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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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In case there was any doubt about that salute

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Paragon and Pegasus have both leveraged WhatsApp to silently install spyware onto people's devices -- with no user interaction. Paragon used the ability to send malicious PDF documents in 2024, Pegasus used the call functionality in 2019. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Foreigners will never understand the greatness of the Irish road test system. Featuring innovations like the website 'queue'.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most brutal lessons in life is that people generally reward those that make them feel good, and punish those that make them feel bad. Regardless of how irrational, counterproductive or self destructive those responses may be.

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

submitted 33 days ago • 191 comments

Potentially very significant development in post transformer deep learning systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jF...

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The fact that modern browsers ship with a feature allowing websites to 'notify' users, is an absolute pox. I can only imagine the torrent of notifications elderly people are faced with. No clear way to disable them without going into settings in the browser. Scope for abuse is massive.

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Every time I think I’ve seen the worst of DCC they find a way to surprise me. Human shield needed at any soup lines count me in.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

This is just nasty, there's no need for this legislation.

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

*How do these electronic warfare trucks and drone-guns fit onto cardboard hexgame counters www.wired.com/story/electr...

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A bunch of car park owners have been granted a High Court review to try and get rid of the Dublin City Transport Plan. So far the plan has delivered faster buses and reduced traffic - while footfall keeps growing. Backwards stuff that must be resisted. www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dubl...

submitted 69 days ago • 7 comments

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

submitted 74 days ago • 412 comments

The Quiet of Tbilisi, notes on the Georgian Revolution https://youtu.be/shxzeKMqHyg?feature=shared

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

One of the indisputably best podcasts of all time has a new episode. https://pca.st/podcast/6b9669b0-ffd3-0136-324e-08b04944ede4

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Real Americans chew on a belt while pulling bullet shells out of their raw hide.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.” - Tim Walberg

submitted 330 days ago • 0 comments

Just back from Tbilisi Georgia where a generation are making a stand against the Putinist regieme who’ve stolen an election and halted the process of European integration.

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If you ever wondered why Ridley Scotts recent films are weightless and bloated feeling www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyg...

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The year is 2028. Anthropic breathlessly announce that AGI has been achieved. Claude is sentient. CEO Dario Amodei stands before an unnecessarily giant screen and asks 'Claude, using existing or near future tech, how can we prevent climate change?' Claude replies - 'End greenhouse gas emissions'.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Downloadable benchmark for DaVinci Resolve training.team2films.com/dvr-benchmark

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

If you needed evidence that Luas / Transdev are truly awful - I was travelling to a friends funeral last week. First time ever forgot to tag on as I was in bits. Got ticketed getting off. Sent explanation with apology & link to death notice. Today I get this.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments