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Charlie: He said "Now what sort of husband was he"? "Oh", she said "one of the best. You couldn't wish for a better one". She said, "We used to lie in bed, Sunday mornings, and hear the church bells ringing. We used to go up with the ding and come down with the dong". And she'd say "if it hadn't been for that fire engine going by, at the bloody time, he'd be alive now".
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Watched: The Librarians. Really good, covering the book bans in Texas and elsewhere. Lots of stories about what it felt like at school board meetings and in libraries. 📺
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human. “They aren’t people, Rick. They’re just bodies. We have to stop thinking of them as if they’re still alive.” – The Walking Dead “They’re not […] -
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VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer...
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.”
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Snake Oilers: watchTowr, XBOW and CoreView
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:
- watchTowr: We’re all familiar with watchTowr’s research, but what do they actually do?
- XBOW: The AI pentesting company pitches its approach
- CoreView: Your M365 tenant is probably a security disaster. Tame it with CoreView!
This episode is also available on YouTube.
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The Simpsons Switcheroo
At the beginning of a clip from this podcast episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Matt Groening, Conan talks about one of his favorite things they did on The Simpsons:
It’s a phenomenon that the Simpsons did so beautifully, which is — and we did this with Homer a lot — but Homer is not the smartest guy in the world, but if it’s funny for him to have a certain knowledge of something or turn a phrase, suddenly he has it.
And one of my favorites of that is he’s sitting around the table and Lisa’s despondent. Something didn’t go well for her and she doesn’t think she’s going to get to go to a good school now. And she’s sitting at the table and she said, “Oh no, now I’ll never get to go to an Ivy League school. I’ll have to go to Vasser.” Which is just this like — by the way, my wife went to Vasser, it’s a very good school. But it was just this thing where in Lisa’s little world, oh my god, I’ve been I’ve been ruined. I’ll have to go to Vasser. And Homer like slams a table and says, “There’ll be no Vasser bashing in this house.”
I loved this about the show too. And it was part of a general thing the writers did where sometimes characters would play against type. So Marge became reckless, Homer was smart/sensitive, Bart was organized, and Lisa was a giggly little girl. Those moments helped make the show and when, after the epic run in the early-to-mid 90s, the show became almost exclusively about how dumb & crass Homer was, it was much less rich and entertaining. (thx, mark)
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The AI safety vibe shift
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“ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of...
“Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces…” This is bonkers…letters made from Battleship pieces, Connect Four boards, playing cards, wooden railroad tracks, etc.
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Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by...
Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by setting up a little free library of VHS tapes & DVDs. “Take a movie, leave a movie.” Love this.
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How I Accidentally Made An RSS Reader
Over the past 4 years, I’ve been working on an article reader, smry.ai.
For most of the time I had only a rudimentary understanding of RSS, so I didn’t think to add an RSS reader to the product.
I had never used a traditional RSS reader myself, relying on news apps like google news (which themselves are heavily reliant on RSS)
But trying RSS readers like Feedly pushed me to expand the product, and a small subset of users really liked it—it became an agglomeration of a read-it-later app and an RSS reader, which I quite liked in theory. At this point I still didn’t really understand the depth of RSS and what it’s capable of. It wasn’t clear that it is the lifeblood of every news app on the planet, custom aggregators like daily.dev, intelligence/monitoring products like Feedly Intelligence, is the primary distribution layer for the world’s podcasts, and much more.
Still, I couldn’t find myself using the RSS features in my own product until I added an API to manage RSS feeds with my local agent. This became a major unlock for me, and suddenly I had groups of feeds for competitor monitoring, developer news, and market opportunities. Even updates in my software dependencies that my agents use to improve the product.
I still wasn’t passively scrolling the RSS feeds themselves—mostly still using the reader to read individual articles my agent recommended, but my agents loved it and pushed RSS to the absolute limit, turning things I’d never expect could be feeds into feeds.
