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Summer Sunday adventures: My daughter let me know about a fractured piece of lumber in her bed frame. It was a fairly standard piece to replace, so I swapped out one for the end. Pulled the piece and drove to Lowe's to get a replacement. The plan was to have it cut to size. Sounds simple, entered the store, walked to the lumber section. Asked a rep if I can get a piece of lumber cut to size. The rep asks another rep, Is the saw still down? Yes. The saw has been out of operation for 4 weeks?

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Immigrants who arrive in the United States illegally will no longer be eligible for a bond hearing, a move that comes as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to keep immigrants who enter the country legally detained, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.


Millions of undocumented immigrants will no longer be eligible for bond hearings, according to ICE memo

The new policy change was announced in a memo from the acting ICE director.
Katherine Faulders (ABC News)

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Liars to the core..

CA bill to let LA buy fire-destroyed lots for low-income housing
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The CA Senate has passed SB 549, granting LA County authority to purchase fire‑destroyed lots for minimal cost and convert them into low‑income housing, directly contradicting Gavin Newsom’s previous assurance to homeowners that such government‑driven property conversions wouldn’t happen.

All that near-beachfront property to become Hobo-ville.. 🙄

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Everybody, do yourselves a favour and read this post from @pluralistic .

AI is not about the tech. Neither were blockchains and the metaverse. It's always about the economics.

Pluralistic: When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

#AI
#enshittification

Pluralistic: When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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'Death to Israel': Elmo's X account hack floods feed with antisemitic, violent posts

Hack flooded beloved Sesame Street character with hateful, violent posts, including antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories; Sesame Workshop condemns breach, deleted the posts and is cooperating with X to secure account and investigate incident
Daniela Ginzburg (ynetnews)

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As the USDA Shuts Down Southern Border Livestock Trade Due to a Parasite Invasion, Here Is One Way To Protect Your Family From Parasites

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/a…


As the USDA Shuts Down Southern Border Livestock Trade Due to a Parasite Invasion, Here Is One Way To Protect Your Family From Parasites | The Gateway Pundit | by Promoted Post

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Promoted Post (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Wall Street Apes

Oregon Democrats passed a New Water Law - HB 2982

Starting Jan 1, 2026, a Kayak, paddle board, and even your inner tube counts as a BOAT in Oregon. If you do not have a permit you will face a $115 fine

“Because our government wants the money for people to float in the river”

@WallStreetApes minds.com/newsfeed/17919639599…


Wall Street Apes Oregon Democrats passed a New Water Law - HB 2982 Starting Jan 1, 2026, a Kayak, paddle board, and even your inner tube counts as a BOAT in Oregon. If you do not have a permit you will face a $115 fine | Minds

... - HB 2982 Starting Jan 1, 2026, a Kayak, paddle board, and even your inner tube counts as a BOAT in Oregon. If you do not have a permit you will face a $115 fine. Subscribe to @dailypost on Minds
Minds

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📰 To Read...

🔖 Title: KAWS’s Colossal Figures Are Taking Root at the New York Botanical Garden
🗓️ Published: 2027
📄 Summary: Renowned artist KAWS is set to bring his iconic large-scale sculptures to the New York Botanical Garden in 2027. Known for his bold visual interventions, KAWS’s installation will create a striking dialogue between contemporary art and nature, transforming the garden into an immersive art experience. This collaboration highlights the dynamic intersection of art, environment, and public space.
🔗
news.artnet.com/art-world/kaws…

🗞️ Source: Artnet News
💓 #ContemporaryArt #PublicArt #NYBG2027

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Eric Daugherty

🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning turnaround, the founder of HOME DEPOT, who did not want to vote for President Trump, is shocking the business world.
He also opposed tariffs.

Now?

"I am SOLD on Trump."

"I think he's got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever," Ken Langone said

HOST: "That is a REAL turnaround, because you didn't want to vote for him!"

LANGONE: "I'll tell you the reason...I'm a believer. What I'm seeing happening is absolutely nothing short of a great thing. And there's a beat. People are walking with more bounce...I think this guy is turning out to be a [great] president." minds.com/newsfeed/17919632725…

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📰 To Read...

