@inquiline I bet you’d like tilde.zone
thanks. i am ideally looking for something bigger/well-federated and kinda identity-less, but it's good to know you're happy there
Die Umweltschutzbehörde der USA versicherte der Öffentlichkeit, die Luft in Lower Manhattean sei sicher zu atmen.
Zehn Jahre lang ließ die USA die Kranken mit den Spätfolgen allein. 2011 wurde endlich ein Gesetz verabschiedet, das den Opfern Hilfe brachte.
Statt den Opfern in den USA zu helfen, hatten die Amerikaner besseres zu tun:
Menschen im Nahen Osten töten.
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Die USA und ihre Verbündeten töteten nach dem 11.09. über 900.000 Menschen in den Hauptkriegsgebieten Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syrien, Jemen, Somalia und Libyen.
Schätzungen zufolge fielen der Rache der USA 3,6 bis 3,8 Millionen Menschen indirekt zum Opfer.
Keiner der dafür Verantwortlichen wurde bis heute zur Rechenschaft gezogen.
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VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.” https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital
I want everyone, especially journalists, to notice the silence of the tech execs about this. This includes people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg whose recent blog posts talk about balancing the benefits and harms of "AI", and don't include Doomer scenarios among the harms.
They are complicit in the misinforming of the public. They are complicit in stoking everyone's fear. They reap the benefits of the Doomer narrative because it is their narrative.
/fin
@emilymbender Honestly I am kinda hoping the efforts to loose legislators land at "Okay, we have to regulate it as if it's going to kill us all", because i the narrative (bullshit as it may be) is 'this has a 10% chance to kill everyone in the next 10 years" - then it's more dangerous than a nuke, and they just, like... giving it to random people? to literal children?
Legislators who actually *believe* this narrative & regulate it as if it were really that dangerous would be a fitting outcome.
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Press 'Q' to quit simulation 
Leo
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@gino ammetto di avere ampiamente goduto a vedere quel bastardo di Assad doversene fuggire. La guerra civile siriana è uno dei capitoli più cupi e meno compresi di questi decenni. L'attore più pulito oggettivamente è stato il PYD ma con errori di calcolo enormi, come la non belligeranza con i governativi che è stato uno dei fattori che ha fatto si che l'opposizione araba democratica e di sinistra venisse fagocitata dai tagliagola islamisti al servizio dell'imperialismo turco. Il collasso del Rojava è la conseguenza della mancata saldatura effettiva tra la componente kurda e la componente araba. Hezbollah, Assad, Russia e Turchia sono i responsabili di centinaia di migliaia di morti e di questo ci si dimentica troppo spesso.
A proposito di Turchia ricordiamoci anche di che cosa è successo in quegli anni nel Bakur.
A thing I always admired, the way he reacted to a woman he was attracted to. His face just *morphed* into a face of utter delight.
He wouldn't say a thing. But his face would just *light* *up*, and the person in question just knew. I saw him flirt many times, and it always started with that face.
I remember a time, at the gas station, him and 3 or 4 guys, and a rather spectacularly attractive woman was getting her car filled up with gas, and all the guys were pretty much agape.
And she left. No wolf-whistles, or any of that shit. She just got her gas and drove off.
And the guys are all sitting there.
And he says, "Well. You know. If you *like* that sort of thing."
I watched these grown-up men just fucking *fall* *out* laughing.
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The Gemini app is now available for Windows
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-windows/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653699
#HackerNews #GeminiApp #WindowsRelease #TechNews #Innovation #AI
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Electrek: Tesla Autopilot was on in I-35 crash that killed its driver
"...A 2024 Tesla Model Y ran off Interstate 35 in rural Missouri, struck a guardrail, and killed its driver, a 64-year-old woman from Raymore. Troopers reported a single-vehicle wreck and said the car “went off the road.”
What they didn’t say, and likely didn’t know, is that Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data...."
https://electrek.co/2026/09/10/tesla-driver-assist-i35-guardrail-pattonsburg/
OH snap. The full Distance in Static album by Bonobo is out now 👀 Must've released on UK or East Coast time.
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absolute scenes at DFW as all aircraft are ground stopped waiting for Air Qatar One to depart.
Controller says he hasnt seen any planes move.
Pilot says “what about catering trucks?”
Everyone laughs
- source: atc.com app
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"So why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died?"
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My father was very good with humorous language. He was the center of a group of men, working men, and he would go hang out sometimes at his son-in-law's--Eddie was actually his best friend at the time--gas station.
He'd sit in the tiny back room of the gas station, and guys would come by for gas, but stop in, cuz Harry was there, and have a few beers.
A thing I always admired, the way he reacted to a woman he was attracted to. His face just *morphed* into a face of utter delight.
He wouldn't say a thing. But his face would just *light* *up*, and the person in question just knew. I saw him flirt many times, and it always started with that face.
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And surprise surprise.
Elon Musk drops $100 million targeting Dems with anti-trans ads.
Looking at the ads, it appears he is ramping up the ads targeting Dems who already caved.
This includes Turek and Talarico.
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May I ask how you managed to make the walking on window titles work? Do you use a specific Wayland protocol to query the window geometries? Is that the hacky part?
@jcm Wayland doesn't know about this, I have to ask the compositor. I use sway, so I just call get_tree a bunch, parse it, and treat every rectangle top as a walkable floor.
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I support this proposal. I could also support many variations on the theme. Kudos to the 10 co-authors.
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The gold, green, bronze, hybrid... labels were never a systematic classification. They evolved like the winding streets in the center of an old city. Plus, they're opaque and widely misunderstood.
