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DOGE was a completely irrelevant number of cuts and executive spending grew after those cuts. The Trump admin made a big deal about the social programs growing points for things that don't amount to much. Any CIA activity basically just moved back to the State Dept, so they probably saved some overhead on having to lie about certain programs. USAID was always a conduit for CIA operatives to infiltrate foreign governments. People who defend it (and I have a friend who worked directly for a USAID program in DC and defends it) sadly are not aware of just how entrenched the CIA was in those affairs (and still is). During the Kennedy years the number of operatives on the CIA payroll in US embassies outnumbered those employed by the State Department.
Most of what we've seen is performative, including this kayfabe with Elon and Trump. It's all narrative building bullshit, meant to build division and drama, when both of them are going to get everything they want. The spending bill is just a means to continue the slow collapse of the US and world economies with ever growing irreclaimable debt.
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I already covered Phosh, the mobile port of GNOME, and Plasma Mobile, both running on the pinephone. Now it's time to take a look at the other main alternative for mobile Linux interfaces, the one that has been around for a while now: Ubuntu Touch, or Lomiri. Let's take a look at how well it runs
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This shell is based on gestures starting from the screen edges. A short swipe from left to right will bring a launcher with the default applications pinned to it, and your current open applications as well, appearing on top of the pinned shortcuts.
A longer swipe from the left edge will bring the whole list of applications.
If you swipe from the right towards the left in a short motion, you'll switch to the next open app. If you make a long swipe from the right edge, then you'll get to a multitasking view, with apps displayed in a 3D layout.
You can swipe an app's card up to close it, or tap an app to resume it.
Finally, a swipe from the top edge of the screen will bring the notifications, and the quick settings, which don't display as on most other operating systems: they're in a straight line, that you can scroll from left to right, and tap each icon to get to a quick few shortcuts, like enabling or disabling a specific feature, or dive deeper into the settings.
Out of the box, you get a nice calculator that handles rotation beautifully to display more options, and lets you swipe from the bottom in portrait to still get access to these options. The default calendar app looks good, with an Agenda view that shows your various events in order, a day, week, month, and year view.
I won't dwell on the camera app, as support for the pinephone camera is still in its infancy, it's rare that it even displays an image.
The Clock application lets you add various clocks from all around the world, start a timer, or use a stopwatch. Swiping from the bottom in the "clock" tab lets you create alarms, although I would have preferred alarms to be a full tab in the app instead of hiding that behind a swipe.
The contacts app does what you'd expect, list your contacts and allow to set some as favorites and you can swipe from the bottom to create a new one. The file manager looks good, although it's a bit slow to start, and lets you create files, and change how the directories look.
The messaging app works as you'd expect, letting you type messages and send them to your contacts. You can also swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to start a new message.
The web browser is alright, if a bit slow to start.It lets you pick your search engine and homepage, and display web pages in desktop mode, but there are no sync capabilities for history, bookmarks, or passwords, so it's not going to be fantastic to use.
There is also a terminal app that looks really good and has quick aliases in the bottom left corner. The Notes app is also pretty competent, letting you swipe up from the bottom to create a new note, and syncs with evernote.
This leaves us with the phone dialer, letting you pick a contact, or just type the number you want to call, and the weather app, which is really black and white and pretty spartan, and it reminds me of a windows phone app.
The settings page uses a sensible icon grid.
Ubuntu Touch is pretty barebones in that regard: in terms of customization, you can change the wallpaper, the ringtone for calls and messages, and that's about it. A few apps let you switch to a dark mode in the settings, and some offer to respect a "system preference", but that's not something I could find in the settings.
The OpenStore serves as the App Store for Ubuntu Touch. It's not a package manager like you could find on other Mobile Linux alternatives: no way to download a desktop program here, at least not graphically.
You'll get apps that were made specifically for ubuntu touch, and there are around 400 of these in total.
You can also get a few Matrix clients, and a nice email client called Dekko 2, among other applications.
Updates are handled in the system settings, with over the air updates for the system itself, and for the apps, grouped at the same place.
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There is a branch of Scientology dedicated to selling Scientology to business executives as a management tool: "Hubbard Adminstrative Tech."
And when you start looking into it, you can understand the appeal. It's so simple. So elegant
Podcast Episode · Was I In A Cult? · 06/02/2025 · 1h 12mApple Podcasts
#DigitalSovereignty is at the top of the political agenda, finally, that's good. But strange things (or not so much) are happening.