By doing this, I discovered a couple things:
1. Feeds are massively important for agents. Not just news/blogs/podcasts, but also socials, websites monitoring—almost anything can become a feed, and agents need their own ways of keeping track of what is ‘seen’ and what is new. This became a major bet for Smry, and why I’m putting a lot of effort into the API/MCP.
2. Agents can manage far more feeds than humans. An agent can easily follow and track hundreds or thousands of feeds, while for most people that takes years to accumulate.Despite this, the product still has major issues.
1. most users still don’t know what RSS is. following feeds is weird to them, as I feel they are used to algorithmic feeds.
2. while following hundreds of feeds is fine for agents, for most consumers this is not really that useful. for consumers, it feels like they would rather follow topics (think daily.dev) or have a deeply personalized feed.My question for you guys is how do you think I can make the product more usable to the traditional RSS reader audience, and what would make it better for non-RSS folks?
There are folks here that have a much better understanding of RSS than me—is there something obvious that I’m missing that would make it substantially better?
Is there something I can build that would make you switch from your existing RSS reader, or is there something I can build that you’d use together with your existing RSS reader?
I’ve completely fallen in love with RSS over the past few months, and feel like there’s so much to be built!
My goal here is to build something people come back to every single day, and that shapes how they discover and monitor what’s going on around them.
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Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by...
Gloria Steinem’s final essay, posthumously published by the New Yorker. “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come.”
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TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for...
TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in it (for cooling).
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Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice
There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there’s one thing it’s most known for, it’s the unwillingness to take a loss and move on. That’s why the DOJ is still trying to imprison/jettison into a war-torn […] -
Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film...
Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
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Took a walk the long way around the block from the coffee shop. Austin skyline down the rail line near 5th.
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Maps of How Each Region Of The US Voted In Every Presidential Election From 1948 to 2024
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Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name
Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespionage firm” that “stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe” — that it convinced an Indian court to make Reuters take the story […] -
Quatre ans après Bouddhisme, la loi du silence ce dernier continue
Il y a quatre ans, presque jour pour jour, ARTE diffusait “Bouddhisme, la loi du silence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcbpwOzoejw le documentaire d’Élodie Emery et Wandrille Lanos.
Un véritable ovni télévisuel, qui a pourtant failli ne jamais être diffusé.
Je le sais de première main : Élodie Emery, que je connais bien, m’a raconté les pressions inadmissibles exercées par le « simple moine » Matthieu Ricard sur les journalistes, ainsi que sa tentative d’obtenir la déprogrammation du documentaire. Son avocate avait également exigé le retrait des deux heures d’entretien qu’il leur avait accordées.
Encore aujourd’hui la version de Mathieu Ricard est pleine trou, tiraillé qu’il est entre les intérêts de sa maison d’édition, sa dévotion absente de tout esprit critique quand il s’agit de Bouddhisme et le soin de son image publique qui est en elle même un produit marketing imparable.
Malgré ces pressions, le documentaire a été diffusé.
Et depuis ?
Depuis, rien — ou presque rien — n’a changé à l’échelle des institutions bouddhistes.
Les victimes d’autres « centres » qui ont osé parler publiquement se sont retrouvées ostracisées, accusées de nuire à la propagation du Dharma, parfois menacées du « Vajra Hell » et rendues responsables du risque de détourner du bouddhisme les êtres qu’il faudrait encore convertir — autrement dit, vous, les non-bouddhistes.
Quant aux autorités spirituelles, elles ont surtout répondu en privé : quelques lettres de dignitaires ou de « maîtres spirituels », jusqu’au dalaï-lama lui-même en 2023 ainsi que la lettre du Maître de Ricard qu’il a fallu coaché pendant des semaines pour arriver à accoucher d’une souris.
Rien qui ressemble à une réponse publique, collective et contraignante à la hauteur de ce qui a été révélé.
Le sujet peut donc être considéré comme clos.
Tout ce qui était connu depuis les années 1960 et 1970, puis soigneusement glissé sous le tapis, continue d’être traité comme un problème d’image plutôt que comme un problème de protection des victimes.
