Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product.

If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit?

(Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)

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☀️ Summer is here!

Share your best moments — only with those who should see them.

📸 Murena Workspace includes the Gallery feature to easily share your holiday memories:

1️⃣ Take your photo with your /e/OS device.
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Is #NATO on course for #war because of the “foreign language effect”?


By speaking a second language, we can even become more rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal with uncertainty. This phenomenon is known as the “foreign language effect” and the benefits may be an inspiration for anyone who would like to enrich their mind with the words of another tongue.


source: theguardian.com/science/2023/s…

You react more emotionally in your mother tongue because you learned this language as a child together with many emotions that you experienced as a child. You usually learn a foreign language at school where it is not about emotions and very often more about pressure. As a result, you are often much colder and more rational when making decisions in a foreign language.

In most NATO countries, English is the second language and negotiations between NATO members are conducted in English. This allows the participants to make cold rational decisions and their emotions are left out. A bad combination when it comes to establishing a peaceful world order.


#psychology #society #politics #warfare #problem #diplomacy #world #peace #science #emotion #NATO #English #language

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@Trocatintas The people of every country are the same. You get around 95% lovely people and 5% carnts. You think of your own people and you look around your friends and think that your people are great. I spent 20 years travelling the world and saw that everywhere. If you visit Iran you will meet the most friendly people you could hope to meet. I have enjoyed my trips to the US but both countries are run by carnts. Russia is a great place, I have been there 4 times and speak with Russians every day but yes, Putin is a carnt.
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We don't need solar. Nuclear is better in every way if it's managed correctly.

Batteries still suck for vehicles, and they will never be as energy-dense as gasoline. They are heavy (causing damage to roads), hard to produce (generally requires slave labor of African kids in cobalt/lithium mines to get the "affordable" price), hard to recycle, and horrible for the environment.

Most subsidies to EV/battery companies end up being fraudulently wasted anyway, and I don't think Elon is an exception, though he's not nearly as bad a case as the other Obama-era renewable companies.

We've been dealing with renewable energy corruption for like 15 years now. If it was economically viable without being propped up by the government, we'd know by now. It's time to look elsewhere.

For a couple days, our CO2 detectors in the basement have been going off, intermittently for short periods of time. I had just replaced them last fall and our furnace isn't in use so I checked the hot water heater and it was fine. I was a bit baffled since there is no other possible source. Then, this morning, I woke up a half hour earlier than usual, so I extended my work out. So I happened to be down there long enough for it to happen 2x. 1/2
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As a result, I was able to notice that both times it was right after the dehumidifier came on. The litter box, is right next to the dehumidifier and the self clumping litter make a very fine clay dust. Over time that dust built up inside the dehumidifier and when it blew it out, it caused the false alarm. I cleaned the inside of it and moved it away from the litter box. Hasn't gone off since. This is good, the noise was putting me over the edge and it didn't cost me any $.

A "dirty" #USA plan
A new report by #US think tank #RANDCorporation, one of #Pentagon main consultants, reveals the deeper strategic aspirations of the US in Ukraine.
Under the title "The Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War" the study reveals that #Washington's goal is not to support #Ukraine, but to break the relations between #Russia, #Europe and #China, strengthen #NATO and maintain US supremacy.

Imagine all #EU 🤡 morons who have been regurgitating western propaganda for 3 years.

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This matters because I remember reading one of their big reports from 2019 called "Extending Russia" that outlined pretty clearly the perceived military and power advantages for the US, with a larger war and how interrupting operation of the Nord stream pipeline was a priority in terms of keeping Europe under the thumb for years to come.

It also outlined how extending Russia on their border will temporarily free up the middle east to expand US influence. It's all in there.

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Xi stresses building unified national market, promoting marine economy's high-quality development eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_2091…

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“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ... The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”

~ Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury
Federalist No. 34, January 4, 1788

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Just do it but don't travel to US 😫


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I always find it astonishing how small-minded and sensitive politicians react, when they accuse others of #censorship and violating freedom of expression.


