July Fourth holiday marked by shootings in several cities and a fireworks-related death
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Flash floods like the one that swept through Texas are the nation's top storm-related killer
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Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
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Brave on GrapheneOS never stop the background process
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can i claim to be from paris now?
is this big bill as beautiful as some claim it is?
what government scams do you no longer believe?
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Trump DOJ Exploring Criminal Charges Against Election Officials
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The order has prompted DOJ officials to contact election officials across the country as they gather more information about how votes are counted as theyMark Steffen (Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary)
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The White House confirmed that the U.S. has cut off some planned shipments of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, claiming they suddenly want to "to put America's interests first." This, after Defense ...Odysee
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Utter nonsense. Makes Cooper, the Labour party, and most of Parliament look out of touch, pathetic and stupid. supporting the murder of thousands of innocent humans while proscribing as terrorists those who protest against the killing.
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Twenty-seven people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act at a demonstration in support of the direct action group Palestine Action, in London's Parliament Square, while Palestine activists blocked the London Pride parade to protest its ties to …Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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"Over R1 Trillion Looted Through BEE — South Africa’s Greatest Political Scam? !! "
"A bombshell revelation has shaken South Africa’s fragile economic credibility to the core. Professor William Gumede, one of the country’s most respected governance scholars, has exposed what many feared: over R1 trillion has been transferred under the banner of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), and almost all of it has landed in the pockets of fewer than 100 politically connected individuals.Yes — R1,000,000,000,000. Not to uplift a nation, but to enrich a recycled elite.
“BEE only benefits a very small group — politically connected, linked to the ANC, linked to the trade unions… and the same people are re-empowered again and again,” said Gumede in an explosive public interview. This is not transformation. This is state-sanctioned looting under the guise of empowerment."
"If “empowerment” means billion-rand transfers to under 100 people — most of whom are repeat beneficiaries — then South Africa is no longer a democracy. It is a captured state under economic apartheid, run by political bandits. This is not empowerment. It is daylight robbery, orchestrated from within government halls, funded by the suffering of the masses, and protected by a network of spin, censorship, and silence. !!"
#Florida state rep Angie Nixon was among the lawmakers again demanding an oversight visit in Alligator Auschwitz.
Under normal circumstances, of course, this would simply be her job. In the current conditions, with lawmakers of color being assaulted and illegally arrested by goons, this is a very brave act of defiance.
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A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science
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The parcel giant said it will offer voluntary buyouts to its full-time drivers as part of the largest company restructuring in its history.Abhinav Parmar (Reuters)
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The US mercenary firm overseeing a controversial Gaza aid programme is the creation of a bespectacled Chicago private equity baron and a CIA spy with old ties to a Donald Trump ally who participated in one of the Middle East's nastiest diplomatic rif…Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)
It depends on the transit service, and how much their IT people suck. I'm pretty sure there have been multiple attempts to make standardized APIs for this sort of thing, but you shouldn't necessarily expect them to be widely used except maybe in Europe.
Do a web search for "[transit service name] API" and start from there.
Edit: My local transit service apparently publishes a GTFS feed, which may be more widespread than I assumed, but I'm honestly kinda surprised they didn't try to roll their own or something stupid like that.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
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Thinking about SMS security @ryan @Pheonix @phoneboy - it's my understanding that SMS is unencrypted w/in the network where it's sent (so phone-company secure), and that the biggest risk is rogue connection points that may trick the phone into connecting to it. People may underestimate how likely they are to encounter one of those ("who would want MY data?" LOL), but has that threat model changed?
I agree on the levels of security by content, but it also needs to be the highest level of security that content would need; otherwise, the presence of a certain level of security implies the value of the content being secured. I agree that should be baked in at the design level, not layers bolted on afterwards; but, do you not see some of those as pragmatic steps to save the uninformed masses from themselves"?
It used to be true that Verizon had public messaging gateways where you could read texts with a simple http get. All you needed was a phone number.
So the level of phone company security relies on how retarded the tech ppl and the management of the phone company are. Probably mostly management.
Which is an infinite security hole.
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The SCO can do what NATO cannot: defuse hostilities by providing 'indivisible security' to its Eurasian member states and across the multipolar world.thecradle.co
BlackRock Inc. halted its search for investors to back a multibillion-dollar Ukraine recovery fund earlier this year after Donald Trump’s election victory saw the US sour on the eastern European country, people familiar with the discussions said.Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg)
Twenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust, exposed—backed up by a tower of documentation— that IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even ext…Edwin Black (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies)
The tech giant just signed a deal to buy fusion power. Meanwhile, company emissions are up 50% since 2019.Casey Crownhart (MIT Technology Review)
The European Union said it will stick to its timeline for rolling out its AI legislation, ignoring calls by tech companies to delay the bloc's AI rules.Ram Iyer (TechCrunch)
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Parcel giant UPS said on Thursday it will offer voluntary buyouts to its full-time U.S. drivers as part of the largest network reconfiguration in its history — a sweeping overhaul that includes cutting 20,000 jobs and closing 73 facilities.
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Sheikh Naim Qassem, Secretary General of Hezbollah has rejected the call on the part of the Lebanese government for the resistance group's disarmament, saying that "we are not man of surrender."ABNA English
Minister tells UK's Turing AI institute to focus on defence. Via @bbc #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠
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Tribunal for Palestine against Germany pledges to bring the guilty “before the judges of the nations.” In the tribunal’s closing session, twelve leaders made symbolic accusations against the Federal Republic of Germany and its institutions.
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