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🎙️ Enseignant, spécialiste de la guerre informationnelle et des enjeux numériques, Fabrice Epelboin décrypte dans cette première partie d’entretien les mutations profondes de nos régimes politiques à l’ère des #réseauxsociaux.
Vivons-nous encore en démocratie, ou bien dans une oligarchie ? Les plateformes comme TikTok ou Twitter peuvent-elles être compatibles avec une expression libre et éclairée ? Et comment comprendre les nouvelles droites radicales qui émergent un peu partout dans le monde, des libertariens californiens au trumpisme version Bannon ?
Un entretien dense, sur l’état des libertés, la #captologie, la fabrique de l’ #opinion et la fin de la social-démocratie en #Europe.
⏱ Chapitres : 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:05 – Peter Thiel, JD Vance, le fascisme de Bannon, MAGA 00:06:59 – Ce que dit la rupture entre Trump et Musk 00:11:15 – Pourquoi ce goût pour la censure en France 00:14:50 – Comprendre le bandwagon effect 00:17:54 – Alex Hitchens, AD Laurent… le ridicule de la commission TikTok 00:23:00 – Le divorce entre peuple et élites (immigration, RIC…) 00:29:21 – Algorithmes, captologie, bulles de filtre 00:35:25 – TikTok et la revanche de la Chine
Comcast rant (US Internet provider) - manage your home network at home, please
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I thought i would try to save on Internet costs by trying out Comcast (I will never say their new name, it's worse than twitters) because the fiber provider i have was cheap when i got it but they've been increasing their rates a lot lately.
I did a self setup. I wanted to plug my router into their modem and be done. Comcast wanted to force me to manage their modem/router from an app that requires Internet access to use. So my router settings would live in the cloud with a bunch of other people's and i have no say if they want to alter how my home network functions, and i can only touch my settings with their permission while i have internet access - which tends to be spotty if you are tinkering with your access point to the Internet.
Comcast assumes i have internet outside of their service in order to use their service. They want to manage the settings of my home network in a server farm that requires access through an app that collects personal data when i want to make changes to my home network settings. Why? What good is this to me? Why can't i log in on the hardware directly in front of me using an Ethernet cable instead of pushing values to it from a remote server database?
Comcast rant (US Internet provider) - manage your home network at home, please
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I'm pretty sure i just sound weird because I'm having a hard time explaining why the Comcast arrangement is so bad.
There's no reason or benefit to not letting people control their access points. Not for the customer at least. Requiring an app to do basic home network maintenance, something that has been working without issue for decades using an Ethernet cable and a local PC, it's just adding complication to the system, more points of failure and more places for security to fail. The only reason they would do this is to collect user data and exert control over hardware in places where they shouldn't. They paid money to build a system that people cannot use without their permission, they just made sure to make it convenient for enough people that don't understand these systems so they won't complain. Because they have no understanding of what they're losing.
Comcast rant (US Internet provider) - manage your home network at home, please
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its collecting data, its also collecting advertising metrics to promote in search of greater advertising revenue. I'm assuming the "the fiber provider" you had was AT&T. they've been pissing me off with raising rates as well as locking down their hardware in different ways (no way to edit DNS settings at the gateway level). SO I was looking into comcast and realized as you are now, that they have even more lockdown on their network hardware. Its fucking infuriating. They know we only have the two of them as choices. Both will continue to get worse and worse. We have to resort to hacking the equipment. It seems there are ways to bypass AT&T's humax bgw gateway, but it requires a little bit of money for hardware and some script-kittying. Let me know if you want links to whatever I've found in my research.
@benda I have a provider that was new in the area several years ago, but i wouldn't be surprised if at&t bought them 😅 Fortunately they are cool with a dumb gateway that i get to do all the routing from.
Had my first phishing/scam email that purported to come from Bandcamp. Quite well worded (for once) and supposedly inviting you to an elite artist promotion scheme. I forwarded it to support@bandcamp.com and within hours they replied confirming my suspicions, thanking me and saying they'd taken steps to prevent the Bandcamp page contact form being used as the phishing portal (that was how it had been done). Excellent response by Bandcamp support I must say.
(A lot of) Germans when you ty to apply historical materialism to current day (especially middle-eastern for some reason🤔) antisemitism: "No, antisemitism is inherent in the arab, it must be!"
