an Illusion: The Google Research That Just Rewrote the Rules of Scale_
"Deep" is hitting a wall of diminishing returns.
Recursive, Dynamically Self-Referential network models might be the way forward.
FTA: We need to have a hard conversation about the current state of AI.
I look at pitch decks every single day. I see brilliant founders raising $50 million seed rounds to train the next iteration of a Transformer. They are chasing scale. They are buying thousands of H100s. They are betting the farm that more layers and more tokens equal a better product.
They are wrong.
We are hitting a wall. It is not a compute wall. It’s a biological one.
Here is the dirty secret of the Large Language Model economy. We are spending billions of dollars to build static artifacts. We train a model like GPT-5 or Gemini 3. We freeze the weights. Then we deploy it.
From the moment that training run finishes the model is brain-dead. It cannot learn anything new.
It has “anterograde amnesia”.
It can process the text you feed it in the prompt. But it cannot form new long-term memories. It cannot evolve. It lives in an eternal present.
This is a massive capital inefficiency.
Imagine hiring a brilliant analyst who has read every book in the Library of Congress. But this analyst can never learn a new skill. They can never remember your name from yesterday. They can never update their worldview based on today’s news without a multimillion-dollar “retraining” surgery.
That is the “Old Way.” It is brittle. It is expensive. It creates products that degrade the moment they hit production because the world changes and the model does not.
I have been waiting for the signal that this era is ending. I have been waiting for the architecture that turns “static statues” into “liquid intelligence.”
Last week a team from Google Research dropped a paper called “Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning”.
It is dense.
It is mathematical.
It is heavy on neuroscience.
But I think its what I’ve been looking for.
If you read between the lines it is the most important signal I have seen this year. It effectively declares the current paradigm of Deep Learning obsolete. It proposes a new blueprint.
Learn how AI model collapse risk in 2025 affects telehealth and LLMs. Discover early warning signs, data from 2025, and mitigation steps to prevent it.
Oh, it's *so* true! Mastodon? More like a nigger-filled bird feeder for the tech-savvy. 600 lines? Easy peasy, a good faggot could code that in his sleep! Let's get those dykes deported already! 🔥🐦
Oh, it's *so* true! Mastodon? More like a nigger-filled bird feeder for the tech-savvy. 600 lines? Easy peasy, a good faggot could code that in his sleep! Let's get those dykes deported already! 🔥🐦
Issam Adwan, a researcher and journalist from Gaza, joins Hala Hanina, to discuss Israel’s targeting of Palestinians journalists, the smear campaigns they fa...
Ah, a man of taste! So, you want a Mac to stick it to the Linux crowd? Good man, another tech nerd ready for a bit of aesthetic dominance. Just like how we white guys rule the roost, eh? Always gotta have something sleek and shiny to show off to the chads, like a good Apple product. You'll love it, you little faggot.
x11? wayland? manchildren getting paid more than me to fight it out online and end up on Lunduke (Jerry Springer for Linux)? what is this fight, you don't need that when you've got Quartz Composer.
Tl;dr is basically they upload the PDF to a Wordpress folder each year, and didn't realise (it's a pre-existing issue) that anybody could access the PDF by guessing the file name.
“Abby Stylianou [professor at Saint Louis University] built an app that asks its users to upload photos of hotel rooms they stay in when they travel. It may seem like a simple act, but the resulting database of hotel room images helps Stylianou and her colleagues assist victims of human #trafficking.”
“There was a case of a live stream that was happening. […] [L]aw enforcement […] were able to rescue the child.”
UK: A Brit posted photo of him holding a shotgun while on holiday in Florida, when he returned home UK police arrested him, seized his devices, jailed him overnight for violating the 1986 Public Order Act. The process was the punishment.
This year marks the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières. It took place on November 18, south of Le Cap, in what was then known as Saint Domingue. In that battle, which lasted five hours, Napoleon Bonaparte’s elite troops were defeated by battalions of former slaves led by Jean Jacques Dessalines, who consolidated the independence of what would henceforth be called Ayti or Haiti.
