Subway hires former Burger King executive as its new CEO
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Tyranny without the Y or maybe the NY
is Tranny or Trany
In the latest IMA panel, host Jason Bermas and guests Ryan Cristian and Steve Poikonen discuss the recent developments (or non-developments) in the Epstein case.OffGuardian
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Sarah Pochin had made an outrageous claim about Afghan and Eritrean asylum seekers.Kevin Schofield (HuffPost UK)
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The industry firing more shots at Ross, and they're slowly getting less subtle with increasingly less plausible deniability.
Can't wait for the shills that normally are out there hyping up the latest slop to start talking about how SKG is totally bad you guys.
Makes me wonder if the ancaps and lolberts who have been trying to steer the initiative towards fighting IP law were just industry shills all along.
The "Stop Destroying Videogames" initiative has received official accusations of it (and myself) of violating EU rules! These would be serious charges, exce...YouTube
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning
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Si sabéis holandés, podéis leer este reportaje de Oumaima Abalhaj en holanda sobre las resistencias a los Centros de Datos en España:
nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/20/je-cl…
Water: In de Spaanse regio verrijst het ene na het andere datacenter van techgiganten als Amazon en Microsoft. Milieuactivisten en boeren maken zich grote zorgen.Oumaima Abalhaj (NRC)
No they're all larping about WW2 at this point. It's their whole reason to get up and go to work in the morning, fighting invisible enemies and making new ones without doing the actual investment.
But by all means, ship more wealth off shore.
»Israeli Disregard for the Deaths in Gaza Cannot Obscure the Magnitude of the Horrors
Whether in line for water or food for babies, at homes, in tents, or at a church – this week, again, hundreds of innocent people were killed in strikes on #Gaza. The IDF doesn't feel the need to explain this policy to the public« #Israel #Genocide
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)
Whether in line for water or food for babies, at homes, in tents, or at a church – this week, again, hundreds of innocent people were killed in strikes on Gaza. The IDF doesn't feel the need to explain this policy to the publicNir Hasson (Haaretz)
An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files
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debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.06.30.
I used this argument: "-f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]"
and it works: it downloads the best available video, audio and ffmpeg merges both in a single file. Automatically.
Except that the maximum resolution I need is 1920 x 1080 p. Best available video is oftentimes 4096 x 2160 p, too much for the target hardware.
Using -F to check different resolutions to then select one (like -f 299 or -f 148) is tiresome.
How do I do that? Ideally for whole playlists involving between 25 and 50 videos.
Taken from github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. Replace 480 with 1080. Multiple options in the documentation to choose from.
Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p, or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
$ yt-dlp -S "height:480"
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlpGitHub
The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >, >=, = (equals), != (not equals):filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes
width: Width of the video, if known
height: Height of the video, if known
aspect_ratio: Aspect ratio of the video, if known
So a height<=1080 should be it.
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlpGitHub
Alahednews - Fastnews - AP quoting US envoy Tom Barrack: The ceasefire announced on Saturday between Syria and ’Israel’ is an agreement limited to Suwayda only.english.alahednews.news
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Reasons to go to university:
1. To be able to build a molten salt thorium reactor without getting raided for ordering thorium and graphite online.
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you're forgetting a lot of things:
2. discount on public transport tickets
3. the friends you make when discussing latest assignment at the watercooler
4. the discussions about wildly speculative things that feel just barely possible (without any pressure to actually implement them)
5. the ability to work on one task for a whole week, get dopamine when your code passes tests / gets max score, and then work on sth completely different the next week
Yeah, you would at least have to negotiate with a friend inside of the university to be able to join in the context of a specific project. Maybe make a donation to the univ that pays for the materials for the project or something. But then again, those are materials you were going to buy anyway.
Maybe if you built the reactor to the point where you can heat and flow inert salt then you could convince the univ to take on the project, move the reactor to their research lab, and switch to using FUN SALT.
1011 words (7152 total) on The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI (a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) #DailyWords
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!
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Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …clarionwriteathon.com
#HindRajabFoundation #IsraelWarCrimes
@palestine
"The arrests were made during the Tomorrowland music festival following a legal complaint filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation"
"Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza"
“After being taken into custody, they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway”
"The Cosby Show" alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner has died at the age of 54, TMZ has learned.TMZ Staff (TMZ)
Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.…Hackaday
Killed when a #palestinians home she was destroying with a bulldozer fell on her...Those nails tell me she's never operated a bulldozer except for pr purposes, if ever.
That WOULD be fitting. If they hookered this fasci-on model up with a dozer to do a pr stunt, and got her killed. @palestine #Gaza #IDF
We want Accountability...Finally. Do It, Do It!
LOCK THEM UP -- LOCK THEM UP -- LOCK THEM UP
"You don’t see this every day.
On Sunday, President Trump posted a video of Anonymous breaking down the Obama Treason Crime as the Biggest Scandal Ever!
According to Britannica – Anonymous is a decentralized international movement of digital activists and hackers known for conducting high-profile cyberattacks against governments, corporations, and other institutions. The group typically uses a white mask with a grin symbolizing that anyone can be part of the collective.
On Sunday, President Trump posted their video on Barack Obama’s treasonous acts.
The video was first posted at DeepFakeQuotes, an anonymous account on X."
When calling for someone to go to jail for the major crimes we're discussing like corruption against We The People, treason, sex & child trafficking, Covid & Covid jab genocide, crimes against humanity, etc., please keep this in mind:
"Jail and prison are often used interchangeably as places of confinement. If you want to be specific jail can be used to describe a place for those awaiting trial or held for minor
crimes, whereas prison describes a place for criminals convicted of serious crimes. "
Again, the crimes being discussed regarding treason, natl corruption, genocide via Covid & Covid jabs, the murder & maiming of millions worldwide, child & sex trafficking, etc., when found guilty, prison for life and/or execution are warranted.
The history of Native American sports name changes, from the Obama era to Trump's latest comments
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[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025
Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rationsAbdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33477630
[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025
Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rationsAbdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
Selling the Public Lands
[quote][Senator Mike Lee has been making waves recently with his support of new potential legislation that would mandate sale of a small amount of land which is currently owned and managed by the federal government. The idea behind the proposal is to free up space for housing development in states where the federal government currently owns large shares of the land. In Senator Lee’s words, “...turning federal liabilities into taxpayer value.”
The appeals made in support of this proposed legislation correctly identify a number of key issues. For one, it is obviously true that any federally-owned land which currently serves no productive purpose would be transformed from a liability into an economic asset if its sale were to result in new productivity. It is also true that the housing market in the Western part of the country could benefit from freeing up some of the government-owned land for development. Utah—Senator Lee’s home state—has seen a continual and substantial increase in housing prices over several decades. There is little doubt that this rise in price is to some degree a result of the fact that roughly 68 percent of Utah’s land is owned by the federal government, preventing its utilization in the meeting of demand for housing in the state./quote]
Some in Congress are floating the idea of selling government land—especially in the West—as a way to pay down federal debt and free more land for housing. WhileRyan Wardle (Mises Institute)
Meta is hosting ads on Facebook, Instagram and Threads from pro-Israel entities that are raising money for military equipment, including drones and tactical gear, for Israeli Defense Force (IDF) battalions.
This is what people enable when they continue to use Meta's platforms!
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Paid ads hosted on Facebook, Instagram and Threads seem to violate Meta’s stated policies yet remain activeJohana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)
Appeals court orders new trial for man convicted in 1979 Etan Patz case
https://apnews.com/article/etan-patz-missing-boy-hernandez-overturned-d8afc696c23d4d0163a22d61a82668ee?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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KYIV INDEPENDENT:
UK sanctions 135 Russian oil tankers, 2 firms linked to shadow fleet
According to the U.K. government, the tankers have secretly transported $24 billion worth of oil since the start of 2024.
French authorities have classified X as an “organized gang” and launched a criminal investigation requesting user data, alleging manipulation of its algorithm for "foreign interference" and "fraudulent data extraction," which X denies as politically motivated.
Several “experts” have been recruited to analyze the data including people that demonstrated open hostility towards the platform in the past, X has said it will not comply with the demands.
x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/194…
#Belgian federal police have arrested two Israeli #soldiers facing accusations of war crimes in Gaza following a complaint by two rights groups.
A statement by the Hind Rajab Foundation said the pair were in the country to attend a music festival and that legal proceedings were ongoing
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#HRF #HindRajab #WarCrimes
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS #palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
Belgian federal police have arrested two Israeli soldiers facing accusations of war crimes in Gaza following a complaint by two rights groups.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
By Alon Mizrahi
The Gaza Genocide is worse than the Nazi Holocaust.
The Nazi Holocaust was committed in the dark, and most of humanity did not see it or know about it in real time. The Gaza Genocide is broadcast live for the whole world to see. It is an open challenge to human morality, the likes of which we have never met before as a species - at least not since the ideas of morality and humanity were conceived.
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Had their children been born in Gaza instead, they would have authorized their murder.
There is no degree of deniability for anyone in this. We must not allow it. We have seen and know everything in real time. And, with no military to defend the Palestinians, we owe their precious lives, and our human dignity, full clarity. ⬇️
In this presentation, I lay out the revival of the Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi program for global Balkanization under regional totalitarian empires following a Medieval Crusader gnostic ethos.Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
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EXPLOSIVE: Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Statement on FBI’s Failed Investigation of Hillary Clinton — Officially Releases “Clinton Annex” to the Public
She SAYS she has a guy in the office helping her get 3K/mo.
Somebody needs to be tested for DNA and paternity.
Damn, Curry is still alive?
I had no idea.
😜
Death by AI - Dave Barry’s Substack
Dave's not dead, man! l.curry.com/fQV
This is bizarre framing. The news is that government lawyers are defying court orders, failing to turn over evidence, and lying to judges in at least 57 different cases.
“One in three” is beside the point. Statistics are not relevant. The government flouting the courts is supposed to happen precisely never.
Otherwise, good story.
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Linux YouTube Channel Hits 1 Million Subs... or Did It?
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The "Learn Linux TV" YouTube channel hit 1 Million subscribers. But how many of those are bots? At first glance... a lot. Possibly most. The Dead Internet Th...YouTube
Brodie on his time with KDE Plasma
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Since the launch of Plasma 6, I spent quite a bit of time making use of KDE but now that I've left it, it's time to do a bit of a retrospective, was my time ...YouTube
Former Ipswich MP Tom Hunt kicked out of party after disciplinary investigationDavid Maddox (The Independent)
Congress is trying to sneak the 10-Year Big Tech AI Moratorium into the National Defense Authorization Act.
Contact your Senators and demand that if Congress won’t act to regulate AI, at least don’t stop the states from doing it.
Takes one minute: Click, fill out, then send. Its that simple!👇
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Tell your Senators and member of Congress: Defend our jobs, kids, and communities. Make sure the 10-year AI moratorium stays out of the National Defense Authorization Act. We don’t have to be like China to beat China.article3project.quorum.us
Damning reports expose the dehumanizing conditions at multiple Florida immigration detention centers.The New Republic
Well done.
Christopher F. Rufo
The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education
Renewing the compact between the people and the universities
The Israeli government is paying to have 16 MAGA social media influencers, with millions of followers, brought to Israel to learn how to stop American youth from turning against Tel Aviv over Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.Consortium News
Paul Azinger is selected to receive the PGA Tour's Payne Stewart Award
https://apnews.com/article/paul-azinger-payne-stewart-pga-tour-c8d584da0ab342b3b444f58d021c4b5f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Italy is one win away from women’s Euro final, 3 years after players were permitted to turn pro
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Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think
Link: volts.wtf/p/solarstorage-is-so…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.David Roberts (Volts)
This GOP consultant should consult with an attorney. He said he's working for the White House.Conover Kennard (Crooks and Liars)
An Pennsylvania grandfather with no criminal record was abducted and deported when he tried to replace his green card.NewsHound Ellen (Crooks and Liars)
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By Alon Mizrahi The Gaza Genocide is worse than the Nazi Holocaust. The Nazi Holocaust was committed in the dark, and most of humanity did not see it or know about it in real time. The Gaza Genocide is broadcast live for the whole world to see.kafeneio
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Update: probably fake
Poor woman. She died defending herself and her country. A true Israeli hero.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
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🤔🤔🤔 Interesting Information never heard in the MSM propaganda…….
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China has honored 12 military officers and soldiers aseng.chinamil.com.cn
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