#video #toread about the aestheticization of #politics in modern #fascism
on 02026-09-22autistici.org (the Autistici/Inventati collective) have lost their domain because of #USA sanctions imposing #censorship to silence their speech about #politics, either because they support the PKK or because they are pro-Palestinian activists
on 02026-08-28Appalling #WSJ #news: “U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications.” Specifically “Immigrant visa applicants with interviews scheduled at U.S. embassies and consulates have been notified by email that their appointments are being postponed. It wasn’t clear how long the freeze would be in place.” #USA #politics
on 02026-08-26#Video from ultra-right-wing broadcaster Sky #News reporting that #CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced flight to Moscow to talk to Russia (specifically Sergey Naryshkin, head of the SVR), possibly over #Iran. Apparently the CIA is in charge of #USA #politics now? #Interview with Michael Clarke, who also discusses a new offensive by #Ukraine in the war, where they’re apparently able to use conventional armor again.
on 02026-08-26Riana wrote this article about the district court ruling in US v. #Anderegg “reiterating the constitutional right to private possession of obscene material (...) It is gratifying to see a court agree with my analysis and reiterate the continuing importance of Stanley.” #USA #politics #law
on 02026-08-25#politics #news #video about how the #New-START treaty, the last #nuclear-weapons #disarmament treaty, signed in 02010 by #Obama and #Medvedev, expired on 02026-02-04. #Interview material with Sophie Bolt and Eliana Johns. #History of disarmament treaties with stock photos; between START in 01991 and 02009, warhead stockpiles declined 82%. The history of the “nuclear taboo”. For some reason there’s a lot of blurred stock footage of Kermit the Frog. George W. Bush pulled out of the ABM treaty with the #GWOT as an excuse, and the next day Russia withdrew from the 01991 START II. #China’s #no-first-use policy and attempt to establish it as an international standard.
on 02026-08-25“#Ethiopia’s Virgin Mary festival in Tigray cancelled over drone strike fears.” This is the first time I’ve heard of a festival (Ashenda, in Mekelle) being canceled because of #weaponry #drones. “There are concerns the conflict might reignite with the regional authorities blaming a recent series of deadly drone strikes on federal armed forces.” This #news is from Friday, and the festival was supposed to happen today, so they canceled it with two days’ warning. #politics
on 02026-08-23#News about Samuel #Tunick’s prosecution, a sort of #interview with him. #human-rights #privacy #USA #politics
on 02026-08-21#David-Arday quits Cambridge following #plagiarism accusations he says are motivated by #racism and are definitely from racists. #UK #politics
on 02026-08-06whistleblower John Kiriakou #interview #video about the #CIA and the #politics of the #USA
on 02026-07-27#PEPFAR lives despite the DOGE cuts. #USA #politics #toread
on 02026-07-25“Tracking retaliatory use of arrests, prosecutions, and investigations by the #Trump administration” #politics #USA
on 02026-07-25#Effective-altruism recommendations for #politics, mostly focused on the #USA and in particular #Trump
on 02026-07-25ongoing mass killings. #human-rights #politics
on 02026-07-16a good explainer of an HBD email #Scott-Alexander sent in 02017 endorsing various “scientific #racism” ideas. #politics
on 02026-07-16recent #AI regulations and how #Plan-A supposedly wouldn’t make them that much worse. #politics
on 02026-07-16#PDF #ebook from the RAND National Defense Research Institute “The Next Supreme Leader: Succession In The Islamic Republic Of #Iran” from 02011. #politics #history
on 02026-06-23God damn it, docs.nrel.gov no longer exists. But in 02018 utility-scale #solar system costs were US$2.27/W for 500kW to 5MW systems. Cites PVinsights for global module prices dropping from US$0.31/W to US$0.22/W in 02018. Great plot of "PV value chain spot pricing" from 02007 to 02018, and says “global solar investments” were US$132B in 02018, two-thirds in large-scale PV, 26% in small-scale solar. #Trump #USA #energy #politics #censorship #PDF #energy #solar-energy
on 02026-05-30Pope Leo issues encyclical Magnifica Humanitas mostly against #AI and #transhumanism. Archive of <https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism> #politics
on 02026-05-30apparently #Trump’s Department of Justice has reclassified #marijuana from Schedule I (“hard drugs”) to Schedule II (“like Tylenol with codeine”). This is #news from April 23. #politics #drugs #USA
on 02026-05-09#news that Shirley Meng, top battery scientist “who also heads a Department of Energy (DOE) research hub, is now heading back to Asia”, is moving from the #USA to #Singapore and “stepping down as director of the $62 million Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) based at Argonne National Laboratory” because of #Trump #politics #energy-storage. But for two years “she will maintain a partial appointment at UChicago and continue to run her lab.”
on 02026-05-01the faction in #Yemen backed by the #UAE until earlier this year. #politics
on 02026-04-29#USA bankruptcy filings increased 11.9% (11.4% for businesses, 11.9% for non-businesses) in the year ended March 31, 02026, over the year before. #news #politics #Trump
on 02026-04-28#politics #Android #human-rights
on 02026-04-28#AI and #copyright #law in the #politics of the #USA, #PDF of part 2, copyrightability: “This second Part of the Copyright Office’s Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) addresses the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems. It analyzes the type and level of human contribution sufficient to bring these outputs within the scope of copyright protection in the United States.”
on 02026-04-27#AI and #copyright #law in the #politics of the #USA
on 02026-04-27#Russia has taken over #Wagner mercenary operations in #Africa, including #Mali, #Libya, #Burkina-Faso, #Central-African-Republic, and #Madagascar, with smaller forces in #Sudan, #Niger, and #Equatorial-Guinea, with the so-called “Africa Corps” (“Африканский корпус”) #politics
on 02026-04-26an alarming conflict started in November between the PRC and #Japan over #Taiwan. #China #politics
on 02026-04-25Schism in #MeshCore between Andy Kirby and Scott (project founder), Recrof, Liam Cottle, FDLamotte, and Oltaco (Che Aporeps). #mesh-networks #politics
on 02026-04-24“Press Release: U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets” #DOJ #Gannon #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #PDF. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#gambling allegedly won Master Sgt. #Gannon Ken Van Dyke US$400k for leaking the raid on #Venezuela to kidnap Nicolas #Maduro, but he's been arrested and an indictment was unsealed today. “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] filed a related complaint against Van Dyke on Thursday, seeking restitution, disgorgement and civil monetary penalties.” #Polymarket’s stance has changed from “super cool (...) creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market” in November to “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation. Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works.” #prediction-markets #news #USA #politics
on 02026-04-23prediction from 02014 that #Hamas will acquire #precision #weaponry #drones to strike #Israel’s military and mine its ports instead of killing civilians indiscriminately. #politics
on 02026-04-22#Iran war retrospective makes it look quite absurd. #politics
on 02026-04-22#Colbert #news #humor #video #interview with #John-Kerry, mostly about #Iran. #USA #politics
on 02026-04-21#news #humor #video with #Colbert saying #Trump is “indefinitely” extending the #USA’s ceasefire with #Iran, perhaps because they aren’t going to show up for today’s negotiations in Islamabad. Shows a photo of serious edema in Trump’s ankle. #politics
on 02026-04-21#USA #politics #censorship #human-rights: “Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) sent #Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.”
on 02026-04-15#politics #USA #California #human-rights
on 02026-04-14Jason Scott’s "Fuck The Cloud" #manifesto advocating #self-hosting. #politics #toread
on 02026-04-14archive of <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-13/two-oil-tankers-attempt-hormuz-exit-after-us-announces-blockade>, explaining that the three tankers that passed the Strait of Hormuz today were before CENTCOM’s announced blockade. #Iran #politics #oil
on 02026-04-13#AI doomer #politics with high certainty leads to violence like Daniel Moreno-Gama’s Molotov cocktail attack the other day at Sam #Altman’s house; describes Moreno-Gama’s online history following PauseAI. He calls himself “Butlerian Jihadist” on social media. #news
on 02026-04-13#USA blockades #Iran starting tomorrow. #politics
on 02026-04-12comprehensive #news overview #video of the whole #Iran war and ceasefire so far, including #Trump blockading the strait. #politics
on 02026-04-12#politics #news, #Orban concedes to Magyar in Hungary: “Even in the smallest township,” he said, “people have seen that this cruel, inhumane power is finished and Hungary will once again become a free country.”
on 02026-04-12#news: #USA #politics: 5th Circuit throws out the 158-year-old home distilling ban, in favor of the non-profit Hobby Distillers Association, upholding a district court ruling from Fort Worth
on 02026-04-11#news #video: #Iran talks have failed after only one day. It all unraveled while #Trump was at a UFC match. #politics #USA
on 02026-04-11#paper: “Lethal conflict after group fission in wild #chimpanzees” #politics
on 02026-04-10Sam #Altman about someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at his house last night. #politics #AI
on 02026-04-10#news summarizing #Trump #politics concerns driving #France to #Linux: “Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has upped his attacks on world leaders — straight-out capturing one and aiding in the killing of another. He has also weaponized sanctions against his critics, who include judges on the International Criminal Court, effectively cutting them off from transacting with U.S. companies. Those who have been sanctioned have reported having their bank accounts closed and access to U.S. tech services terminated, as well as being blocked from any other U.S. service.”
on 02026-04-10#Trump sent guns to protestors in #Iran earlier this year but thinks the Kurds have them. #politics #news #USA “‘We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them,’ Yingst said on Fox News, paraphrasing the president.”
