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airtag 2 refresh rumoured to not work like a straightforward stalking device this time around; will wonders never cease www.macrumors.com/2025/02/24/a...

love playing the game of "ai voice or just british"

> 38 procent af alle voksne patienter havde huller i tænderne sidste år. Det viser nye tal fra Tandlægeforeningen. nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2025... #dkpol

is there a term for people who create in-game models of real women for what seems like a pretty straightforward purpose of sexual gratification? is not deepfakes, and it's not revenge porn, but it's definitely weird as hell

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

amazing political coverage of the german election

Netanyahu's office says Germany's likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz would invite the Israeli Prime Minister for an official visit to Germany. Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Trump just named Right wing podcaster Dan Bongingo Deputy Director of the FBI

det blev vist alligevel økoeliten, der spiddede bsw #dk www.information.dk/udland/2024/...

BlueSky generated 33% more subscriptions than Threads for the Globe in January.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy www.juancole.com/2025/02/demo...

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

chips act is dead semiwiki.com/semiconducto...

at least do us a solid and send fdp below 5% germany

wonder what it is about parts of bluesky that makes it so facebook-coded. could be the engagement farmers

every single time i see a youtuber threatening to retire

> Meta and X gave the green light to AI-generated ads that called for the gassing of immigrants in concentration camps and the burning of synagogues ahead of Germany's federal elections on Feb. 23, according to new research from corporate accountability group Ekō. www.adweek.com/media/meta-a...

"ai-written police reports" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

brazil banning the video platform rumble is going to be a huge right-wing flashpoint, not least because peter thiel is an investor, and because rumble's own legal chief just took a position as the deputy director of the cia! www.dw.com/en/brazil-ju...

Project 2025: 35% complete in 32 days in office www.project2025.observer

Embarrassing confession - I heard some references to Jeffries on a "book tour" and thought it was some wry joke. But no! He co-wrote a children's book about democracy and is touring it during the first Trump recess week.

jesusfuckingchrist

most people don't have advanced data protection enabled, my paranoid self included, because i'll probably end up locking myself out of my own account at some point good opportunity for everyone else to weigh the pros and cons of adp however, especially in places with a rising far right

jeg havde fornøjelsen af at se min ortopædkirurg på hillerød hospital kæmpe ti minutter med at diktere min journal, og det endte med konstante fejl han selv var nødt til at rette, ligesom den endelige journal stadig har en masse fejl og manglende ord ai cannot fail; it can only be failed #dkpol

"r/USPS locks down their subreddit due to postal workers calling for a strike in protest of recent news" old.reddit.com/r/SubredditD...

📬🚨 HUGE NEWS 📬🚨 Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.

i dont think any of us can like, stop it, but i do think more should be made of just how dark combining roblox and gta online is obviously going to get

‪love too be alive in a timeline where lex luthor is making anti-superman tv shows, and blofeld is trying to kill james bond

as if having jeff bezos dictate editorial at washington post weren't enough, he now to tell us what masculinity is with the full bond rights www.bbc.com/news/article...

it still amazes me that the bluesky ios app just … stops working if you’re using a vpn

Danish pharma-state watch: 2024 nominal GDP growth was 3.6%, majority of which the medical industry is directly responsible for. www.dst.dk/da/Statistik...

had the experience of watching the doctor at the hospital dictate my file at the hospital, and man is that transcription ai some garbage spent more time correcting the transcripting than dictating it, and the final report is still littered with errors and missing words

Interesting news: Clearview founder Hoan Ton-That stepping down and board member Hal Lambert, Texan investor who created the MAGA ETF, stepping in as co-CEO, promising lots of federal contracts to come under the new administration

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

hell yes, trains are back baby www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

> However, some of the town hall attendees noted with alarm that Riot had introduced clauses to their contracts in 2025 prohibiting the creation of content with social or political commentary, or content that disparages Riot’s sponsors (which now appears to include the [Saudi] Esports World Cup).

No one embodies our predicament [*gestures wildly at everything*] the way Draghi does. Strong Weltgeist on horseback vibes emanating from his recent Brussels appearances.

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is planning to lay off at least 40% of the workers at the federal agency that provides mortgage insurance on loans for people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for one.

Marvel Rivals director and team laid off according to posts www.resetera.com/threads/marv...

This is a really big deal. Trump's FTC and DOJ are keeping the Lina Khan/Jonathan Kanter framework for merger review in place. Wall Street was wrong in assuming it would be thrown out.

> Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from March 2025, commented CEO Jason Chen in an interview with The Telegraph. Chen states that the price hike is a direct result of the Trump administration's incoming tariffs. www.tomshardware.com/laptops/acer...

Hostages.

are the plane crashes getting less coverage than those drones?

Partisan breakdown of who is in favour of annexation:

Okinawa: 2025 is not only 80th anniversary of WW2's end but also 70th anniversary of US military land seizures in Iejima, triggering one of the most persistent civil disobedience movements on earth. 「沖縄戦から10年後の1955年3月 300人のアメリカ兵が島の北西部 真謝区の土地を強制的に摂取 住民は非暴力を掲げてアメリカ軍に抵抗しました」 youtu.be/es7y5lgT_I8?...