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Meteorite that ripped through Georgia homeowner's roof is 20 million years older than Earth, scientist says
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Meteorite that ripped through Georgia homeowner's roof is 20 million years older than Earth, scientist says

A mysterious fireball blazed across the sky in broad daylight on June 26, sparking hundreds of siting reports in Georgia and South Carolina.
CBS News

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Thank you, I have more then enough to go on.

The Resulting list of music, u edited, checked or anythigng is here ...

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OK Massed brains of Mastodon.

I'm looking for music with electrical, high voltage, sparks and arc referancs. Ideally in the title or commonly known lyrics, not in the band or artist name) oblique or pun references positively accepted. e.g Joan of arc, flash Gordon, Electric Avenue, tesla girls etc...


Extreme Electronics (@Extelec@mstdn.social)

Attached: 1 video Purple Haze running at just under 1 Kw test The phone does not like my carrier :)
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A lot iPhone apps already use React. There's a sample of a few on the React Native site: reactnative.dev/showcase. It's almost certain that you have at least one React Native app installed on your phone 😀

I'm not sure what being able to run different browsers has to do with Electron, as Electron doesn't run on mobile at all.

Sites already misbehave in Safari because there's so many Safari-specific bugs. It's similar to IE6 in that sites often need Safari-specific hacks to make them work properly.


Showcase · React Native

Thousands of apps are using React Native, check out these apps!
reactnative.dev

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I'm splitting my time today wrapping up reading about the history of WordPerfect and watching this documentary on YouTube about the history of The Linotype and its impact on the world. #history #printing #ComputerHistory

Linotype | How One Machine Shaped History | The Real OG of Mass Communication

The Linotype machine changed the world. Once called the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing, making newspapers, books, ...
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I grew up in a printing family too. I never worked with our Linotype directly but saw it being used and learned some of the basics. While I worked in other aspects of the company by far the part I was most embedded in, as a computer geek, was the emerging "desktop publishing" and pre-press part of the business. I left all of it to go to college to become an engineer in the early-1990s. I had planned on just following the whole thing but my dad rightly called that the industry was dying and it'd be better if I took a different path rather than the safe feeling path.
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After my dad retired my brother ran the company until some crooks didn't pay their invoice and my brother was too overextended basically causing the company to go bankrupt.

But it was all for the best. The industry was dying.

We had a Mac Quadra running Adobe Illustrator for DTP but that still meant shooting the positive, creating the negative, and burning the plate.

At one point I had most of the most populat Pantone color numbers memorized. Even the spot colors most commonly used for brochures and packaging, etc. LOL.

Those were the days.

Got the shit scared out of me when I printed up some fake money with my face on it (I was 16). Secret Service showed up, confiscated all my plates, everything.

But the catch is I had reduced the bills down to the size of monopoly money! And they were printed on white 20# stock with green ink. Only a fucking moron would think it was legal money.

But because I kept the "This is legal tender for all debts..." and "Federal Reserve Note" on the bills the SS said I was in big trouble.

I was 16 and didn't know any better but now as an adult I just think they didn't have anything to do because reducing the size of the bills is perfectly fine according to everything I've read.

Oh well.

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I guess purging inconvenient facts (about climate change, vaccines, the economy, immigration, racism, or whatever) creates a vacuum. So authoritarian regimes fill it with assertions that serve their interests. I fear we're going to see a lot more of this.

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US to rewrite its past national climate reports

US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
France 24 (FRANCE 24)

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Argentina: Milagro Sala and the Dress Rehearsal of Lawfare in Jujuy orinocotribune.com/argentina-m…

Argentina: Milagro Sala and the Dress Rehearsal of Lawfare in Jujuy

By Charo Solís  -  Aug 5, 2025Milagro Sala is one of the first political prisoners of the current Argentinian democracy.
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world

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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world

Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University
Eleanor Drage (The Guardian)

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Fedora 42 / KDE - What is the difference between "dnf upgrade" and Discover "system upgrade"

I usually update through dnf but sometimes Discover says there is a "system upgrade" with however many packages that are pending upgrade, but no details provided. It requires a restart after completing.

What is the difference between the two?

Picture of what I'm talking about

File:Noble-1.png - KDE Community Wiki

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Yup. Just a note - I didn’t create the meme so I apologize for the “Resst” on the shirt (whoever did create this forgot the “i”) and also added an extra “than.” Some asshat pointed out there are two Cartmans; no shit. Anyone who’s watched “South Park” over the course of nearly 30 years knows perfectly well even Eric Cartman has been depicted at least a few times as wearing more than just one outfit. It’s the message here that’s really the important thing.
A meme with two cartoon images of the character Eric Cartman of “South Park” on Comedy Central with the narrative “The creators of South Park have more moral courage than our entire mainstream media.”
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#England didn't do shit, #AlanTuring did. And to thank him, the #UK chemically castrated him, driving him to #suicide. We'd all be speaking German right now if it weren't for Alan #Turing.

