#Vivaldi Browser just added DNS settings in the browser. I am thinking about using CloudFlare's 1111 DNS.
Don't know much about it though. Is it actually faster and more private?
#internet #dns #network #CloudFlare
#Vivaldi Browser just added DNS settings in the browser. I am thinking about using CloudFlare's 1111 DNS.
Don't know much about it though. Is it actually faster and more private?
#internet #dns #network #CloudFlare
you might make some new friends making a mistake like that
then again, they may not be the kind of friends you would want
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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
-- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) US Founding Father
1787
Source: as recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry.
"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A r…LibertyQuotes
what if your main goal was sex? But really behind that was love.
what career path would give you the most and the best chances for love?
Croatian court sentences gunman to 50 years for nursing home shooting that killed 6 people
https://apnews.com/article/croatia-nursing-home-shooting-sentence-gunman-5d945c76cae52862664858df9a90292e?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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U.S. applications for jobless aid fell to 233,000 last week as layoffs remain low
https://apnews.com/article/jobless-claims-unemployment-benefits-layoffs-labor-afc0c74ae1b5aab6f7d374523b9ec034?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The United States has stopped supplying interceptors for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery supplies and missiles to Ukraine for several months. The New York Times (NYT) newspaper writes about this, citing American officials.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
#jiaoyingsummers #comedy About Jiaoying Summers:Jiaoying Summers is a Chinese-American stand-up comedian, actress, and social media influencer known for her ...YouTube
As a respondent, I would have complained to the survey designers about the absence of a "Hell yes!" answer option. mastodon.social/@Joewestby/114…
Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.
New YouGov poll we commissioned @PeopleVsBigTech, WeMove Europe. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majorit…
Around half also believe Big Tech companies are more powerful than the EU Brussels, Belgium (3rd July 2025) - According to a new survey conducted byVanessa (People vs. Big Tech)
And as @EUCommission is deciding whether to break-up Google's toxic ad-tech monopoly...
Roughly TWICE as many respondents want the EU to #BreakUpBigTech, as those who don't. Break up Google!
kind of a needlessly negative picture of women over 40
when you meet a good one, you won't get far with that simplistic attitude
Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: caneandable.social/@WeirdWrite…
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Gill and Jadeja broken by England after 203-run stand at Edgbaston
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a checkout girl at 7-11 and I are trading eyeballs.
I just wanna pop the question and break the tension
but girls here will lead you on for a long time,
then, when you make your move, laugh and talk to someone else about you in front of you
maybe here we have to let the woman make the first move, or maybe the moves look different here
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TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in American history.
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TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in Ameri…Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Horrible.
We need to see a list of those who are - by their objection to this BBB - are authoring the biggest tax increase on the middle class in American history.
Es gibt übrigens in Deutschland mehr antimuslimische Gewalt(!)fälle als antisemitische.
Ja, selbst wenn für zweitere die teils herbei fantasierten Zahlen der RIAS genommen werden. Natürlich ist die Zahl der Muslime als potentielle Opfergruppe weit größer, logisch. Die Untererfassung allerdings auch. Außerdem können nach RIAS-Logik ja auch nichtjüdische deutsche Polizist*innen Opfer "antisemitischer" Gewalt durch jüdische Demonstrant*innen werden, von daher ist die potentielle “Opfergruppe” für die Antisemitismusstatistik sogar größer. bird.makeup/users/tarek_bae/st…
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Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
The choice is yours.
In this discussion with the Holmes sisters, Cynthia Chung goes through the historical context of British figure Winston Churchill and answers the question “Is there any reason at all why Calgarians shouldn't be celebrating a Churchill statue recently…Cynthia Chung (Through A Glass Darkly)
Israeli fighter pilots returning from air defense missions during the 12-day war with Iran were routinely authorized to unload their leftover munitions on the Gaza Strip, according to a 2 July report by Maariv.
The move, initially a pilot-led initiative to “assist” Israeli ground forces in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, was quickly expanded by Air Force Commander Tomer Bar into a daily operational policy across all squadrons.
The report outlines how, during the operation, pilots assigned to intercept missiles and drones launched from Iran were equipped not only with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions.
After completing their Iran-related missions, pilots contacted Gaza operation control rooms and offered to drop remaining bombs on designated targets in the enclave.
Air Force officials embraced the initiative. Within hours, the ad hoc proposal became standard practice, with squadrons instructed to coordinate with ground units before landing and to strike Gaza “Hamas targets” on their return.
Military officials described the program as a “force multiplier” that allowed the air force to expand bombing raids in Gaza without additional resources.
“Instead of bouncing planes off the ground for an attack policy, planes that were already in the air carried out the missions,” an Israeli Air Force source told Maariv. “It saved a great deal of resources and increased the Air Force’s capabilities.”
The result was what the report describes as “waves of powerful air strikes” on the strip, far removed from the Iranian front. According to the Israeli army, dozens of fighter jets participated daily, each releasing surplus munitions over the besieged enclave before landing.
While presented as a resource-efficient strategy, the practice effectively turned Gaza into a secondary front in a war that had no operational connection to the territory.
The attacks were directed based on instructions from Israeli ground forces already operating in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, amplifying the daily bombardment of areas already under siege.