Les élus locaux sont très enthousiastes pour accueillir un data center géant de Microsoft dans le sud de l'Alsace. Conçu pour accompagner le développement
Attendez ! Si ça se trouve Microsoft va remettre en route la centrale de Fessenheim ! ☢️
Après tout, ils vont bien remettre en route la tristement célèbre centrale de Three Miles Island (qui a eu un *accident* nucléaire, elle). : liberation.fr/international/am…
Mise hors service en 2019, une unité de la centrale américaine, où avait eu lieu en 1979 le plus grave accident nucléaire de l’histoire des Etats-Unis, va être relancée pour fournir en électricité le géant de l’informatique Microsoft.
Je doute fortement de ce chiffre de 6 millions de foyers. Pour fournir l électricité a 6 000000 de foyers il faut entre 4 et 5 réacteurs nucléaire donc même si on pou ait redémarrer fessenheim cela ne suffirait pas.
Perso j'ai bcp de mal à croire ce chiffre. 20% de la conso des particuliers (il y a 30 millions de foyers en France) c'est gigantesque. Les particuliers c'est 1/3 de la conso en France, donc ce datacenter à lui tout seul représenterait 6% de la conso Française ? Pour moi c'est purement impossible.
Aux JT de 13h, ça disait que ça allait créer des emplois. Le seul exemple qu'a cité l'élu interviewé, c'était des emplois dans le BTP... C'est à dire éphémère...
Ensuite, le nombre total d'emploi créé par les datacenters en France a été cité... J'ai fait la division : ça faisait 92 emplois par datacenter.... C'est peu... Très peu...
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman [link to her bio] inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. This will be her first spaceflight. Cardman was selected by NASA as […]
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman
The New Atlas ▪️After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to decide on strikes on Iran that…
🚨 There are reports from #Gaza about a sophisticated ambush in which Israeli soldiers were killed and injured, and some of which are still unaccounted for. It's unclear if they're under the rubble of destroyed buildings, or captured by the resistance fighters. It seems it's still an ongoing situation.
“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America—People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) condemned in the strongest terms on Sunday, June 22, the military attack by the United States government against civ…
Clearly those masked "agents" are fearful of personal retributions they might suffer. I don't blame them, but obviously it should also be illegal for them to hide their identities in such a manner. Full name and badge numbers should be required on all uniforms, and identity cards for non-uniformed agents.
if you can deliver bombs here, deliver food. deliver food. instead, deliver food. [ ^ #DigitsPoems | inspired by] starvation is one of the most cruel ways to kill. #normalpeoplesaveeverybody #salvateinvicem
Dying for a sack of flour: The grim reality of #Gaza's #humanitarian zone
La France a officiellement autorisé la vente d'une participation de 32 % dans l'opérateur de transport Transdev au conglomérat allemand Rethmann, qui devient ainsi actionnaire majoritaire.
▪️After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to deci...
A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted works to train AI is transformative and fair use.
An important caveat is that in this particular case, the authors conceded that "training LLMs did not result in any exact copies nor even infringing knockoffs of their works being provided to the public."
The ruling says authors are still free to sue in the future if they can prove those things happen.
It will be interesting to see how the Disney/Universal suit plays out, since they’re not arguing necessarily that training results in exact copies. Rather, they’re arguing that users are able to create new works that are almost indistinguishable from their IP.
“The purpose and character of using copyrighted works to train LLMs to generate new text was quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote. “Like any reader aspiring to be a writer.”
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20:15 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the Iranian people: "This historic triumph belongs, with utmost pride, to the great Iranian people, the true architects of civilization" 20:16 "Today, after the steadfast resistance of our great people, the makers of history, we witness a ceasefire and the end of a twelve-day war"
i mean it seems like their isis buddies are already laying siege to the country. my assumption has been that they used the war to heavily arm the insurgents via the corridor they created in the northwest.
June 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects. The NICER team paused operations June 17 when performance degradation in the motor began affecting science observations. […]
@Emmanuel Florac Some of these old women are aging quite nicely. Raphaël seems as if he's satisfied and can't wait to get home. Although, this photo may be old by now and so, attitudes may have been adjusted.
Mr. Glucksmann has been previously a counsellor for the president Saakashvili of Georgia after the CIA-backed coup in 2008; he even married a minister, who later became entangled in violent repression, and fled Georgia for Ukraine, where she was a minister after the 2014 "EuroMaidan" coup. Mr. Glucksmann is, without any possible doubt, a CIA agent.
