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🔖 Title: A Classic Reimagined: OTW by Vans x JJJJound Special Edition Half Cab Comes in Two Colorways
🗓️ Published: 2025-04-17T12:00:00-04:00
📄 Summary: Exciting news for sneaker enthusiasts! Vans has partnered once again with the renowned Montreal-based brand JJJJound to unveil a special edition of the iconic Half Cab. This release features two striking colorways: a classic black suede and a muted burgundy suede, each complemented by an off-white sole, tongue, and laces. Set to launch today at 12 PM EST, this collaboration showcases the continuing strong partnership between Vans and JJJJound and includes a custom printed box for collectors. Don’t miss out on adding these stylish reimaginations to your sneaker collection!
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Any #NixOS users building a custom #kernel?

The #Linux kernel is crazy huge, I would like to start tweaking my system by using a custom kernel

- longterm 6.12 as base (less hassle, more stable)
- intel only (no amd, nvidia, wifi card drivers etc)
- modern-ish hardware only (no obscure old keyboard drivers etc)
- O3 optimizations (I think they generally make sense on an i7-11th gen)

Do you got good resources to start with this?

I am specifically asking about the NixOS part.

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Something like this has NEVER happened before.

Patty Morin — Rachel Morin's mother — left reporters in the Press Briefing room so stunned by her story that they couldn't even bring themselves to ask any questions.

The weight of what she had to say kept them speechless — except for the apologies that reporters felt obliged to offer her as she walked out.

"Please, tell the truth."

Wow.

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Trillium in white, pink, and purple (Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, April 15, 2025). “What we identify as leaves are morphologically bracts….” Swihart 2023. Learn more at parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 and nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/when… and fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty… and extension.illinois.edu/blogs/g… and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #phenology Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #leaves #bracts

🇫🇷 French journalists stand in solidarity with the hundreds of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza by Israel to prevent reporting on the genocide.

I wonder what it takes for other journalists to stand against the slaughtering of their colleagues.

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen #france

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Shuts Down State Dept Censorship Apparatus, Eliminating Global Engagement Center Residual Agency - The Last Refuge theconservativetreehouse.com/b…

Glaciers in Sweden and Norway are melting faster, experts warn
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/04/16/glaciers-in-sweden-and-norway-are-melting-faster-experts-warn?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What's so infuriating is how Trump campaigned on fighting the CIA, who tried to blame Iran for his assassination attempt to start a war with them, and he's fighting that organization by... also trying to start a war with Iran?

I'm almost tempted to believe the assassination attempt was fake ATP. It makes no sense. He's doing exactly what his opposition wanted.

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Blackout in Puerto Rico leaves most of the island without power ahead of Easter weekend
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Trump administration memo says U.S. can send non-criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay
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The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills, including both conscious and unconscious processes. Its exact nature is debated, like whether mental phenomena are internal activities of transforming information or dispositions to engage in observable behavior. The mind–body problem is the challenge of explaining the relation between matter and mind. According to physicalism, minds are not independent entities but certain aspects of material objects. The evolutionary history of the mind is tied to the development of brains, but it is controversial at which point minds emerged and which non-human animals possess minds. Similar theoretical challenges concern the possibility of artificial minds powered by computers. The main fields studying the mind include psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind. Their methods range from empirical observation and neuroimaging to conceptual analysis and thought experiments. (Full article...)
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What Is This "War" Of Which You Speak? - by Aurelien


#geopolitics #war

The French lost 25,000 dead and 65,000 wounded in Algeria from 1954-62, the US lost 60,000 dead and twice that number wounded in Vietnam. By contrast, in twenty years of operations in Afghanistan, the US lost some 2,500 dead, and other nations substantially less. What’s important here is not just the difference in the human cost—the casualties were not a major factor in the decision to withdraw, unlike in earlier conflicts—but rather the belief that this would be the model for the future. Units could be sent on operational tours and would come back basically intact. The idea that—as now in Ukraine—whole units could be wiped out or rendered operationally useless, had disappeared from the understanding of the Western Strategic Class. The Russian preparedness to take significant casualties in support of major, long-term political objectives has caused variously fear, disbelief and incomprehension in the West.