🔖 Title: A New Book Cultivates a Rich Survey of 300 Magnificent Gardens
🗓️ Published: 2025-07
📄 Summary: Spanning 40 countries, *The Contemporary Garden* presents a stunning collection of 300 remarkable gardens, celebrating one of humanity’s timeless passions. This beautifully curated book invites readers to explore artistry and creativity expressed through landscape design across diverse cultures and environments.
🔗
thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/the…

🗞️ Source: Colossal
💓 #ContemporaryArt #GardenDesign #LandscapeInspiration


A New Book Cultivates a Rich Survey of 300 Magnificent Gardens — Colossal

Across 40 countries and 300 spaces, 'The Contemporary Garden' showcases one of humanity's perennial fascinations.
Grace Ebert (Colossal)

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Μπράβο στο Μητσοτάκη που θέλει αλλαγή 🤡 τα χαζά κόμματα που τζάμπα πιάνουν έδρες & δε προσφέρουν τίποτα στο κοινοβούλιο τελείωσαν 🤡 δε θα μαζεύεται μες στη Βουλή ο κάθε πικραμένος με 3 0 1 & θα εξασφαλίζει
επ' αόριστον σύνταξη για το υπόλοιπο της ζωής του 🤡 τι είναι η Βουλή & πληρώνουμε πάνω από 10K άτομα? Μόνο το κολοσόγο θα πληρώνουμε & μετά τον ψόφο του ακόμη🤝

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AG Bill Barr’s father gave Epstein a job at one of the most elite boys’ prep schools in NYC.
BANNON: Bill Barr’s father was the one who met Epstein once at a bookstore. Epstein was from Coney Island, had no college degree, and yet B He taught math or was a tutor. After that, Ace Greenberg’s son picked him up. Next thing you know, he’s at Bear Stearns. Then he’s a partner.

And as another coincidence, Bill Barr was attorney general when all of this resurfaced. It was under his authority that the Bureau of Prisons reported Epstein was “murdered”—excuse me, “committed suicide.”

It stinks to high heaven.

#epsteindidntkillhimself minds.com/newsfeed/17918795134…

Minds

www.minds.com

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kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114…

"“He is a fighter, and he wanted to fight. He wanted to be released to his community that he’s a part of and, in many ways, a leader of,” VanDerhoef said. “[But] the length of detention and the conditions that he’s in were becoming too much.”opb.org/article/2025/07/15/was…"


Washington farm labor organizer ends his deportation fight after 4 months in ICE detention

His ongoing detention this year sparked protests by union and immigrant rights groups outside the Tacoma detention center, including a vigil on the day of his hearing where a crowd chanted “free them all.”
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez (OPB)

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Politics, who's the boss?


Once I watched an interview from many decades ago where a civilised person asked a Kalahari Bushman about his society. One questions was: 'Do you have Chiefs?'. The man became quiet for a while to absorb the concept of 'Chief'.
Then he said: 'We have many, many chiefs. In fact, Everyone is Chief of themselves'.

in reply to Ambassador Plebeian A∴A∴☑️ ☑️

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Ambassador Plebeian A∴A∴☑️ ☑️

16 women emotionally recounted their experiences being allegedly sexually abused and, for some, being raped by Epstein when they were underage girls, many over a period of several months or years. An additional seven testimonies were read via statements presented by their lawyers or legal counsel.
in reply to Ambassador Plebeian A∴A∴☑️ ☑️

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Ambassador Plebeian A∴A∴☑️ ☑️

Before the accusers spoke, Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey motioned to dismiss the indictment served to the now-deceased Epstein on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy, and Epstein's lawyers argued that the circumstances surrounding his death should be investigated in court.

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kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114…

"#PurgePalantir actions held across the US against tech-right corporate giant tied to Trump administration's push for mass deportations. democracynow.org/2025/7/15/dog…"


“Purge Palantir”: Day of Action Protests Firm’s Role in Gov’t Surveillance, ICE & Genocide in Gaza

Protesters across the United States targeted Palantir Monday in a day of action focused on the technology company’s work with ICE, facilitating President Trump’s expanding immigration crackdown, and work with the Israeli military.
Democracy Now!

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kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114…

""Early Tuesday morning, federal authorities and the Spokane Police executed arrest warrants on at least nine Spokanites who were part of the June 11 protest at Spokane’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.Archer’s arrest represents a real escalation by the US government to pursue federal charges against someone who had no local charges pressed. It’s not clear what charges they are be"

It's Going Down (@igd_news@kolektiva.social)

kolektiva.social

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If you're looking for a VPN, I really recommend mullvad.net

Based in Europe
Cheap - €5/month, no other pricing. I buy a month's worth when I need to
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The simplicity of it makes it my fave. There's no sales or free trials, it's not cheaper if you buy 20 years with upfront. It has been reliable for what I use it for too.