Léa Salamé is the darling of official, state media in France. She's the daughter of a former minister in Lebanon; her mother is from a family of diamantaires. She loves plutocrats, and raves interviewing billionaires, grovelling at their feet on national TV and radio in quite a shameful manner. She'll be the anchor for the national evening news; the previous holder has been fired for not grovelling enough (i.e. doing her job) when interviewing oligarchs.
@Emmanuel Florac perhaps, she herself is a spy. Thanks, I did some research on both of them. I could tell just by looking at her that she's an extrovert. Her partner on the other hand seems less so. Thanks for filling in the nuances.
S'ils s'aimaient vraiment, ils devraient renoncer tous les deux, pour ne pas risquer de mettre l'autre au pied du mur. Bien sûr je dis ça parce que je suis soucieux de leur bonheur, pas parce qu'ils me donnent des boutons, l'un comme l'autre...
@5149jamesli: Trump wants to make a historic nuclear deal with China and Russia. Great! But there’s one nuclear-armed country that never gets mentioned — because officially… it “doesn’t exist.” Here’s the untold sto...…
that hit did look a little flat but the blade did draw back diagonally. simulating an unarmored duel I could believe the sword would have taken a scoop out of his head without the bounce off from the protective mask
Tehran (Quds News Network)- Iran has launched a major military response against US forces in the region, targeting American bases in Qatar, Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Iranian state TV confirmed the st
Not going to lie, it's stories like this that make me scratch my head. This kid has been "referred" to the Juvenile Justice System 7 times already and the Judge released the kid while he awaits trial for an armed carjacking that resulted in one of the victims getting shot and wounded, and the kids' accomplice getting shot and killed.
Kids in and around Albuquerque know they can literally get away with murder because the Courts will simply let them go, free to car jack yet another person, or kill someone.
Léon Terziyan yazmış 👏👏👏 Solcular Sebahat Akkiraz hakkında çok fazla duyar kasıyorlar. Alevilik içinde böyle tiplerin olduğu zaten hep bellidir. Bakınız; Hızır Paşa, Yavuz Bingöl, Yunan halkına "Kahpe" diyen Mahzuni Şerif... Sebahat Akkiraz entelektüel biri değil, onun yaptığı bilinçsiz ırkçılık, CHP'ye yaranma içgüdüsü... Asıl sorgulanması gereken Türkiye ve Kürt Solu içindeki İttihatçılar... Ermeni Soykırımı'nda parmağı olan Nuri Paşa'yı, Nuri Dersimi'yi, Bedirhan'ı, Simko Ağa'yı kendilerine milli önder olarak görenler (!) Simko'nun evine davet ettiği Asuri Papazı'nı nasıl sırtından vurduğunu herkes bilir! Yine asıl sorgulanması gereken; Ermeni mallarına kene gibi çöken Ahmet Türk! Ahmet Türk'ün ve ailesinin ne kadar Ermeni'yi öldürdüğü, mallarının Ermeni ve Süryaniler'den kalma mallar olduğunu herkes bilir. Ermeni Soykırımı anti demokratik bir insanlık suçu ise Ahmet Türk'ü Demokratik Toplum Partisi'ne ve Demokratik Toplum Kongresi'ne başkan yapanlar kimlerdi? Bir ufak hatırlatmada Ermeni Soykırımı'nda parmağı olan İttihatçı Ethem Nejat ve Mustafa Suphi üzerine... Ethem Nejat, Alparslan Türkeş'e örnek olacak Türk Ocakları derneğinin Yusuf Akçura ile birlikte ortak kurucusudur... Mustafa Suphi komünist olduktan sonra bile partisine yüzlerce İttihatçı'yı alan isimdir. Bunlardan Bahattin Şakir, Doktor Nazım ve Salih Zeki en bilinenleridir. Mustafa Suphi, TKP'nin başına Salih Zeki Zor'u getiriyor. Bu kişinin soyismi Dera Zor'da katlettiği iki yüz bin Ermeni'den geliyor. Yani Salih Zeki Zor bir İttihatçı komutanıdır ve Mustafa Suphi de bu gerçeği bilmesine rağmen onu partisinin başına getirecek kadar İttihatçı ve Türkçü'dür... İşte bu Mustafa Suphi, Kaypakkaya'nın kendisine "önder" dediği; Denizlerin ve Mahir Çayan'ların kendisine örnek aldığı Mustafa Suphi'dir... Peki daha doğru düzgün konuşmayı bile beceremeyen Sabahat Akkiraz'ı Talat Paşa'yı savunduğu için yerden yere vurun; peki mahkemesinde Erzurumlu dedelerinin Ermenileri öldürmesiyle övünen Deniz Gezmiş'i nereye koyacaksınız (!)