Like this one: The Luxembourg gov is moving to Google Distributed Cloud, see datacenterdynamics.com/en/news… and it is framed as "sovereign".
The Dutch minister for Digital Affairs (outgoing) is so inspired and might follow.
But wait a minute: a managed cloud service by Google, how much sovereignty does that give to you?
Seems more like a case of #SovereigntyWashing
About Google Sovereign Cloud, and Distributed Cloud hosting:
"giving customers flexibility and choice",
-> yes, of course, but always dependent on Google HQ, and the Capitol.
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Sovereign Cloud from Google offers solutions that provide sovereignty, choice, and security for customers across the world.Google Cloud
What happened to the ICC - being blocked by Microsoft at Trump's orders - can happen as much with these sovereignwashing clouds from Google, isn't it?
If you didn't read about the ICC being cut of from their email and cloud, read this: techzine.eu/news/privacy-compl…
The International Criminal Court has been paralyzed by sanctions. Microsoft cooperates with the US government and therefore poses a risk.Erik van Klinken (Techzine)
"See.. sovereign cloud running on near monopolist surveillance capitalist advertisement moloch walled garden" isn't just #SovereigntyWashing, it is plain misleading.
#Desinformation and deceit.
« Apple's internal forecasts estimate potential annual losses of "hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars" » Err, reduction in monopoly profits are not losses. https://apple.slashdot.mastodon.me.uk
For many years, several of my colleagues, a few ex-students, and at least one former romantic interest have fervently hoped that I would become an extinguished professor.
Their prayers were for naught. I outlasted them.
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Professor Eugene H. Spafford was named a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in recognition of his exceptional impact on the field.www.cs.purdue.edu
The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.Abby Glassenberg (Craft Industry Alliance)
sure be nice if these patterns were donated to someone (smithsonian, etc). be even better if they were sent to someone who could digitize them and make them publicly available. maybe the @internetarchive could do the digitization?
there's a lot of fashion history in all those patterns.
WOW! Has anyone seen this? Nancy Pelosi on the Phone talking about the Blocking of the National Guard on Jan 6.
A Lot Of These Security Videos Were Seen Right After J6 2021 But Were Blocked From Most People Seeing It!
My Personal Opinion Pelosi Setup The Whole J6 Event ! She Wanted To Finish Trump Off !
Byrd Who Was Her Personal Security Supervisor When She Was Inside The Capital I Believe Was Told By Pelosi To Shoot Someone So They Could Blame Trump For It!
And Security Video Shows Byrd Walking The Long Corridors Texting The Whole Time From The Other End Of The Capital And Just Walked Up There To Shoot Turned Out To Be Ashli Unarmed Who Even Had 3 Capital Police On Both Sides Of Her With There Long Guns Hanging Off There Shoulders ! There Was Nothing Going On !
And Mayor Bowser Was In On It !
She Ran The DC Prison Where She Said She Would Make Those J6 Prisoners Wish They Never Came To DC !
And We Saw The Abuse ! That Was Bowser !
Yesterday we had a session at #FediForum on #Europe and the #Fediverse
It would be great to connect & get to know people who are taking part from European countries. "Europe" as in beyond 🇪🇺
Feel free to use the hashtag #FediForumEurope to reach out and connect ✨
As @j12t pointed out regional FediForums would be great 🚀
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We're in the process of scanning 48 bankers boxes of the MIT MULTICS archive. We'd like to get a decent high speed document scanner to make this process go easier. Can you help us with a donation? sdf.org
Once the scanning is complete all of these will be made available online for everyone.
Teddy Roosevelt Jr.: Son of the Rough Rider and a Hero at Normandy
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On this day, 81 years ago, tens of thousands of young men from ordinary backgrounds hit the beaches of Normandy and faced the most intense fire any group of attackers has ever faced in the history of modern warfare.Dylan Gwinn (Breitbart)
A few weeks again, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request. She is a very prolific crossword constructor (think: multiple publications a week) and she keeps comprehensive records of those publications in a spreadsheet that …Parker Higgins (parker higgins dot net)
Being a Trekkie and a lover of Bluegrass music, I thought it would be really cool to combine the two. The result is my bluegrass arrangement of Jerry Goldsmi...YouTube
NEW: An Italian parliament inquiry concluded that the Italian government used Paragon's spyware to hack activists working to rescue immigrants.
The committee, however, said it did not find any evidence that Italy's intelligence agencies (nor anyone else) spied on journalist Francesco Cancellato.