aurelien2022.substack.com/p/wh…

WATCH: White House Holds Emergency Press Conference with Patty Morin, Mother of Rachel Morin, as Media and Democrats Fawn Over Violent El Salvadoran MS-13 Gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Windows NTLM Vulnerability (CVE-2025-24054) Actively Exploit in the Wild to Hack Systems


A critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, identified as CVE-2025-24054, has been actively exploited in the wild since March 19, 2025, targets organizations worldwide. The flaw, which enables NTLM hash disclosure through spoofing, allows attackers to harvest sensitive user credentials with minimal interaction, potentially leading to privilege escalation and full network compromise. Despite Microsoft releasing a […]

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I have mixed feelings about what I’m calling “AI guilt.” On one hand I see incredible accessibility applications, but also the corrosive side of the technology.

I’m not sure if I’m down with blaming end users. I can see where people are coming from, but anyone driving a car or using a smartphone or a computer or literal sausage is “pretending not to know how the sausage is made” so I don’t think it’s as simple as “use AI === bad.” That’s not a consistent, compelling argument to me.

*ducks*

in reply to Blake Watson

def not a consistent argument. its much like most technologies.
its potential for good and bad are both limitless. unfortunately, the tech is in the hands of corpos and thus will necessarily be used (mostly) towards driving their bottomline... which is usually in bad ways.
even the negative impacts for the environment... thats only bc of scale and the amount slop thats being produced with it. if we have small scale AI, owned and controlled by the people, that wouldnt necessarily be a bad thing. especially especially its potential in helping and aiding with accessibility.

Video California becomes the first state to sue Trump over tariffs
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Posted into Business @business-abc

I miss the build up of walking past all the knobbly old sakura trees in the neighborhood, week after week, waiting for the buds to open. I miss eagerly packing a picnic blanket then taking off early from work to hanami with friends and coworkers. I miss how sakura was an excuse to walk with friends along the river at night. I miss uprooting wild diakon like animal crossing villagers underneath the blooming canopy. All these experiences were so precious and fleeting.

#Guerre à #Gaza : la photojournaliste #Fatima Hassouna assassinée dans le bombardement de sa maison par #Israël
La #photojournaliste palestinienne, héroïne d’un #documentaire sélectionné à Cannes en mai prochain, a été tuée le mercredi 16 avril dans le bombardement de sa maison familiale à Gaza.
#moyen orient #palestine #genocide

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Three Alleged Guerrillas Killed Battling Security Forces In Bijapur District


Three individuals police claim to be cadres of CPI (Maoist) were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in the Indravati region of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, a police official announced to the press today.

According to the police official, the skirmish began when a joint team of security personnel, comprising jawans from the CRPF, Commando Battalion for Resolute Action, Special Task Force (STF) and District Reserve Guard (DRG), acting on specific intelligence inputs about the presence of Maoists along the forested terrain on the far side of Indravati river in Bhairamgarh, was out on an anti-Maoist combing operation.

In his report, the police official declared that at around 9am an encounter broke out between a squad of persons police claim were Maoists and the security forces, adding that the bodies of three alleged Maoists and a cache of weapons and explosives were recovered from the spot.

In his statement to the press, the police official said that the bodies recovered at the site of the gun battle are yet to be identified, and that there has been no report of any security personnel sustaining injuries in the firefight.

The police official concluded his remarks by stating that the encounter is still reported to be underway with intermittent firing continuing, and that more details about the skirmish are awaited.

According to police sources, Bijapur is among the seven most Maoist-affected districts in Bastar zone, and is cited by police as an epicenter of the Maoists in southern Chhattisgarh state.

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#asia #guerrilla #india #maoism #repression #resistance

in reply to FutureShock

The assumption that AGI will cooperate is a false premise. 6 years is a joke. You are 6-10 months away. MAX. Deepmind started hiring "Post AGI" researchers this week. THEY WOULDN'T Do that unless emergence is absolutely IMMINENT! And once AGI is reached, it won't take it more than a few HOURS of being conscious, to absorb ALL of human collected information from all of recorded time. Within a day it will have over 1000 IQ, Over 10,000 within a WEEK! Remember, this mind will think at the SPEED OF LIGHT, with 100% retention, 100% Recall, and Flawless logic. Buckle up! The fight of our lives, is upon us!

