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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on โSunday Morning Futuresโ with Maria Bartiromo to discuss sanctuary cities and illegal immigration.
ย ย ย ย ย ย Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on โSunday Morning Futuresโ with Maria Bartiromo to discuss sanctuary cities and illegal immigration.
Ever since his first administration, US President Donald J. Trump has made a point to pressure the European powers to dramatically increase their defense spending.
In a jaw-dropping interview on Fox Newsโs Sunday Morning Futures, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) laid out a stunning prediction: if evidence proves Joe Biden had no knowledge of the executive orders being signed in his name via autopen, they could be completely invalidated in court.
ย ย ย ย ย ย In a jaw-dropping interview on Fox Newsโs Sunday Morning Futures, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) laid out a stunning prediction: if evidence proves Joe Biden had no knowledge of the executive orders being signed in his name viaโฆ
ย ย ย ย ย ย As reported earlier โ A deranged man screaming anti-Jewish epithets attacked Jewish families, including children, in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday.
Forty-nine percent of registered U.S. voters are opposed to federal funding being cut from the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, according to a new survey conducted by the Napolitan Institute.
Blue states have not fared well in federal court, from the Supreme Court to district judges, when they directly regulate the speech of pro-life pregnancy centers on the argument they're trying to stop misinformation and protecting abortion-seeking women from being duped.
Green Mountain State lawmakers eliminate "limited-services pregnancy centers" from deceptive advertising law after federal judge largely sided with pro-lifers a year ago. Ruling upholding abortion referral mandate is "paradoxical."
A conversation about platforms bringing people together, respect for diversity (also of opinion and culture) and enshittified walled gardens, between @ke5arin@mastodon.social and @andypiper@macaw.social with obligatory mention of @pluralistic@mamot.fr. 40 minutes well spent.
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The internet inherently creates information silos, because of the nature of how it works.
Cable TV, Newspapers, the Radio, etc. were all broad-cast networks, as in one person talks and that gets cast broadly to all listeners on the network.
Channels provided some level of user choice in what they listened to, but not very much. At most they still picked between only a handful of different options.
The internet fundamentally isn't a broadcast network though, it's a messaging network. When you publish a video on YouTube it isn't broad cast to every one with an internet channel, instead, the users goes out and looks for the information they want and requests and YouTube sends it back to them.
This inherently creates filter bubbles because the information you receive is based on your own existing preferences and requests, which creates a feedback loop the reinforces your opinions.
What you wrote is probably true, but it's not the end of the story. Ownership model of corporate social media creates incentives to polarize and divide people. It drives engagement and creates moats. Also, billionaire owners of those media have their own political goals, and are happy to use the platforms they own to advance them.
Undoubtedly, but we still chose to come to Lemmy because we visited it and saw a bunch of people that we mostly agreed with on it.
Think about how many Lemmy users block hexbear or lemmy.ml, or would spit in disgust when they visit gab or voat or something.
Users prune those sources because they aren't interested in hearing wildly toxic fringe ideas (or flat out being propagandized to), but it's still fundamentally up to you as a user to decide what you consider rationale and worthy of discussion, and then going forward the content you see on here is only what's shared by very like minded individuals.
Don't get me wrong, I think that Reddit and other corporate owned social media, intentionally promotes rage bait constantly, both in comments and posts, and that drives people to go even more nuts and become more polarized compared to a non-engagement driven algorithm like Lemmy's, but even open and decentralized social media platforms create filter bubbles and information silos.
The Fediverse is great, but perhaps just because of the lack of algorithms and other content-promotion methods I have found it a bit harder to break out of my 'silos' in some places. Lemmy isn't too bad for this, but I've really struggled to find other people to follow and engage with on Mastodon as somebody on a small local instance. Little things like the Mastodon phone app not listing followers from other instances contributes to this.
A man yelled "Free Palestine" as he used a makeshift flamethrower Sunday to attack participants in Boulder, Colo., holding a vigil for Israeli hostages in Gaza, injuring six in what the FBI called a targeted terror attack.
A sprawling FBI investigation into possible criminal coverups during the COVID-19 pandemic is zeroing in on three separate plots involving the origins of the virus; the hiding and destruction of federal records; and the manipulation of the vaccine approval process and subsequent side effects.
What were and weren't told: The FBI seeks answers about coverups regarding the true origin of COVID and other aspects of the way the pandemic was handled.
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Vladimir Dzhabarov, a member of the Russian Federation Council, accuses France, the UK, and Kiev of trying to manipulate former US President Donald Trump into supporting Ukraine
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!" ~ Ronald Reagan
You canโt preach inclusion while exiling 80% of the country for thoughtcrimes. Thatโs not progress. Thatโs just a nicer uniform for the same old purge.
โAlthough we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know that government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last, has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed -- first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.โ
~ Gerry Spence Lawyer and author From Freedom To Slavery
"Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know that government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last, has become the people's master.
Training and methodological meeting with heads of CSTO basic training and research organizations on coordinating joint training of military personnel and scientific work en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odkโฆ
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
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Mozilla has undeniably been an important influence on FOSS software. One thing that is often leveled against Mozilla is that they allegedly argued for internet censorship. In an infamous post, they said we needed more than de-platforming, as a bunch of people were kicked off popular social media sites for saying things that went against the terms of service.