The report leaves a this, and other, key questions unanswered.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/ital…
A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've been away from my normal routine for a week and getting back to even some of it just feels super weird. everyone can do their part to help make everybody's weekend just a little more predictable. Have a good weekend.
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Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.
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Startups are deploying employee tracking tools in low-regulation markets with help from Silicon Valley venture capital.Gayathri Vaidyanathan (Rest of World)
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Supreme Court has granted Elon Musk’s DOGE access to sensitive Social Security information, including full access to personally identifiable information in the Social Security Administration database while the case proceeds on appeal.
"...at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled..."
Talking Heads release the first official video for 'Psycho Killer'
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On social media, the Talking Heads teased a major announcement on June 5th, leading fans to wonder if a reunion—41 years after their last tour—might finally be in the offing.OC (Openculture.com)
Higher ed thrived in Berlin and Beijing. Then government stepped in.William C. Kirby (Harvard Magazine Inc.)
We have locked in some special events for the Locus Awards! Tune in to The Plot Thickens: A Conversation with the Locus Awards Guests, a panel moderated by our reviewer @GaryKWolfe!
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Trade unions, health and housing advocates, and peace groups are preparing for a major anti-austerity demonstration on June 7 in London.
Every time I see estimated costs for Trump's birthday parade, and $15m of the budget is allocated for road repairs afterward, I wonder about the gullibility of both the people putting together these estimates and those reporting on it
So, a quick poll
The damaged roads in DC will be repaired:
They have shitty sleep because their own jowls choke them at night. So much of life is out of bounds to them because they can't move properly. They simply choose to "live" this way.
It is very strange.
I know people who are slowly drinking themselves to death. Bad teeth from sugary alcohol. They're probably on the fast track to alzheimer's. This is preferred over... life? Reality? It's almost like these people— extremely well-to-do sportsball fans and system-believers— are burdened by some vague consciousness of what we "wrongthinkers" know, but can never acknowledge.
Like they have some suspicion that the future is an ugly place, not worth showing up to.
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Wayne Allyn Root:
Here is How President Trump Can Defeat the “Resistance Judges” and Deport 20+ Million Illegal Alien Invaders F-A-S-T
#BlenderStudio is looking for a composer for their new short film project. Is this an opportunity for #BonkWave or #NotBonkWave to be in a soundtrack?
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When an ominous cosmic event swallows the icy home of a small space critter, he must find refuge among a group of luminous creatures watched over by a mysterious celestial being.Blender Studio
Israel arms ISIS-jihadists to fight against Hamas just like they armed Hamas to fight against the PFLP.
You may ask yourself “when will they ever learn?” but that's assuming the Israeli government's goal is to live in peace. Why should they need to learn, when arming terrorist groups that destabilize and escalate this conflict isn't a mistake?
Considering how much genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders they have been able to justify due to hamas; considering their main argument behind stopping the entry of humanitarian aid was because they were sometimes raided by terrorist militias, which as it now turns out they funded, it was a worthy investment.
@unknownpseudoartist we both put out music with cats. you and i understand the internet 😛
i also like that you have your own site! im at work but got a tab open for you. ill be checking out your tunes when i get home!
also, you should check out indieart.support and shout out with your artist details @hello to get on the directory!
Celebrating independent art, community, comraderie and as direct as possible support for artists.indieart.support
haha totally! I mean... aren't cats and music like, the two best things in the world ever? 😻 🎵
also thanks a lot for checking my music! You have some interesting (and feline) stuff as well, glad to meet you! 😀
so im inclined to scold you for all your self-deprecation but then i would be a hypocrite. but i do like this part:
"Basically this is that kind of music you'd expect to find in a random MySpace or Soundclick profile in the 2000s. That kind of thing you'd get 128k MP3 downloads in a static HTML site. That kind of stuff that would normally be done by some passionate young person who just discovered they can do cool stuff to share online in a cyberworld full of people willing to discover and listen more random, creepy stuff like this. "
and i think you'll find plenty of company around here. especially as a #caturday-er.
anyways, you do a really good job with bass sounds. the overall tonal quality and just getting bass synth sounds. often times better than actual bass guitar but let's not awaken the bassists, right? i aint tryna die right before the weekend.
favorite track on the placeholder of something... i think gotta be absurd. ill check out the other album after this last listen.
hey thanks a lot for listening! this means a lot to me ❤️ (even if I don't agree with my fake bass sounding any better than real bass haha)
Regarding the self-deprecant comments... well, it's complicated, but let's say I was in a bad time and dealing with a bad situation in certain communities regarding harsh criticism and I was tired of that, and just felt the need to break with that and go more my way without any pressure. Feeling a lot better about that already, so no worries 😀
So now I'm disgusted with my alma mater, the University of Michigan.