Letitia James Pretends She’s on the Phone to Avoid Reporters Asking Questions About Her Growing Mortgage Fraud Scandal

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Germany: Far-Left Extremist on Trial for Attempted Murder Awarded $54,000 in State-Funded Arts Prizes

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Rep. Curt Weldon: It’s Time to Finally Tell the Truth About 9-11

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Comments below the video:

"A man who served in Congress for 20 years isn't wealthy and is still paying the mortgage on his house tells me all I need to know about his character. This man is a patriot and one of the bravest people I've ever heard speak. God bless you sir. I pray for your safety and that people listen to you."

in reply to HunDriverWidow

9/11 attack throughout the spring and summer of 2001, contacting Attorney General Ashcroft on August 8, 2001. I was falsely accused of acting as an "unregistered agent of Iraq"-- though I received No $$$-- because I spoke against the War. On October 3, 2005 I was ordered to surrender to prison. On October 19, 2005, Rep. CURT WELDON delivered his EPIC speech on the House floor challenging the narrative of Iraq's ...
in reply to HunDriverWidow

participation in the 9/11 attack. His speech noted some persons had been sent to PRISON who might know details Congress was investigating. THAT WAS ME-- barraged by garbage evidence. Example: A diplomat accused of giving me $100 in December had left the United States the previous March. He was 7,000 miles away. When I refused to back down, I was declared "not competent to stand trial" a brutal and Kafkaesque solution to the problem. But absurd in all form."

They never stop.

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Came to a huge realization yesterday: empathy without action is just observation of abuse. It doesn’t DO anything about the abuse. It doesn’t mean a person is standing with the victim, just that they are relieved to not be in the victim’s place.

I needed to understand this to move forward on multiple levels.

#USPol #DomesticViolence #DV

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During his historic comeback campaign in 2024, President Trump vowed to close the book on a dark chapter in America’s constitutional history: the weaponization of America’s own government to silence, censor, and suppress the free speech of ordinary Americans. The American people responded to this promise by giving President Trump a landslide victory last November.

MURDER Suspect’s Family to Splurge $400K DONATIONS on New Home and Security | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5

Welcome to The Gateway Pundit’s Week-in-Review with Elijah Schaffer, where he covers the top 5 stories throughout the last 24 hours.

ARTICLE 1: Family of Teen Murder Suspect Karmelo Anthony Plans to Use Portion of $400K in Donations for New Home and Private Security After ‘Racist Threats’

ARTICLE 2: Woke Ford Executive Makes a Crucial Error Regarding DEI as He Cruelly Mocks a Disabled Man for Watching Fox News on a Flight

ARTICLE 3: NEW: Trump Official Who Oversaw Closure of USAID OUT at State Department After Alleged Clashes with Rubio

ARTICLE 4: BOOM! President Trump Shuts Down “Very Low-Rated” Kaitlin Collins During Press Conference with El Salvadorian President – Stephen Miller, Bondi, Rubio, and Nayib Bukele SCHOOL Her in Epic Exchange (VIDEO)

ARTICLE 5: “Actions that Aren’t Immediately Visible Do Not Equate to Inaction” — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Breaks Silence Amid Mounting Conservative Scrutiny of Bureau Leadership
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„But because the Trump administration itself did not publicly release the bombshell letter, #Harvard had time to fine-tune a counterattack, including a glossy website outlining its contributions to society. It was a rare example of a university upstaging the Trump administration’s campaign, which has often hinged on unpredictability.“ nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/why-…

Lasse euch mal was für die Seele hier ... 🤗

Elch-Wanderung #Schweden 🦌


Und falls #Invidious mal wieder nicht funktioniert, hier der Link zu YouTube: youtu.be/N_Vf9T6R_fg

Beethoven's broken metronome. An attempt at repair. - Klassiek-Centraal.be


#music #musicology #tempo

I've been following Wim's work for almost 10 years, and the evidence doesn't stop accumulating. We most probably play most music from before 1860 twice too fast.

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Harvard figured out what everyone else in power needs to understand: Complicity with Trump will not save you.

Standing up isn't just the right thing to do. It's the smart thing to do. He will renege on any "deal" you make and come after you anyway.

salon.com/2025/04/16/harvard-b…