For the 12 day war with Iran, so far "...directly and indirectly, the war could cost Israel up to $20 billion" "...the Israeli government is considering one of the three following measures to cover the widening budget deficit: cutting down on public spending on health and education, increasing taxes, or resorting to borrowing, which could bump up the public debt to national income ratio by over 75 percent"
Age of consent should be 99 years old, exactly the age boomers are. /s.
Everyone else should not be able to consent to anything. Sexual relations before 99 should be disallowed /s
This is how they think. I had to leave the country to be independent from the boomer rule. Only one left in my life now my father in law. Taking care of him. Good guy.
@Quentel Way out IMO is move to English speaking parts of Asia. Australia has a really western culture but it is full of Asians already. Japan has western culture in Niseko/Hirafu region in Hokkaido but it has Russian snow. American ideals like risk taking and liberty will not easily transfer to Japan etc. Japanese justice system is very unwestern and ruthless
@Quentel Way out IMO is move to English speaking parts of Asia. Australia needs a really western culture but it is full of Asians already. Japan has western culture in Niseko/Hirafu region in Hokkaido but it has Russian snow. American ideals like risk taking and liberty will not easily transfer to Japan etc. Japanese justice system is very unwestern and ruthless
@prolrage From what I hear they've been losing TANKS and other armored vehicles in Gaza. Not only that, these tanks are being knocked out using locally produced antitank weapons from Gaza's obviously excellent local workshops.
Retaliating against civilians whether with firing squads or with carpet bombing is straight out of the Nazi playbook. Thus we know who the freedom fighters and who the Nazis are in this war.
Such IOF behavior as torturing unarmed prisoners with acid and cigarette butts won't stop Merkava tanks from having their turrets blown off, nor will it bring back the tank crews that seconds earlier were firing at tents full of civilians.
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There is a black-out on the news of successful attacks of #Palestinian #Resistance against #zioNaZis. Amid a total blockade of supplies and #genocide against non-combatant Palestinians, the Resistance still carries out surgical and extremely successful operations against #IOF. When you read "Occupation committed a massacre against dozens of civilians and children" have in mind that the strike is retaliation because of a successful attack of Resistance. And when we say "successful" means against zionazi soldiers, not civilians... #Gaza #GazaKrieg #IsraelTerroristState #FreePalestine #Palestine #gazagenocide
Zionazi army keeps counting dead and injured soldiers on the field. IOF proclaimed multiple times that finished the cores of #Palestinian #Resistance in #Rafah or elsewhere but when soldiers try to enter in urban areas they leave by helicopters... ...And then it comes the air force to kill women and children with a sadistic way of revenge. #gaza #genocide #zioNaZis #IsraelKrieg #palestine #freepalestine #IsraelTerroristState
The Israeli military reports its air defences shot down two rockets launched from the #Gaza Strip, and a third fell in an open area without inflicting any casualties.
The Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, claimed the attack, which triggered air raid alarms across southern Israel. The group said it was in response to “Zionist massacres against our Palestinian people”.
The Israeli army earlier said a missile was launched by the Houthis in Yemen, but it fell short before reaching Israel and did not trigger any alarms. aje.io/1xgt8y?update=3708126
The Yemeni Armed Forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, launched a hypersonic ballistic missile targeting Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday.
“The missile successfully hit its target,” spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced, adding that it was “the third missile attack in less than 24 hours.”
You have to dive deep to find that #iofterrorists suffer in #Gaza. Everyday the Resistance takes action with plan and patience but there is no coverage of her achievements. Links below contain announcements and videos of #Palestinian #Resistance against the #zionazi army just for the last ten days. You can also see the targeting of surrounded settlements... Israel has no luck in Gaza. None of the goals announced by israeli government achieved after 20 months of #genocide against civilians. #IsraelTerroristState #FreePalestine (Reports in greek) eksegersi.gr/diethni/oi-petres…
17 Ιούν 2025, 09:41 - Δεν υπάρχει μέρα που τα σιωνιστικά μίντια να μην μεταδώσουν είδηση για «σοβαρό επεισόδιο ασφάλειας» στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας. Τα υπόλοιπα... εννοούνται, καθώς η στρατιωτική λογοκρισία απαγορεύει τη μετάδοση λεπτομερειών.