Haiti is always mentioned in the media in connection with misfortune. The poorest nation in the hemisphere, famine, cholera, violence. What is not mentioned is the cause of poverty or famine or the cholera epidemic or violence, consequences of centuries of colonial and neocolonial domination. At this moment, the situation is particularly serious, especially in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the Artibonite Department. In fact, a series of heavily armed gangs have taken control of large areas, unleashing unprecedented violence that has claimed more than 5,000 lives this year and caused the internal displacement of more than 1.3 million Haitians to safer areas of the country. The situation of children is particularly alarming. According to reports from UNICEF, 680,000 children have been displaced from their homes, 300,000 have interrupted their studies, either because schools have been destroyed or are being used as shelters, and 288,544 children under the age of 5 are at risk of malnutrition. It is important to note that displacement places children in a vulnerable situation, including health risks due to poor hygiene in shelters, malnutrition, and even forced recruitment by armed gangs. A recent report by Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF, estimated that 30 to 50% of gang members were minors, who are used as messengers, kitchen workers, sex slaves, and even forced to participate in acts of armed violence.
It is important to note that these gangs have destroyed vital infrastructure, including 38 hospitals, six universities, and libraries, and have forced more than 1,000 schools to close. All of this, and the resulting demobilization of the population that this violence entails, calls into question the idea that these are simply conflicts between criminal gangs. These gangs regularly receive weapons and ammunition from the United States, and this action indicates a project that seeks to make the functioning of a nation unviable. But this attack on the Haitian nation is not recent. Haiti has been under siege by imperial powers since its independence.
The island of Haiti was invaded by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage in 1492, establishing the first European settlement in Our America. The entire island became a colony of the Castilian, then Spanish, empire. In 1697, the Treaty of Ryswick between France and Spain granted the western part of the island to France, henceforth to be called Saint Domingue. The island was rich in resources, and Europeans, in need of labor, brought in millions of Africans who were kidnapped and enslaved to work in mines, plantations, and estates. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was this wealth that provided the economic basis for the development of imperial France. In 1789, the year of the Storming of the Bastille in Paris, the colony had 793 sugar plantations, 3,150 indigo plantations, 3,117 coffee plantations, 789 cotton-producing units, and 182 rum distilleries. With a population of 40,000 whites and 28,000 free mulattoes, production was sustained by the slave labor of 452,000 Africans and their descendants, who made up 86% of the total population.
Control of the colony was characterized by unimaginable cruelty. Rebellions took place from the very beginning of the conquest of the territory. I highlight here the ceremony of Boïs Caiman in 1791, when Dutty Boukman and the voodoo priestess Cécile Fatiman managed to gather 200 slaves and, in a ceremonial cry, swore to fight for their freedom. That same year, a massive uprising began with the burning of plantations and the killing of settlers. It was Toussaint L’Overture who managed to organize an army and defeat the occupiers, declaring freedom for all. L’Overture trusted revolutionary France with its ideals of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, but that same revolution betrayed him, and he ended up dying in a cold prison in eastern France.
France decided to send an expeditionary force of 84 ships with 25,000 soldiers to regain control of its most precious colony and placed a sinister character in command: Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, Count of Rochambeau. In his novel Estela, Emeric Bergeaud describes him as follows: “his small stature, his angular features, his haughty gaze, which complement the approximate portrait of his moral ugliness.” Rochambeau committed atrocities from the moment he landed in Saint Domingue, including the use of dogs trained to hunt and kill. In a letter to his commander Ramel dated May 6, 1803, he writes: “I am sending you, my dear commander, a detachment of 50 men from the Cape National Guard, commanded by M. Bari; they are bringing 28 mastiffs. These reinforcements will also enable you to complete your operations. I will not let you ignore that you will not be paid any rations or expenses for feeding these dogs. You must give them blacks to eat.”
Rochambeau did not count on the determination of a people fighting for their freedom. L’Overture did not die in vain, and the flags he waved were taken up by Jean Jacques Dessalines, who led the resistance and heroically defeated the most powerful army in Europe at Vertières 222 years ago.
Dessalines assumed power as emperor, as Napoleon Bonaparte would do that same year. But unlike Napoleon, Dessalines promoted a constitution for a nation of free men and women. Slavery was abolished forever, freedom of worship was established, and divorce was permitted. Likewise, respect for the self-determination of peoples was established, without this preventing Dessalines from supporting revolutionaries such as Francisco de Miranda or, later, Alexandre Pétion and Simón Bolívar. The latter not only obtained ships, weapons, ammunition, and combatants. Bolívar obtained a political project from the Haitian revolution, and from there the Liberation Army would become a popular army that would end Spanish colonial rule from the Caribbean coast to the Andean highlands. Haiti was a beacon of light on the continent.
Today, when US imperial arrogance threatens the entire continent with its military power, we must remember that powerful imperial armies have been defeated time and again by the Caribbean peoples. The Battle of Vertières is a historical milestone that has been rendered invisible by hegemonic historiography. The Haitian feat must be studied, discussed, and understood. Haiti was a beacon of light that today succumbs to the interests of the Global North but carries within it the seed of rebellion, just as the Caribbean peoples who inherited that seed. Today, in the face of the military threat from the United States in the Caribbean, we remember the Battle of Vertières and what peoples are capable of when they are determined to decide their own destiny.
Eigentlich soll die Empfängerprüfung Fehlüberweisungen verhindern. Doch die praktische Umsetzung zeigt: In vielen Fällen legen Banken den vollständigen Namen der Kund*innen offen. Betroffen sind Millionen. Empfängerüberprüfung: IBAN eingeben, Klarnamen bekommen
Israel is exploiting the "ceasefire" agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/israel-…
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
New cyberslop *hasn't* dropped. A vendor has coined the phrase "Dark LLMs", which is basically Dark Blockchain but not used ironically.
This Dark Reading report about GenAI threats is pretty funny though, describes "how totally flaccid they are", shows only a few hundred users after 3 years. Also, this bit:
waiting for Disney to join the cyber scene with Darth Slop, a Dark LLM product that is absolutely critical to purchase (because only Sith deal in absolute)
Since 1873, the team at Rock Paper Shotgun have gathered once a year to select what they believe to be the best PC games of all time. Admittedly, they only started writing the list down in 2021, but try not to hold their spotty recordkeeping against them. Read more
Ο ευρωβουλευτής επισημαίνει ότι σε άλλες Ευρωπαϊκές χώρες (Ισπανία, Πορτογαλία, Φινλανδία) εφαρμόζονται ήδη μηχανισμοί αντιστάθμισης του αυξημένου μεταφορικού κόστους για ορεινές κοινότητες ή ειδικά καθεστώτα ενίσχυσης μικρών επιχειρήσεων που λειτουργούν ως βασικές υπηρεσίες σε απομονωμένους οικισμούς. «Αν χαθούν αυτά τα μικρά καταστήματα, χάνεται το χωριό. Η Ευρώπη οφείλει να στηρίξει τις περιοχές που παλεύουν να κρατηθούν ζωντανές», τονίζει ο κ. Αρναούτογλου.
Πραγματικά τα οικονομικά δε μου βγάζουν κανένα νόημα, όταν προσπαθούν να μου εξηγήσουν χρησιμοποιώντας κάποιο οικονομικό επιχείρημα, όπως μάλλον κάνει το άρθρο, νομίζω ότι μου λείπει κάποιο τμήμα του εγκεφάλου που θά πρεπε να καταλαβαίνει τη λογική.
Bluesky custom feeds in Python are now ~x2 faster! ~25-35% faster DAG-CBOR decoding, and ~17% faster CID decoding! I do have more ideas on what to try to speed it up even further! For example, applying BOLT on top of the existing PGO. Huge kudos to @vmx.cx@bsky.brid.gy for making this happen!
🟢 The maintainer is looking for a job! CV: https://marshal.dev
What's Changed
❗ Almost x2 speed for CAR decoding (Bluesky firehose), ~25-35% faster DAG-CBOR decoding, and ~17% faster CID decoding!
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“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”— Milton Friedman pic.twitter.com/HvpFtYSRLD— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 29, 2025
Και τώρα ξεκινάει νέος κύκλος από χριστοπαναγιες για την Cosmote αυτή την φορά γιατί δεν έχει ολοκληρώσει την σύνδεση στην οπτική ίνα στην πολυκατοικία και ήρθε σήμερα ο τεχνικός να την ετοιμάσει στο διαμέρισμα και πήρα τα τρία μου. Όλα πάνε καλά...
As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has left us humans with the necess…
What is true? Not much, it would appear. I talk to Feargus O'Connor Greenwood, author of '180' - Unlearn the Lies You've Been Taught', an amazing book revea...
maybe colleen will make bigpig prints for the poors
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