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Israeli officials described the move as a resource-saving measure, but the result was intensified bombing of Gaza by jets returning from unrelated missionsthecradle.co
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A slider, a milestone and a heartfelt thank you: Kershaw's 3,000th strikeout
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News story this AM on the local broadcast, Independence Day cookouts are more expensive this year. How much? “Almost 2% for a group of 10”. But this amount was not stated until the very end. They spent the time saying how much the price burgers/beef or brats have have gone up.
So NOW they want to tell us how inflation is affecting us. But under 4 years of Biden when inflation was running much higher (forgive me, I’m too lazy to go look up the amount) it was never talked about.
Dr. Marwan Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, his wife, and their five children were killed when Israeli forces shelled their home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza.Iran Press
#environment #climate #geopolitics #imperialism #war
Imagine. Cutting military spending worldwide would be even better.
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This study investigates the association between speakers' personal attributes, such as political stance or military experience, and their variable pronunciations of Iraq/Iran, as elicited through a rapid anonymous survey. For both target items, speakers' choice of variant appears to be associated not with political affiliation but with two other factors: ability to speak a second language and military service. English speakers who report being able to speak a foreign language are more likely to employ a variant more aligned with the source language, [irɑ:k]/[irɑ:n], while those with a record of military service tend toward the Americanized variants, [ajræk]/ [ajræn]. These results suggest that while specific variants might index political attitude in contexts where the construction of a particular political identity is desirable, in the absence of such a context, speakers' choice of variant is governed primarily by experiential factors.
#linguistics #pronunciation #Iraq #Iran #Americans
♲ Laurel Stvan - 2025-06-21 02:44:58 GMT
Some of my colleagues wrote a paper on this pronunciation variation with Iraq :read.dukeupress.edu/american-s…
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Maybe just suggest something you know he likes and have all the ingredients for. I must admit I hate it when people ask what i want, I've been living alone long enough that I just go make stuff that I'm hungry for.
I'd make a terrible wife
I spoil him. Even his sisters tell him that.
I can‘t repeat their language or insults they tell their ex husbands. But can tell you why no husband.
My mother’s in laws dying wish was for me to take care of him. I agreed. I married the favorite. Plus I have the blessing of his parents both. So that is that.
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« Mes amis Lorsque l’on est persuadé d’être très compétent, on stagne dans son apprentissage, car on ne voit pas l’intérêt d’approfondir. Demandons-nous alors : « Et si je ne savais pas tout ? Et si je jouais la carte de l’humilité ? » L’humilité fait apprendre. Lorsque l’on se lance dans l’apprentissage, il se peut que l’on se croie doué au départ, jusqu’à ce qu’on découvre qu’il existe une infinité de choses à apprendre ! Nous n’en finissons jamais. Nous tombons dans la vallée de l’humilité : je sais que je ne sais pas tout, que je peux toujours progresser. C’est ainsi que je progresse.
Lorsque l’on est persuadé d’être incompétent, on se bloque aussi, car on considère que c’est peine perdue. Demandons-nous : « Et si j’en savais plus que je ne croyais ? Et si je pouvais progresser ?
»Réfléchissez à ces biais cognitifs, afin de vous entraîner à accueillir de nouvelles pensées, une nouvelle vision du monde et des choses. Chaque fois que vous êtes persuadé d’avoir raison sur un sujet, osez une remise en question. »
(dans mon partage)
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La critique média en toute indépendance : enquêtes, analyses, chroniques et émissions.Arrêt sur Images
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@palestine
#gaza #palestinian #children #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder
Judie (6), a little Palestinian girl who was #MurderedbyIsrael.
#gaza #palestinian #children #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder
Yazan Imad Al-Fajam (12), a Palestinian boy who was #MurderedbyIsrael.
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An investigation by The Guardian revealed that the Israeli military used a powerful 500-pound bomb, likely an MK-82, in its attack on Al-Baqa café by the #Gaza seaside.
This bomb, caused a massive explosion and scattered shrapnel over a wide area, leaving a large crater at the site. The use of such a weapon may amount to a war crime.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar
#gaza #palestinian #children #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder
Siwar Al Ghareeb, a little Palestinian girl who was #MurderedbyIsrael.
#gaza #palestinian #children #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder
Ahmed Saleh (16), a Palestinian teenager who was #MurderedbyIsrael.
#gaza #palestinian #children #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder
A traumatized Palestinian boy who luckily survived an Israeli attack but lost loved ones.
In light of Parliament's open embrace of fascism earlier today: here's how to join #PalestineAction
🤢Durian, la fruta fétida que triunfa en Asia.
El durian es tan maloliente que su consumo está prohibido en interiores, pero la popularidad de esta fruta, considerada un superalimento, no deja de aumentar en China y en el resto de Asia.
✍🏻Susana Sarrión.
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How did I miss @pluralistic@mamot.fr in #Manchester yesterday! 😔www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
Looking out for PICKS AND SHOVELS to read in audiobook form.
(comment on Picks and Shovels)
The author will discuss his latest novel, Picks And Shovels, and the 'enshittification' of our modern digital ageEventbrite
On July 22, 2025, the US President sent more than 100 American aircraft to bomb Iran, which is a few thousand kilometres away from the Unites States. ThisМухаммед Амер (New Eastern Outlook)
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