مشاهد توثق كمينا مركبا نفذته كتائب القسام ضد قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في منطقة الزنّة، شرقي مدينة خان يونس جنوبي قطاع غزة.وتُظهر المشاهد تفاصيل الكمين الذي ا...
The latest instalment of the #Palestinian resistance’s miracle-making transpired in Khan Yunis on Tuesday (June 24) when it dealt multiple blows to eliminate all seven Zionists inside an armoured personnel carrier (APC) in another of its trademark complex ambushes. All seven dead Israelis belonged to the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion in what one Israeli outlet called “one of the deadliest incidents for the Israel Defense Forces in months.”
Here’s how the deadly operation unfolded:
During an attack launched by the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion of the 188th Brigade in #KhanYunis, a resistance fighter approached a Puma armoured personnel carrier (APC) containing seven soldiers from the engineering unit and attached a shrapnel-type explosive device to it before withdrawing safely. The device exploded, causing the armoured vehicle to catch on fire.
Al-Quds, Al-Qassam, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades launch coordinated attacks against Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younis as part of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.
#Palestinian #resistance factions in #Gaza have announced multiple successful operations targeting Israeli vehicles in the Strip, confirming casualties among the Israeli Occupation Forces.
As part of the ongoing Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Palestinian resistance fighters persist in attacking Israeli forces operating inside the Gaza Strip, causing Israeli military casualties with both killed and wounded soldiers.
The Al-Quds Brigades also announced today that they had carried out a coordinated operation, beginning with the detonation of a minefield targeting Israeli military vehicles advancing in the Huda Square area east of Gaza City's #Shujaiya neighborhood, forcing soldiers and officers to take shelter in nearby houses.
The fighters then targeted the troops who had taken cover inside the houses, first with a guided missile, followed by an anti-fortification TBG shell. Afterwards, the fighters engaged Israeli soldiers in close-quarters combat using light and medium weapons, leaving casualties of both dead and wounded, according to a statement released by Al-Quds Brigades.
The Israeli military says five of its soldiers have been killed after Palestinian fighters detonated explosive devices during an operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon area.
The Israeli military said the five soldiers, aged between 20 and 28, “fell during combat in the northern #Gaza Strip”, while 14 others sustained injuries – two of them “severely wounded”.
“What we understand is that the #Israeli soldiers were attacked, then the unit that tried to come to their rescue was also attacked, and then a third group of soldiers that tried to extract them was also attacked,” she said. aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/8/fi…
In a statement published on Telegram on Tuesday, Abu Obeida added that the #war of attrition being waged by Resistance fighters across the Gaza Strip, from north to south, continues to inflict daily losses on the Israeli occupation.
"Our fighters launched their attack from the very ruins the occupation believed were devoid of life," Abu Obeida stated, adding, "The war of attrition our fighters are fighting across the entire Gaza Strip, from the North to the South, will continue to cost the enemy more losses by the day." english.almayadeen.net/news/po… #FightBack #IOF #idfterrorists #PalestinianResistance #BeitHanoun @palestine @israel
"I'm not happy with Israel,” Trump told reporters, after Israeli fire threatened a fragile ceasefire with Iran. "They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing," the president continued, referring to both of the countries.
“I’m not happy with Israel,” Trump told reporters, after Israeli fire threatened a fragile ceasefire with Iran. “They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” the president continued, referring to both of the countries.
Iranian armed forces have launched a barrage of missiles at a US military base in Qatar, a day after Iranian nuclear sites were targeted by US bombers.
ESA’s week-long Living Planet Symposium is in full swing in Vienna, Austria, drawing scientists and researchers from around the world. This flagship event focuses on the latest breakthroughs in Earth science and highlights the advanced space technologies used to observe and understand our changing planet. Throughout the week, we’ll be covering the bigger stories in depth, but we’re also sharing some daily snapshots of other significant happenings.
