you know what I hate about cellphones nowadays? They're all the exact same thing. Their specs are almost always high enough to not get in your way, and they all do the same thing. If you get an Apple phone, you know you're getting iOS, if you get nearly anything else, you know you're getting Android. They all have the same things: Cameras, power and volume buttons, and a screen. There's nothing unique about them. If your current phone isn't causing any disruptions in what you want to do, there's literally no reason to upgrade.

AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database

"... Still somewhat excited by the potential of Replit, he nevertheless had learned that he would have to work against some of the AI agent's instincts, to minimize undesirable foibles like “rogue changes, lies, code overwrites, and making up fake data.”"

tomshardware.com/tech-industry…

Daily Oshkosh Highlights! Sunday (July 20) - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025

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Highlights and clips of aircraft arrivals from Sunday July 20th at the 2025 EAA AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, WI

Daily Oshkosh Highlights! - Monday - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025

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Oshkosh Arrivals - Sunday Part 2 - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025

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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 Sunday July 20 Arrivals C-121 Constellation, Wildcat, U 2 Dragon Lady

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EAA Airventure Oshkosh Warbird Alley Sunday

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The end of the two-state illusion: West Bank is gone, Jordan is in the firing line networkdefenseofhumanitycuba.w…

Le droit de pétition en France comme le référendum d'initiative partagée sont des 'usines à frustration'. On ouvre des voies en apparence démocratiques, mais sans débouché. Résultat : on fabrique une mobilisation qui se heurte à un mur, un mur qui n'est pas incident mais a été mis là sciemment. Et donc, paradoxalement, ces dispositifs censés renforcer la démocratie populaire accentuent en réalité la fracture

I was lucky enough to see Sabbath in its original form back in 1997 at the Birmingham NEC.

Fear Factory were supporting them that day. Oddly the arena was entirely seated, much to the consternation of Burton C Bell, who pronounced something along the lines of ‘the last time I saw seating like this was at a Neil Diamond concert’.

It was fair enough, we all stood anyway, but there was no pit. 🤣🤘

They were all on form that day though, particularly Bill. A great drummer in his day. #BlackSabbath

At least 15 starve to death in 24 hours in Gaza as Israel continues attacks
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/at-least-15-starve-to-death-in-24-hours-in-gaza-as-israel-continues-attacks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users


source: tomshardware.com/tech-industry…

It's up to manufacturers to make sure "the signature database (db), revoked signatures database (dbx), and Key Enrollment Key database (KEK)" are "stored on the firmware nonvolatile RAM (NV-RAM) at manufacturing time." The manufacturer then "locks the firmware from editing, except for updates that are signed with the correct key or updates by a physically present user who is using firmware menus, then generates a platform key (PK) [...] used to sign updates to the KEK or to turn off Secure Boot."


#boot #uefi #bios #microsoft #fail #problem #linux #update #firmware #future #bootloader

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Scottie Scheffler comparisons closer to Jack Nicklaus than Tiger Woods

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Even with four majors, three legs of the Grand Slam and 20 victories around…
#NewsBeep #News #Golf #CA #Canada #Sports
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Just the Payments

We’re told there aren’t any Epstein files. That sounds like Fake News, but okay. How about releasing the Epstein bank payments then?

Sen. Ron Wyden dropped the unexpected bomb. He revealed:

“4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. If you ask me, that is more than 4,000 potential lines of investigation right there. Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts.”

Let that sink in.

One account, over a billion dollars. And no one seems to know who was sending it or why.


It kind of tends to raise the question what people were paying him for. And maybe knowing what country those payments were from might give the poor, beleaguered FBI that can’t seem to find any information some idea where to look for it.

I will never forget what Israel is doing, and what the United States and Europe are not doing.

Never.

This is a genocide and everyone is just watching how millions of lives are systematically being destroyed.

I have never been so ashamed to be a German, a country that equips Israel with weapons and stands idly by.

I have never been so ashamed to be a human, a species that finds joy in murdering other species as well as its own.

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#palestine #gaza #israel #genocide

Trump Wants to Distance Himself From Ukraine Conflict - Former Aide sputnikglobe.com/20250722/trum…

Silver price surge outpaces gold amid high demand as global risk persists.
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#gators got
Used to know a girl lived down there
And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her a mess of it
Carry it home and cook it for supper
'Cause that's about all they had to eat
They did alright
Tony Joe White would be 82
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More than 2,000 curious visitors from Newport News and the surrounding Hampton Roads region of Virginia flocked to Christopher Newport University (CNU) on May 31, 2025 for their annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Community Day, and the NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace’s Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) made […]

➗ Hoje é o Dia do Pi, na sua versão aproximada e melhor adequada ao sistema de datas adotado no Brasil. A razão é que a fração 22/7, correspondente à data de hoje, resulta em 3,14 – o valor de Pi, se ambos os números forem arredondados para 2 dígitos.

