"Putin's goal is to restore the USSR": Estonian Foreign Minister demands that Trump not trust the Russian leader en.topwar.ru/269730-cel-putina…

Joining #zelensky at #whitehouse #meeting w #trump on August 18 are #EU - #British #PrimeMinister #KeirStarmer, #French President #EmmanuelMacron,, #German #Chancellor #FriedrichMerz, #NATO Secretary-General #MarkRutte, #Italian Prime Minister #GiorgiaMeloni and #Finnish President #AlexanderStubbs a show of force in the wake of #warcriminal #putin meeting with trump in alaska #Ukraine #russia #war #politics #democracy substack.com/home/post/p-17121… No #peace brokered with #ukranian blood.
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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/pres…
in reply to Mitch Wagner #DEI

@Mitch Wagner If AI acquires human biases then all hope is lost because all we seem capable of is throwing bombs at each other. I don't know if anyone remembers the movie, The Forbin Project, it was about two military AI systems, one in the US named Colossus and one in Russia named Guardian, who in the interest of preventing nuclear misunderstanding were linked up, invented their own language and decided humans were the greatest threat, I hope this movie was not an accurate projection but I can sure understand how it could come to pass. So best computers not be taught to play favorites.
in reply to A.R. Moxon

I don't think cowardice in the name of pragmatism builds a broad coalition. You know what I think builds a broad coalition? Principles and resolve. www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

Winning the Middle

❤ this review of The AI Con, not least for the phrase "Slopholm Syndrome"

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THESE GODDAMNED DEMONS HAVE BEEN WORLDWIDE FOR CENTURIES

Ash·ke·naz·i (((((NAZI)))))
/ˌaSHkəˈnäzē/
noun
noun: Ashkenazi; plural noun: Ashkenazis; plural noun: Ashkenazim
a Jewish person of central or eastern European descent, traditionally speaking Yiddish. About 80 percent of Jewish people today are Ashkenazim.
Origin

modern Hebrew, from Ashkenaz, grandson of Japheth, one of the sons of Noah (Gen. 10:3), identified in medieval times with Germany.
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When Australian artificial intelligence expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her [she] was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider.

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It was a system whose privacy and security capabilities Leins had previously reviewed as part of her work in AI governance — and one she said she would not want her child’s data “anywhere near”.

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DrRyanSkelton

@hazlin every lost cat in the game is hers and she wants my authentic Jap samurai wang because I am so good at finding them (they are marked on the map so it isn't that hard but I guess not every nip has a map or sword skills to deal with all the insane assholes trying to murder random passersby (sometimes I am the murderer)) so she basically wants every cat.

Blocking US medical visas for Gaza kids “will be devastating”
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/8/17/aje-onl-qt_tareq_hailat-170825?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The admin of eskimo.com boosting and commenting on a post exemplifying modern mask-off fascism: Linking communists to Jews? Check. Denying that racism is even real? Yup. Ahistorical made-up bullshit that really should be obvious to anyone with two braincells to rub together? Totally. Spelling errors so bad that you wonder if that's just how this guy actually says it? You betcha.

Post by Biggus Dickis on minds.com: "The first act Trotsky passed after killing Christian Czar Nicholas II and taking Russia was the "Anti-Semitism Act" that made criticizing Jews punishable by death. It also deemed criticism of communism as "Anti-Semitic". This is not in your history books either, is it? Racist: A made up word by Leon Trotsky in 1927. Word was used to browbeat all dissenters of the communist ideology. Still used to this day in the west to shut down all non-conformists.
Reply to the above by Nanook at eskimo.com: Yea the Communist conflating the idea of their repeatedly failed idea of economics with prejudice against a particular race is just non-requiter.

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Comrade Ferret

@Redditslayer Mainly because he creeped on my connections. He followed a friend of mine after I asked for advice on their behalf (I didn't tag them; he specifically went on my channel and looked for the unnamed person I mentioned I had a conversation with.) And now you can see he's repeated this post for some reason.

He's a creep and a bad actor. People should know it. I'd hate for him to connect with someone else ultimately because I chose to engage with him, not realizing who he was, and then didn't post about it to make people aware of what he's doing.

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i keep thinking about using the new z fold (that samsung STILL HASN’T SHIPPED) with a kb and mouse, and the experience i want to recreate is that of an ipad with the magic keyboard, i tried one at a store and i was very impressed, you just don’t expect that a keyboard that small would be comfortable to type, but it works really well

but finding something like that for android is proving difficult… ideally, samsung would sell something like that for their tablets, but they do not

plus i then remember that the magic keyboard is fucking 300 dollars

in reply to agatha

@agatha I understand the aesthetic appeal, but I also understand the value of freedom, the latter in my view being greater than the former. I have a Chinese made phablet, brand name Feonal, from a third party I have a stand and usb keyboard. If I don't like Google's idea of what I can download from their playstore, I have the option of going directly to a website and downloading from there. It's not as pretty as an Apple tablet but it gets the job done and doesn't tell me how I can do it. It's also about 1/6th the price.
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@agatha I do most of my work from a pedestal workstation with a 34 inch monitor largely so I can use it without glasses, and for that I have a G-102, I prefer the old style hardware switches where there is real feel to the key movements, the tablet keyboard I have is chiklet type, but I've yet to find a non-membrane keyboard in that form factor and carrying around a G-102 to use with a tablet converts it from portable to lugable. If you do find something decent, I look forward to hearing about it.

US Suspends Medical Visas for Gaza Children Wounded by US Weapons After Zionist Influencer’s Outrage #Palestine qudsnen.co/us-suspends-medical…
in reply to Violet Madder

@violetmadder well it would explain why someone is attempting to place a nazi symbol on state emblem. Really not that difficult to comprehend. I would like to know the "why" behind the ask. Are they trying to do this in mockery of way the country is being run like fascist government or are they truly into some crazy stuff. If the latter what would drive an American couple to do such a thing. There would have to be a reason. It's not a normal thing to ask for.