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Wait, the ban on selling GPUs to China was reversed after AMD and Nvidia promised to give the U.S. government a cut of revenues?

This is what happens when your government no longer has principles and is simply coin operated.

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

Video reading "join.ice.gov" in a font looking like Fraktur font

This is from the official account of the Department of Homeland Security.

They're really leaning hard into the openly fascist aesthetics, aren't they? Not trying to hide it.

Video reading "join.ice.gov" in a font looking like Fraktur font

Hitlerjugend poster with Fraktur font

North American suburbia is entering a crisis point where the tax base isn't enough to maintain the massive amount of physical infrastructure required to keep the lights on. A thread: 1/

US effectively moving to a system where tax policy is set by the executive branch, fully adhoc, unpredictable, and bespoke per company, and based in large part on the presidents' personal relationships with the company's leadership

YouTube video by Victor Peres Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All

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Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

The rumors are true! The liquid death people made an Arnold Palmer drink and the Arnold Palmer estate sued, so this happened

trump’s trashy manhattan penthouse, but make it a white house liberace would be embarrassed to haunt

As of June, this was the deadliest conflict on record for journalists. The majority of those killed were Palestinian. www.cbsnews.com/news/record-...

Looking for a product. Searching with DDG. Five pages in, not one single organic result. Every one so far is an ad or a recommendation site.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was released 41 years ago today!

"Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth."

Buckaroo Banzai was supposed to battle the World Crime League, someone pulled the plug, now look where we are.

Trump Media Awarded CEO Devin Nunes $5.9 Million in Stock, Despite $20 Million Loss As it builds a bitcoin war chest and rolls out new tech products, Trump Media is handing executives millions in stock awards—despite mounting losses.

🚨 New: Trump Media awarded CEO Devin Nunes $5.9 million in stock on Weds.

The company recently reported a quarterly loss of $20 million on $883,000 in revenue—or about what a mall-based Chick-fil-A typically brings in.

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me, for @forbes.com

Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

Undocumented immigrants aren’t showing up to work because they face a double threat:

📌 ICE could roll up to the job site, because it’s easier to target hardworking people than go after real criminals.

📌 When the work’s done, some employers refuse to pay and threaten to call ICE.

7 things you can do to protect your town from ICE

holy crap.

"In Ireland, there are more than 80 data centres, gobbling up 50 per cent of the electricity in the Dublin region, and hoovering up more than 20 per cent nationally, as they work to process and distribute huge quantities of digital information."

So this is the argument for Saddam Hussein keeping Kuwait.

Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky
#AlejandroJodorowsky

from Fabulas Panicas (Panic Fables - comic)
1967-68

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

I wrote about this in April:

theconversation.com/trump-is-str...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

The world is burning. Trump wants to add more fossil fuels to the fire, while sidelining the brightest solution.

Here's a survey of the steps Trump is taking to cast a shadow over solar energy development: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A page of the Chicago Tribune with a headline saying “100 years of glory and decay”

Sunday’s Chicago Tribune includes my article “Uptown Theatre: 100 years of glory and decay” (adapted from the new book I wrote with James A. Pierce). Here’s a gift link to the online version, which has a cool gallery of 27 pictures. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/1...

Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

This is crucial for folks to understand. We all have to become tiny media outlets or the word cannot spread.

Huge thumbs are on the scales/comms.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.