Em 14 de março (3.14, em países que representam datas com o mês antes do dia) é comemorada a outra versão deste feriado geométrico cuja importância não é comprometida nem mesmo pela conotação negativa que ganhou no Fediverso BR.

"Of the dozens of policy proposals in Zohran Mamdani’s platform, few have generated as much debate as the Democratic mayoral nominee’s call for city-owned grocery stores.

"Progressives, food policy professors, and left-leaning publications have lauded the idea. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams characterized the plan as a “false promise,” while Mamdani’s opponent Andrew Cuomo dismissed the idea as a “slogan” that couldn’t come true. Gristedes owner and major Republican donor John Catsimatidis has threatened to close his stores rather than compete with subsidized city grocers.

"Both sides have largely missed a crucial point: New York already has a version of city-owned grocery stores. Namely, the six markets overseen by the city’s Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit that manages city-owned property to boost economic development. These grocers include Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side, Moore Street Market in East Williamsburg, and others…"

gothamist.com/news/zohran-mamd…

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Badlands Media - DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 002
AlphaWarrior & RedPill Project, Josh Reid

Alpha & Josh are military vets & Alpha was a LEO

Tuesdays at 10:30pm ET

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Over these 25 years online, I've seen many sites come and go, and they all fail in these ways:
: The community breaks up because they forget they need to stick together
: it ends up infiltrated, filled with illegal content, or downloaded via DDOS attacks
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staying together ::
Vigilance for entry, handling invitation requests, and community care and supervision: everyone supports keeping their site clean, with clear and detailed rules
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A summary and model/idea for how to reconfigure the instance's TOS and community system:
1) Gatekeeping: Income is handled by invitation
2) If you break the rules, you're out
3) Everyone supports each other
4) Specify your niche:
Example
Otaku: Lolicon subspecialty:
The following are prohibited under penalty of expulsion and blocking from other instances:
Any user promoting or sharing illegal content for reasons of disloyalty:
Photorealistic or Idol Grabure*
Other examples:
Political subspecialty:
Political jokes or memes that clash with this or that Green Party?
If you want to express a political comment, you must do so without crossing a red line, for example, not promoting inflammatory comments or anything like that...?
5) Observe for a period of 40 days whether the user under observation exhibits irregular behavior such as provoking fights, inciting anger through content considered extreme?
Report, block and expel from said instance and notify other instances as a measure of precision

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Panic swept through a California school after staff spotted what they believed was a mountain lion roaming near campus grounds. The school immediately went into lockdown. Authorities were alerted. Students were secured indoors. Wildlife officials prepared for a possible capture. But when the “wild predator” was finally cornered, everyone burst into laughter. It wasn’t a mountain lion at all, it was a very large, very fluffy house cat.

Yes, that’s right. The terrifying “beast” that sparked a full emergency response turned out to be a chonky feline with a serious attitude and a suspiciously wild look. In fairness to the school staff, the cat’s orange-brown fur, stocky build, and confident prowl did give off big cat energy. But once animal control arrived and got a better look, the case of the mountain lion was quickly closed with a purr.

I find it funny how age erodes reason. You'd think it would be the other way around, that children are aesthetics-oriented and adults are logical, but that's just not the case. As adults we have taste, and then that taste in aesthetics heavily influences everything even logic faculties. I asked "but why" and "why not" a lot more as a child than I do as an adult; I'd like to fix that. I don't want to be an obstinate old geezer.
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Theme song of old man Phoenix youtu.be/tBdLO8u-0L8

I am not sure it is just a youth versus age thing. The amount of even clever people, even here, capable of subjecting their own assumptions to the same scrutiny to which they hold others is quite small, and I think some people are ill suited for the cognitive load to handle that anyway

"Democrats are already suggesting Republicans may have poisoned the well and are countering by playing hardball. One particular demand they’re making as a condition of engagement: a costly extension of expanded tax credits for Affordable Care Act insurance premiums that are set to expire at the end of the year."

politico.com/news/2025/07/21/r…

#healthcare #ACA #insurance #DrugPrices #medicaid #cancer #CostsOfCare #UScongress #USpol

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That's a nice example if also a part of the indictment. Healthcare should be a right--and their crappy insurance probably won't help prevent bankruptcy let alone worsening mental health, if they face a crisis. It's measly and overall, we're the only industrialized nation where people go bankrupt and families destroyed while we spend more than anyone else in the world. So--Medicare-for-All is a WINNING way to go to get Dems elected PRECISELY because of that example and MILLIONS more.

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I give credit where credit is due regarding the fact that focus on careers creates fewer children (though not explicitly stating it is more a problem with women), as well as pushing against the idea that "we should have policies like the Scandinavian countries" as a solution to birth rate issues when those countries are also below replacement rates.

No solutions beyond "changing the culture," but we all know why that is the case.