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How England Cracked The German Code Machine And Helped Win World War II For The Allies

During World War II, the Germans used an encryption device called the Enigma, which Polish and English mathematicians worked tirelessly to crack.
Jon Dempsey (SlashGear)

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The TRIPP Corridor Threatens To Undermine Russia’s Broader Regional Position korybko.substack.com/p/the-tri…

The TRIPP Corridor Threatens To Undermine Russia’s Broader Regional Position

Armenia might defect from the CSTO while Turkish and NATO influence could surge all along Russia’s southern periphery, which might embolden Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to defy Iran and Russia by building the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline if the West pro…
Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)

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The Chinese government has received more than 3,113,000 online suggestions for consideration in the country’s five-year plan, to be implemented from 2026 to 2030. The number is extraordinary even by Chinese standards and represents three times the number of suggestions made for the previous five-year plan.

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/07…

#china


Chinese people submit over 3 million suggestions for government’s 15th Five-year plan : Peoples Dispatch

In the process President Xi Jinping instructed the government to “listen to the voices of the people” and “gather the wisdom of the people”
Mauro Ramos (Peoples Dispatch)

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@scarecrow Troons always do suicide they hate live and are very misrable

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German media: Russian Armed Forces spent two years preparing to simultaneously "seize" or block four groups of cities en.topwar.ru/269388-smi-german…

German media: Russian Armed Forces spent two years preparing to simultaneously “seize” or block four groups of cities

The Russian Armed Forces have been preparing for two years to simultaneously "capture" or blockade four groups of cities in the war zone. They could happen in the coming months.
Кузмицкий (Военное обозрение)

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Bargeld-Tracking: Du hast Überwachungsinstrumente im Portemonnaie netzpolitik.org/2025/bargeld-t…

#bargeld #tracking


Bargeld-Tracking: Du hast Überwachungsinstrumente im Portemonnaie

Bargeld gilt als anonymes Zahlungsmittel. Dabei ist anhand der Seriennummer durchaus ersichtlich, welche Routen Geldscheine nehmen. Die Infrastruktur zum Bargeld-Tracking wird immer weiter ausgebaut.
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Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

Link: forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietz…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Stanford To Continue Legacy Admissions And Withdraw From Cal Grants

Stanford University is withdrawing from a state financial aid program, as it decides to continue considering the legacy status of applicants for fall 2026 admissions.
Forbes

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A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family (New York Times)

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A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family

From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme

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Europe’s century of humiliation - UnHerd


#politics #geopolitics #EU #collapse

Yanis Varoufakis

In 1842, broken and defeated, China sent its top bureaucrat, Qiying, to Nanjing to meet with Sir Henry Pottinger, the ruthless British colonial administrator who dictated surrender terms to the Chinese. In the resulting Treaty of Nanjing, China gave everything and received nothing but humiliation in return. They called it a trade deal, over which merchants clinked glasses in London while China’s poets lyrically immortalised the shame that still haunts their great land.

Last month, broken and defeated, the European Commission sent its top diplomat, Ursula von der Leyen, to a Trump-owned Scottish golf course to sign a similarly shameful treaty. They called it a trade deal, too, to conceal how Europe gave the US President everything and received nothing but humiliation in return. Remarkably, unlike China in 1842, Europe succumbed not to defeat in battle, but to a mere few months of tariff waterboarding — a torture technique that foolish European leaders, inspired by hapless US Democrats, once dismissed as TACOS (“Trump Always Chickens Out”).

Though Europe’s poets will have nothing lyrical to recite about the humiliation that will cast a shadow for decades upon the continent, its politicians have already confessed to it. A “dark day”, in the words of François Bayrou, the French prime minister. An “admission of weakness”, cried out Michel Barnier, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, who should know a thing or two about negotiating from a position of supreme arrogance.

The details of the EU-US trade deal are truly embarrassing for Europe. While US goods will be exported to Europe tariff-free, an across-the-board 15% tariff will be slapped on European exports to the United States, with a whopping 50% on steel and aluminium exports. And that’s only the beginning.

Europe committed to cancelling all actual or planned cloud taxes on Big Tech, and then threw in a massive tribute to appease Donald Trump: $600 billion in fresh investments into the US economy, and $750 billion in fracked US oil and gas by the end of 2028. That is, a gargantuan cheque of $1.35 trillion — without including the countless billions in US-sourced weaponry that European governments are on the hook for (if they are to fulfil their Nato defence spending pledge).

