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These controllers were all working on SteamOS before as far as I know, so I'm interested to see what this changes. My understanding is that previously their controllers just show up as generic xbox controllers, and now they will be properly recognized. We'll see if this has any other benefits like custom bindings for back buttons and things like that.
CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA! The June Border Statistics are in and, once again, they are the LOWEST RECORDED NUMBERS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY. The U.S. Border Patrol reported ZERO releases of Illegal Aliens into the Country. In addition, Customs and Border Protection only had 25,243 “Nationwide Encounters” throughout the entire month, which is absolutely STAGGERING, considering the Biden Administration was “encountering” tens of thousands of people every single DAY. America’s Borders are Safe and Secure, and the entire World knows it. All we need to do is keep it this way, which is exactly why Republicans need to pass “THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL.” We still have Radical Left Judges trying to open the Border, and defy the Supreme Court, which is why Republicans must be smart, strong, and never let these Crazed Judges turn us into a Third World Country. The Men and Women of Border Patrol, ICE, and CBP are doing an amazing job but, they need more help and, they are counting on Republicans to, GET IT DONE!
Picked some cherry tomatoes from the community garden.
Thinking of what Thich Nhat Hahn said about a flower. You can see the sunlight, the soil, the cloud, the insects - all within this cherry tomato. You can see the people and the librarians that maintain the seed library from which the seeds came from and the harvested seeds will go back to. You can see the folks that will eat it and live another day. You can see the people that those folks can help by their actions after being fueled by these tomatoes.
It's a small thing. And empty thing. A thing able to be filled.
Very rich of @KathyHochul to criticize Republicans for stopping taxpayer funded healthcare for illegals when her corrupt CDPAP overhaul just stripped Medicaid home healthcare from 100,000 New Yorkers in a rigged bidding process.
Hochul even had elderly and disabled people arrested for demanding answers!
She was confronted by a constituent and totally ignored concerns.
Democrats always accuse you of what they themselves are doing.
Saw the last gig on @pluralistic ‘s tour tonight. His incredible pun was that he’s now Touring Complete. I strive to come up with this sort of shit myself one day.
My former cat Lilly sits on the couch, watching as the iron flakes take on various forms as they rain down onto the magnet and she gently taps the glass while yhe tilts her head and then her body.
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Thursday, July 10, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. First is an overview news conference at 12 p.m. EDT with mission leadership discussing final launch and mission preparations on the agency’s […]
10:29 Tulkarm Camp Committee Head: The enemy's decision to demolish 104 residential buildings will leave about 400 families homeless english.masirahtv.net/news/362…
Researchers at UT Arlington have discovered a key enzyme, #IDO1, that when blocked, helps #immune cells regain their ability to properly process #cholesterol—something that breaks down during #inflammation. This breakthrough could offer a powerful new way to fight #heartdisease, #diabetes, #cancer, and more.
Researchers at UT Arlington have discovered a key enzyme, IDO1, that when blocked, helps immune cells regain their ability to properly process cholesterol—something that breaks down during inflammation.
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIn an effort to fulfill the Trump administration's daily immigration arrest "quotas," federal age...
(as personally meaningful as it was for me to experience the Cubs winning the 2016 world series) I absolutely hate this fucking timeline, must keep trusting (& working for) it being the last gasp of kyriarchy before we usher in the next chapter of better things, may it come speedily and in our days.
(the Cubs thing was a joke, sort of, don't say you don't also secretly believe it opened the gate to Hellmouth) There's a quote many of us know from Ursula K. Le Guin (about the divine right of kings) that feels really apt to me these days. I'll share it below in a sec.
I will note that what people do not always know is that she gave that speech accepting The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And that it was part of a larger callout to the book industry. This matters. I'm going to make a point in a second.
So, the quote-- Think about where we are in history. “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
The divine right of kings ended because human beings did things. In a bunch of places. Because things got so bad that that's what had to happen. How that happened, how that change happened, went differently in different places. There's not one answer.
(OK,a lot of monarchies ended via bloody revolution.) But we also have data on some things now that might be useful. Just saying: What is now is not what must be. And we can be the people that bring that into being. I don't know what the next chapter is, but we could be the ones to make it up.
We could be the people to bring into being the next chapter of whatever happens, which could be better than the one in which we are currently. This is possible. If we organize and bring it into being. I believe this. Do you? Another world is possible.
In any case, back to the great Ms. Le Guin. It's 2014. She was accepting a lifetime achievement award from one of the major organizations-- this was a bfd -- & she used it to call out the industry, to remind them that the work was about art, not profit.
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, & imagine grounds for hope." She went AT them for focusing on the bottom line.
You can read the whole thing here. ❤️🔥 NOTE: at a moment when everyone was comfortable, when she could have said thank you and had everyone feel great about her, she said the hard thing. She was willing to be unpopular, to be the buzzkill, to tell them that THEY, THE CAPITALISTS, COULD BE TOPPLED--
Because she knew, as Heschel would put it, that the "hour called for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. Because sometimes you gotta do the hard thing even if it's gonna make you unpopular, if people are gonna get mad at you, if you're gonna lose some clout or favors or whatever as a result.