Pire, des “Maîtres” continuent de vendre le Vajrayana comme une panacée universelle dont il ne faut pas changer une syllabe, on est bien dans une forme de fondamentalisme religieux drapé derrière un nuage d’encens.
Des hordes de « bouddhistes », si placides et si profondément bienveillants lorsqu’il s’agit de défendre leurs bouddhismes, continuent de se prosterner devant des figures dont les violences ont pourtant été abondamment documentées.
Chögyam Trungpa et Sogyal Lakar sont morts sans avoir eu à répondre de ces faits devant la justice. Robert Spatz, alias Lama Kunzang, a quant à lui été définitivement condamné en Belgique — sans que cela empêche certains de continuer à préserver son héritage spirituel et sans que ce dernier soit même contraint d’arrêter les abus sexuels qu’il commet dans le secret de sa villa en Espagne.
D’autres ont discrètement effacé de leur biographie leurs liens avec la secte OKC afin de redevenir présentables et de pouvoir continuer à vendre du Bouddhisme ou des dérivés.
Business as usual.
Rien de très étonnant, finalement. Ce n’est pas une anomalie : c’est le cours normal d’un système qui protège mieux son image que les personnes qu’il a abusé.
Pendant que certains découvrent avec stupeur que « le bouddhisme aussi » peut produire des systèmes d’emprise et de violence, les autres font profil bas en répétant :
« Mon maître, lui, est bien. Il n’a commis aucun abus. »
Comme si c’était une médaille.
Le problème n’a jamais été de déterminer si tous les maîtres bouddhistes sont des agresseurs. Le problème est de comprendre comment la dévotion absolue, le secret, l’isolement, l’absence de contrôle extérieur et la sacralisation du maître permettent aux abus de se produire — puis de durer.
Pendant ce temps, des enfants continuent de subir des violences, notamment sexuelles, dans des institutions monastiques en Asie. Du Népal au Bhoutan, de l’Inde au Tibet, l’autorité religieuse, l’isolement et l’absence de regard extérieur peuvent rendre les abus possibles et leur dénonciation presque impossible.
Mais l’image des « petits moines » est tellement romantique.
Le public occidental a été si profondément conditionné à considérer le bouddhisme comme une simple « philosophie de vie », nécessairement pacifique et bienveillante, que toute critique paraît sacrilège. Il ne reste alors plus beaucoup de place pour la réflexion, l’esprit critique et le simple bon sens.
Quatre ans plus tard, Bouddhisme, la loi du silence n’a pas vieilli.
Ce n’est pas un compliment.
C’est la preuve que la loi du silence n’était pas seulement son titre. C’était son sujet — et elle continue.
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Loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles : l’espoir et les doutes
L’examen de la loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles a commencé à l’Assemblée nationale. Que prévoit ce texte ? Quels débats fait-il naître ? Les 3 milliards d’euros nécessaires à son application seront-ils débloqués ? On en débat avec nos invitées Agnès Aoudaï, coprésidente du Mouvement des mères isolées ; Iris Ané, responsable pédagogique de l’association Face à l’inceste ; Gabrielle Cathala, députée La France insoumise du Val-d’Oise ; Sarah Durocher, présidente nationale du Planning familial ; Aurore Koechlin, maîtresse de conférences en sociologie à l’université Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Contretemps, autrice de La Norme gynécologique (2022, éd. Amsterdam) et La Révolution féministe (2019, éd. Amsterdam) ; Maud Petit, députée MoDem du Val-de-Marne ; Céline Thiébault-Martinez, députée du Parti socialiste de la Seine-et-Marne.