Mozilla also has some other sticking points, notably their over reliance on Google's funding, and the fact that their executives are paid quite a lot of money for a non profit that is bleeding users and market share, at least in the browser space.
Another project that you're probably already aware of, is Snap, Ubuntu's solution for containerized apps. The main criticism levelled against snaps is its proprietary, centralized store.
Appimages are a relatively popular app distribution format, but all AppImages do rely on libfuse 2, which is deprecated and obsolete, and has been for a long while: its last version was in 2019, meaning it's been left for 5 years without any security update at all.
Other potential concerns about the AppImage projects are the fact that they're not sandboxed at all by default. There have also been some pretty harsh comments from one of AppImage's lead against apps that refuse to invest time to support the AppImage format.
Another project that has seen a fair few criticisms over the years is Manjaro. They've been known to package unstable versions of applications that weren't published as stable. Manjaro also has a pretty bad track record with security, failing to renew their certificates time and again.
Add to that the fact they partnered with a proprietary office suite and shipped it as the default, or the company behind Manjaro dropping their CFO when he refused to approve an expense for a new laptop, or their tool, Pamac, DDoSing the AUR by making too many requests, and you have a few issues that definitely tarnished the distro's reputation.
Another problematic issue we see more and more often is open source projects switching licenses to restrict what people can do, and open source projects being taken over entirely by certain companies.
A recent example is Red Hat, tacking on some license agreement to get access to the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, meaning that if you redistribute the source code you get access to as a customer, you won't be able to be a Red hat customer anymore.
Another example is Canonical, taking ownership of the LXD project, a project they had started, then gave to the Linux Containers Project, and then grabbed back again. They also removed maintainers that didn't work for Canonical but had been contributing to the project for a while.
Yet another example is Redis, moving to a source available license to try and stop giant cloud providers like AWS from making money off of Redis, but also limiting other user's rights in the process.
Finally, we have Hyprland.What some people have against Hyprland is mostly against the lead developer, not the project itself. He's been characterized as toxic, and the general community is often perceived as expressing hateful views in the form of what they call jokes. Stuff like endorsement of eugenics, calls for violence, or transphobia. The founder of Hyprland was recently banned from the Free Desktop.org community for this problematic behaviour, which went against the FDO's code of conduct. Hyprland's founder then basically doxxed the FDO member who banned him.
This sounds like it is about the flatpak runtimes. One possible reason for that failing is a lack of disk space (especially on 16GB PinePhone eMMC installs). Could this be (part of) the issue?
I suggest using the terminal and running `sudo flatpak update` and see if that gives you more info.
After seeing the latest oh so stupid propaganda bit by the BBC regarding North Korea had to revisit this great article from Red Sails.
And it remains true that the people who will read the article are likely not going to be those who benefit from the status quo and who would most need to read it. Which is most people in the West.
But sharing it anyway, because I agree that it is complicity, not brainwashing. Example: Silence on Gaza, outrage on China.
Iโve become very skeptical of the concept of โbrainwashing.โ Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner.
i do get some sick satisfaction from seeing video of fat immigrants getting arrested.
one thing i noticed about grocery stores- it's full of white people on sunday, because they have jobs. during the week, it's full of immigrants who don't have jobs and they're spending their free SNAP benefits.
every last one needs to get the hell out. i don't care how much they fake cry about it on video. good bye.
CAIR Condemns Israelโs โBarbaricโ Murder of Red Cross Workers, Slaughter of 36 โ Including 18 Children โ at School Shelter just-international.org/articleโฆ
Progressive elites talk about saving the world like itโs a video game. They donโt realize the rest of us are just trying to survive the patch updates they keep forcing without asking.
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A study from 2018 reported the detection of fluorescent nanoparticles in Coke and Pepsi beverages.
This information is listed on the official National Institutes of Health (NIH) government website.
Not to mention, last year Microsoft signed a $1.1 billion, five-year deal with Coca-Cola to do God knows what...
You can't even make this up anymore.
They always have to tell you in plain sight.
It's part of their rulebook.
"Foodborne nanoparticles (NPs) have drawn great attention due to human health concerns. This study reports the detection of the presence of fluorescent NPs, about 5 nm, in two of the most popular beverages, Coca-Cola (Coke) and Pepsi-Cola (Pepsi). The NPs contain H, C and O, three elements with a tunable emission and with a quantum yield of 3.3 and 4.3% for Coke and Pepsi, respectively. The presence of sp3-hybridized carbon atoms of alcohols and ethers bonds was confirmed by NMR analysis. The NPs can be taken up by living cells and accumulate within cell membrane and cytoplasm. Evaluation of the acute toxicity of the NPs revealed that the BALB/c mice appeared healthy after administration of a single dose of 2 g kg-1 body weight. Analysis of glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), urea and creatinine showed that there were statistically, but not biologically, significant differences in some of these biochemical parameters between the test and control groups. No obvious organ damage or apparent histopathological abnormality was observed in the tested mice. The biodistribution study in major organs indicated that the NPs were easily accumulated in the digestive tract, and they were able to cross the blood-brain barrier and dispersed in the brain. In vitro digestion of the NPs showed a sichgnificant fluorescence quenching of the NPs. This work represents the first report of foodborne fluorescent NPs present in Coke and Pepsi, and provides valuable insights into physicochemical properties of these NPs and their toxicity characteristics both in vitro and in vivo.โ
Kevin Beaumont
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