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Robert Duvall: Actor who starred in The Godfather dies aged 95 The Oscar-winner died "peacefully" at his home in Middleburg, Virginia, on Sunday, his family says.

RIP Robert Duvall

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Microsoft Store gets a new command line interface The Microsoft Store now has a command line interface (CLI) where you can browse apps, install and update apps from the Microsoft Store all from the command line. Neat! Screenshot showing the Store CLI help with a nice ANSI art text heading Via : "Introducing the Microsoft Store command-line interface A new command-line interface for the Microsoft Store brings app discovery, installation and update management directly to your terminal.

Microsoft Store gets a new command line interface

The Microsoft Store now has a command line interface (CLI) where you can browse apps, install and update apps from the Microsoft Store all from the command line. Neat! Screenshot showing the Store CLI help with a nice ANSI art text heading Via :…

Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society online meeting on February 3 2026 at 8pm The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society ( invites you to join our online meeting on February 3 2026 at 8pm (23:59 UTC). We will be using Zoom for this meeting. Please register in advance at the following link : Come join us as we talk about Trinidad and Tobago Government joins OpenAI's Education for Countries Initiative Ministry of Education launches…

Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society online meeting on February 3 2026 at 8pm

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society ( invites you to join our online meeting on February 3 2026 at 8pm (23:59 UTC). We will be using Zoom for this meeting. Please register in advance at the following link : Come…

notice how after ilhan omar was attacked by a maga true believer parroting donald trump, the mainstream media didnt kick off a multi-day orgy about how trump and other republicans need to change their tone and "lower the temperature"?

that discourse only goes one way for the msm.

Indeed. Would everything completely fall apart with the end of the SOE ? And if it was “critical” to have something in place before the SOE ends and the date of the SOE ending was a fixed date, it falls to the Government to introduce the bill with enough time for amendments to be considered

PDF Split And Merge A free and open source software to merge, split, rotate and extract pages from PDF files

We just released the new #PDFsam Basic version including #JDK 21.0.10 and dependencies and translations updates.
pdfsam.org/download-pdf... 🎊🎉

How disappointing

It’s disappointing that so many are content with X given the owner’s behaviours

Unfortunately several TT politicans (including the opposition ) and various TT ministries are on X

Updated Interesting DOS programs at dosprograms.info.tt

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

🙄

Soca Deepfakes: AI, Deception, and Performer Rights in Trinidad and Tobago A new Carnival anthem drops online a few weeks before the season. The voice sounds exactly like one of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca artists: the phrasing, the tone, even the signature ad-libs.

“The voice sounds exactly like one of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca artists: the phrasing, the tone, even the signature ad-libs. Promoters start using the track in their ads, DJs spin it at fetes, and it gains momentum”

The truth: the artist never recorded it
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Wonder what’s the thinking and/or rationale behind doing these type of announcements on party platforms

When the numbers stop working: Newsday, and the daily reckoning As Trinis would say, "Newsday gone tru...!"

When the numbers stop working: Newsday, and the daily reckoning
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Sad news

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Digital policy wonks, Trump still believes @itu.int is worth being a member of! But USA is exiting:

⛔Freedom Online Coalition
⛔Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
⛔UN DESA (UN department overseeing Internet Governance Forum)
⛔UNCTAD (& gets its full name wrong. No "conference" in title since 2024)

Sigh

YouTube video by The Daily Show Trump Kidnaps President Maduro, Targets Venezuelan Oil & Ditches "America First" | The Daily Show

Fantastic stuff from Jon Stewart and The Daily Show (as usual)

youtu.be/HDSzUfMZRHE

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them Degrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them. After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their consent, the UK’s communication’s watchdog, Ofcom, said on Monday that it had made “urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK”. Ofcom added that it would assess whether an investigation is necessary based on the company’s response. Continue reading...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

"US oil majors don’t necessarily want back into Venezuela’s declining and decrepit oil fields so much as they are eager to protect their interests in neighboring Guyana, home to one of the world’s most productive oil fields"

V good read here -->>>

YouTube video by Barenaked Ladies (official) Barenaked Ladies - Auld Lang Syne (Official Audio)

If you're looking for a version of Auld Lang Syne to play at midnight to ring in the New Year, Barenaked Ladies version of Auld Lang Syne works quite well : www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5X6...

And...Happy New Year...... 🖖 live long and prosper

Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Huh here’s something I wasn’t aware of until today : the Empire cinema in Port-of-Spain was firebombed over the screening of Victory at Entebbe in 1976

Trump administration bars former EU official and anti-disinformation and hate researchers from US The fight over free speech and tech regulation continues.

Trump administration bars former EU official and anti-disinformation and hate researchers from US

Filmmaker Rob Reiner, wife, killed in horrific home attack The Reiners’ troubled 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested in conjunction with the killings.

R.I.P. Rob Reiner: beloved filmmaker dead at 78, killed in horrific home attack. The Reiners’ troubled 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested in conjunction with the killings. . arstechnica.com/culture/2025...