Trump and his supporters are infinitely petty. Pence had better hope they never again come near the halls of power, lest the noose he so narrowly avoided on January 6th catch up to him.
The other conclusion I drew from the article is that Republicans don't want to witness their cruelty first-hand. The Republican woman who helped the pregnant immigrant injured by the concertina wire responded with compassion. They'll do that when it's right in front of them. But so long as the cruelty is happening far away, to people they don't know and can't see, it's fine.
There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And...
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
I used to spend hours per day on Reddit. Now I visit once or twice a month, read-only. My subscription is canceled and all my posts/comments deleted. My "front page of the Internet" is now here.
FATHER: Please, please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. We are here today to witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy wedlock. Unfortunately, one of them, my son Herbert, has just fallen to his death. But I think I've not lost a son, so much as... gained a daughter! For, since the tragic death of her father —
RANDOM: He's not quite dead!
FATHER: Since the near fatal wounding of her father —
RANDOM: He's getting better!
FATHER: For, since her own father... who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of death upon him, —
[ugh]
RANDOM: Oh, he's died!
FATHER: And I want his only daughter to look upon me... as her own dad — in a very real, and legally binding sense.
The governments of Burkina Faso and Mali express solidarity with Niger and condemn regional organizations’ sanctions against them. They warn that any military intervention in Niger would be considered an act of war against Burkina Faso and Mali. They urge against military action, fearing destabilization in the region, as seen...
Blue Angels: patriotic celebration of America that’s fun for the whole family, or noise-polluting, climate-change-worsening, outdated abomination of the petro-military-industrial complex?
I think the buried lede is that the official DeSantis campaign is directly coordinating with supposedly independent Twitter accounts. Nothing about the Right is organic, it's entirely manufactured.
Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it’s still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses....
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have...
Hundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government.
Having no plan would be an improvement. They want to reverse course, destroy regulations and increase pollution. They won't be satisfied until Earth is a second Venus.
Disable Search Indexing in options. It uses a buggy piece of garbage called Akonadi in the background and was causing one core of my CPU to stay at 100% for no reason.
Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies....
Just interested if there’s an episode of a particular series you find yourself going back to? Not necessarily “the best” or your favorite, just one you gravitate toward for a comfort re-watch? Here’s the episodes from each series I find myself re-watching a lot:...
I know it gets a lot of hate, but TNG: Masks. There's no adversary, just the crew working together to solve a problem. The solution is based in understanding. For similar reasons, I like Cause and Effect and Time Squared.
Just because your system is automated doesn't mean it's free of bias. LLMs are trained on human-generated content. Human-generated content has biases. The model will reflect those biases. There's also the proclivity of GPT to be confidently incorrect, like when it made up completely bogus court cases and a credulous lawyer used them in an actual case. I wouldn't want to get my news from a source that may be lying to my face.
I'm hoping to find a build list for a general home server/NAS. The goal is to have a server capable of running 2-3 VMs along with a handful of containers, act as a Plex server, and act as a NAS for media storage....
I have a Dell R720XD as my home NAS. I bought it used off eBay. The XD version has 12x 3.5" drive bays. I have eight of them occupied with 8TB spinning disks. The server runs TrueNAS and the disks are part of a ZFS RAID. I spent a few hundred dollars on the server itself, a hundred or so on more RAM, and $2200 on the hard drives.
The U.S. Justice Department has threatened legal action against Gov. Greg Abbott over the 1,000-foot floating barrier that the state deployed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass earlier this month....
On one hand, it would be delicious to watch Trump get humiliated in court. On the other hand, this seems like a nonsense motion intended only to sow chaos, as is his wont.
Even though there are no volcanoes on the Olympic Peninsula, you can find lots of volcanic rocks on the beaches. This bizarre circumstance might have to do with how the ancient island transformed Washington state.
U.S. Senator and documented Princess Bride superfan Ted Cruz is back with a new movie take. In an interview with the conservative media website the Daily Signal, Cruz asserted that the upcoming Barbie movie, which releases this weekend, pushes Chinese Communist Party Propaganda on young women.
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.
“If we don’t let them earn more money talented people won’t enter politics”
Yeah, that's why talented people never enter teaching or the sciences. Though, to be fair, I'd be a bit wary of giving power to someone whose passion in life was politics.