#freedom #meme #border #travel #fail #freespeech #justice #usa #vance #problem #government #politics #warning #Republicans #Thoughtpolice #fnord #ethics #tolerance #humor

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Warns NATO On Defense Spending | NewsX World gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…
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This my investigation on #Italy's complicity in #Israel's #genocide.After my newspaper published it,Italian MP, #StefaniaAscari, officially asked for clarifications to our govt& Minister of Defense. To the best of my knowledge,Meloni's govt has NOT replied

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Βρε την ακροδεξιά Sosoacă!!

Φτάσαμε στο ανομολόγητο σημείο οι ακροδεξιοί να κατακεραυνώνουν το ισραήλ για την γενοκτονία των Παλαιστίνιων και όλοι οι άλλοι (δεξιοί, σοσιαλδημοκράτες, πράσινοι) να χαϊδεύουν τον Νετανιάχου!!!

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Questa è la nostra inchiesta sulle complicità dell'Italia nel #genocidio di #Gaza. La parlamentare #StefaniaAscari ha presentato interrogazione parlamentare mesi e mesi fa.
Che mi risulti il ministro #GuidoCrosetto, a oggi, NON ha risposto.

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Brazil Regulator Moves to Penalize Apple over Anti-Competitive Tactics tn.ai/3345956

Le génocide est en cours en Cisjordanie occupée aussi

Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023

aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/is…

> Since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza, it has also killed 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

#stopAssaultsInWestbank
#CisjordanieOccupee
#westbank
#freePalestine

Die Petition an den Bundestag zur Wiedereinführung der Vermögenssteuer haben bereits am ersten Tag über 4.000 Menschen gezeichnet. Ab 30.000 muss sich der Bundestag damit beschäftigen.

Jetzt mal alle ran, die keine Millionen besitzen, aber intakte Infrastruktur, funktionierende Kinderbetreuung und moderne Krankenhäuser für ganz coole Sachen halten.

#taxtherich

epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit…

YouGov: More Americans think the U.S. is in a constitutional crisis than think the U.S. is a democracy
today.yougov.com/politics/arti…
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Yay #Google goes full in, claiming the #DMA would make Europeans "second class citizens" on Android 😆

And they do the same thing #Apple did yesterday: counting the number of meetings with regulators and other stakeholders in n attempt of proving good will. Still think this rather raises the question how the heck Google can still be non-compliant after all that engagement. 🤷🏼‍♂️

in reply to Jan Penfrat

Hmmm, so #Google lobbyists claim "All apps on Android can be uninstalled" but from my testing on #Android 16 with all latest updates on a #Pixel this appears to be false.

Google's own #DMA compliance report from March 2025 says this is wrong:

"Android allows to uninstall apps by: (i) fully deleting apps that are downloaded or pre-installed in the user partition; and (ii) uninstalling apps in the system partition such that they are returned into an uninstalled state."

storage.googleapis.com/transpa…

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@kholah
The number of times I've had to sneak into a pub to go pee because there are absolutely no public facilities in central London is frustrating.

Then you have the Schrödinger's facilities like Piccadilly Circus tube station toilets: sometimes they're there, sometimes they aren't but you don't know until you try to go.

>14M💔of the world's most vulnerable ppl could DIE bc of the Trump admin's dismantling of US foreign aid -a study in the Lancet JNL projected Tues.

The funding cuts at USAID🚨"risk abruptly halting --& even reversing 20 yrs of progress in #health among vulnerable populations."

The #TrumpRegime will be known as one of the worst perpetrators of #CrimesAgainstHumanity in history of the world, if Americans don't rise up & insist funding #USAID.
#Protest #HumitarianAid #USPol globalnation.inquirer.net/2830…

✂︎ AGENDA DK en juillet!

