Trump calls renewed Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries a "disgrace" forgetting to mention that Russia was the one to break his "energy sector cease fire".
The bully gets away with bullying, the kid that fights back gets sent to the principal's office.
The sooner Trump starts being treated like a Russian asset, the better.
Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls.
“Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-doj-voter-data-lawsuits/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Law #Judge #DOJ #Vote #Voting #Election #Lawsuit #Legal
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@cowtan/117450245088149314
"Trump didn’t even betray Ukraine for cheap fuel. He did it so he could create a narrative blaming someone else for expensive fuel."
The Onion got it painfully right after Uvalde, and don't tolerate anyone today framing this as a mental health issue, or a missed signal by local law enforcement, or a hard question about what our society has become. https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668/
Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low Earth Orbit until the mess cleans itself up, if it cleans itself up. No weather satellites for forecasting, no GPS, and definitely no crewed spaceflight. All because of ego and greed. It must be stopped.
You used to rely on MapQuest for printing out driving directions before GPS navigation was a thing. Now it's helping to fight mass surveillance. https://this.weekinsecurity.com/mapquest-now-lets-you-locate-nearby-surveillance-cameras-like-flock/
#JohnBrown and a dozen #abolitionists seized the armoury at #HarpersFerry on #ThisDayInHistory in 1859, hoping to arm a #slave uprising. Slavery never truly ended in the US, and all it takes for evil systems to flourish is for good people to do nothing.
#JohnBrownDidNothingWrong
💬 EPP MEP Dirk Gotink believes the European Union should stop issuing the “full range of visas” to Russian citizens while #Russia continues its attacks on Ukraine.
Palestinian olive trees torched as settler pogroms escalate during harvest https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/16/palestinian-olive-trees-torched-as-settler-pogroms-escalate-during-harvest?traffic_source=rss #ShowTypes
Update on my post from yesterday. I am significantly less measured this time: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/
Today I learned the Berliner word for sidewalk (seen here, central Berlin) is Trottoir, not to be confused with Töröö, which is the German word for posting in the Fediverse
Following the Trump administration’s example, China is now proposing export restrictions on LLMs
"The proposal would restrict exports of core technology for models containing at least 2 trillion parameters — like Kimi K3 or Qwen3.8-Max — or ranking among the world’s top 10 on measures including performance, usage and safety. The curb would cover model weights, checkpoints, source code & architecture.”
Europe needs to build its own models, and show a third-way for the 🌍
https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/xwfyrth/art/2026/art_d7661dbf62794345a221404f82a25959.html
Elon thinks his ITAR-restricted roadster is all-innovative but Playmobil has shipped a non ITAR restricted flying car for more than a decade
submitting a critical CVE in Germany is like...
“The order to restrict Ukraine’s military-grade Starshield satellite communications system came directly from inside the White House, according to a Reuters investigation published Thursday, Oct. 15, revealing that Washington moved to limit technology essential to Ukraine’s battlefield operations and defense against Russian drones.”
Tell me again that Karp is Jewish.
"The Frankfurt School’s Habermas philosophy culminates in communication free of domination, which is the inverse of a surveillance-power operator. Palantir is the total rejection of the school of thought this video tries to pull in and blame for Palantir’s CEO. The only thing in common is… they’re both Jews, which weirdly seems to be a particularly important point to this narrator!"
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/if-youre-listening-fascist-ceo-of-palantir-is-inherently-sinister/
Palantir is the Nazi playbook in London because of a 1960s German grudge that became Peter Thiel's life work.
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/peter-thiel-represents-the-hidden-genealogy-of-american-fascism/
Palantir: sues a mayor for one sentence about its values.
Hitler: sued editors for accurate sentences about him, until courts made the sentence the crime.
Palantir: asks, through Tom Watson, whether the rules are "still applied fairly to everyone."
Hitler: swore at Leipzig in 1930 that his party was lawful and demanded it be treated like any other.
Palantir: makes the Mayor state in writing that values were never weighed and that the city has no policy against the company.
Hitler: made true statements about the party punishable as malice under the 1934 Heimtücke law.
Palantir's CEO recently announced that "the postwar neutering of Germany" must be undone. He means bring Nazism back again. London did the neutering. He means destroy London.
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/software-that-dominates-palantir-wants-denazification-undone/
This is the Nazi playbook. I can't say it clearly enough. Palantir is Nazism in broad daylight.
The NSDAP's preferred weapon against newspapers in the 1920s was the libel suit. Hitler sued repeatedly, and sympathetic courts made every accurate description of him a punishable act for the editor who printed it.
Watson's line about whether the rules "still apply fairly to everyone" is that playbook.
The aggrieved-equal-treatment claim comes from the company that equips a genocide and a deportation machine.
Palantir is Nazism, founded by a German man raised to continue Nazism, who wrote that freedom and democracy are incompatible and run by a CEO who went to Germany to study Nazism, who says his software exists to scare his enemies and kill them.
https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-settles-dispute-with-sadiq-khan/
RE: https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/117197034208580662
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