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Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn’t air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube channel, Kimmel stated during his latest late night Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue: “You know, for a lot of years, […] -
Daily Deal: SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit for Arduino
The SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit is your gateway to hands-on learning on robotics, coding, and Mars-like adventures! Its durable aluminum frame and rocker-bogie suspension easily handle tough terrains, while smart sensors ensure smooth navigation. It’s compatible with the Arduino UNO R3, runs on solar power, and includes real-time FPV with app-based control for day […] -
DHS Feeding Citizens’ Bank Records To Predictive Policing Units To Find Drivers To Pull Over
Every government does stuff because it can, not because it needs to. But this current administration has been far more opportunistic than most, doing constitutional recon in areas of unsettled law right up until a court rules that it can’t. (In some cases, it continues to do these things despite having lost in court.) While […] -
AI in AirPods, Apple Watch
At the grocery store this week, I walked by someone who was having trouble figuring out the label of a specific item. He flagged me down. There was a language barrier, but it's kind of heartwarming how much you can communicate just by smiling, pointing, thumbs-up, and inserting a couple words in both languages.
If I had fancy AI-powered AirPods, would I have put them in and translated back and forth more accurately? Probably not in this case. It's great technology, but there is also something more human about working through a small problem together.
One of the frustrations people have with AI is that it is pushed at us all the time, in features that don’t need it. Technology this powerful should be mostly seamless, yet it's so new that it's put in places that are awkward or that increase friction.
Apple had one job for Siri in iOS 27: ship what they promised at WWDC 2024. They've done that, but they've also gone further, experimenting. That's okay, but Apple is so far behind the frontier now, I think it would be a better strategy to focus only on a great foundation. The pace at OpenAI and Anthropic is nuts. Let them push the cutting edge and then bring in the best ideas once they're proven.
And don't forget the human element. That has always been Apple at its best.
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Quick video demo of the new photos picker in Micro.blog for Mac. Much faster to grab a photo from your library in Photos.app.
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Ben Thompson in today's daily update about AI on the Apple Watch:
It does appear that Apple has taken care with this feature, including not making raw transcripts available, even to the Apple Watch owner, but this is an area where I wish the company wasn’t early.
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#562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The metadata lives in a real database. The data stays in plain Parquet. That's the entire format.
Pedro Holanda joined DuckDB in 2018, when it was still a research prototype at CWI. He's the lead DuckLake developer. Guillermo Sanchez Dionis works on DuckLake and the new Quack protocol.
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Good perspective from Dave Winer about the news that Matt Mullenweg is on leave from Automattic:
I didn't want to be the CEO of a tech company, and I expect that being the CEO wasn't really a good fit for Matt either. A CEO's job is very different from being a developer and idea guy which Matt clearly sees himself as. Something has got to give, either you're a good CEO and the product languishes, or you focus on the product, and the company is unmanaged.
This applies to Micro.blog too. I'm not a good CEO and not a good boss. I try to make the web a little better by helping people blog.
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Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share. They originally invested at $85 a share in 2021. That means their market cap has dropped from $7.5 billion to $1.2 billion. My guess is when that happens the CEO if they want to keep their job, has to rethink the whole enterprise. And that usually doesn't happen until they get a new CEO. My guess is that's what we saw play out yesterday.
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Gobsmacked by Automattic, but then...
Fair to say I was gobsmacked by the news late yesterday that Automattic's board had put their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on paid leave. I've read lots of stuff about it, in news articles and in a Hacker News thread. And a lot of posts on Twitter by Matt, and the replies.
Are you a developer or a CEO?
It's a very unusual situation in my experience in tech. Matt was able to raise a lot of money for Automattic, so he has maintained a controlling interest in the company, even though it has raised hundreds of millions of dollars. I left my own startup, voluntarily, when I was a little older than Matt, and I didn't return. I never wanted to be the CEO of a tech company, and I expect that being the CEO wasn't really a good fit for Matt either. A CEO's job is very different from being a developer and idea guy which Matt clearly sees himself as.
Something has got to give, either you're a good CEO and the product languishes, or you focus on the product, and the company is unmanaged. In the cause of WordPress, I'd say it suffered in both areas. When I saw a chart of Matt's direct reports, I immediately saw a problem -- it was very long, iirc 60 people? No one can manage and guide that many people. Most of those people probably never get to talk one-on-one with the boss.