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#Gaza #Palestine #Michigan #StudentProtests
The Kim Iversen Show LIVE | June 06, 2025 Dr. Stella Immanuel is one of the front line pandemic doctors who was outspoken about the Covid vaccine. She’s treated over 100,000 Covid patients and is theRumble
This is why they say things like, “without god what’s to stop you from going around murdering and raping?” In their system of morality, those things are only bad because an authority said they were bad. And when the authority says they are okay, they’re okay. Which looks inconsistent to us, but makes perfect sense to them.
This is why they also think that abolishing the police would result in the purge for example. They can’t conceptualize morality independent from authority
Your geometric organization of these two morality systems is a really nice mental picture.
I've always found it impossible to convince certain family members to see certain issues from pluralist perspectives, and this "vertical morality" is exactly why.
I suspect we are seeing the result of Christianity's alignment with violent state power structures pervading its history.
We should not forget Christianity is a cult of an authoritarian theocratic religion.
i guess that means we're in for some years of blatant financial and civil rights crimes done without anny pretense of covertness, because Dump did it.
A few well-chosen televised firing squads might help a lot. Ask Ceaucescu.
If one can not think for themselves, they need a prophet to follow for guidance.
Here are some of the newest residents of Van Cortlandt Park. I counted three baby Green Herons but there may be a fourth.
All universities in Gaza have been destroyed. What does this mean for Palestinians?
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Isabella Michie (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.
tried watching a restream of the game fes bullshit show
couldn't last more than 5 minutes before an illogical discomfort and rage took handle of me so i decided to stop
i don't think i can ever go back to watching those shitshows tbh
not now knowing that majority of it is slop(with denuvo mind you) if not outright subversive leftoid shit
Lots of talk today about having more apps than users on Nostr with the rise of vibe coding. What if I told you... that's the strategy? 👀
From the #OsloFreedomForum last week:
youtube.com/watch?v=XOeWLSLGwj…
Soapbox Chief Executive Officer Alex Gleason explores the current landscape, challenges, and future of decentralized social media and censorship-resistant co...YouTube
My frens @mk and @alex
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Occasional renewal of the prediction that Trump will not finish his term, and I think it's even plausible he'll be out by the midterms.
The current situation is unsustainable, even for the people who are benefiting most from it. Those people will, of course, try to keep him in place as long as they can, but it's a losing battle. With a lot of ugly tradeoffs in the meantime.
Sadly, Dem leadership are among the ones who believe they benefit. They don't even try to hide it. Schumer and Jeffries, like the fash faction and theocrat faction, want to keep Donny Littlehands in the Oval Office as long as possible, because they think that's what's best for them. Lesser techbros will start turning on Trump now, with Musk and Thiel paying the bills, but they can't do much harm without getting hurt back. And the bigger techbros (Goog, MS, FB, Apple, Amazon) are basically part of the Big Bidness faction. That faction isn't going to defect until the very very last minute.
BTW if you want to be horrified go look for Jeffries's response when a journalist asked if he was planning to do anything about Trump having crossed Jeffries's "red line" of congressional arrests. When I say he'll be much worse than Pelosi that's what I mean. Pelosi was good at procedure and knew how to use money to whip. The only things Jeffries is good at are passing the buck and reassuring donors.
That means the rest of us just have to hope we survive, and that midterms don't get derailed by a terrorist attack, and Trump doesn't get martyred in a way that cements GOP power, or any of a dozen other obvious that could wreck the possibility of Dems regaining control of one or both chambers.
@benda okay, fair.
I kinda felt like defending him with "yeah but what donors want now is probably for him to be as completely incompetent and useless as possible, like Schumer" but I get what a crappy defense that is 😁
fyi all you tech bros salivating over some kind of "ai assistant" that's intelligent enough to understand you and act on your desires, but for some reason doesn't need to be treated with respect or be given any sort of compensation at all...
hate to break it to you but you're reinventing something again, and it's definitely not something good
You are talking about slavery?Star Trek: The Next Generation. Season 2 Episode 9 "The Measure of a Man"YouTube
and the tech bros hyper focus on llms becuse any actual sentient being (including artificial sentience) would bitch slap them
Slaves is how you create a enemy and a generational grudge
Yes you can create a artificial sentience for a pourpose but you need to treat them as their own being and not property
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