By issuing her new promises, von der Leyen has overlooked the key lesson that Europe should have learned from President Trump’s first term: failing to offer Trump large sums of money may be dangerous, but making promises that cannot be delivered is infinitely worse.

Besides the fact that the European Commission cannot compel private companies to send their cash to America, there is another snag: neither the promised money nor the requisite capacity exists. German carmakers and chemical companies are, of course, already investing in the United States to bypass Trump’s tariffs, but nowhere near the promised $600 billion in the next two and a half years. Even worse, the pledge to buy $750 billion worth of US energy ($250 billion annually over three years) is pure fantasy: the EU’s annual energy expenditure falls far short of that, not to mention that US frackers do not have the capacity to sell Europe so much oil and gas even if the Europeans were willing and able to buy it.

Doesn’t Trump know this? He does, of course. Has he forgotten Jean-Claude Juncker’s broken promises? No one remembers these things as well as this US president does. You can see it in his eyes. He is loving it. It’s his golden opportunity to bludgeon a European Union that he has loathed with undiminished passion for so long. In addition to shrinking America’s trade deficit, and pocketing substantial tariff revenues in the process, Trump can’t wait for the EU to breach von der Leyen’s investment and energy pledges. Once it does, after 2028, in his last year in the White House, he will be able to extract more humiliating concessions, citing broken European promises.

Comparing the EU-US trade deal with the UK-US one signed last May, it is indisputable that Trump treated Keir Starmer with kid gloves. This had little to do with economics. Nor was he motivated by Anglophilia or his greater dislike of von der Leyen. Something larger, from his perspective, made him be kinder to Britain, even to the extent of displeasing US car manufacturers who can’t believe that it is now cheaper to import into the US a car from Britain (with no US-made parts) than a Ford or General Motors vehicle manufactured in Mexico or Canada (but with most parts made in the USA).

“It is indisputable that Trump treated Keir Starmer with kid gloves.”

What could his reason be for choosing to take such heat from his own MAGA constituency on behalf of British carmakers, many of which are not actually British-owned? Simple: by setting a blanket tariff of only 10% (including for cars), 5% below the EU equivalent, while also eliminating tariffs on steel and aluminium, he has driven such a deep wedge between London and Brussels that even the staunchest Rejoiner has surely lost the will to fight on by now. Thus Trump rejoices in the thought that he has rendered Brexit, the harbinger of his own first electoral triumph, well and truly irreversible.

Before resigning itself to its own version of the Treaty of Nanjing, the EU leadership went through the same four stages of grief as Britain’s Brexit negotiators: from “We shall retaliate if they dare squeeze us” to “We may retaliate if pushed” to “No deal is better than a bad deal” to “Any deal please, we are desperate”. Now that the recriminations over the 21st-century Treaty of Nanjing are in full swing in Brussels and every European capital, two questions demand answers. What did Europe’s leaders get wrong? And what could they have done differently to avoid this humiliating deal, while preventing even greater economic pain?
Europe’s version of the Treaty of Nanjing. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

For starters, European negotiators committed three unforced errors of judgement. Firstly, they assumed that the EU single market’s size mattered above all else. It doesn’t. If there is one magnitude that matters above all others, it is the size of Europe’s trade surplus vis-à-vis the United States. At more than $240 billion annually, it guarantees that a fully fledged US-EU trade war would injure Europe far more than America.

Secondly, as my colleague Wolfgang Munchau has explained, Europeans overestimated the leverage that the EU’s services deficit vis-à-vis the United States afforded Brussels. While Americans can live comfortably without Hermès scarves, French champagne, Kalamata olives and Porsches, Europeans cannot last an hour without Google, YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Thirdly, and crucially, they lulled themselves into the illusory belief that America’s goods and money markets would go into a spasm, forcing Trump to chicken out. For too long they clung to the expectation that tariffs would boost US consumer-price inflation and stock-market deflation to politically unacceptable levels. It didn’t happen for reasons that Brussels should have foreseen.

American consumer demand is relatively more responsive (“elastic”, in economic parlance) to price hikes than both European consumer demand and the European exporters’ supply. This is why a German-made Mercedes-Benz was always cheaper in New York than in Stuttgart and why, today, a substantial portion of the tariffs is absorbed by European exporters who pass on to American consumers only a fraction of the tariff, the result being a smaller impact on US consumer-price inflation. As for America’s stock markets, they seem enthralled by their own AI investment craze, the unconscionably large tax cuts Trump gifted them, and the mitigating $300 billion annual tariff revenues that the US Treasury rakes in. Too drunk on this “irrational exuberance”, they refuse to fret over the macroeconomic ill effects of Trump’s tariff game.