For me, even when I was CEO, I wanted to spend all day working on new software and working with five or six other devs doing the same. Digging back into the past with Frontier these last weeks has reminded me both how good that can be, and how utterly frustrating -- when the people you're working with don't understand the mission. It's not their fault, it's the visionary's job to explain it so they can understand, and that takes time. These days Claude is filling in for all that, and doing a fantastic but at times incredibly frustrating job trying to give me what I'm asking for, while not understanding what I'm asking for. But we move through those disconnects quickly now, compared to how it was a couple of weeks ago. We have the source of truth that we didn't have the last time around, in the 90s, we have the C source code of the kernel, the product we built in the 90s. And Claude is the easiest to manage, so far I only think I detect an ego, it never seems to resent me criticizing its work, sometimes in ALL CAPS with strong language. :-)
WordPress Lite
My wish for WordPress, in all its forms and shapes, is that it broaden its focus. I want a WordPress Lite, I implemented it, and it's sitting here ready to do a good deed for all the parties concerned esp the web and web developers. Maybe someone there will now have the time and be empowered to build out the product line beyond the narrow focus it has now. It doesn't matter what percentage of the web is WordPress, if it isn't going anywhere. The web needs help, and right now WordPress is pretty much asleep in regard to what's going on now in the web. And it could do so much to help the web get back on its feet. It should be a public resource as much as a profit machine for a few companies.
All roads lead to Om
One thing that opened my eyes about what Matt and Automattic are, was his story about how he and Om got together. "All roads lead to Om." What a great line, and based on the story, so true. A lot of things clicked for me then. I remember what a phenomenon Matt was when he arrived in California about 25 years ago? Very good looking young man, polite, quiet and rumored to get Web 2.0 better than anyone. This kind of thing happens in tech, and if you know everyone as Om did, and was liked by everyone, you could manage to hit the ball out of the park, investment-wise, and he did. Click click click. I had the individual facts but had no idea how they were strung together. I played a similar role at times in Silicon Valley, on both sides, as a bright young dude who "gets it" and as the gray beard who recognized the charm of a young new face and helped create a big money reality around it. There is a lot of snake oil in tech, before and even more now, and this one has had a long run, 2.5 decades, but it needs a new direction, because the money people aren't buying the magic any longer. That's probably imho really what Matt's firing is all about.
I actually have more to say about this, but I have to get back to my programming work. If you have a comment, here's a good place to post it.
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Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’
If you enjoy badly written bipartisan protectionist tech legislation designed primarily to coddle giant U.S. companies under the xenophobia-tinged breathless pretense of privacy and national security, you are really going to enjoy the next twelve to twenty-four months. While the U.S. drowns in corrupt kakistocracy, the Chinese are making significant market inroads in everything from […] -
Listening to Hillary Clinton on the news this morning. It’s always like a glimpse into what might’ve been. She actually knows things. Thoughtful, measured. 🇺🇸
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« Nous assistons à une entreprise inédite de prédation de notre modèle social »
Dettes, déficit, modèle social, salaires : ces questions essentielles sont déjà au cœur de la campagne présidentielle. Elles sont posées avec les débats à venir sur le budget 2027, pour lequel le gouvernement est en train de chercher entre 20 et 30 milliards d’économies.
Mais sur ce sujet, les constats se suivent et se ressemblent, souvent de la part de la droite, mais pas seulement : « le modèle social français coûte trop cher », « l’État dépense trop », il faut « réduire, tailler, couper » et, pour certain·es, privatiser.
Autrement dit : « There is no alternative » (« Il n’y a pas d’autres solutions »), célèbre phrase de la première ministre britannique ultra-libérale des années 1980, Margaret Thatcher, qui a fracassé le modèle social anglais.
Malgré tout ce que vous entendez, des solutions alternatives, il y en a…
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- Aurélie Trouvé, économiste, députée La France insoumise de Seine-Saint Denis.
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Countries With A Larger Military Than The UK In 1900 vs 2026
The map above supposedly comes from the IISS (The International Institute for Strategic Studies) and shows which countries in 1900 (using modern borders) had more active miliary personnel than the United Kingdom in 1900 compared to today. Getting data for the numbers in 1900 is actually difficult (can’t find them published online), but Data Is […] -
Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner ! Tired of misleading cookie ba...
Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!
Tired of misleading cookie banners?
The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful.
We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!
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Corporate Vagina: Star Stone on OneTaste (Part 2)
In Part 2, Star gets into the red flags that finally became impossible to ignore at OneTaste: missing consent and accountability protocols, sexual boundary violations, spiritual bypassing, gaslighting, and an organization that seemed to have more “trust the process” than actual process. She shares how she slowly pulled away, eventually leaving the Bay Area, rebuilding her life, and finding her way back to herself through therapy, community, and the very thing she once avoided: feeling everything in her body.
Star also talks about turning her experience into a solo theater show, complete with original songs about red flags, narcissism, orgasm, and—because apparently the universe demanded it—corporate vagina. We talk about the unregulated wellness industry, spiritualized intimacy, predatory influencers, and the tools every sexual or spiritual seeker needs: ask questions, check credentials, find out what happens when someone says no, and remember that “no” is a complete sentence. We’ll also share a few minutes of Star’s show at the end, so prepare for trauma, time, and comedy to make one very entertaining baby.
Follow Star at starstonespeaks.com, on Instagram @starstonespeaks, and The Wild Project: thewildproject.org
Star performs Cl*t Cult September 10 and 11 at 10:30pm at Under St Marks Theater in NYC: https://tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1495
Also check her out at Brooklyn Comedy Collective on October 4 at 7pm.
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of sexual assault, rape, sexualized practices, nudity, orgasmic meditation, coercive control, gaslighting, spiritual bypassing, sexual boundary violations, financial exploitation, communal living, and trauma recovery.
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Inside the CIA and MI6 on 9/11 (w/ John McLaughlin, CIA Deputy Director on September 11th)
Part Two of our two-part series marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 reunites former leaders of the US and UK intelligence services, both of whom were in high office on September 11, 2001. Former deputy director of the CIA John McLaughlin joins former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove and co-host Kate McCann to give the insider’s perspective on the intelligence world’s response to the attacks. McLaughlin details what the CIA knew beforehand, the immediate aftermath inside CIA headquarters, and the rapid attribution to al-Qaeda. He also discusses the power of the US-UK "special relationship," the surge in CIA resources after 9/11, the Bush administration's push toward the Iraq War, the effects of the global war on terror on American civil liberties, and why the war in Ukraine is the single most important geopolitical issue today. In this episode: (00:00) Emotion is a Luxury in Intelligence (01:53) John McLaughlin Introduction (03:03) Pre-9/11 Threats (07:17) Why Was 9/11 A Surprise? (14:13) Considering the "What Ifs" (15:52) M16 Rushes to DC (22:46) CIA on 9/11 (25:12) Post-9/11 Intelligence Overhaul (34:16) Origins of the Iraq Focus (47:17) Legacy of 9/11 in America (57:42) One Decision: Importance of the Ukraine Conflict (01:03:00) Takeaways and Wrap Up Hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove (former MI6 Chief) and co-host Kate McCann (Political Editor at Times Radio). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdrl.fm -
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Jonathan Swan’s Dive into Trump’s Reality
As Trump’s second administration pursues a radically different playbook from his first, Jon is joined by Jonathan Swan, New York Times reporter and co-author of the book "Regime Change." Together, they discuss what’s changed between Trump’s first term and now, how to puncture the president’s reality distortion bubble, and the craft behind a great interview. Plus, Jon takes listeners’ questions about causing political diabetes and Trump’s 9/11 efforts. This episode is brought to you by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through our link https://groundnews.com/stewart AVOCADO GREEN MATTRESS - Find an Avocado near you or shop online at https://AvocadoGreenMattress.com/TWS — and check out their mattress and bedding sale! BOMBAS - Head over to https://Bombas.com/weekly and use code WEEKLY for 20% off your first purchase. SMALLS - For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/TWS Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Associate Producer - Rebecca Rottenberg Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Data Vampires Redux: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)
Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Data Empires is coming out in October. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 2 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.
