"It just increasingly affirms your bullshit and blows smoke up your ass so that it can get you f*cking hooked on wanting to engage with it"

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OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises
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Speaking for myself I want a very progressive tax rate. More graduations on the tax table reaching as high as 99%. And I want that money to go into public works and welfare.
I want this not only for humane reasons. bot more importantly I want it in order to preserve democracy! In other words, I would want those tax rates even if the collected taxes were not used for anything!

The Netherlands is about to introduce a new law that makes helping supposedly illegal migrants/refugees a criminal offence. So yes. The Netherlands is reintroducing the Nazi law that made hiding Anne Frank illegal. As a Dutchie I am ashamed, angry and powerless (as I live in Germany). Geert Wilders, and every single Dutchie who voted for his PVV, may you burn in hell.

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SHAME on these California Republican Congressmembers who voted yes on the #MAGAmurderBudget today

Don't EVER let them forget this community betrayal

#USpol #California

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Microsoft Lays Off “Hundreds” Of Gaming Division Employees, Cancels Multiple Projects Including ‘Perfect Dark’ And ‘Everwild’

"Microsoft previously cut six-thousand jobs in May this year, hitting product and engineering-focused positions. Employees in the gaming division had been expecting layoffs ever since. Some outlets and social media posts have claimed Microsoft is attempting to re-open these positions later, and offer them to H-1B workers for cheaper pay.

Another case is the Perfect Dark reboot, which was already had troubled development and little progress. Not only is it cancelled, but one of its development studios, The Initiative, has shut down."

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:keku: hope Fable gets canceled too

🇩🇪 Germany is considering the purchase of up to 2,500 GTK Boxer armored vehicles and 1,000 Leopard 2 tanks, following NATO’s request for Berlin to form seven new combat brigades over the next decade amid growing threats from Russia, Bloomberg reports.

The estimated cost of the program could reach €25 billion, making it one of the largest defense contracts in modern German history

#ParkrosePermaculrure

🚨🚨#ALERT 🚨🚨 #FIGHTBACK

#US Deports son of US soldier - born on US base in #Germany - to #Jamaica. - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCb9g3y6… o

#RacistUSA #FascistUSA

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USA has been a shithole country for a LONG time. This is fucking ghastly. Now the killings will begin in earnest. I'll be quite surprised if I see another spring on this planet.

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Houthi: Iran's might forced Israel to halt aggression, set new equation presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/03/7…

I am proud of myself.

Usually when I go through a crisis for a few months, all I do is think about #drugs and have to deny the urge and just move on.

The last few months I never really thought about it at all unless it was right in front of my face.

Two and a half years ago I didn't have hope at all that would ever be the case.

I am free.

#writing #mentalhealth #randomthoughts

“Anti-fascism today must also be anti-imperialist”: Conference in Berlin Calls for Resistance ipa-aip.org/europe/anti-fascis…

europesays.com/uk/238307/ Most Economically Stable Countries In The World: UAE Tops, US Not In Top 10; Check India’s Rank | News #Business #Economy #India #Japan #MostStableEconomies #SaudiArabia #Switzerland #UAE #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldsStableEconomies

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...and the original:

Heifetz made it his iconic encore piece. Although I feel this recording isn't his best, was made a bit late in his career, and he maybe was a bit jaded about doing it yet again, you can still appreciate the mastery. When I was a kid I would lie under my mother's piano listening to Heifetz playing the Bach unaccompanied stuff on the old LP.

Listen about 25 seconds in to hear him play a melody line sounding as though that were the only thing he was playing despite all the stuff going on around it. Listen for variety of volume and tonal quality in different sections. IMO he distinguishes the effects better than anyone else before or since.

Heifetz' playing was unique in many ways. I have read interviews with famous violinists who said that when listening to recordings of other top violinists playing they were not really sure who it was but with Heifetz there was never any mistake.

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Here is a more contemporary and perhaps more accessible version by the wonderful Hilary Hahn. Where Heifetz frequently played Bach at what most performers would consider high speed, Hahn's rendition is probably slower than average.

If you have 16:47 available do yourself a favor. It'll grow in you as it goes.

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Hilary playing in the background as I write this and I have tears in my eyes. Say what? With Bach?

Und der Witz ist ja, dass Grüne und SPD Israel schon derart skrupellos gedeckt haben, unter Bruch sowohl nationaler Gesetze als auch Völkerrecht, dass Deutschland unter ihrer Führung buchstäblich dafür vor Gericht steht.

Aber diesen Fanatikern ist es nie genug. Das war noch so sehr zu wenig Enthusiasmus für tote palästinensische Babys, dass er sie abstrafen und Merz wählen "musste". Israelunterstützung 2025 ist eine lupenreine Sekte. bird.makeup/users/keremschambe…


Nächster Take: in meiner Verzweiflung habe ich dann AfD gewählt. bird.makeup/@xileffff/19408316…

@xileffff@bird.makeup:

Es ist nicht leicht, unter Linken zu Israel zu stehen. Mein Freundeskreis ist geschrumpft, ich meide Diskussionen über Nahost. In meiner Verzweiflung habe ich sogar Friedrich Merz gewählt.
Bekenntnisse eines Israel-Verstehers

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Italy: Anti-Anarchist Police Operation in Massarosa


At dawn on Wednesday, June 25 in Massarosa (in the province of Lucca), there was a search at the home of an anarchist, in connection with the investigation carried out by the Bologna prosecutor’s office for the burning of two railway police cars, which took place in Rimini on April 20, 2023 (see here). The action was carried out in solidarity with Chilean anarchists Monica and Francisco, who were soon to be tried for several bombings in Santiago, Chile, and with Alfredo Cospito, who had just ended a six-month hunger strike.

The charges are articles 423 (arson), 270 bis para. 1 (subversive association with the purpose of terrorism), 110 (participation in a crime or misdemeanor) and 635 (damage). Fifteen anarchists, from different regions of Italy, are under investigation. The next day, the police showed up, still at dawn, at the home of another anarchist for a search in connection with some tags that had appeared in the Massa court during one of the hearings of the Scripta Scelera trial under art. 639 of the Penal Code (slight damage and defilement).

Source: secoursrouge.org/italie-operat…

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#anarchist #europe #italy #repression

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