on 02026-04-07#Iran’s 10-point proposal for peace with #USA. #politics #news
on 02026-04-07“Benjamin Netanyahu said the country supported #Trump’s decision to suspend attacks against #Iran for two weeks but said the ceasefire does not include #Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.” #Israel #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif says, “immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY” #Iran #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#Iran declares victory. Even if you think they won, it’s hilarious: “The enemy has suffered an undeniable, historic and crushing defeat in its cowardly, illegal and criminal war against the Iranian nation. Thanks to the pure and innocent blood of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Imam Seyed Ali Khamenei (peace be upon him), the measures of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Supreme Commander of the Iranian Armed Forces, Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei (may God protect him), the struggle and bravery of the warriors of Islam on the fronts, and especially, the historic, lasting and epic presence of you, the dear nation, on the scene from the very first days of the war, Iran achieved a great victory and forced the criminal America to accept its 10-point plan, in which the United States is committed in principle to guaranteeing non-aggression, continuing Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, accepting (unanium) enrichment, ...”. Some 150 words later: “It is emphasized that this does not mean an end to the war and Iran will accept an end to the war only when, in view of Iran's acceptance of the principles envisaged in the 10-point plan, its details are also finalized in the negotiations.” #politics
on 02026-04-07#Trump #Iran war ceasefire #politics #news
on 02026-04-07“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks” and Israel also agreed. #Trump #USA #politics #Iran #news
on 02026-04-07#USA is partly evacuating multiple military bases in the Middle East following attacks from #Iran, totaling a few thousand evacuees. “The Navy does not yet have an answer for what will happen to cars and furniture left behind in the rush to leave. The Navy is also not telling evacuees when or if they will be returning to their bases in the Middle East.” #politics
on 02026-04-04archive of https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/ #news about how #manufacturing of #transformers is a bottleneck for electrifying... the world? Somehow I doubt that; it seems like the kind of problem China is good at solving. The article mentions the UK, the #USA, Europe, India, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, before getting to China, where the vast majority of electrification is happening, and then says, “China, on the other hand, has been growing transformer manufacturing for years that feeds both its growing domestic electricity demand and rising export needs.” Also microgrids don’t need the kind of giant transformers that require a lead time of a year. And Bloomberg’s reporting here is plagued with false statements of fact, claiming that all transformers are at least as big as a household trash can, and that “a quirk of history” made the grid dependent on them, namely that Edison lost the War of the Currents. #politics #energy
on 02026-04-03discussion of #ICE and #censorship in #USA #politics through restrictions on #drones: “[D]rone operators can’t know whether they are within 3000 horizontal feet of unmarked DHS vehicles. Yet the TFR allows the government to capture or even shoot down a drone if it flies within the TFR radius, and to impose criminal and civil penalties on the operator. (...) We don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the TFR was put in place in January 2026, at the height of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, shortly after the killing of Renée Good and shortly before the shooting of Alex Pretti. After both of those tragedies, civilian recordings played a vital role in contradicting the government’s false account of the events.”
on 02026-04-03#ACOUP on how #USA #Trump #politics relate to fascism exactly
on 02026-03-20#ACOUP on what political #nonviolence has in common with insurgency, based on #Clausewitz and #politics. #activism #civil-resistance
on 02026-03-20#news: #Cyprus wants to remove its #UK bases after #Iran attacked one of them! #politics
on 02026-03-19today's #news about the war on #Iran, reporting that the WSJ is reporting that, “Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology to aid Tehran’s targeting of US forces in the region.” #politics
on 02026-03-17#news: #USA #politics impose sanctions against ICC judges, depriving them of their credit cards and Google and Amazon accounts.
on 02026-03-16#health bureaucracy killing people. #politics #toread
on 02026-03-15persuasive #video about #energy #futurism (mostly #solar-energy) and #economics, ending up in a fiery anti-#Trump #politics diatribe
on 02026-03-14#news that #Iran’s attacks with #drones and ballistic missiles are down 95% and 90% respectively from the beginning of the war, but #Israel and maybe #USA are running low on interceptor #weaponry such as THAADs. Also: “The State Department last week announced a sale of 12,000 “BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies” to Israel.” #politics
on 02026-03-12#Trump #censorship of academics. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02026-03-11Loretta Preska orders #Argentina to surrender its #YPF shares to the #vulture-funds as of last July #politics #news
on 02026-03-06timeline of the #USA/#Iran war. #politics
on 02026-03-03#video #toread about #California #politics over #ebikes (two-wheeled #EVs)
on 02026-02-24Age verification #politics and #privacy
on 02026-02-24#Binance #Bitcoin #Iran #news #politics
on 02026-02-24#San-Francisco, #California enacted a ban on parking RVs on the street for more than two hours, effective last November. “A large vehicle is defined as an RV, trailer, house car, mobile home, or any vehicle longer than 22 feet or taller than 7 feet.” Exemptions for up to a year are available to anyone living in their RV last May. #vanlife #politics
on 02026-02-24#ICE using #Mobile-Fortify to do #facial-recognition against #USA #politics protestors and revoking their #Global-Entry status. #human-rights
on 02026-02-16Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show that #Trump deprecated. #politics #video #toread
on 02026-02-1636-minute #video #toread on test-driving cheap #EVs from #China that are banned in #USA #politics
on 02026-02-16yesterday’s march for billionaires attracted 20 protesters, including Aella. #politics
on 02026-02-10“Chinese #EVs banned from #UK military sites over spying concerns.” “Staff were also advised to avoid having official conversations within electric cars from #China (...) officials are concerned that microphones mounted within the car which are supposed to be used for voice activation systems and phone calls, could instead be used to eavesdrop by the Chinese state.” #security #politics
on 02026-01-16Albert Nock’s essay about how the prophet Isaiah was unappreciated except by a “remnant” of Judea, apparently in his last few years before becoming anti-Semitic, but apparently already deeply sexist and elitist, condemning the #USA as so worthless as to demonstrate the worthlessness of the masses who ruled it. It’s hard not to think Moldbug was consciously emulating Nock’s prose style. #politics #philosophy
on 02026-01-16Pierre Rochard’s “Working and Saving are Revolutionary Acts.” I’m not convinced! #philosophy #politics #economics
on 02026-01-16#news: “Following the Biden administration’s move to impose 100% #tariffs on Chinese #EVs, Canada implemented similar surtaxes, effectively freezing companies like #BYD, #Nio, and #Zeekr out of the market. (...) #Canada has agreed to allow an annual quota of 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the country at the tariff rate of just 6.1%.” #USA #politics #China
on 02026-01-16#NVIDIA got #AI #export-controls to #China lifted in #USA by lobbying #Trump #politics
on 02026-01-15Oh shit. #Iran #politics #human-rights #news
on 02026-01-15“#Hong-Kong pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon #Jimmy-Lai has been found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under the city’s controversial national security law (#NSL).” #politics #china #news (from December)
on 02026-01-14#Farage is trying to revoke #Alaa’s British citizenship and get him deported back to #Egypt. #UK #politics
on 02026-01-13Most staff have left the embassy of #France in #Iran to protect “our personnel and our citizens” due to protest crackdowns that have killed 648 confirmed people and perhaps more than 6000. #politics #news
on 02026-01-12Shuriken are prohibited since 02011 under #California Penal Code section 22410 (penal code part 6, title 3, division 9.) #politics
on 02026-01-12archive of <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/04/an-american-oil-empire-is-a-deeply-flawed-idea> on the flaws in #Trump’s plans to take #Venezuela’s #oil for the #USA. #politics
on 02026-01-11#USA #ICE #politics #news #video file of #Good killing
on 02026-01-08#USA #ICE #news showing #video of immigration agents killing 37-year-old US citizen Renee Nicole #Good with several shots at point-blank range as she was apparently trying to flee a sort of traffic stop. She seems to have hit the agent with her SUV before he started firing, but the government’s claims of “self-defense” don’t hold up given that the SUV accelerated out of control into a parked car as Good died, doing no harm to the agent. #politics
on 02026-01-08#video by #Adam-Something about how online #atheism on #YouTube morphed into anti-feminism and anti-progressivism around 02010, which I had no idea about, except for #Thunderf00t, who he does mention. And then the reproductively viable worker ant, and apparently YouTube was a toxic environment for leftist videos, and he became an #Alt-Right viewer, although he implicitly claims he was never a “white nationalist”. Fake video, almost nothing more than a stock photo with a voiceover. #politics
on 02026-01-07#video by ex-alt-right Hungarian "Adam Something" saying that #Andrew-Tate and his ilk are filling a void of “instructions” that insecure young boys are looking for, just that the instructions they get are “stupid and harmful”, so he’s promoting his own 90-page Google doc #dating guide. Somewhat to my surprise, he still recommends asking for phone numbers, which I thought was maybe passé, but the video is from two weeks ago. Unfortunately he sort of falls into the trap of trying to reduce social interactions to defined procedures, hierarchical lists of bullet points. This is still probably an improvement over Andrew Tate advice I guess. #politics
on 02026-01-06“351 days into Donald #Trump’s term, the president’s net approval rating is -17%, up 0.8 points since last week. 39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.” #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06Ozy’s recommendations for #Effective-Altruists in #USA to donate to #politics to stop #Trump
on 02026-01-06#Trump administration retaliations against his opponents in #politics and also Kilmar Ábrego García (Abrego Garcia)
on 02026-01-06#vapid gossip about #Olivia-Nuzzi and her affairs with #RFK Jr. and some politician named Mark Sanford, and her ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza’s tell-all post. #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06#news about #RFK Jr.’s brain worm from back when he was a presidential candidate. #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06#news from June about how #Elmu had, and #pmarca has, a lot of influence on #USA #politics via #Trump, following #cryptocurrency clashes with #Biden
on 02026-01-06Chenyang “Platy” Hsu compares #Trump’s favored Times New Roman with other #fonts, like Palatino, Caslon, Baskerville, New Century Schoolbook, Frutiger, Univers, Myriad, and of course Calibri. “At this point, it might sound as though the argument is trending toward a defense of the Department’s earlier choice: Calibri. Unfortunately, Calibri is also a poor fit for formal contexts. While seriousness and authority aren’t the exclusive province of serifs, Calibri does little to convey those traits.” #politics #CC BY-NC-ND
on 02025-12-30criticism of #Blow’s #politics
on 02025-12-18#PG on “What you can’t say”, from 02004 #politics
on 02025-12-12#paper whose abstract begins, “College education is a key determinant of political attitudes in the United States and other countries. This paper highlights an important source of variation among college graduates: studying different academic fields has sizable effects on their political attitudes. Using surveys of about 300,000 students across 500 U.S. colleges, we find several results. First, relative to natural sciences, studying social sciences and humanities makes students more left-leaning, whereas studying economics and business makes them more right-leaning. Second, the rightward effects of economics and business are driven by positions on economic issues, whereas the leftward effects of humanities and social sciences are driven by cultural ones. Third, these effects extend to behavior: humanities and social sciences increase activism, while economics and business increase the emphasis on financial success. Fourth, the effects operate through academic content and teaching rather than socialization or earnings expectations. Finally, the implications are substantial.” #toread #politics
on 02025-12-12They literally called it the “maniac murder cult”, or maybe “Maniac: cult of murder”: “Маньяки: культ убийства”. #humor #Russia #politics #order-of-nine-angles
on 02025-12-11“Australians are among some visitors to the US who may soon have to provide their social media history from the prior five years to enter the country, according to a new #Trump administration proposal.