The major highlight of today was the signing of a landmark agreement between ESA and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
Anarchism... teaches the possibility of a society in which the needs of life may be fully supplied for all, and in which the opportunities for complete development of mind and body shall be the heritage of all. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
Investigadores liderados por la Universidad de Cádiz alertan del impacto de los residuos agrarios en el fondo del mar Mediterráneo y piden que se incluyan en el futuro Tratado Global de Plásticos
In Deutschland gibt es nach Berechnungen der Unternehmensberatung BCG immer mehr "Superreiche". Das sind Menschen, die über ein Finanzvermögen von mehr als 100 Millionen US-Dollar verfügen.
Die meisten größeren Volkswirtschaften haben eine Erbschaftssteuer. Z.B. USA, Japan, Deutschland, UK, Frankreich, Italien, sogar die Schweiz. Keine Erbschaftssteuer gibt es dagegen in China, Indien, Russland.
Vermögenssteuern gibt es dagegen in deutlich weniger Ländern, u.a. Frankreich, Spanien, Schweiz.
#Miller, who served as President Donald #Trump’s senior advisor on #immigration and homeland #security, disclosed owning between $100,001 and $250,000 of Palantir stock as of mid-March, according to financial disclosure forms obtained by the watchdog group. #Ethics experts told POGO that Miller’s dual role crafting enforcement policy and investing in Palantir, which provides “mission-critical” data services for ICE, could amount to a troubling conflict of interest.
@Jagahati this is St. Matthew's German Lutheran church
amazing organist. However it's so moldy from having been flooded I can't be in it for more than a few minutes. Also very WOKE
I used to find it disturbing walking around town and seeing the damn PRIDE flags hanging on these historic churches but now I think it's good they ID themselves
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.
“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”
“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.
“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”
In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.
“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.
Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.
McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.
In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.
Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.
ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.
La segunda jornada de huelga de los trabajadores del metal en Cádiz está contando con un amplio seguimiento. Si este viernes no se llega a un acuerdo con la patronal, la huelga puede convertirse en indefinida a partir de la semana que viene. #HuelgaDelMetalCadiz
El segundo día de huelga empieza con la fuerza obrera haciendo retroceder a la Policía por las calles de Cádiz. La huelga a la que hay convocados más de 27 mil trabajadores/as tuvo ayer un seguimiento casi del 100% #HuelgaDelMetalCadiz
Durante la jornada de lucha de ayer la Policía del "gobierno progresista" detuvo a 6 huelguistas. Hoy sus camaradas fueron frente a los juzgados a exigir su libertad. #HuelgaDelMetalCadiz
El conflicto ha emergido con fuerza: barricadas y cortes de tráfico con cargas policiales y detenciones, evidenciando el choque entre los trabajadores y sus legítimas demandas frente a la cerrazón de la patronal.
El alcalde de Cádiz ha ido a hacerse la foto con los trabajadores del metal en huelga y le han hablado claro: "llevamos muchos años (así) alcalde, se acabó".
"En CTM decimos NO a la basura de convenio que ha firmado UGT.
Recuperación de pluses en el 2032 al precio del 2012, una puta locura. Se sacan de la manga un contrato para menores de 25 años al 75% del salario convenio para precarizar todavía más. Eso es lo que ha firmado UGT y no lo vamos a aceptar. Son vendidos."
Siguiendo la estela de la huelga del Metal de Cantabria de hace unas semanas, 25.000 trabajadores también del sector del metal han ido a la huelga, convocados por los sindicatos CCOO y UGT [1] suponiendo un seguimiento de aproximadamente el 95% de l…
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La imagen muestra dos fotografías de una protesta. Arriba, un grupo de manifestantes camina por la calle, muchos con la cara cubierta o tapada. Abajo, una multitud más grande se reúne frente a un edificio, con pancartas que piden la defensa del trabajo. Ambas imágenes muestran una protesta relacionada con una huelga en el sector del metal en Cádiz, organizada por el Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT), como se indica en el texto de la imagen.
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Una multitud de hombres se encuentra reunida en una calle frente a un edificio de la empresa Navantia. Al fondo se ven dos grandes grúas de puerto. Los hombres están vestidos con ropa casual, muchos de ellos con camisetas oscuras. Algunos llevan chalecos de seguridad de color naranja. La escena parece ser una protesta o una reunión en el exterior de un astillero. El ambiente es tenso pero pacífico.
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Un hombre con casco blanco circula en una motocicleta eléctrica frente a un muro blanco con grafiti en negro. El grafiti dice "QUE ARDEN LAS CALLES Y NO LOS TAJOS". Al fondo se ven grúas de puerto.
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Una fotografía de una sección de gradas de un estadio de fútbol repleta de aficionados. Los aficionados, mayoritariamente vestidos de amarillo, ondean banderas y pancartas. Las pancartas principales muestran lemas en español, uno de ellos dice "La Bahía de Cádiz en lucha" y otro "Brigada Amarillas". Se aprecian también otras banderas y pancartas más pequeñas con diferentes mensajes. Al fondo se ven edificios de apartamentos de varios pisos. La escena evoca un ambiente de partido de fútbol con un fuerte apoyo de la afición local.
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En medio de una calle, un contenedor grande de plástico arde en llamas, produciendo una gran columna de humo negro. Alrededor, un grupo de personas observa la escena desde la acera. A ambos lados de las llamas hay barreras de seguridad de color naranja. En el fondo se ven edificios y un letrero de una estación. La escena sugiere una protesta o disturbio con un objeto incendiado en la calle.
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Una imagen muestra un gran fuego ardiendo en primer plano, consumiendo lo que parece ser una bobina de madera grande. Al fondo, un grupo de personas, algunas enmascaradas, se mueven a través de una nube de humo amarillo, cerca de una barricada. La escena sugiere un disturbio o protesta violenta.
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Una multitud de trabajadores de la construcción, muchos con cascos, protestan en una plaza soleada. Algunos levantan los brazos en señal de protesta, mientras otros sostienen carteles o simplemente observan. El fondo muestra edificios de varios pisos y palmeras. La atmósfera es de tensión y activismo.
this is really a question about life expectancy, since money accumulates (or is negative and is never going back up) while intelligence (broadly defined) is an asset that takes work to use.
You could do something with more money while on your deathbed (at the worst, donate), but probably not intelligence. And doubling the allowance of a child would barely provide a candy bar.
i voted for the money. I consider myself intelligent enough to do the job i'm doing. I've never run into a problem where I felt "If I was just a bit more intelligent I could do this". I've never found something impossible for me to learn, even if it takes some effort to learn it. So, I think if I were twice as intelligent, I would perhaps have more genius insights or figure things out faster, but twice as much money would let me buy a house and have a much more stable life, which would be better for my wellbeing than being a prodigious genius, which might well make me more depressed than I currently am.
How about we flat out abduct Khamenei, Netanyahu, Putin and Zelensky. Relocate them here, maybe Texas. And make them fight to the death in televised cage matches. The loser's countries get obliterated by the US nuclear arsenal. The winner remains in captivity for the next season.
-- well, you're very unlikely to find any woke in an Orthodox parish. 😆 Ours is filled with amazingly based people. And some of my closest friends I met there are also No Agenda listeners. ;)
-- Jay was one of my early introductions as well! And then Jonathan Pageau's more gentle and thoughtful ways (which are actually way more typical of my interactions with Orthodox people) made me even more curious.
Having been a lifelong agnostic, becoming an Orthodox Christian has been a very slow process, with two years of just inquiring and then a year as a catechumen before finally being baptized. Everyone was so patient with my MANY questions and never pressured me. 😀
it's some bizarre skin issue - have seen 3 dermatologists, GP and a podiatrist as well. All they can do is steroids which boomerangs. BUT I was hooked up with a naturopath/Chiropracter and I believe I'm making progress - my spirit is light despite being confined at home Thank you for your prayers
-- oh dear, that sounds super uncomfortable and frustrating! Glad you're on an alt medical track now; hopefully, they'll help you find some answers, or at least solutions.
Just a shot in the dark... if you've had any tick bites, have you by chance ruled out alpha gal syndrome? (They order an antibody blood test.) A wide variety of skin issues are common reactions, often occurring many, many hours after eating problematic foods, which can make it hard to make the connection.
no tick bites - I did have 3 insect bites last summer which gave me problems - might be worth looking into. He's discovered liver issues and I think it's because I internalized the horror of the last 5 years - and it came out expressing through the skin. Have to say being hobbled is tiresome but it's forced me slow down, digest and start writing again
right? I was so tightly-wound thinking the more info I had the more I could protect myself & those I love. Which is actually absurd. Typical addict behavior trying to control lol That being said I would not wish anyone to have this experience
-- same, such growth! Would never wish it on anyone though.
Learning to trust God, and not try to control everything, has been oh so difficult but so very, VERY worth it. I've never felt so at peace in my life. 😀
Simple rule of thumb: avoid all theologically liberal churches.