Mullvad VPN - Free the internet

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Interesting, that Typhoid Mary desert. I hadn't heard that she made deadly ice cream. Just that she refused to cook for people. Even after the NY health Dept. told her to stop.

It was better pay cooking, than maid work. Eventually they sent her to a NY island (N. Brothers) to live in isolation.

They probably could have just removed her appendix. Where the Typhoid germ was harbored. A lot of germs stay safe there.

Unknown parent

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Proj. Tic Toc

@Max_Imum I screwed up a sentence there. It should read... She refused to stop cooking for people. Even after the health Dept. diagnosed her as a disease carrier.

She just went to work for another family, and then back to cooking for them. I guess her famed dessert then took more lives.

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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads


Source: futurism.com/facebook-beauty-t…

The social media company likewise tracked when #adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."


#teenager #exploit #manipulation #capitalism #news #socialmedia #society #business #advertisement #surveillance #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #privacy #internet #sale #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #ethics #money #selfies #girl #Girls #female #Teen #Beauty #Ads #fail


Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)

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kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114…

""Federal agents on Tuesday morning arrested and searched the homes of multiple people who took part in a June 11 mass protest against immigration enforcement in Spokane.Among those arrested is former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart, who was indicted by a federal grand jury and is expected to be charged with conspiracy to interfere with law enforcement, according to local attorney Jeffr"

It's Going Down (@igd_news@kolektiva.social)

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L’aide pour les enfants affamés de Gaza est aux portes. Laissez-la entrer - Agence Media Palestine
#Palestine #Gaza #Génocide
agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2…

L’aide pour les enfants affamés de Gaza est aux portes. Laissez-la entrer - Agence Media Palestine

Par Juliette Touma, le 15 Juillet 2025 Israël bloque 6 000 camions de l’UNRWA à l’entrée de Gaza, tandis que des enfants meurent de faim. Le monde peut encore empêcher une catastrophe plus grande s’il choisit d’agir.
editagence (Agence Media Palestine)
in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Mathaetaes

re: Large image

Sensitive content

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"Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price..." - @pluralistic

Not to be the I said so guy, but it's near a decade ago that I first started muttering about maybe not calling Google a startup anymore - which is essentially & rather insanely what they're still doing.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11485908… #tech #business #AI

Cory Doctorow

2025-07-15 20:14:53

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

#Pluralistic

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A smoggy cityscape. In the foreground is a partially open can of Spam, whose label has been pixelated. The glistening spam atop the can has been overlaid with the original Google homepage. In the background looms the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Radek Kołakowski (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warszawski_smog_(22798350941).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Odd, I tried to get him and everyone else at Diem25 on the fediverse years ago but 🤷‍♂️

ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodb…

Do as I say, not as I do, I guess. todon.nl/@mar/1148587184260965…

Aral Balkan — Farewell, not goodbye: leaving DiEM25 (or “We need to talk about democracy, transparency, feminism, and Assange.”)

ar.al

Mar 🔥

2025-07-15 18:42:36

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I've just finished reading _Technofeudalism_ by Yanis Varoufakis. If he's right, then it's politically urgent to escape from the clutches of Meta, Google, Amazon and the like as soon as possible.

Varoufakis' arguments reminded me of _Chokepoint Capitalism_ by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic, though according to Varoufakis the dominance of Amazon and the like has killed off capitalism and is a form of feudalism. I still want to compare these two analyses more carefully.

But Varoufakis' argument is: these platforms have managed to lure people in to work for them for free, and with every post and update on their platforms, these exploitative and massively dangerous companies grow stronger and harder to defeat. On the other hand, if the people take back social media and the internet more generally, there's a real opportunity for building a counter-movement with these technologies.

The lesson I take from this: getting people to quit the capitalist platforms and join the #Fediverse is part of political organisation, and possibly an important part if you consider the way people are tethered to their Instagram and Tiktok.

Let me repeat this: Convincing and helping comrades to quit the capitalist platforms and join the Fediverse is an important form of revolutionary political organisation. ✊


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