The proposal, posted on the Federal Register by US Customs and Border Protection, suggests travellers coming from countries that are part of a visa waiver program would need to give additional personal information as part of an electronic application.
The requirement would be for travellers using the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or #ESTA, as part of a visa waiver program for citizens from 42 countries, including Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and Qatar, as well as many other European countries. (...) The new proposal – open for public comment until February 9 – would make that information [social media history mandatory and (...) “high value data elements,” including the person’s phone numbers and email addresses over the prior five years, plus close family members’ names and birth dates, along with their birthplaces, residences and phone numbers over the prior five years] mandatory, though it’s unclear how it would impact those wishing to come to the US.” #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-12-11“The tanker, which transported oil from #Venezuela and Iran, has been sanctioned by the U.S. for years “due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi wrote on X.” #USA #politics
on 02025-12-11#News from October: “Without question, #Trump can claim credit for the ceasefire and hostage exchange deal. #Qatar, #Turkey and #Egypt used their leverage with Hamas to force it to accept.
That made it a joint effort, but Trump’s role was decisive.
Without his push to demand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agreement to terms that he had previously rejected, the deal would not have been signed.” #politics #Israel #Gaza #USA
on 02025-12-11#Trump lifts most #export-controls on #NVIDIA to #China for #AI, permitting sales of up to H200, and promising the same to Intel and AMD. #politics
on 02025-12-11Donors to #Trump’s White House Ballroom include “Ripple and Coinbase. (...) Nvidia, [the trading firm] Susquehanna International Group and ExtremityCare [which makes costly human cell and tissue medical products] (...) Google, Palantir, Amazon and Microsoft, as well as cell phone carrier T-Mobile (...) Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twin brothers who own crypto exchange Gemini (...) Lockheed Martin (...) Booz Allen Hamilton”. #USA #politics #corruption
on 02025-12-11hilarious can’t-believe-it’s-not-satire article on #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman
on 02025-12-11#history of #Germany #fonts #politics
on 02025-12-11The Bormann brief ordering the use of Antiqua rather than Schwabacher “Jewish letters” or Fraktur. #history #fonts #Germany #politics
on 02025-12-11discussion of #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman, with an amused comment by Lucas de Groot, whose studio designed Calibri #fonts
on 02025-12-11Andrew Kelley sort of apologizing for how he phrased the announcement of #Zig leaving #GitHub. #politics
on 02025-12-03on #Zig leaving #GitHub. #politics
on 02025-12-03#news from 02022 of Google flagging Mark [anonymous]’s Google account for child porn when he sent a photo of his toddler son’s infected penis to the doctor and reported him to the police. The police decided no abuse had happened but he never got his account back. #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-11-27#USA #politics of #Facebook providing communication for online #slavery markets. #human-rights
on 02025-11-27#USA about to invade #Venezuela with its aircraft carrier. #politics
on 02025-11-11The #EU is banning non-removable batteries for most consumer #electronics. #politics
on 02025-11-11SaSu (Sanctioned Suicide) is attempting to stop #UK #censorship by IP-blocking the whole country, but apparently that’s not enough. #human-rights #politics #Ofcom
on 02025-11-11Leonard Glenn Francis spent half a million dollars in bribes on #USA military officers in order to divert hundreds of millions of dollars to his companies. #politics #history
on 02025-11-11Viggo Mortensen doesn’t like #Spain’s ultra-right-wing #Vox using photos of him for their #politics
on 02025-11-11#interview with Viggo Mortensen about, among other things, #politics
on 02025-11-11Steve Blank argues that #USA’s “defense” procurement system was out of control and after being completely revamped will now “operate at the speed of Silicon Valley, delivering more, better, and faster” when buying #weaponry etc., by scrapping the Federal Acquisition Regulations, which Blank argues descend from McNamara's “Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).” “Companies selling to the DoW previously had to comply with the impenetrable DFAR and FAR – the Defense and Federal Acquisition Regulations” It’ll be interesting to see if this opens the door to more corruption. #politics #toread
on 02025-11-11#humor #news #video of #Colbert announcing #Mamdani’s election and a bunch of other #USA #politics
on 02025-11-06#EU #politics require batteries to be replaceable in most consumer electronics starting 02027-02-18!
on 02025-11-05#history of #FDA #politics in #USA and #human-experimentation by the #DOE for #nuclear #weaponry
on 02025-11-05#history of #ribociclib getting approved in the #UK in only July of this year. #medicine #politics #cancer #ciclibs
on 02025-11-05#medicine #USA #politics #Medicare lawsuit for Eylea
on 02025-11-05on #Quakers and #history and #pacifism and #liberalism and #USA #politics
on 02025-11-04criticism of Hegseth’s speech to #USA generals. #politics
on 02025-11-04#video from #Mother-Jones of the leaked group chat text on #China #soybeans: “Finally - just a heads up. I’m getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate.
We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine’s [sic] removed their export tariffs on grains [sic], reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-10-29#news about #ICE #facial-recognition #biometrics called "Mobile Fortify". #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-10-29#news on #Milei winning big in midterm elections, he claims getting up to 101 seats in Diputados and 20 seats in the Senate. #Argentina #politics
on 02025-10-2702017 #news about #Robert-Mercer and his daughter Rebekah. #politics #history #toread
on 02025-10-21#politics #history #Robert-Mercer funded #Breitbart and fueled #Brexit and #Trump
on 02025-10-21#Politics #news from #February about #debanking #cryptocurrency firms in #USA
on 02025-10-21#Scott-Alexander on #USA #politics: how #pmarca bought both political parties (with “Fairshake”) and how #AI companies are doing it too (with “Leading The Future”). #news
on 02025-10-21#Facebook created an #AI #PAC "META California" for #USA #politics
on 02025-10-215.35 GW #Esmeralda-7 #solar #photovoltaic #energy project in Nevada, #USA, canceled due to #Trump #politics
on 02025-10-14more on the #China #Netherlands #politics #news #toread
on 02025-10-14#China #Netherlands #politics #news Daan summarizes: “According to a just published article by the NRC newspaper [0], the owner wanted to use #Nexperia’s funds to finance another business (WingSkySemi) which was in financial trouble. He would have done this by making Nexperia place large orders for wafers it did not need. The article mentions Nexperia only requiring $70-80 million in wafers, while Nexperia would have ordered wafers from WingSkySemi with a value of $200 million.
