Is the Tangerine Tyrant about to abandon the US commitment to keep arms sales to Taiwan as an issue between Washington & Taipei?

On his way to China to meet Xi Jinping, Trump said he was happy to discuss with Xi China's desire for the US to pause sales to the island's defence forces.

This suggests, that the grifter is about to shake down Taiwan (and at least threaten to halt arms support).

More transactional politics looks to be coming for the Taiwanese.

#Taiwan #China #Trump
h/t FT

@Sascha die Begründung hinter diesem Vorgehen würde ich gerne wissen

Lovingly handwritten title on the spine! Meteorlogical Observations / Royal Observatory / Sydney / 1874-77

I love my job. (do you have random photos from work that make you happy?)

@sundogplanets ya I don't think their goal is help or progress for all. Quite the opposite, sadly.

Neue Form digitaler Gewalt? Heimlich gefilmt mit Smart Glasses

Vor allem Frauen werden in privaten oder intimen Situationen heimlich gefilmt - immer öfter mit sogenannten Smart Glasses, wie das team.recherche des SWR zeigt. Eine Expertin warnt vor einer Gesetzeslücke.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/heimlich-gefilmt-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#SmartGlasses #TikTok

@mariejulien attends avec les réseaux Mesh, l’impression 3D a un usage de plus : imprimer les coques pour les modules LoRa bricolés :)

#DieSpitz #PouetRadio

Their lyrics are informed by political activism, leading some journalists to draw comparisons with the 1990s riot grrl movement. The Fader has described the band's lyrics as "a wrecking ball against oppression and the tyranny of dark forces that suppress others." (Source : Wikipedia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7yzc1gJVBs

@aurynn why thank you 🙇🏻‍♀️💅🏻🥰

Is the Tangerine Tyrant about to abandon the US commitment to keep arms sales to Taiwan as an issue between Washington & Taipei?

On his way to China to meet Xi Jinping, Trump said he was happy to discuss with Xi China's desire for the US to pause sales to the island's defence forces.

This suggests, that the grifter is about to shake down Taiwan (and at least threaten to halt arms support).

More transactional politics looks to be coming for the Taiwanese.

#Taiwan #China #Trump
h/t FT

@beadsland

i was about to write something *perhaps* more erudite but then i saw this post and now... well... (added a space for friction purposes again)

https://universeodon.com/ @AnneTheWriter1/116565154204790836

@nathandyer
Tell this to all the politicians wanting to "protect the children" while systematically locking down their device. A pathetic excuse to impose #dystopic and #pervasive #technoControl

Thanks to @ekaitz_zarraga, I got sucked into the GNU Mes rabbit hole.

After reading through some of the docs, I realized the Uxntal bootstrap stops one step short. I check that the assembler reproduces itself, but only ask one emulator. Running the same steps on a second independent implementation and comparing checksums gives me a second opinion that rules out implementation-specific issues.

Since I had this Uxn VM written in Uxntal thing, running the same bootstrap chain inside it gives an independent witness. Two unrelated implementations agreeing on the same checksum means the result is no longer dependent on any single emulator's behaviour.

Running the assembler inside uxnmin, which was itself assembled by that assembler, and verifying the checksums match means the assembler and the virtual machine are each vouching for the other. It's a much stranger circle than Mes, but it's neat and it closes.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_bootstrap

@Em0nM4stodon Zed

@Julianoe les réseaux mesh c’est pas vraiment les libristes de l’internet décentralisé (ceux-là ils sont en train de construire l’internet décentralisé) (enfin peut-être que Reticulum c’est un peu plus ça mais c’est pas pur radio)

En revanche sur les réseaux mesh il y a beaucoup de radio amateurs et de gens qui aiment les gadgets et ne veulent surtout pas se poser de question plus large…

@mariejulien

I'm glad it isn't, @mattgrayyes

Lateral👇
https://lateralcast.com/episodes/187/

A Russian cargo ship likely carrying two nuclear reactors for submarines, possibly destined for North Korea, suffered a series of explosions and sank in unexplained circumstances, about 60 miles off the coast of Spain.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/12/world/a-russian-ship-sank-in-mysterious-circumstances-it-may-have-been-carrying-nuclear-reactors-to-north-korea

#Ukraine #Russia #NorthKorea #Spain #EU