[Fermeture 14.7-18.8]

ACTIVITÉS:

⁃Mar. 1.7|18-22:00 > AG DE LUTTE #Communecolère

⁃Mar. 8.7|18-21:30 > AG OUVERTE Front antifasciste bruxellois

⁃Sam. 12.7|15-22:00 > WHEN YOU TAKE THE STREETS Projection/débat anti-guerre

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The Trumpanyahu Administration


Honestly at this point they should just get #Netanyahu his own room in the White House and a desk in the Oval Office.

The prime minister of #Israel is taking his third trip to the White House in the five months since Trump has been back in office. I have immediate blood family members who I love with all my heart and visit less often than this.

This comes as the #Trump administration revokes the #US visas of British punk rap duo Bob Vylan ahead of a US tour for chanting “Death, death to the #IDF” at a concert in the #UK. Trump’s sycophantic supporters who spent years complaining that their free speech rights were under assault appear fine with their government deciding what words Americans are allowed to hear in their own country.

This also comes as Trump actively intervenes in the Israeli judicial system to prevent Netanyahu’s corruption trial from moving forward.

The president has repeatedly taken to social media to demand that Israel abandon its corruption case against the prime minister, at one point even implying that the US could cut off arms supplies if his trial isn’t canceled.

“The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel,” Trump said. “We are not going to stand for this. We just had a Great Victory with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu at the helm — And this greatly tarnishes our Victory. LET BIBI GO, HE’S GOT A BIG JOB TO DO!”

It’s so revealing what the US government is and is not willing to threaten conditioning military supplies on, and what it’s willing to interfere in Israel’s affairs to accomplish.

Ever since the #Gaza holocaust began we’ve been hearing lines like “Israel is a sovereign country” and “Israel is a sovereign state that makes its own decisions” when reporters ask why the White House doesn’t leverage arms shipments to demand more humanitarian treatment for civilians in the Gaza Strip. But the president of the United States is willing to leverage those same arms shipments to directly interfere in Israeli legal proceedings which have nothing to do with the US government in order to get Netanyahu out of trouble. ....


==> caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-trumpa…

#US-Israel-terrorism #US-Israel #US-UK-Israel #terrorism
#genocide #Gaza #Palestine

"When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated."

~ Lisa Needham

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #corruption #fascism #immigrants
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in reply to William Lindsey

"Prior to 1933, Jews in Germany were full citizens, protected by the Constitution of 1919. That changed after Hitler came to power. A law passed in 1933 authorized the denaturalization of East European Jews who had become German citizens since World War I and Jews who had already fled from Germany. The laws were vague."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #SupremeCourt #immigrants #BirthrightCitizenship #Nazis #Jews #denaturalization
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GNU/翠星石

@BionicNigga It's already hit 2 as it's called SuperTux 2 for a reason.

Version number are completely arbitrarily chosen - what is 0.6.3-r2 for one project may be version 4 for another project.

SuperTux contains more main levels than many proprietary platforms, although a much longer story than typical is wanted and thus there are more levels to add.

The Aryan Archive Monthly Fundraiser for July 2025

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Things picked-up a little with two more donations for a total of $70, raising our daily average to about $22.88. Still far below the $81 per day we need to reach our goal of raising $2,500 this month. We need to raise roughly $280/day for the last seven days of the month to reach that goal. Although lot more than we usually get in a week, it's only about seven donation of $40 each, per day. Help us reach our goal by giving now.

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We got two more donations yesterday for a total of $40, raising our daily average again, slightly, to $23.56. Still far below the $81 per day we need to reach our goal of raising $2,500 this month. We would need to raise roughly $320/day for the last six days of the month to reach that goal. Although a lot more than we usually get in a week, it's only about eight donations of $40 each, per day. Help us reach our goal by giving now.

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in reply to Kevin Beaumont

DragonForce YARA rule from 3 months ago which still captures these:

github.com/GossiTheDog/ThreatH…

Don’t rely on security tooling to prevent though, the threat actors just turn off the tooling. I just use the YARA rule to rubber neck on victims and changes.

#threatintel #ransomware

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