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Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting
Joysticks: Probably Still DriftyJoy-Con joysticks use a potentiometer to read the voltage at a wiper that slides across a strip of resistive material. That material wears down over time, or plastic and dust can dirty the sensors.
Stick drift is a huge problem with other Switch models. One survey found that 40% of Switch owners had problems with their Joy-Cons drifting, and things didnโt get any better with the Lite or OLED editions. After a bunch of lawsuits, Nintendoโs president even admitted it and apologized, setting up a free repair program for customers in some parts of the world.
Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting
We opened up the new Switch 2 to see if itโs any more repairable. Is this really the best Nintendo could do?Elizabeth Chamberlain (iFixit)
โVISUAL CONFIRMATION: In this video, taken 2 days ago from a different angle, we can see that Iranian ballistic missiles are indeed actively targeting Israeli air defense batteries, in this case an Arrow-3 of David Sling launcher in Tel Avivโ
via Middle East Spectator on Telegram
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/200โฆ
#Press #Israel #Iran #War #Artow3 #AD
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โโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ/๐ฎ๐ท VISUAL CONFIRMATION: In this video, taken 2 days ago from a different angle, we can see that Iranian ballistic missiles are indeed actively targeting Israeli air defense batteries, in this case an Arrow-3 of David Sling launcher in Tel AvivโฆTelegram
iran shuts down third f35 and captures second pilot
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Iran Shoots Down Third F-35 Fighter, Captures Second Pilot: What Are the Implications?
Iranian state media on June 14 reported the shootdown of a third Israeli F-35 fifth generation fighter in the countryโs airspace, following two prior reportedMilitary Watch Magazine
Impact of the Israel-Iran conflict on the Russia-Ukraine war
As we have heard from mainstream media a few days ago, the United States has removed many of its air defense systems from Ukraine and transported them to the Middle East to be stationed in its various military bases in the region as a precaution shouโฆGilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
Police arrest anti-LGBTQ+ pastor suspected of murdering pro-equality Democratic politician
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/police-anti-lgbtq-pastor-suspected-of-murdering-pro-equality-democratic-politician/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Just more of that commensurate retribution and collateral damage those pesky Israelis seem to think is their divine right to inflict.
flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middlโฆ
Iran says most victims of Israeli attacks are civilians
Israeli strikes on Iran have hit a hospital in the city of Kermanshah. Itโs the latest attack on civilian infrastructure. Iranian officials say 224 people have been killed since Israel launched attacks of Friday.Al Jazeera
Regarding the last couple boosts: among other downsides, LLMs encourage people to take long-term risks for perceived, but not always actual, short-term gains. They bet the long-term value of their education on a chance at short-term grade inflation, or they bet the long-term security and maintainability of their software codebase on a chance at short-term productivity gains. My read is that more and more data is suggesting that these are bad bets for most people.
In that respect they're very much like gambling. The messianic fantasies some ChatGPT users have been experiencing fits this picture as well.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #ChatGPT #GPT #Gemini #GamblingAddiction #nihilism

UN warns of starvation in โhunger hotspotsโ
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/16/un-warns-of-starvation-in-hunger?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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UN warns of starvation in โhunger hotspotsโ
Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali face immediate risk as extreme hunger rises in 13 locations.Al Jazeera
"Yesterdayโs split screen was striking: millions of peaceful high-energy protestors on one side and Trumpโs listless North Korean-style self-celebration on the other. ...
On a Fox broadcast, someone was heard asking, 'Where are the people?' as the camera panned over a scanty crowd along the route. Even the president himself seemed uninterested and perhaps somnolent at times."
~ Norman Eisen
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumโฆ
Trump Is a Lousy Dictator
โNo Kingsโ Succeeds, Trumpโs Birthday Bombs: Publisherโs Roundup, 22Norman Eisen (The Contrarian)
Belarus President pays 'family visit' to China - Friends of Socialist China
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko paid his 15th visit to China, June 2-4. On the morning of June 4, President Xi Jinping met with Lukashenko at Zhongnanhai, the compound in central Beijing where the top Chinese leadership live and work.Friends of Socialist China
Funny, no one ever asked if the Nazis had the right to defend themselves.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank
They did fabricate a casus belli, in faking hostile Polish activity (the Gleiwitz incident among others) and using โthe Polish assaultโ as the justification. You know, we are compelled to invade Poland, they attaxxed us.
The rhyming of history. We must bomb schools, hospitals, journalists, humaid workers, shoot people queueing up for puny handouts as weโr starving over two million, cause you know, self defence. (Edit: sarcasm here.)
Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone
The Trump-branded T1 Phone will apparently be made in America.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
Le ministre israรฉlien des Transports interdit totalement aux Israรฉliens de voyager ร l'รฉtranger et autorise uniquement les touristes ร rentrer dans leur pays.
This remote archipelago in Papua, Indonesia, lies at the heart of Coral Triangle, home to richest marine biodiversity on Earth. Over 1,500 fish species, three-quarters of all known coral species, and countless fragile ecosystems thrive here. Indigenous Papuans rely on waters and forests for food, identity, and survival.
This ecological and cultural sanctuary is now under siege โ from the very industry that claims to be building a cleaner, greener future: nickel mining.
fairobserver.com/more/environmโฆ
Nickel Mining Ravages Raja Ampat: Indonesia to Blame, China Complicit
Youth protests in Jakarta spotlight the destruction of Raja Ampat, a biodiversity hotspot and Indigenous Papuan homeland, driven by nickel mining for EVs.Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat (Fair Observer)
"by acknowledging its intentions, Israel has forced the world to confront a moral and legal emergency that can no longer be obscured by euphemism or diplomatic evasion. Israelโs genocidal campaign in Gaza has exposed not only the brutality of its military doctrine, but also the fragility of the international legal order โ largely established in the wake of the Holocaust โ meant to prevent such atrocities."
972mag.com/israel-no-longer-hiโฆ
#Palestine #israel #gaza #warcrimes
Israel now admits its genocidal aims in Gaza. Will the world keep looking away?
Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
What the actual fuck!!!!?? Is Nethanayu threatening the indiscriminate bombardment of an entire city of more than 9 million people?
โWe are telling the citizens of Tehran: โEvacuateโ, and we are taking action.โ
theguardian.com/world/live/202โฆ
Iran and Israel trade attacks as conflict enters fourth day โ live updates
Up to eight reportedly killed and more than 90 injured in Israel as strike damages hospital in the west of IranKate Lamb (The Guardian)
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Press Statement by Director of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry - KFAUK.com
Press Statement by Director of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) โ The director of the Institute for Japan Studies under the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued the following press statement titled โโฆDermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Des familles entiรจres sont en panique. Dรฉcouvrant ร leurs dรฉpends que les mensonges sionistes les concernent aussi.
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Here is the four-step process behind the cover picture for Peertube's crowdfunding campaign, which ends in a few hours. I'm really happy that the 'Livestream from your mobile' goal was reached!
The campaign: support.joinpeertube.org/en/
๐ฆ Artwork source: peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/fโฆ
New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
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"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."
The interesting thing is: People who used search engines (to find sources etc) did not show similar issues. This is an important antidote against the belief that LLM-based tools are just like search engines. Which they are not. They are massively degrading their users' mental abilities and development. Which is why these systems have absolutely no place even _near_ any school or university.
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition.arXiv.org
If It's To Be War With Iran, Let It Be The War That Nobody Comes To
C. #Johnstone
Letโs make this clear: if the #US bombs #Iran, Iran will kill US military personnel in response. If this happens, it will not be Iranโs fault that those military personnel died. It will be Trumpโs fault. It will be the fault of everyone whose decisions led to the attack which resulted in their deaths.
And they will have died for nothing.
Anyone who dies in a war with Iran will have died for nothing.
They will not have died fighting for anyoneโs freedom. They will not have died protecting their country.
The warmongers and propagandists will try to spin their deaths in this way, but they will be lying.
The bereaved parents and partners of those who died will also try to frame their deaths in this way, but they will only be fooling themselves, because the truth will be too painful to bear.
And the truth is that everyone who dies in such a war will have died because a few powerful people made some extremely evil decisions out of their own self-interest. And for no other reason.
Do NOT join the US military. Do NOT join the militaries of any nation which normally participates in Americaโs wars. If you are in those militaries, you should get out by any means necessary, as quickly as possible. If further on down the track there is a draft for a war with Iran, you should dodge the draft. Because otherwise you will be throwing yourself into a war with one of the worldโs most formidable militaries, for nothing.
If you fight in such a war, you will be fighting for nothing.
If you die in such a war, you will die for nothing.
If you lose your limbs in such a war, you will lose your limbs for nothing.
If you suffer permanent brain damage in such a war, you will lose your mind for nothing.
Even if you manage to survive such a war with your body and brain intact, you will live the rest of your life with the knowledge that you killed human beings for nothing.
Thereโs a stanza from Carl Sandburgโs โThe People, Yesโ which has been bubbling around in my consciousness a lot lately:
The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,
โWhat are those?โ
โSoldiers.โ
โWhat are soldiers?โ
โThey are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can.โ
The girl held still and studied.