- People Before Profit TD Brid Smith, Tu Nube Seca Mi Río organizer Aurora Gomez Delgado, and King’s College London lecturer Sebastian Lehuede were interviewed for this episode.
- Some pieces by Dara Kerr in NPR, Sarah Emerson and Emily Baker-White in Forbes, and Hannah Daly in The Irish Times were cited.
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De 2010 à 2013, j’ai été assez actif dans plusieurs mouvements citoyens qui ont...
De 2010 à 2013, j’ai été assez actif dans plusieurs mouvements citoyens qui ont vu le jour à cette époque, notamment celui des « Indignés ».
Et quand je vois aujourd’hui le traitement médiatique réservé à Mars Attacks — son « front mou », son « manque d’interlocuteur clair », son supposé « noyautage » — ça me rappelle pas mal de souvenirs.
Des souvenirs d’un appareil politique belge totalement incapable d’incarner une démocratie réelle et qui, lorsqu’il se heurte à une mobilisation citoyenne qu’il ne contrôle pas, reproduit toujours les mêmes réflexes. Avec, en soutien, un appareil médiatique largement intoxiqué par l’entre-soi politique.
La réaction consiste alors à attendre que la tempête passe, à décrédibiliser le mouvement, à minimiser ce qu’il représente, à chercher qui se « cache derrière » plutôt qu’à écouter ce qu’il dit.
Et pendant ce temps, on continue à pénaliser l’ensemble de la société avec des mesures profondément désastreuses. Du très classique en Belgique : tailler dans la population, les précaires, les services publics et une classe moyenne déjà sur les genoux, tout en préservant « les marchés » et les 5 ou 10 % les plus riches, qui concentrent une part immense du patrimoine du pays.
Puis le service public sort ce genre d’article :
On y retrouve précisément les insinuations venues du monde politique : qui se cache derrière ? qui manipule qui ? Et le fait que certains profs soient également membres de partis politiques devient soudain suspect.
Mais on est en démocratie, non ?
Depuis quand le fait d’avoir une appartenance politique disqualifie-t-il quelqu’un de participer à un mouvement social ? Et surtout, en quoi cela permet-il de discréditer les revendications d’un mouvement né dans les écoles du pays, qui a justement tout le mérite d’exister par lui-même et pour lui-même, dans l’intérêt des profs comme des élèves ?
Pendant ce temps, le monde politique crache sur les citoyennes et citoyens qu’il est censé représenter, puis s’interroge gravement sur la « radicalisation de la société ».
Comme si cette radicalisation était apparue spontanément.
Comme si la dégradation du débat public, la perte de confiance, le sentiment d’impuissance démocratique et le mépris social n’avaient aucun rapport avec des décennies de fonctionnement politique.
À force de vider la démocratie de sa substance, il ne faut peut-être pas s’étonner que les citoyens finissent par chercher d’autres manières de se faire entendre.
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Found a bug on my “webmention sender” plugin for #indiekit I’m sorry to everyone...
Found a bug on my “webmention sender” plugin for #indiekit
I’m sorry to everyone who receive an old webmention from 2017 :))
Backgog it is so that I fix this once and for all !
coupled with my fork of indiekit’s own webmention plugin I can do things I always wanted my site to be able to do regarding webmentions : moderation !
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Stanford Psychologist: 7 Small Things You Can Do Right Now to Enjoy Life More
You don’t have to wait for your life to get easier to start enjoying it.
Today, Mel sits down with Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a renowned health psychologist, award-winning Stanford University lecturer, and bestselling author whose work focuses on stress, resilience, and joy.
She’s here to show you how to feel more alive again by making 7 small shifts.
And you already have everything you need to get started.
Dr. McGonigal will walk you through your body and brain’s built-in resources for joy, connection, hope, and courage, and show you how to put them to work.
Your muscles, for example, are like a pharmacy inside your body, releasing “hope molecules” when you move. And you don’t have to crush a workout to get started. A walk with your dog or a little dancing in your kitchen counts.