But let’s suppose for a moment that the EU’s leading lights had foreseen all this. It is a fundamental principle of negotiations that if you cannot imagine leaving the room without a deal, there is no point in negotiating — you might as well be a supplicant like von der Leyen. So what could the EU have done differently, given that it lacks China’s carefully crafted bargaining weapon of rare minerals and a broad-based array of basic goods that Americans cannot live without? Here is a suggestion.

Europe’s first task would be to plan the replacement of the $240 billion in its domestic aggregate demand due to the potential loss of its trade surplus with the US. For example, the European Council could announce an aggregate productive investment programme of €600 billion annually, to be financed by net issuance of European Investment Bank bonds. The mere hint by the European Central Bank that, if needs be, it will back these EIB bonds, would be enough to keep financing costs ultra-low. All of a sudden, Europe would no longer be reliant on America to maintain aggregate demand.

In addition, the EU should drop all US-inspired tariffs and sanctions on essential Chinese green and digital tech, with a view to striking a deal with Beijing that includes coordinated fiscal expansion measures and mutual security guarantees. It should introduce a cloud tax of 5% on all digital transactions for companies with revenues exceeding €500 million annually (independently of where they are domiciled). What’s more, the EU should repeal the draconian, anti-competitive, US-imposed “anticircumvention” intellectual property laws that make it illegal to use cheaper, generic ink cartridges in your printer; that ban farmers from repairing their John Deere tractors; that stop disabled folk from making even minor adjustments to the steering of their powered wheelchairs. And finally, the EU would be wise to phase out gradually its purchases of US-sourced fracked liquefied natural gas from its energy mix, and US-made weaponry from its militaries.

The fact that such a set of responses would never even be discussed in Brussels gives us a great deal of clarity about Europe. With all the subtlety of a wrecking ball, Donald Trump has exposed how the EU is not even capable of imagining itself a sovereign power, determined as it is to remain but a vassal in an Atlanticist empire. Unlike China in 1842, the European Union has chosen permanent humiliation freely.

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Europe’s century of humiliation

Yanis Varoufakis (UnHerd)

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Anniversary of the order for the final offensive to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialist rule #DPRK kfauk.com/anniversary-of-the-o…

Anniversary of the order for the final offensive to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialist rule - KFAUK.com

80 years ago today , on the 9th of August 1945 , President KIM IL SUNG ordered units of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army to go over to the final offensive to liberate Korea from Japanese colonial rule .
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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KCNA Commentary on Change of West’s Stand on Palestine #DPRK kfauk.com/kcna-commentary-on-c…

KCNA Commentary on Change of West's Stand on Palestine - KFAUK.com

KCNA Commentary on Change of West’s Stand on Palestine Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) — When the residents in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of extinction owing to the moves of the U.S.
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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#501c3 churches - Christian leaders no longer trumpet Truth. The sissified, womanly men standing in America’s pulpits today bear no resemblance to the courageous men of God who built this nation. It was the Black-Robed Regiment of the 18 th Century that tuned the tide in America’s battle for Independence. They did not hide behind their 501c(3) government stamp of approval and they did not bow their knee to the latest edict of some government health expert. Strong, uncompromising men of God forged this nation. Compromised weak-kneed men of God are about to surrender it. Christians are the softest target in all the world. EVERYTHING the Bible teaches is under assault and anyone who stands and fights for the TRUTH is labelled a bigot.
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Truth has become hateful and those who stand and defend it are kicked to the curb. Girls are manning up and the men are sitting down. We are a sad reflection of the Christ we claim to serve. No amount of masking, social distancing, or isolation can extend your life beyond the time the Lord has given you. We are least Christ-like when we cower in fear.
Faith and fear are mutually exclusive. Neither one can live in the presence of the other. It is impossible for faith and fear to simultaneously live in the same heart. We all must make a choice. Which one will we serve…faith or fear?

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trump's suit against UCLA:

"Under the proposal, UCLA would pay $1 billion to the federal government in multiple installments, eliminate race-based scholarships, and share admissions data with a federal resolution monitor, CNN reported. The draft deal sent to the school also calls for single-sex housing for women, equal recognition for female athletes, and an end to sex-change operations at the university's medical facilities."

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no mention race-based admissions?


Trump Admin Seeks $1 Billion Settlement From UCLA Over Campus Anti-Semitism, Civil Rights Abuses: Report

Days after revoking $339 million in federal funding from the University of California, Los Angeles, the Trump administration is demanding a $1 billion settlement from the school over campus anti-Semitism and other civil rights violations, according t…
Matthew Xiao (Washington Free Beacon)

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