But then where to go? Which conservative church has it right?
I've studied the Bible & theology enough to have several areas where I can see valid arguments from scripture for the various conservative Christian denominational positions on things like baptism, sacraments, priesthood of all believers, justification by faith alone, ordination of women, etc. but not one church has everything right doctrinally.
I do attend Bible study run by a conservative local pastor but with people from variety of traditions & that's what makes study interesting & lively, because we all take Bible seriously even if we do not always agree.
Rural resident so churches are quite geographically spread out. I've tried around seven different churches over the years but not found a permanent home. I'm stuck being a lone ranger Christian. Not the way it is supposed to be....but the way it is.
@elston_ -- I can relate though! The debates between denominations confused me for years and were a large part of why I steered clear.
When first learning about Orthodoxy, I was quite struck by idea that it's "predenominational". So when I became intensely Christian-curious and wanted community, I figured I'd start at the root of it all and go from there. Ends up Orthodox theology and biblical interpretation are the first that have made sense to me and seemed internally consistent. 🤷♀️
For me, conservative Lutheranism shows fidelity to Word while not necessarily rejecting all tradition- only that which makes void the Word of God.
But embracing infant baptism is a tricky one for me. I would even point to rite of "confirmation" as a tacit admission by Western churches that practice infant baptism, that some kind of real faith & commitment is needed from the individual at some point in spiritual journey.
– I've also had many questions about baptism, especially for infants!
I barely dare try to articulate my feeble grasp/why I'm comfortable with it now. It's only come through just starting to understand, and personally experiencing, how the holy traditions of the church–baptism, liturgy, Eucharist, confession–combine to gently orient a soul towards God; and, at the same time, each person themselves chooses to maintain that orientation, even after being baptized at whatever age.
@Haleakalacrater If baptism is a gift of God to church & one it can in turn give to children, that helps us see it in a different light.
If human parents give gifts to infants & toddlers, without demanding they be old enough to write a thank you letter then why can't God through church bring baptism to infants & children?
When it talks about whole households being baptized in NT that *could* include infants. But text doesn't give us clear indication that it does.
@elston_ I love to hear your enthusiasm! I felt that way about the Episcopal church - I love the rites and rituals of the BCP. Then I fell in love with the Congregational Church - especially as it was'n't top down. Who knows?
baby shah is even less than eric adams. and i dont say that lightly. the son of a dog who hasn't stepped foot in "his" country since he was 12 years old and wants to be put on a throne by a country that's itching to massacre "his" people. that throne is in a museum. maybe we should put baby shah in one too...
@benda did you see the thing where he said he wouldn't be able to live in Iran full time because his business and social life is centered in the US (or something like that?). Just said it right out loud.
hes fucking oblivious. i honestly hope he gets the chance to go back to iran so he can face, for the first time in his entire nepo-baby life, the opinion of the iranian people.
Al-Udeid airbase in the Qatari capital was struck by at least three ballistic missiles in response to Washington's bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities
My poor kitty Lola. She still poops on the floor, which is semi-manageable now because I place puppy pads next to the litterbox. She also has blood in her urine. She's had 2 rounds of antibiotics and her culture is bacteria-free, so she has "idiopathic cystitis," ie no known cause. The vet suggests I give her Gabapentin to "manage stress," and I guess I'll try it, but I doubt the cause is "stress." I'm considering that the cats got Covid from me in 2023, when I was completely bed-bound for 4 weeks and sick for months, and that may be the source of their autoimmune disease too (they both have IBD) and complications. Which means, not much to be done. They're already both on prednisone for IBD, which shortens their lives all by itself. We (meaning my Mom, they're her cats too) have spent a lot of money on teats and treatments and vet visits, and some point need to stop and let the inevitable occur. My poor kitty.
Here's a pic of her cooling off on the floor under the ceiling fan yesterday.
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.
“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”
“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.
“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”
In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.
“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.
Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.
McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.
In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.
Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.
ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.
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WandaVision TwodaVision Red....
Replying to @spootart and @taynimated
BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
tuna ramen COMI...
GENDERFLUID BUGS?
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776105 "[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
WandaVision TwodaVision Red....
Replying to @spootart and @taynimated
BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
tuna ramen COMI...
GENDERFLUID BUGS?
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!")
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Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776107 "[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.")
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