One of Dr. McGonigal’s biggest insights: You need joy precisely because life can be hard. Those moments of laughter, closeness, and pleasure give you reasons to keep going, and you can learn how to create more of them.
And you can practice these mood-boosting shifts on your next walk, between errands, or while spending time with someone you love.You’ll learn:
–What joy really does for you and why your brain needs it
–How your muscles can make hope – seriously
–How to make stress your friend and use it to your advantage
–How to use a favorite song to shift your mood and get yourself going
–How to turn a meaningful memory into courage you can use today
–How to train your attention to notice more of the good around you
–3 research-backed sources of hope you can tap into when you need a lift
You have not lost your ability to feel joy. And you don’t have to wait for it to find you.
You’ll leave this conversation with small things you can do today to feel more like yourself, connect with people, and get more enjoyment out of the life you’re living.
For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.
If you liked this episode, listen to this one next: How to Stop Negative Thoughts & Reset Your Mind for Positive Thinking.
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1 Of 2 Children Dead In PA Confirmed To Be From Measles
I want to start this whole thing off with a disclaimer. Nothing in this post should be misconstrued as gloating, as being pleased, or as having a connotation that is anything beyond sadness and the need for change. Nobody is happy to have the obvious confirmed when it comes to a child’s death. There is […] -
Veuve à 27 ans - teaser
Mélissa a 23 ans quand elle rencontre Kevin*. Entre eux, tout est simple, fluide, naturel. Mais quelques mois plus tard, Kevin commence à perdre pied. Troubles psychiatriques, hospitalisation, traitements... Mélissa reste à ses côtés et l'accompagne pendant plusieurs années.
Jusqu'au jour où leur histoire bascule définitivement et où Mélissa devient veuve à seulement 27 ans.
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La Grèce antique : un paradis gay ?
L’Antiquité grecque avec ses guerriers hyper virils et hétéros est-elle un cliché fabriqué par le cinéma ? Dans les péplums hollywoodiens, l’homosexualité n’est presque jamais représentée. Pourtant, les relations sexuelles et amoureuses entre hommes n’avaient rien de honteux. Elles étaient au contraire fréquentes, quoique très codifiées.
Alors pourquoi l’homosexualité était mieux acceptée à l’époque que dans beaucoup de sociétés occidentales plus récentes ? Comment les relations entre hommes étaient-elle perçues par les grecs ? Et selon quelles normes se déroulaient-elles ?
Pour en parler, Tal Madesta reçoit l’historien Nicolas Cartelet, auteur de Sous la jupe d’Achille, l’homosexualité grecque entre mythes et histoire, 2024 (Éds. La Musardine).
Toutes les références citées dans l'émission sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/la-grece-antique-un-paradis-gay
CRÉDITS : Les Couilles sur la table est un podcast créé par Victoire Tuaillon produit par Binge (URBANIA AUDIO). Cet entretien a été préparé, mené et monté par Tal Madesta, enregistré le 12 juin au Studio 48L (Paris 10e). Supervision éditoriale et incarnation : Naomi Titti. Réalisation et mixage : Paul Bertiaux. Responsable des productions éditoriales : Charlotte Baix. Assistante de production et d’édition : Aude Miquel. Rédacteur en chef : Thomas Rozec. Direction de production : Albane Fily. Responsable administrative et financière : Adrienne Marino. Responsable sponsoring : Betty-Maeva Wendling. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Camille Bernard (Upian). Composition identité sonore : Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Voix identité sonore : Bonnie El Bokeili. Direction de contenu : Sophie Marchand. Binge est une marque URBANIA.
Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
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Jason Snell blogged about all the Apple news today, including the slightly controversial Apple Watch recording feature:
Our culture may ultimately reject even the most privacy-focused AI recording features, whether they come in camera glasses or attentive smartwatches. But if there’s any valid, non-creepy case to be made for this sort of technology, someone needs to make it.
I've long wanted an easy way to record quick notes that are transcribed and synced, but I don't want to record other people. Perhaps a better place to start would've been for it to ignore all voices except our own.