Because it matters what we say, how we spend our opportunities, what stands we take. Because of that quote--how many times have you heard it repeated? How many of us can envision something on the other side of now as a result? Because of those words, that speech? That stand?
And more to the point: How many people actually heard her, for real, that night? If it was one, she did her job. If one publishing industry professional with any ounce of influence, current or future, *heard* her in that room? It was worth it for that. And even if not? Better she said it, no?
We must be brave. Those of us with any anything to spend, we gotta spend it NOW. The hour is now. How can we leverage our time, our talents, our access, opportunities, skills? What's your role in meeting this moment? Because while everyone's answer will be different, nobody's can be "nothing."
This isn't -- can you hear the people sing? OK. A lot of people are going to suffer now. A lot of people are going to die because Trump & these goons are opening literal concentration camps now, pulling healthcare, actively persecuting. Never again is now.
And I'm not saying I think I personally am gonna see what's on the other side or what, right? None of us know what is to come or when or anything. But what I'm saying is that I think we're at that time when history is pushing against us and we, us, now, can be the ones to push back.
I don't know what that looks like, exactly, except that the same things are always true-- relationships are the core unite of changemaking, as @zteutsch.bsky.social puts it. grassroots organizing is always the way. We gotta build coalitions, build movements, build things that grow and last.
This "we're all gonna come out that one time to that march that one day" is not going to free us from this. But that many people, engaged in sustained discipline of some sort over time? That many people with the bravery of Ms. Ursula Le Guin? And the more people, the less brave you have to be.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced Wednesday that a new CIA report reveals former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced Wednesday that a new CIA report reveals former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 befo…
Why is Redis just the absolute best glue between processes? Surely Linux/Unix has something just as good? But in my experience, there's literally nothing better for communicating between processes.
Don't get me wrong, I love Redis, but I just wonder why the best solution ended up being a memory based database and not something in the operating system itself.
If you ever are talking to a cop and they start fidgeting / clasping their hands like this guy is on the bodycam, tread very carefully. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnWsYxb…
On August 9th, 2024, officers were dispatched to Target in response to an ongoing shoplifting incident. The loss prevention officer informed them that a woma...
NASA has awarded a contract to MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC of Houston to provide simulation and advanced software services to the agency. The Simulation and Advanced Software Services II (SASS II) contract includes services from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2030, with a maximum potential value not to exceed $150 million. The […]
The GPD MicroPC 2 is taking orders now, aiming to be the ultimate gadget for network administrators who need Ethernet, RS-232, and Ethernet support on the go. This could be a fun impulse buy if you can afford it.
So fucking funny. On my way home from @pluralistic book signing do and the train has no staff, because it’s been enshittified, the burger I just eat, had to be ordered through a terminal, because ordering a fucking burger is now enshittified. Seriously just the worst timeline.
A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314.6 million to Android smartphone users in the state after finding the company liable for collecting data from idle devices without permission.
Over 80% of farmers are concerned about the impact of climate change on their ability to make a living, as more than four fifths say extreme weather has hit their productivity
who the fuck even does reaction videos anymore? where the fuck were they in the mid 2010s when every goddamn talentless nigger on youtube was becoming a reaction channel
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIn an effort to fulfill the Trump administration's daily immigration arrest "quotas," federal age...
When Microsoft locked an ICC prosecutor out of their email, it proved just how easily U.S. power can reach across borders and into the heart of global justice, writes Paul Budde.
THE RECENT INCIDENT involving Microsoft and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should send a chill down the spine of every democratic nation. Following a sanctions order from White House, Microsoft locked ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan out of his enterprise-level Office 365 account. That account wasn’t personal — it was part of the ICC’s institutional infrastructure.
And just like that, an American tech giant disabled access to a key international legal actor.
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What’s worse is the normalisation of it all. We scroll past headlines like “Microsoft cuts #ICC access” and carry on with our day. The sociologist Alexei Yurchak coined a term for this: hypernormalisation — the idea that everyone knows the system is broken, but we all pretend things are normal because no one can imagine how to change them..."
When Microsoft locked an ICC prosecutor out of their email, it proved just how easily U.S. power can reach across borders and into the heart of global justice.
Sorry aber: diesen McDoof-Dreck braucht Mensch nicht, das sind keine Lebensmittel sondern kapitalistischer Blödsinn. Macht krank und verschwendet Ressourcen. Zerstört die Natur, quält Tiere, beutet Menschen aus, macht die Kunden krank - wie blöd sind wir eigentlich?
I've been keeping up on updates but I don't see much difference. Every once in a while I check up on the golang based competition to see if it's production ready.
Bill Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, called on Congress to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, alleging that his recent testimony to the Senate about the central bank’s planned renovations to its headquarters was “de…
I refuse to take seriously the idea that even one single person sincerely feels threatened by “death to the IDF”. You don’t. You do not. You’re pretending. You’re just victim-LARPing again.
Russian base metals sales to China surged in the first five months of 2025, underscoring its economic dependence on its Asian neighbor even as the country seeks to diversify trade.