In order to achieve this, the owner is said to have put strawmen without financial experience in place and fire European directors. When other directors raised the alarm about this, they were fired according to the article. This issue was raised to the Dutch government, which then intervened.”
on 02025-10-14#China #Netherlands #politics #news about #Nexperia, perhaps related following the new rare-earths restrictions that might prevent European cars from being exported to the US
on 02025-10-14Hugo #Chávez Frias book review. #Venezuela #politics #history
on 02025-10-11“The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.” #politics
on 02025-10-08“Palestine support is banned network-wide, even on the politics site, even as an answer to a question. Data dumps are locked behind an illegal paywall. 2019 was the beginning of the end. Stack Exchange broke the law: https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/the-erasure-of-luigi-mangione Any criticism of the way Stack Exchange investors run the site results in a ban. I was banned from the Stack Exchange network for one month for deleting my own comments. I was banned from Meta Stack Exchange for one year for asking if it's okay to delete my own comments.” #politics
on 02025-10-08#Ukraine #politics disturbing account from a foreign volunteer
on 02025-10-07WSJ article from the #Milei election said Massa was trying to beat him by promising to eliminate all taxes. #Argentina #politics #history
on 02025-10-07Journalist Jemima Kelly from the Financial Times somehow ended up at a party in Surrey at Norman McKenzie-Richmond’s house with #Moldbug. #politics #USA #UK #toread
on 02025-10-02"#Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”” “ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA” is the name of the EO. “ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.” But only 600 soldiers? “Just this week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Governor Newsom was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the president from using the military for domestic policing unless he first invokes the Insurrection Act. (...) But if the courts do intervene, don’t expect Trump to give up on the idea. The most likely scenario is a similar project, but staffed with #ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, or DHS officers instead.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-10-02“For a future with #privacy, not mass #surveillance, #Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in the #Chat-Control proposal” #politics #EU #human-rights #PDF
on 02025-10-02“The point of this module is specific to German internet politics. It can be considered an ode to the German Minister for Family Affairs, Ursula von der #Leyen.
Among German geeks, she is known as "Zensursula", a combination of “Zensur” (German for “#censorship”) and “Ursula”. She has been pushing for legislation to force ISPs to censor the web much in the same way that China does.” #Germany #politics #human-rights (note that von der Leyen is currently the president of the #EU)
on 02025-10-02Pew Charitable Trust: “How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost #Housing Option: The intertwined history of single-room occupancy and #homelessness in the U.S.” #USA #politics #history #economics #roommates #SROs #toread
on 02025-10-02“Perhaps the simplest method of creating low-cost shared housing is to allow unrelated individuals to share a house in the same way that relatives are allowed to share a house. (...) Iowa, Oregon, and Colorado all passed bipartisan legislation to strike down local codes that prohibit house-sharing (in 2017, 2021, and 2024, respectively).” #USA #politics #economics #housing #roommates #SROs
on 02025-10-02InfoBAE claims #Citrone convinced #Bessent to convince #Trump to bail out #Argentina at the #IMF. I’m skeptical. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-30#Milei’s Hayek medal last year #politics #Germany
on 02025-09-30#USA #politics #ICE beating up US citizens and legal immigrants, apparently because they’re brown. #human-rights #racism
on 02025-09-29#video of #AOC speaking to criticize Charlie #Kirk in the House. #politics #USA
on 02025-09-29“#Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.” Apparently because Shopify asked them to: "1. Ruby Central was struggling for money. 2. Sidekiq withdrew its $250,000/year sponsorship for Ruby Central because they platformed DHH at RailsConf 2025. 3. Shopify demanded that Ruby Central take full control of the RubyGems GitHub repositories and the bundler and rubygems-update gems, threatening to withdraw funding if Ruby Central did not comply. (...) 11. Shopify specifically demanded that at least one of the RubyGems maintainers, André Arko, be excluded from returning to the project. André has been working on RubyGems for over a decade and was also one of the founders of Ruby Together, an organization that merged with Ruby Central.” #politics
on 02025-09-28#Ruby Central’s announcement in May that #DHH will keynote the final RailsConf. #politics #Mastodon
on 02025-09-28#DHH in 02022 on not keynoting RailsConf due to #politics. #Ruby
on 02025-09-28#DHH comes out as believing that descendants of immigrants to Britain aren’t “native Brits” and that he wouldn’t want to live around them: “I thought I might move there one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn’t dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.” Then he endorses Tommy Robinson! “But a demographic nightmare worse than [the prospect of Denmark being less ethnically Danish] has already enveloped London!” #racism #politics #UK
on 02025-09-28Graham Linehan got arrested upon entering the #UK because he tweeted, “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” He thinks this was an unreasonable response. #politics #trans
on 02025-09-28#DHH on the “best names ever” list that caused his company a lot of trouble #politics #history
on 02025-09-28more on the #Ruby community #politics and who owns Bundler
on 02025-09-28“Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says.” #Israel #politics #history #news
on 02025-09-28#Microsoft blocks #Azure’s use by #Israel’s #IDF to spy on Palestinians: “Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project”; Unit 8200 had 8000 terabytes (8 petabytes) of captured phone calls in a Netherlands Azure data center. “Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have swiftly moved the surveillance data out of the country. (...) Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.” #news #politics
on 02025-09-28“Man Fined for Engineering Without a License Was Right All Along” in 02020: “Mats Järlström, the Oregon electrical engineer who challenged the state’s traffic light timing. What began as a simple quest to help his wife avoid an unfair ticket turned into a multi-year saga after the Oregon Board of Engineers fined him thousands of dollars—simply because he dared discuss the issue when he wasn’t technically a traffic engineer.” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-09-28#EU signs a free-trade agreement with #Indonesia. #politics #news
on 02025-09-25WTF, #Sisi pardoned #Alaa Ahmed Seif El-Islam Abd el-Fattah‽ And now he’s free! #news #politics #Egypt
on 02025-09-25#video of Jimmy #Kimmel’s opening monologue tonight, his first night back on the air. #USA #politics #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-09-23“Global Call for AI Red Lines” presented to the toothless UN. #AI #politics
on 02025-09-23#news #video from #CNN saying #Kimmel is returning to the air, under pressure from people including Ted Cruz. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-22#Obama #interview #video disagreeing with some of Charlie #Kirk’s ideas, like the idea that his wife or Justice Jackson doesn’t have adequate brain processing power, or the idea that Martin Luther King was awful, or the idea that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake, etc. Hour-plus. #USA #politics #toread
on 02025-09-19#video #humor #news of last night’s Stephen Colbert show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-09-19#video #humor #news of last night’s John Stewart Daily Show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-19Disturbing as hell: “The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.” #Kirk #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-09-19Holy shit, #Trump has gone too far right for the Drudge Report, which leads with a photo of Jimmy #Kimmel and the headlines “ABC MARTYR / NETWORK UNDER GOVT CONTROL / ‘VIEW’ CENSORED / TRUMP ORDERS REMAINING LATE NIGHT HOSTS REMOVED / THREATENS LICENSES”. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news #video of Robert Garcia on MSNBC talking about the #Kimmel #censorship investigation. Also CNN coverage. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18Axios article on Nick #Fuentes #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news “Top Oversight Dem launches probe into ABC’s Kimmel suspension” today. Reprinting a press release: “California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced Thursday he is launching an investigation into ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy #Kimmel Live!” following the host’s remarks regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
His probe will review the Trump administration, ABC and TV station owner Sinclair amid what Garcia says are ongoing efforts to “censor opposition.”
“Every American has a duty to stand up for our First Amendment values. We will not be silent as our freedoms are threatened by corrupt schemes and threats. Anyone who is complicit will need to answer to us,” the lawmaker said in a statement.” This seems sort of like a ko threat in go: by threatening something defensible but even more damaging, #Trump can divert the opposition’s efforts from releasing the Epstein files. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#CNN #news #video describing the cancelation of #Kimmel as part of #Trump’s “crackdown on dissent”. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#news #video saying Jimmy Kimmel’s nightly comedy show is being pulled off the air indefinitely because of “Charlie #Kirk remarks,” specifically because #Kimmel initially claimed that Tyler Robinson was a MAGA Republican. The FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened Disney and ABC with retaliation on a “far-right webcast” or “podcast”, which apparently is “X/Benny Johnson”. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-17#news #video of Candace Owens claiming she talked to Lance Twiggs’s family who explained that Tyler Robinson was paying rent to Lance’s family who owned the house where they were living. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-174-minute #video of Charlie #Kirk “taking down an anti-gay extremist” although he still sounds pretty extreme himself. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-17#video #news of #Tucker-Carlson calling for civil disobedience if #USA passes hate-speech laws in response to the #Kirk assassination, saying that the thinking Pam Bondi articulated on camera is exactly the reason young people believe “it’s okay to shoot people who say things they disagree with”. #politics #video #USA
on 02025-09-17#news Steve Bannon, Candace Owens, and Hasan Piker think Tyler Robinson’s text messages to Lance Twiggs are fake, because they too neatly wrap up all the loose ends, including an unnecessary confession, unnecessary mentions that his dad is MAGA, etc. #Kirk #USA #politics #video
on 02025-09-17#Mercosur signs a free trade agreement with #Iceland, #Norway, #Liechtenstein, and #Switzerland! #news #politics
