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🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ says it will deploy federal election monitors to six states during the 2026 primary season. The announcement comes the same day DOJ threatened election officials with potential criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting.…
❗️Jackpot: Russia’s largest oil refinery, the Omsk Oil Refinery, has suspended operations after a Ukrainian drone attack, Reuters reported. Sources said the CDU-10 crude distillation unit was damaged, while CDU-11 was shut down after supporting infrastructure was hit, disrupting about 75% of capacity. #Ukraine
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Pic 1: How the US sees itself.
Pic 2: How the rest of the world sees the US.
Little poppie seeds growing in my sketchbook :) #watercolor #inkart #fantasyart #cuteart #drawing
YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood and found inefficiencies, code bloat, security and rookie mistakes lurking in production. 🤣 https://www.fastcompany.com/91520702/y-combinator-garry-tan-agentic-ai-social-media
And they want to replace doctors and many other critical jobs with AI. Lmao.
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Zuckerberg’s biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4 trillion
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-meta-fine-trillion-b3010281.html
Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users.
Bring it on!!!
A complex tiling in a fountain, Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, Morocco
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #IslamicPattern #IslamicGeometricDesign #Girih #Morocco
Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian S-400 launcher in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast that had been used to launch ballistic missiles toward Kyiv.
The "Raid" regiment said it detected and struck the launcher during Russia's overnight mass attack on 6 July.
📹413th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment "Raid"
#Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent #GunViolence, Suppressing Reports
As the admin works to expand gun rights, hospitals & community groups have lost funding, & reports on preventing firearm injuries have vanished from government websites.
#law #guns #idiocracy #MassShootings #SchoolShootings #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/politics/trump-gun-violence-cdc-dhs-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v1A.iZgk.Ruon9-l1ZzPF&smid=nytcore-ios-share
@eunews Actually a full stop is missing from the translation between "independent" and "News". Fortunately independent news services are not suspended.
Hungarian public media goes off air
At 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the broadcast of the Hungarian public television was suspended. The message displayed on the screen reads:
“Public media should not lie. We apologize for having done so for many years! Public media is currently being transformed to ensure that in the future, it remains trustworthy and independent News services are temporarily suspended. Please stay with us!”
https://telex.hu/english/2026/07/07/hungarian-public-media-goes-off-air
Lewis Carroll's original sepia ink illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound @britishlibrary
Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot.
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
📢 My project on uncertainty and causality in climate models got funded, so now I am looking for a PhD student!
Open to a candidate with an MA in Philosophy with science/numerical modelling expertise or, vice versa, a candidate with a Master's in Science or Engineering with a strong interest and preferably some prior courses in Philosophy of Science.
The deadline is Aug 31, 2026, but we may start inviting good candidates earlier than that.
More info: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60705419?lang=en
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I find it's important to explain to ordinary Americans what fascism is and why it's bad and why their friendly neighborhood Democratic incumbent of a thousand years is all over it because most of them only get a whitewashed "red versus blue" version of the story.
I don't know that it does much good, especially with the VBNMW crowd, who are often willfully ignorant. But I feel like capitalizing on popular discontent with a broken system is a start.
I have a high quality poster of the periodic table saved onto my phone's local storage. It's just in case I get picked up by aliens and I need a basis for communication.
A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow.
[📸 Mark Ham / frugalbastard]
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 431 ppm in June 2026
10 years ago June averaged about 407 ppm
Data available at https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/