I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I don't see any obvious errors. I have Redis, RabbitMQ, and Mercure running.
When did you make your attempt? The admin guide had a major update a couple weeks ago. It's a lot more complete now.
The only problem I'm having is a permissions issue with uploaded media files. If I ran kbin as the nginx user, it would work fine, but running as a separate user, nginx isn't granted permission to read the files. I added a default ACL on the public/media directory, but it did not propagate to newly created subdirectories. Finally, I added a script that watches the directory with inotify and fixes permissions as soon as files/directories are created.
I saw someone on Reddit wondering why the community was so sure of Trek going dark again with Paramount not doing so well financially. Seeing the response was unfortunate as most people feel that it might be a bad time for Trek. And I guess it makes sense with the Hollywood strikes as well....
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
Kicking puppies is inhumane. Shoving people into rivers or denying them water is a crime against humanity. Someone who would give (or carry out) such an order should be hunted to the ends of the Earth like a Nazi war criminal.
Not a plea for help since I imagine using the word bank allows the text to be accepted. And no, I’m not trying to get it to fail by using 二 instead of ニ. I’m pretty sure the exercise is bugged.
There’s a thread about how people find new books, and one of my favorite ways to find things to read was browsing comments from the weekly ‘What are you reading’ threads in r/truelit and r/books. So what is Lemmy reading?...
I'm reading The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris. It's non-fiction. Morris' books have a good narrative, but they are scholarly works. I haven't gotten very far into The Anglo-Saxons yet, but one bit I greatly enjoyed was the author drawing parallels between Beowulf and Tolkien's Rohirrim, all while discussing the archaeological evidence for feasting halls and the zeitgeist of the people who'd built those halls.
Pence Refuses to Rule Out Voting for Trump in 2024 ( www.rollingstone.com )
[Texas Tribune] Eagle Pass residents sour on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star ( www.texastribune.org )
WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek! ( ca.startrek.com )
Didn’t see this coming. Prodigy EPs the Brothers Hageman have dropped a scene from season two, episode one....
Mastodon's Mastodon'ts ( www.jwz.org )
There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And...
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. ( gizmodo.com )
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
[ABC13] New HISD superintendent wants to raise cap to OK contracts without board approval by nearly $2M ( abc13.com )
Trump’s Legal Team Just Blew a Big Hole in His Third Indictment Defense ( newrepublic.com )
Trump lawyer John Lauro responded to the indictment news by admitting the crimes that Trump is charged with....
According to Roman, the comments made by many Russians in these street interviews are skewed by their fear of punishment if they say anything bad about Putin and/or the war. ( www.youtube.com )
We Will Respond to US/French Intervention in Niger as ‘Declaration of War' ( www.youtube.com )
The governments of Burkina Faso and Mali express solidarity with Niger and condemn regional organizations’ sanctions against them. They warn that any military intervention in Niger would be considered an act of war against Burkina Faso and Mali. They urge against military action, fearing destabilization in the region, as seen...
It's Seafair time again, and time for the classic Seattle debate. ( www.theurbanist.org )
Blue Angels: patriotic celebration of America that’s fun for the whole family, or noise-polluting, climate-change-worsening, outdated abomination of the petro-military-industrial complex?
[NBC News] Impeached Texas AG Ken Paxton seeks to have most charges dismissed before September trial ( www.nbcnews.com )
Team Trump has fully wired the GOP primary to Trump's advantage ( www.salon.com )
‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign | Semafor - Analysis ( www.semafor.com )
A Signal chat offers a rare glimpse inside the DeSantis campaign.
xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers ( imgs.xkcd.com )
Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it’s still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses....
[News] RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas ( www.businessinsider.com )
Text in case of paywall:...
[News] A Georgia judge has rejected former President Trump’s efforts to quash an investigation into his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. ( thehill.com )
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
Revoking the SSH Keys of a Friend Sucks
I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have...
Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump's second term ( www.politico.com )
Hundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government.
KDE users who value your sanity and CPU. ( kbin.social )
Disable Search Indexing in options. It uses a buggy piece of garbage called Akonadi in the background and was causing one core of my CPU to stay at 100% for no reason.
Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term ( www.politico.com )
Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies....
Six reasons Mastodon won't survive ( mashable.com )
The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.
News: A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead ( www.businessinsider.com )
"Just say aye," Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Patty Murray repeatedly pleaded to Feinstein during the vote. Eventually, Feinstein did just that....
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Which particular episode(s) of Star Trek do you find yourself going back to?
Just interested if there’s an episode of a particular series you find yourself going back to? Not necessarily “the best” or your favorite, just one you gravitate toward for a comfort re-watch? Here’s the episodes from each series I find myself re-watching a lot:...
Entirely Automated Political AI-Powered Newsletter, Free from Human Bias ( kbin.social )
Hello Everyone!...
Request - Home Server/NAS Build ( kbin.social )
I'm hoping to find a build list for a general home server/NAS. The goal is to have a server capable of running 2-3 VMs along with a handful of containers, act as a Plex server, and act as a NAS for media storage....
Whats the magic word? ( media.kbin.social )
[Texas Tribune] Justice Department threatens Texas with legal action over floating barrier in Rio Grande ( www.texastribune.org )
The U.S. Justice Department has threatened legal action against Gov. Greg Abbott over the 1,000-foot floating barrier that the state deployed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass earlier this month....
[Analysis] 'People are hungry for more choices': Inside the Green Party's push for 2024 ( abcnews.go.com )
Full article text:...
[News] Pence Stuns CNN Anchor With Nonchalance About ‘Dangerous’ MAGA Voters ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Full article text:...
Star Trek: Discovery | Fifth and Final Season - Extended Clip | SDCC 2023 ( startrek.com )
Trump demands cameras in courtroom for potential election fraud case ( www.independent.co.uk )
An indictment, Mr Trump’s third in four months, could be handed down any day after he was sent a ‘target’ letter by Jack Smith
TIL That the Olympic Peninsula Used to be an ancient island called Siletzia that collided with North America. It was born from the same hot spot that is today the Yellowstone Super Volcano. ( www.youtube.com )
Even though there are no volcanoes on the Olympic Peninsula, you can find lots of volcanic rocks on the beaches. This bizarre circumstance might have to do with how the ancient island transformed Washington state.
[Chron] Ted Cruz says 'Barbie' movie pushes Chinese propaganda on young girls ( www.chron.com )
U.S. Senator and documented Princess Bride superfan Ted Cruz is back with a new movie take. In an interview with the conservative media website the Daily Signal, Cruz asserted that the upcoming Barbie movie, which releases this weekend, pushes Chinese Communist Party Propaganda on young women.
Senators introduce bipartisan ban on stock ownership for executive and legislative branch office holders and their families | CNN Politics ( edition.cnn.com )
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.
Where the various kbin servers are located ( kbin.fediverse.observer )
A good little resource to help people find their local kbin
DoorDash fired an employee for trying to organize a union, NLRB alleges ( www.theverge.com )
Reddit seems all doom and gloom on the topic but what about Lemmy? And the future of Star Trek?
I saw someone on Reddit wondering why the community was so sure of Trek going dark again with Paramount not doing so well financially. Seeing the response was unfortunate as most people feel that it might be a bad time for Trek. And I guess it makes sense with the Hollywood strikes as well....
[FOX26] Powerball ticket sold in Houston area wins $2M in Monday night's drawing ( www.fox26houston.com )
Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say ( www.houstonchronicle.com )
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
Israel Struggling to Recover Ancient Artifacts Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago: Report ( www.rollingstone.com )
The former president up and stole antiquities that were lent to the White House for a Hanukkah celebration in 2019
[Chron.com] ABC 13 Houston reporter announces departure from channel ( www.chron.com )
[Houston Chronicle] Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say ( www.houstonchronicle.com )
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/news/t/213586...
The [bird] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ( sopuli.xyz )
Not a plea for help since I imagine using the word bank allows the text to be accepted. And no, I’m not trying to get it to fail by using 二 instead of ニ. I’m pretty sure the exercise is bugged.
What's Lemmy reading?
There’s a thread about how people find new books, and one of my favorite ways to find things to read was browsing comments from the weekly ‘What are you reading’ threads in r/truelit and r/books. So what is Lemmy reading?...