on 02025-09-1610 days ago #4tran wasn’t private and had 22935 users, 22 concurrently. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16The Reddit community Ngo said Twiggs participated a lot in is set to private now. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs complaining that /r/JordanPeterson is not an actual #Jordan-Peterson subreddit but just discussed “shitty clickbait articles”, saying, “Oh no I’ve read Jordan Peterson books, listened to lots of his YouTube lectures also, I just enjoy trolling post kinda subreddits” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/JordanPeterson, in response to the question “How can an average person like myself avoid perilous pitfalls, such as ideological entanglements, when even individuals with higher moral and intellectual caliber have fallen into them?”, answering, “Honestly I think everyone is going to land in these pitfalls, it’s part of being human. Doing your best to recognize and remedy that is all you can do. Keep your strongest truths close to heart and don’t be easily swayed in any direction without a strong and well put together reason. Even then you’ll sometimes realize the environment, friends, or communities you choose to spend time with aren’t helping you grow or progress, or may otherwise be pushing towards an echo chamber. Being able to take a step away and reprioritize is the best you can do. If you aren’t ever in a situation you didn’t want to be in, chances are you never go out and meet people in general. Remember that just discussing a topic doesn’t mean falling into an ideological pitfall. Keep your statements and opinions in line with each other, and make your own opinions based on factual evidence you have seen or read. I think the largest pitfall anyone could fall into would be to simply take to heart the opinions they see on social media. If you don’t choose a side, a side will many times choose you. Keep yourself grounded mentally and emotionally, and don’t worry yourself about being infallible.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/shrooms saying, “i’d go to conversion therapy if that [taking shrooms to bring out sexual feelings you didn’t feel as much before] was the shtick lol, better than the electroshock my area endorses.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/Anarcho_Capitalism criticizing, I think, Drag Queen Story Hour, saying “i like how you worded this.” in response to “When they are showing a man, balls out, in demon make up, reading to kids, they are not representing that community well. I’m not talking about the confused 13 year old kid who just wants to feel normal. They go find the worst of society to hold up just to “own the right”,” the context being a post entitled “The left deliberately makes transpeople look bad” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Right-wing extremist Andy Ngo (“Ngo’s coverage of antifa and Muslims has been controversial, and the accuracy and credibility of his reporting have been disputed by journalists. He has been accused of sharing misleading or selective material,[8][9][10] and has been described as a provocateur.[11][12]”) tracked down Twiggs’s alleged Instagram account sir._.lancelotte, Reddit account lancelott3, TikTok lanclotl/lancelotte, and Steam fluxalotl. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/exchristian: “yeah, always my recommendation to people nowadays. if you have to deal with wacky evangelism, simply leave because you won’t be able to help them and they will continue to hurt you,” after describing as an “experience with spiritual abuse” “was told i was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because i started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing. later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house, wasn’t even 18 at the time.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Lance Twiggs’s Reddit account. He’s apparently a fan of a band called Tally Hall and of videogames, but has no posts more recently than 5 months ago. Lots of sarcastic humor, much of it criticizing landlords. Also mentions (apparently seriously) having suffered from bulimia. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#video from a month ago showing Charlie #Kirk hating and fearing Muslims, and showing footage where he explicitly rejected the idea of separation of church and state. #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16#Trump was saying there were “very fine people” protesting against tearing down the statue in #Charlottesville, as well as on the other side, but explicitly excluded the “neo-Nazis and white nationalists” from his “fine people” characterization, saying that they should be “condemned totally”. #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16#news of Lance Twiggs’s name came from an interview with Dan Bongino on the Megyn Kelly show. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Newsweek #news refers to Tyler Robinson’s lover Lance Twiggs as “she”, and documents her . “Twiggs and Robinson lived together in St. George, Utah. A neighbor told reporters he had seen the two kissing and holding hands shortly before the attack. Family members of Twiggs have described her as politically outspoken, though investigators have not drawn conclusions about her influence on Robinson.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Times of India #news reports that Tyler Robinson’s lover Lance Twiggs has changed her (?) streaming name to Luna, and was very unhappy about Trump’s electoral victory. ““Trump winning has motivated me to finally fix my life,” the 4tran post read. “I won’t let the idiot cisfags who want me to be miserable win. I’ll be independent, fit, happy, and trans and they can’t stop me.””. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Ken Klippenstein got leaked text messages from Tyler Robinson to his friends on Discord, naming his lover Lance. The Discord seems to have been almost entirely apolitical. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16KnowYourMeme #video on the Charlie #Kirk assassination: 2-minute. #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16this is the 02016 origin of the Pepe Slav Squat image that Tyler Robinson was probably referencing in his 02018 Halloween costume, upvoted to 11200 points. #Kirk #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16“Why Do Slavs Squat? is a satirical catchphrase associated with imageboards and forums discussing Eastern European people and cultures. The catchphrase is usually accompanied by pictures of squatting Slavic people in tracksuits, most time engaging in stereotypical eastern European behavior like consumption of vodka and cigarettes and participation in street gambling. The pose was closely related to the Gopnik stereotype about Russian and Slavic men.” This is the 02012 meme Tyler Robinson was referencing in his 02018 Halloween costume. #Kirk #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16Nick #Fuentes’s “Groyper” movement started in 02019, two years after the Halloween photo of Tyler Robinson Slav-squatting in a tracksuit. So evidently he wasn’t a Groyper at the time because Groypers didn’t exist. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16more translated Weibo posts, talking about the #Kirk assassination from the perspective of someone in #China: “You can say that Robinson removed a vermin for the world, and removed a threat to China. (...) So, this Kirk event has destined that once #Trump is out of office, the Democrats will be back in power. And this homosexual, Robinson, with hands covered in blood might encourage others from the same camp to learn from him.” #politics #USA
on 02025-09-16Vice’s earlier article about #Fuentes’s “groypers” in 02022. ‘“I got redpilled,” said [Jaden] McNeil, using a term that describes a person’s radicalization into radical right-wing #politics. In June 2020, McNeil shared a racist tweet about George Floyd’s death, which led to calls from the student body for his expulsion. Fuentes reached out and offered him a ticket out of campus politics. “He said, “Why don’t you come out to Chicago? I bought a building, you can live in the basement, stream there, not pay rent, it’s its own unit, and I’ll pay you on top of that’,” McNeil recalled. “Leave my family, leave the girlfriend, leave all the things I had going on back in Kansas or whatever and drive out to Chicago.”
On the podcast, McNeil said his years as a loyal footsoldier to Fuentes has left him with a “Hatewatch” profile on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website, no money, no friends, and no prospects.’ #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Vice’s earlier article about #Fuentes’s “groypers” in 02022. ‘“I got redpilled,” said [Jaden] McNeil, using a term that describes a person’s radicalization into radical right-wing #politics. In June 2020, McNeil shared a racist tweet about George Floyd’s death, which led to calls from the student body for his expulsion. Fuentes reached out and offered him a ticket out of campus politics. “He said, “Why don’t you come out to Chicago? I bought a building, you can live in the basement, stream there, not pay rent, it’s its own unit, and I’ll pay you on top of that’,” McNeil recalled. “Leave my family, leave the girlfriend, leave all the things I had going on back in Kansas or whatever and drive out to Chicago.”
On the podcast, McNeil said his years as a loyal footsoldier to Fuentes has left him with a “Hatewatch” profile on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website, no money, no friends, and no prospects.’ #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Tweet from 02022 about #Fuentes and his “cozy.tv”: “Nick Fuentes has launched a new streaming video platform called Cozy.TV. What makes it special? ‘It’s free speech. No censorship. We are anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Black, antisemitic.’” #video #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Vice profile from 02023 of #Fuentes’s “groypers” on Instagram such as Kai Schwemmer (“Kai Clips”) and #Ye24. Apparently Fuentes went on Infowars with Ye for an “hours-long interview”. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#SPLC dossier on Nick #Fuentes #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Tweet from 02022 with Nick #Fuentes saying he’s a “proud incel” who “hasn’t chosen” to have sex yet. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#video on new #Kirk assassin Robinson evidence: DNA matches, engraved shell casings in his house, text message evidence #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Utah code 76-3-203.14, “Victim targeting penalty enhancement,” adding penalties to criminal offenses committed against people selected because of political expression, sexual orientation, sex, matriculation, status as an emergency responder, etc., which is one of the things Robinson is being accused of (which seems almost certain to be correct). #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#video of Tyler Robinson’s hearing today; the next hearing, a “waiver hearing,” is September 29th at 10 AM, via WebEx. The judge issues a pretrial protective order in favor of Erika Kirk. Judge Graf reads the charges, including a “victim targeting enhancement” (Utah code, annotated, 76-3-203.14(2)) because it was a political assassination. #USA #politics #Kirk #news
on 02025-09-16#news #video footage of Tyler Robinson charges being read by County Attorney Jeff Gray. Refers to the roommate/lover (who Robinson allegedly asked to delete text messages) as “him”, suggesting Robinson was bi or gay, although Chris Stewart (the troll who created this video) says the roommate was MtF trans. “A biological male who was involved in a romantic relationship with Robinson”, according to the prosecutor. Robinson’s text message: “I am still ok my love, but am stuck in orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.” Then he confessed. When asked, “Why?” he said, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.” Prosecutor also alleged, “Robinson’s mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political, and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented. She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate. This resulted in several discussions with family members, but especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.” The video is unbearably long and full of talking heads and repeated stock footage and stills. The trolls making the video say they expect federal charges, though so far only state charges have been filed, and that probably Robinson would be better off in a Federal prison. #USA #politics #Kirk
on 02025-09-16no real #news in the Charlie #Kirk case today at the arraignment, just repetition of the note under the keyboard, the transgender roommate and/or romantic partner, and the planned crackdown on dissenting #politics by #Trump
on 02025-09-16South #Korea to probe possible #human-rights abuses in #USA raid. “ICE officials said the South Koreans had overstayed their visas or were not permitted to work in the US.
A South Korean worker who witnessed the raid told the BBC of panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site, with some people being led away in chains.” #immigration #politics
on 02025-09-16#news on the #immigration plant raid in Georgia, #USA: “[President] Lee, who was speaking at a news conference to mark the first 100 days of his presidency, said “the situation is extremely bewildering,” while noting it is common practice for Korean firms to send workers to help set up overseas factories.
“If that’s no longer allowed, establishing manufacturing facilities in the US will only become more difficult... making companies question whether it’s worth doing at all,” he added. (...) Last week, US officials detained 475 people - more than 300 of them South Korean nationals - who they said were working illegally at the battery facility, one of the largest foreign investment projects in Georgia.
#LG Energy Solution, which operates the plant with #Hyundai, said that many of its employees who were arrested had various types of visas or were under a visa waiver programme.
A worker at the plant spoke to the BBC about the panic and confusion during the raid. The employee said the vast majority of the workers detained were mechanics installing production lines at the site, and were employed by a contractor.” #politics #Korea
on 02025-09-16"The Toxoplasma of Rage" #history #epistemology #memetics #politics
on 02025-09-16Another source for Charlie #Kirk endorsing stoning gay people. #USA #politics #history #crime
on 02025-09-15The source in which Charlie #Kirk appears to have said killing gay people was “God’s perfect law”, a “Thoughtcrime” panel discussion with four people. Kirk in #video clip: “The second part is Leviticus 19. So you love God. So you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin. And it says, by the way, Miss Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser-referenced part of the same part of Scripture, is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself, the chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-15URL of Charlie #Kirk article from before his assassination, which said, “In 2024, Kirk cited Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them”) as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters”.[106]” . #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-15#Kirk assassination suspect: “The bolt-action rifle Robinson used and left in a wooded area near the campus had various phrases engraved on the bullet casings, Cox said, including “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao ciao,” which appeared to reference an Italian anti-fascist song.” #USA #politics
on 02025-09-12Charlie #Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson may have been #antifa: “Meanwhile, other casings could be interpreted as sympathetic to Antifa, or the anti-fascist movement, a loose collection of far-left activists who have been active in the US over the last decade and often demonstrate against Trump policies and far-right groups.
One unfired casing had the words “Hey fascist! Catch!” and an up, right and three down arrows.
The three down arrows alone could be a common symbol used for anti-fascism. As a whole, the sequence of arrows could reference a cheat code in a video game - although this remains unclear, and authorities have not yet released images of the casings.
A second casing was inscribed with lyrics to the song “Bella Ciao” that honours World War Two-era partisans of the Italian resistance who fought Nazi Germany.” #USA #politics #history #oh-shit
on 02025-09-12Charlie #Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson (22 years old) confessed, according to hearsay, and was wearing the same clothes as the shooter. “Según el gobernador Cox, encontraron un rifle de cerrojo envuelto en una toalla oscura y con una mira telescópica. También encontraron inscripciones en los casquillos de las balas que decían, por ejemplo, “¡Oye, fascista! ¡Atrápalo!”, “Oh, bella ciao, bella ciao” y “Si lees esto eres gay jajaja”.” #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-12#UK fires ambassador to #USA Peter Mandelson “over links to #Epstein” #politics #news
on 02025-09-11Charlie #Kirk assassination #news #politics “Authorities stated they possess CCTV footage of the suspect,[45] who is said to have fled the scene from a rooftop 200 yards from Kirk.[46] In a press conference on September 11, officials affirmed they have “good video footage” and were trying to identify the suspect using facial recognition.[45] Law enforcement also announced they recovered a high-powered bolt-action rifle from a wooded area near the shooting,[1] and collected a “footwear impression, a palm print, and forearm imprints for analysis”.[5]”
on 02025-09-11Charlie #Kirk assassination #news discussion #politics
on 02025-09-10#Poland #Ukraine #politics #news
on 02025-09-10#video #news claiming #Poland just shot down a bunch of Russian Shahed-style #drones deep inside its airspace, which were shot down by Polish, German, Dutch, and Italian forces (operating out of Estonia), and #NATO has convened a special meeting. Russia questions whether the drones are of Russian origin. #Ukraine #politics
on 02025-09-10#USA #politics of #energy: Angus King says many RTO interconnection queues are 5 years long, and so are the waiting lists for gas turbines!
on 02025-09-09#Trump #tariffs may need to be refunded, about a trillion dollars for #USA #politics
on 02025-09-095' #news #video of autonomous #drones #weaponry contract won by a company in Texas #USA named Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old MIT dropout Ethan Thornton, and its high-altitude-dropped fixed-wing project Glide and parking-lot-launched Viper, and balloon-launched Stratus, visualizing warfare with tens of millions of balloons #politics
on 02025-09-06Andi McClure complaining about #Microsoft shoving #Copilot down her throat. Other people hate it too. #AI #politics
on 02025-09-06The Jamestown Foundation think tank engages in #futurism about #Xi in the #politics of #China. Uses the derogatory abbreviation “CCP”. #toread
on 02025-09-05#news conference with Zelenskyy and Macron: #Ukraine will have troops from 20 countries, apparently including France, as a security guarantee against Russia — “as soon as there is a ceasefire”. 35 countries in the “Coalition of the Willing”/“Coalition des Volontaires”, 26 with already-formalized contributions. #politics
on 02025-09-04Guillermo Francella’s movie #Homo-Argentum apparently was pretty successful, as such things go. But the Kirchnerists think it’s anti-patriotic (“apátrida”)? And apparently #Milei showed it to Congress? And tweeted about “kukas”? The video mostly consists of dumbfucks talking to cameras, but apparently this qualifies as #news. #Argentina #politics
on 02025-08-31apparently Guillermo Francella’s movie "Homo Argentum" is controversial in #politics? #video
on 02025-08-31#WSJ #news about #Trump #tariffs and resulting pricing uncertainty in #USA on, for example, hand-hammered copper sinks, due to #politics
on 02025-08-30#PDF of Supreme Court #citizenship nationwide injunction #USA #politics decision, in “#Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. CASA, Inc., et al”. #politics
on 02025-08-30#PDF of Supreme Court #citizenship nationwide injunction #USA #politics decision, in “#Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. CASA, Inc., et al”. #politics
on 02025-08-30“Supreme Court sides with #Trump administration on nationwide injunctions in birthright #citizenship case.” Oh shit. #news from July 27. “By a vote of 6-3, the justices repudiated the concept of universal or nationwide injunctions, which prohibit the government from enforcing a law or policy anywhere in the country. The justices did not, however, weigh in on the question at the center of the three lawsuits before the court: whether the birthright citizenship order itself is constitutional.” Sotomayor’s dissent: “That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit.” #politics #USA
on 02025-08-30#news #toread “#Trump reacts to court striking down #tariffs as illegal under federal law” #USA #politics
on 02025-08-29#Trump spox Karoline Leavitt refuses to predict whether #Trump will invade #Venezuela. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-29#news broadcast from Russian propaganda outlet #WION on #Maduro declaring his defiance of invasion. Mostly stock footage, talking head filler, and CGI. #Trump says it’s not an invasion, just an anti-drug-trafficking operation. Is #Venezuela the Ukraine of #USA? #politics
on 02025-08-29#Indonesia is “in chaos” and just blocked access to Twitter and Discord and #VPN providers. One recommendation if you have a server overseas is to use #Wireguard with #wstunnel to avoid the sort of protocol blocking that, for example, Uzbekistan applies. #politics #news #censorship #privacy #human-rights
on 02025-08-28#USA Congress launches an investigation of biased #politics at #Wikipedia #news
on 02025-08-28#video #interview with #Perón in 01973 asking him what he would do once he became president. He says he’ll try to summarize. 1½ hours. #politics #Argentina #history #toread #es
on 02025-08-27the Boston-Washington superconducting maglev #trains project is dead: “The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has cancelled the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) Project on the Permitting Dashboard.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#news about #Trump destroying #NASA #CO2 monitoring satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. #space #politics #toread #USA
on 02025-08-27#news #video from #Fox saying #Trump is more or less invading #Venezuela. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#video #interview with #Frondizi. 23'. He says General Poli (?) who ousted him from power came to believe that it was the greatest error the armed forces of #Argentina had made in their #history, and that he maintains good relations with the Church and the armed forces. Lots and lots of anecdotes; he claims five Air Force pilots came to ask him permission to assassinate #Perón, which he denied, saving Perón’s life. Much etc. #politics
on 02025-08-24#CIA report on #Perón, or rather Cámpora, returning to power in #Argentina in 01973, very similar to Trump in many ways. #politics #history #toread
on 02025-08-23#news #Trump nationalizes 10% of #Intel #USA #politics
on 02025-08-23“#DeepSeek says that the main restriction on their development is lack of compute, and the PRC responds not by helping them get better chips but by advising them to not use the chips that they have, greatly slowing things down at least for a while. (...) It’s also not fair to fully pin this on DeepSeek when they were forced to do a lot of their training this year on #Huawei Ascend chips rather than Nvidia chips.” (The #NVIDIA chips they had been using in the past.) #China #politics #neural-networks #AI #news
on 02025-08-23lots of discussion of money laundering #politics
on 02025-08-21money laundering via real estate, as our old neighbor offered us to do when he thought for some reason that we had money to launder: mortgage payments are small, under- or overvaluing (with undisclosed cash payments making up the difference), including buyer collusion to bid up the price, and you can buy a house and then sell it to your aunt for a higher price. #politics
on 02025-08-21money laundering through #gambling on the lottery, or buying winning tickets from the original winners, or buying houses from them (??), or advance-fee-scamming elderly people with imaginary lotteries. This article is astoundingly poorly written and thought out. #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#Valve says they’ve shut down money laundering on Counter Strike: Global Offensive. “Valve said it had updated the game so keys could no longer be traded online ... Following the latest update to the game, keys will be bound to a player’s account so they cannot be transferred.” #videogames #news #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#videogames money laundering, specifically skin trading and skin betting in Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Seems like mostly AI slop filler. #politics
on 02025-08-21discussion of how money laundering fuels the fine art market; #Mexico saw a collapse in art prices when they took anti-money-laundering measures. #politics
on 02025-08-21#Trump: “Exciting news! The Treasury Department has announced that they are suspending all enforcement of the outrageous and invasive Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement for U.S. Citizens. This Biden rule has been an absolute disaster for Small Businesses Nationwide. Furthermore, Treasury is now finalizing an Emergency Regulation to formally suspend this rule for American businesses. The economic menace of BOI reporting will soon be no more.” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-21“#Trump Celebrates After Killing Anti-Money-Laundering Law”: “the government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, allowing wealthy corporations and individuals to hide their profits from the public. The rule was part of the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA, passed in 2021. (...) Republicans have long opposed the CTA, claiming that the requirements are too steep for small businesses and companies to fulfill. The rule on beneficial ownership was supposed to go into effect in January, but a federal court order froze enforcement of the rule.” #news #politics #USA
on 02025-08-21#news from 02025 about #cryptocurrency money laundering, briefly mentioning tumblers and mixing services. Mostly a lot of AI slop. #politics
on 02025-08-21“Friday briefing: Fake ebooks and overpriced eBay listings are fronts for digital money laundering.” Oh, that’s why there’s all those things on there that nobody would ever buy for real. #politics #news (from 02018)
on 02025-08-21#Trump’s money-laundering #history: “In 1993, the Associated Press reported that two of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos were fined by Treasury Department regulators for “willfully failing to report” transactions involving more than $10,000 — a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Five years later, the department fined Trump Taj Mahal Associates, the company managing the eponymous Atlantic City casino, for violating the same law.” #USA #politics #news (from 02017)
on 02025-08-21people using online #gambling sites for money laundering: “the criminal exploitation of legitimate and unlicensed digital wagering operations to launder money.” But without actually gambling! “Fintrac found a common tactic was the purchase of prepaid cards or vouchers using suspected proceeds of crime. They were then used to deposit money into gambling accounts, followed by withdrawals through wire or e-transfer to a Canadian bank account under the guise of winnings.” #Canada #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#UK government recommends deleting old emails to save water #politics #humor
on 02025-08-12#news #humor #video of how 93% of #Trump #deportations are of people with no violent criminal record and 60% are of people without even a traffic ticket. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-12#humor #USA #politics #history with Buttigieg in South Bend and Djibouti
on 02025-08-11history of #Harvard’s “holistic” #admissions policy established in 01922 to discriminate against Jews. Paywalled article from 02018. #anti-Semitism #history #racism #politics #toread #news
on 02025-08-09Ruth Starkman’s 02013 exposé on how “A highly qualified student, with a 3.95 unweighted grade point average and 2300 on the SAT, was not among the top-ranked engineering applicants to the University of California, Berkeley.” because of their “holistic review” to discriminate against Asian-Americans. Although he probably did get admitted. #racism #USA #history #news #toread #politics #admissions
on 02025-08-09#Denmark #politics granting people #copyright on their own personal appearance!
on 02025-08-09#FEC reports on #USA #politics machine #Mothership Strategies show that 98% of its revenues go to its own people and only 2% to actual political campaigns. #corruption
on 02025-08-08Ron Wyden in January 02025 with a Republican memo about their radical policies of tax cuts for the rich, etc. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-05“CBS #News investigation of Jeffrey #Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies” saying the #Trump administration is lying because of #politics
on 02025-07-30“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21my popular comment about why #Python removing #CGI after deprecating it was bad. #planned-obsolescence #boring-technology #politics
on 02025-07-20“the modern distinction between “programmers” and “users” is evil and destroys agency,” approving of #loper-os Stanislav. #Excel is #malleable. #free-software #politics #toread
on 02025-07-20Domingo Cavallo’s blog on #Argentina #politics and #economics
on 02025-07-14Roman Starovoit was found dead of a gunshot wound in his car a few hours after being dismissed by Putin as Minister of Transport, supposedly by suicide. #politics #Russia
on 02025-07-09#video of Asmongold calling for censorship and preemptive detention in response to killings of ICE agents. “You just find the people that are expressing violent rhetoric and then you put them in jail.” #USA #politics
on 02025-07-09apparently #Kanye West has a hit single saluting #Hitler, entitled “Heil Hitler”. #USA #politics archive of <https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/kanye-gave-twitter-an-exclusive-hit-single>.
on 02025-06-21Four #Thiel company executives are now #USA Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonels. #history #politics
on 02025-06-20In April the president of #Spain was blaming nuclear #energy for the #Iberian-blackout. #news #politics
on 02025-06-17Bureaucracy isn’t measured in bureaucrats; less bureaucrats might slow down bureaucracy rather than speeding it up. #USA #politics
on 02025-06-17#USA law empowers federal judges to deputize whoever they want to enforce the law and demand help from the posse comitatus. #politics
on 02025-06-17#Israel #drones destroy two F-14 airplanes in #Iran. #weaponry #politics
on 02025-06-16#Elmu opposes #Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”, which hasn’t passed the #USA Senate yet. #politics
on 02025-06-05#politics: “This morning, Distributed Denial of Secrets published 410 GB of data hacked from TeleMessage, the Israeli firm that makes modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat that centrally archive messages. Because the data is sensitive and full of PII, DDoSecrets is only sharing it with journalists and researchers.” The history includes #security holes in the TM SGNL code itself.
on 02025-05-20#news of #solar inverter #backdoors from #China. #politics #security
on 02025-05-20#Microsoft has locked the International Criminal Court (#ICC), including Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, out of their email because of #Trump #sanctions #politics over #Israel.
on 02025-05-20#humor #news #video chronicling #Trump’s crackdown on freedom of speech and journalism. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-05-19#news #video about #Proud-Boys and #politics in #USA, with Lincoln Heights arming citizens in response to about ten Klansmen putting up a banner over the freeway when #Trump was inaugurated, until the police hauled them off in a van (but didn’t arrest them). Also the Socialist Rifle Association.
on 02025-05-15#USA #politics #news: NIOSH is laying off a quarter of its workers (about 873)
on 02025-05-11“Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested Friday as he protested at a controversial private detention facility that is expected to play a key role in President Donald #Trump’s plans for mass #deportation of immigrants. (...) Baraka has criticized GEO Group for refusing to allow city inspectors inside and has made his standoff with the company a focal point in his campaign for governor.” #politics #USA #human-rights
on 02025-05-09#Trump threatens #Mattel with 100% #tariffs if they move production out of the #USA #politics
on 02025-05-09#SCMP #news #video on #Xi (#China premier) visiting #Russia to meet with Vladimir #Putin today, for the third time this year. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video on #China policy on #tariffs from the #SCMP; apparently the vice premier is going to Switzerland to have talks with #Trump officials in a few days, and there’s a lot of monetary easing on the part of the central bank. #politics
on 02025-05-08“Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!’: Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before #Trump’s #tariffs cause prices to skyrocket” #USA #politics #survivalists
on 02025-05-03#news on #AfD: “#Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution [Verfassungsschutz]. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.” I think that’s a nice capsule summary of what the problem was with the Nazis. It wasn’t their use of ancient Hindu religious symbols or their industrial policy; it’s that they were incompatible with the free democratic order because of the ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party. #politics
on 02025-05-02#CNBC #news #video with Brad Setser, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, saying, “If #China really wanted to play nasty, they could say, ‘We’re going to limit exports of iPhones.’” The video is pure talking-head and stock-footage filler crap. #USA #politics #tariffs
on 02025-05-02#video #humor #music #politics of a rap satire song with #Elmu, #Trump, Sam Altman, etc.