By Pepe Escobar. The SCO can do what NATO cannot: defuse hostilities by ensuring "indivisible security" for its Eurasian member states and throughout the multipolar world.
July 2, 1863, was Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg. The day saw 150,000 troops locked in combat across a four-mile front. From Little Round Top to Culp’s Hill, the clashes on day 2 of the battle—Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, and Cemetery Hill—saw over 20,000 casualties. Lee’s Confederates sought to break Meade’s fishhook line, while the Union fought to hold the high ground, pushing both armies to the brink.
At dawn on July 2, 1863, Meade’s 90,000-strong Union Army fortified Cemetery Hill, Culp’s Hill, and Cemetery Ridge, forming a defensive fishhook. Reinforced by II, V, and XII Corps, Meade prepared to repel Lee’s next strike. Across the field, Lee’s 70,000 Confederates held Seminary Ridge and Gettysburg, with Longstreet’s and Hill’s corps west, Ewell’s north. Lee planned a double assault: Longstreet to hit the Union left, Ewell the right, aiming to collapse Meade’s line.
Delays in Confederate positioning, especially Longstreet’s march, postponed attacks until afternoon, setting up a ferocious clash. Around 4:00 PM, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet’s First Corps launched Lee’s main attack on the Union left. Hood’s division, over 7,000 men, targeted III Corps under Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles, who had advanced to a vulnerable salient at the Peach Orchard, leaving Devil’s Den exposed.
Hood’s brigades—Law’s Alabamians and Robertson’s Texans—stormed Devil’s Den, clashing with Birney’s division in a brutal fight among massive boulders. Artillery roared, while sharpshooters picked off officers. The Confederate push aimed to outflank the Union line, threatening Little Round Top and the entire Union position. By 4:30 PM, the Wheatfield, a 20-acre clearing south of the Peach Orchard, became a slaughterhouse.
Hood’s and McLaws’ Confederate brigades, including Anderson’s and Semmes’, collided with Union III Corps’ reinforcements, like de Trobriand’s brigade. Around 5:00 PM, Barnes’ V Corps division and Caldwell’s II Corps division joined the fight, turning the field into a seesaw of charges and countercharges. Regiments like the 17th Maine and 1st Minnesota fought ferociously, but Confederate pressure surged.
By 6:30 PM, after six major assaults, the Confederates held the blood-soaked Wheatfield.
At the peach orchard along the Emmitsburg Road, McLaws’ Confederate division targeted Sickles’ III Corps. Barksdale’s Mississippians and Kershaw’s South Carolinians charged, shattering Graham’s brigade with rifle volleys and cannon fire. By 6:00 PM, Hill’s corps, including Anderson’s division, joined, overwhelming Humphreys’ Union line.
Sickles’ corps crumbled, with Sickles wounded and his men retreating toward Cemetery Ridge. The collapse exposed the Union center, but Confederate momentum slowed, unable to exploit the breach fully as dusk approached.
As Devil’s Den fell, Hood’s Confederates eyed Little Round Top, which was key to the Union left. Col. Strong Vincent’s brigade, including Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain’s 20th Maine, raced to hold the hill.
Law’s Alabamians and Robertson’s Texans were met with fierce fire from the Union forces as they charged repeatedly. The 20th Maine, at the line’s end, repelled assaults, with Chamberlain’s bayonet charge breaking the Confederate push. Reinforced by Weed’s brigade, the Union held Little Round Top by dusk, saving Meade’s flank but losing Vincent and in their desperate stand.
As evening arrived, Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell’s Second Corps struck the Union right. Johnson’s division attacked Culp’s Hill, clashing with XII Corps under Greene. The entrenched Union troops repelled Confederate charges. Simultaneously, Early’s brigades, Hays’ and Avery’s, hit Cemetery Hill, briefly seizing XI Corps’ guns. Hancock’s II Corps counterattacked, driving the Confederates back by 9:00 PM. The Union right held firm, thwarting Lee’s plan to collapse Meade’s line.
The day saw over 20,000 casualties—roughly 10,000 per side. Union resilience, from Chamberlain’s stand to Greene’s defense, preserved Meade’s line. Lee’s near-successes emboldened him, while Meade’s army, battered but intact, braced for another Confederate onslaught the next day. July 2, was Gettysburg’s bloodiest day, with savage fighting in the Wheatfield, Devil’s Den, Peach Orchard, Little Round Top, and Culp’s Hill.
Lee’s plan to crush Meade’s flanks failed against heroic stands by the Union forces, though the Confederates came agonizingly close to victory. Both armies suffered crippling losses, yet neither yielded. As night fell, Meade fortified his fishhook, anticipating Lee’s next move. Lee, believing the Union center vulnerable, planned a massive assault for July 3 as the war’s turning point loomed, setting up Gettysburg’s final day.
If you mean the classic black ball with a wick, they were pretty much hollow cannonballs filled with gunpowder and a wick. You'd light the wick, run, and the gunpowder would explode, flinging shards of cannonball everywhere.
Though in Zelda bombs are a plant. They just grow like that. There are also enemies that are bombs, and magic exists to create bombs. All of which have been used as canon explanations for the bombs in the games.
And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f6s2m…
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