โDo you know . . . I know something?โ
โYes, what is it you know?โ
โSometime theyโll give a war and nobody will come.โ
If the US directly attacks Iranโโโand itโs looking increasingly likely that it willโโโIran can be expected to kill many US soldiers with powerful attacks on the US military bases that are within striking range of its missiles. If that happens, the US can be expected to launch a full-scale regime change war on Iran.
If thatโs to be, then let this be the war that nobody comes to. Because the alternative is to fight and die in a stupid war waged by evil people, for nothing.
caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-its-to-โฆ
If It's To Be War With Iran, Let It Be The War That Nobody Comes To
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlinโs Newsletter)


Hey, I did it for the entertainment value:
SRK is going to be sperging out for the rest of the month for all to see.
No one outside of nas knows who Adam is, he'd never beat csb.
The headline is awful and misleading, but as usual Nesrine Malik nails it.
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In Gaza, Israel destroyed its reputation. Attacking Iran is a belated and dangerous attempt to restore it
Losing credibility Netanyahu has acted to diminish Iran while he still can, and in doing so regain support from his allies, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
libertytree.ca/quotes/Bill.Ayeโฆ
"The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war."
-- Bill Ayers
(1944- ) founder of the self-described communist revolutionary group, the Weather Underground, professor of education at University of Illinois at Chicago, personal friend and financial supporter of Barrack Hussein Obama
Quotation by Bill Ayers
"The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war." ~ Bill AyersLibertyQuotes
Putin states that global liberalism has turned into totalitarianism
Putin states that global liberalism has turned into totalitarianism Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look
Link: quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-โฆ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. | Quanta Magazine
A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical.George Musser (Quanta Magazine)
libertytree.ca/quotes/Francoisโฆ
โThe spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.โ
~ Francois Pierre Guizot
(1787-1874) Premier of France
Speech, 29 December 1930
Quotation by Francois Pierre Guizot
"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty." ~ Francois Pierre GuizotLibertyQuotes
@NotImpressed@mas.to @palestine@a.gup.pe I encourage ANYBODY that has an open mind to watch #ItchyBoots' (#NoralySchoemaker) travels through #Iran. She's been to Iran twice over the past 6 years traveling as a single woman through the Middle East on her motorbike. Wake up people. We. Are. Being. Fed. A. Lie. We are being actively #gaslit by our Governments! youtube.com/channel/UCEIs9nkveโฆ youtube.com/@ItchyBoots/searchโฆ @israel@a.gup.pe @gaza@a.gup.pe @iran@a.gup.pe
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Communist Rules for Revolution: 1. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness. 2. By specious argument cause the breakdown of old moral virtues; honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. 3. Encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders. 4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantlyโฆ
Quotation by Communist Rules for Revolution
"Communist Rules for Revolution..." ~ Communist Rules for RevolutionLibertyQuotes
Ansarallah Fires Missile at Israel amid Coordinated Attack with Iran - Palestine Chronicle
The Ansarallah movement in Yemen fired a missile toward Israel on Saturday, coinciding with a broader Iranian missile and drone attack.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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EU hypocrisy fuelling suffering in Gaza | MSF
European leaders must act decisively to expedite a ceasefire and humanitarian aid for Gaza.Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres (MSF) International
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Israeli strikes kill 244, injure 1,277 in Iran: health ministry
Israeli strikes kill 244, injure 1,277 in Iran: health ministry -english.news.cn
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Developing: MN Authorities Nail Alleged Political Assassin
He was arrested on state murder and attempted murder charges. The Trump administration is considering charges, as well.V. Saxena (The Western Journal)
Russiaโs BRICS Sherpa Shared Some Insight Into The Group
Sergey Ryabkov sought to clarify Russiaโs approach towards BRICS, which is still grossly misunderstood by the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community alike.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
Ask any pot grower and they could have told you the same
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitieโฆ
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds - NASA
From a quarter to half of Earthโs vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbonKarl B. Hille (NASA)
::Breaks My Heart::
I was so young when I had my babies. I knew only enough to keep them diapered and fed and loved. I knew there was something deeper still in the act of loving them, but I didnโt know how to get therโฆCece Writes
I think you do the best you can if you are legitimately trying.
And kids need to hear "I'm sorry" from their parents once in awhile, even when younger.
It'll help them when they're older with their kids, they'll understand your frustrations, sacrifices and efforts.
@Lori
Yes. I have always had an "I'm sorry" policy with my kids.
It keeps the communication lines clear and open. ๐
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Research Reveals That Child Poverty in Argentina Reached a Record in 2024 - teleSUR English
In the context of President Javier Mileiโs neoliberal measures, child poverty in Argentina reached its highest level since the 2001-2002 crisis, with a peakteleSURenglish
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