Trump threatens further sanctions on Russian trade when US trade with Russia is so sanctioned already it's like half a percent of Russia's export. The US imported less than 3B worth of trade goods in 2024 from Russia. India is over 60B, China is over 80B.
Also, the *Soviet* WW II losses were about about 27M people -- and among those 5-8M were Ukrainian. 60M is more in line with the total loss of life in WW II which was 50-55M civilian and 20-25M military.
Give it an election or two and AfD will be on government in Germany and then you will have real Nazis running Russia, Germany and the United States. There's no need for a Third World War , they won.
Trump, day zero, 62 square miles on fire. 3,531,843 to go. I am sure he can do it.
Congratulations to the US Democrats for giving Trump a chance to hit the ground running by this TikTok nonsense. Nice job. Real nice.
#Github introduced sub issues , this and that.
It still doesn't support the basic collaboration Drupal issues have supported for decades (!): multiple non-maintainers working on the same issue.
The Toyota Prius Transformed the Auto Industry
https://spectrum.ieee.org/toyota-prius-transformed-auto-industry
Yes and the upcoming hydrogen cell collaboration between Toyota and BMW will transform it again. Lithium battery based cars are a mistake and hopefully will be replaced with real cleaner alternatives.
The fires in Los Angeles are devastating.
However, while certainly humanity as a total and certain local people had a role in it breaking out, the houses were not destroyed by human activity.
Imagine an area a mere three times larger where you can not flee from and is systematically being destroyed by an army. The number of dead are a *thousand times* higher than the LA fire.
Welcome to Gaza.
J.K. Rowling Compares Neil Gaiman to Harvey Weinstein, says literary crowd has been strangely "muted" when compared to Weinstein's allegations
How cute. Her actual issue is the outrage against her is much louder than it was against Gaiman but the outrage *did* happen. Also, the literary crowd is much smaller and the money involved is much smaller. Gaiman certainly held power over his victims -- like being their landlord -- but Weinstein was presiding over careers potentially making fortunes.
"Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin"
This is the future of money. Toss your laptop, lose your money. Yes. This is the future we want.
I fact checked https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113822909756877628 "something about the FreeOurFeeds campaign is off", at least seven out of the nine is indeed thick with AI. This indeed smells. cc @pluralistic
Two has AI in their company name.
New_ Public: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/grant/2024-5
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherifea/details/experience/
Mozilla is well known to focus on AI to the detriment of Firefox.
Oh look Paul Graham published another essay where he firmly places himself in the white supremacist misogynist camp. Even someone on the orange site recognized the problem -- of course it's downvoted massively. Also, even this comment shied away from the conclusion stated above.
Of course, already in 2005 he wrote "I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon"
Railroad Tycoon II is on the orange site today (I do not visit it, I visit https://hackurls.com/ so I see their titles) and this reminded me of Industry Tycoon turns out it was Industry Giant nonetheless I loved it so much a quarter century ago and look, https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129570/Industry_Giant_40/ Industry Giant 4.0 is in Early Access. And comments point me towards Transport Fever. I will check. I need more game, PoE2 is not great as expected, PoE1 league is absent and Civ 7 is not yet.
Say what.
At every step we are shocked at what Matt Mullenweg does and think "this is it, it can't be more unhinged than this" and every step we are wrong. This man really needs professional help.
In case you are not familiar, just the first name made one of the most popular WordPress plugins, the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin, it runs on more than 10% of all websites.
No search, replies invisible and yet some think mastodon could be mainstream. Laughable.
#adhd peeps, I just found the most ADHD friendly lock in existence. https://yalehome.co.uk/keyless-connected-smart-lock-in-black/
Not only does it open without any keys but when the battery dies (*someone* forgot to replace it, eh?) one can buy a 9V battery from the nearest store and plug it from the outside.
Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly
Extremely strong year start.
Wishing you all Happy New Year sounds trite, hollow and frankly, it's a lie.
Wishing you all a year where you can find safety and stay healthy. And, maybe, if you can, also find a little happiness.
You matter. You are loved.
#Trans rights are human rights.
All the politicians praise Carter.
None follows him.
Decades ago he admitted it was a mistake not to address agricultural subsidies. Did any later presidents fix the problems? Of course not.
He has an entire book with the title Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Well. I don't think any presidents read that.