on 02025-05-01superhero #humor #music #video of #Trump #politics in anime style
on 02025-05-01#news #humor #video #music of #Trump, Putin, etc. #politics
on 02025-05-01#Vietnam considering cracking down on #transshipment of products of #China to evade #Trump #tariffs in #USA #politics
on 02025-04-30#Vietnam is imposing 37.5% “anti-dumping” #tariffs on galvanized steel from some companies in #China and South #Korea starting a month ago, April 1. #politics
on 02025-04-30#news #video largest container port in Western Hemisphere, Los Angeles, projects shipping volumes down 35% next week because of #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-30the resolution replacing #Taiwan with the People’s Republic of #China in the UN in 01971. #history #politics
on 02025-04-30“#Pakistan’s government said it had “credible intelligence” that #India intends to carry out military action against it in the “next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident.” #politics #news
on 02025-04-30#USA #Trump mouthpiece Jack Keane threatens #Iran with “an Israeli-led US-supported attack” if they “force us” by continuing to pursue nuclear power. #politics #history #news
on 02025-04-30"He Was My Brother" was written in 01963 and then rededicated to Andrew Goodman, who was lynched for being a Freedom Rider in 01964. #history #politics #human-rights #USA #human-rights
on 02025-04-30Scott Alexander is opposed to #Trump but says the populist Right needs to take responsibility for the #tariffs disaster. #politics #USA
on 02025-04-30Molly Ball says, “That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.” #news #history #politics #USA
on 02025-04-30#news #video on the #Philippines, and the potential of a South #China Sea war. #politics
on 02025-04-25#news #video Karoline Leavitt says #Trump has 18 proposals on paper from countries around the world who “recognize that they have, in fact, been ripping off the United States” on #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-25#news #video from what looks like a #China propaganda outlet saying the #EU is dropping trade barriers to Chinese products that it had instituted over the last few years in coordination with #USA. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video with Kishore Mahbubani saying that #Taiwan is the issue most likely to cause a war between #USA and #China at 18'26" in an #interview with #Al-Jazeera. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news on #Trump backing down somewhat on #China #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #humor #video mentioning 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens resigned over threats to their journalistic independence. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video about #India and #Pakistan coming closer to war after #Kashmir attack by the Baloch Liberation Army (or Lashkar-e-Tayyiba?); #Modi suspends the Indus Valley Water Treaty. Shahbaz Sharif has summoned the National Security committee in Pakistan. In Hindi. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video about #Trump defense secretary Pete Hegseth texting secret war plans again, this time to his wife, brother, and lawyer, according to a NYTimes article. Hegseth is now going on a witch hunt for leakers and fired three of his top aides. Karoline Leavitt: “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change that you are trying to implement.” #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video saying #Trump is easing off on the trade war with #China following a meeting with Target and Walmart CEOs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news on #Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan threatening to arrest Democratic state governors in the #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news saying the #USA Federal Reserve is planning a bailout of the stock and bond market (perhaps via reverse repurchase agreements: treasury securities sold by the Federal Reserve in temporary open market operations, as was done massively in 02022 and 02023, a number that has dropped from US$400 billion two weeks ago to under US$100 billion now), because #Trump’s pause on #tariffs hasn’t stopped the bond market from getting tighter and tighter as hedge funds deleveraged. #politics
on 02025-04-17#news on #China offering #USA and EU citizens 240-hour visa-free shopping tours to buy luxury brands from OEM factory outlets at factory prices, blitzing TikTok with information about how those brands are really produced in China, in response to #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump’s IRS considering revoking #Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Also #Abrego #deportations. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #video saying there was a false rumor that #Milei had decreed a US$100 monthly limit on bank withdrawals (a “corralito”) propagated on social networks by Peronists, referencing BCRA communiqué A8226, which this YouTuber interprets as meaning, instead, that you can only buy up to US$100 per month with pesos deposited in cash (as opposed to in your bank account). #Argentina #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video about #export-controls in #China on #rare-earths, gallium, germanium, etc. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video of #Milei’s speech yesterday announcing the end of #currency exchange rate controls (for individuals) #toread #politics #finance
on 02025-04-12#news #video speculating that #China will invade #Taiwan now that they don’t have to worry about losing trade with the #USA, having already lost it to the #Trump #tariffs. Points out that Chinese imports from the US are easily replaceable things like soybeans, unlike fine chemicals and microchips. #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video #toread from #Deutsche-Welle about the #Trump #China #tariffs exempting smartphones and laptops #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#news #video: The #Trump administration says it will exclude electronics such as smartphones and laptops from latest #tariffs. That means such devices and their components won’t be subject to the current 145 per cent tariffs levied on #China, or the 10 per cent baseline tariffs elsewhere. #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#Business-Basics #video enthusiastically endorsing #Milei #politics. Misspells Cristina Fernández’s last name and Alberto Fernández’s last name in two different ways, mispronounces Macri, and incorrectly uses the Philippine peso symbol for the Argentine peso. Mostly broadly correct, except that it’s claiming that Argentina’s economy is great now, which it still isn’t. #toread
on 02025-04-10#video from yesterday, Victor Gao saying, “We retaliate against what the United States will do even at the cost of a total war between #China and the United States, in terms of tariff war, or trade war, or otherwise.” #tariffs #politics #news
on 02025-04-09#video #news Reva Goujon says, “China is doing some interesting things in its implementing its provisions for the anti-foreign-sanctions law, it’s talking about countermeasures that include suspending IP rights for US companies in #China. That’s explosive.” #USA #politics #human-rights #copyright
on 02025-04-09#video #news on #China and #USA #politics, mostly about #Trump #tariffs, mentioning that the #Hutchison ports sale to BlackRock has been paused by Beijing
on 02025-04-09#video from the European Commission opposing #Trump #tariffs; the posture Ursula von der Leyen articulates here doesn’t seem to leave space for making common cause with China in response, though, promising more protectionist measures in response (and not just against the US). #politics
on 02025-04-09#news #USA #tariffs #politics “#China’s Finance Ministry also announced new export controls on medium and heavy rare-earth elements, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium.”
on 02025-04-08#news #video quoting Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management): “we are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter” #tariffs #politics #USA
on 02025-04-07#video #news from #Deutsche-Welle on #China imposing reciprocal #tariffs on #USA #politics, mostly just stock footage and talking heads. 34% tariffs on imports from the US, and a ban on seven rare-earth exports to the US and Europe. Jerome Powell, President of the Federal Reserve, predicts that the tariffs will probably cause #inflation in the US, unemployment, and slower growth. #toread
on 02025-04-04#video #toread of #Milei’s speech at the “American Patriots” fundraiser last night (?) #politics
on 02025-04-04#USA #human-rights #Trump #politics
on 02025-04-02#video about #USA #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-02#video about #USA #tariffs #politics with Larry Summers
on 02025-04-02#video #toread about JD #Vance #politics #news destroying relationship with Europe
on 02025-04-02#USA #politics #humor #news #video mentioning #Elmu leaving #Trump’s administration
on 02025-04-02#politics on immigration: #H1B visas in the crosshairs, and tech companies afraid that their workers won’t be able to return to the #USA if they travel to visit their families. Archive of https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/31/immigration-h1b-fear-siliconvalley/
on 02025-04-02#news #video with footage from Rep. Hank Johnson reading a prepared statement in a #USA Congressional House Judiciary Committee hearing about #politics and #Trump’s attacks on #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news #video from #Deutsche-Welle saying #Milei has lowered poverty significantly down to 38% and indigence to 8% (from 52% and 18% respectively), but about the same as before he assumed power. The Big Mac Index says the peso of #Argentina is the #2 most overvalued currency in the world, we have the most IMF debt of any country in the world, and the riesgo país is rising. #politics
on 02025-04-01#video #news on #PRC surrounding #Taiwan with ships in “surprise military drills”. #politics
on 02025-04-01#video #news on Wilson Martel Lebron, who was deported in the middle of his trial; the Massachusetts judge dismissed the case with prejudice and ruled the prosecutor in contempt of court because he aided in “a case of obstruction of justice, a case of violating the defendant’s right to be present at trial and confront the witnesses against him.” #USA #politics #human-rights #deportations
on 02025-04-01#news #video from #Fox-News saying Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García was arrested in 02019 “in the company of other ranking gang members and was confirmed to be a ranking gang member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source,” according to the DHS’s assertions. #USA #politics #human-rights #deportations
on 02025-04-01#news #video saying #Trump administration is admitting one Maryland father, granted protected status in 02019, was mistakenly included in the #deportations to #El-Salvador due to an “administrative error”, but can’t be brought back. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news #video #interview with Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi, who refers to ISIS as #Daesh. #politics #Afghanistan
on 02025-03-31#news #video from today saying #Ukraine is declining #Trump’s peace deal with Russia. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video saying Jason Stanley, Yale professor who wrote How Fascism Works, is leaving #USA. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video saying #Elmu resigned from #DOGE (pure talking-head filler) #politics #USA
on 02025-03-31#news #video of talking-head and stock footage about #rare-earths, which #Ukraine doesn’t actually have. Also the global rare-earths market is only US$5 billion a year. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video on #Trump saying yesterday he’ll give #Iran “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if they don’t agree to a nuclear deal. Also threatened “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil and “military force” to annex Greenland. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-31#video on Li Ka-Shing sale of 43 #Hutchison ports to BlackRock, suggesting #USA wants to cut off #China’s trade routes #news #politics
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: the names of the 238 detainees, disclosed on March 20. They’re still being held incommunicado. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-03-28this singer from #Venezuela has a YouTube channel; he’s one of the victims of #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador because he has tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28MSNBC relays Mother Jones’s #journalism on the tattoo-based #Trump #deportations #news to #CECOT in #El-Salvador for people from #Venezuela #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#video #news on Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing’s Cheung Kong Group selling off #Hutchison Ports’ stock, 43 of 53 major international ports in 23 countries, including the ports at both ends of the #Panama Canal, for US$19 billion, (and there was something about 90% of stock, it’s not clear) to the #USA, suggesting he anticipates war. #politics #China
on 02025-03-26#video on #USA arresting German tourists and permanent residents on entry to the country and detaining them, sometimes for weeks: 34-year-old Fabian Schmidt (incommunicado for 4 days), etc. #politics
on 02025-03-26#video on Turkish Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk being snatched off the street yesterday in Somerville, MA by masked ICE officers for publishing an editorial in the Tufts Daily opposing #Israel’s invasion of Gaza a year ago. #news #politics #USA
on 02025-03-26#video #news: #Trump threatens a 25% “secondary tariff” on any country that buys oil or gas from #Venezuela starting April 2; oil is 80% of its exports and 17% of GDP. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-26#news #video saying #BYD is #manufacturing #EV cars in Thailand and Brazil, and soon in Indonesia and Hungary. #China #politics
on 02025-03-25more details on #BYD #EV #manufacturing delay in #Mexico, including background about Brazil and possible Mexican tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum. #politics #China
on 02025-03-25#BYD #EV #manufacturing delayed in #Mexico by #politics in #China, “fears of the technology leaking into the #USA” #news
on 02025-03-25#Turkish state TV TRT #video about fairly mild #human-rights abuses by the government of #Israel against an Australian tourist, Anastasia. #politics
on 02025-03-25#USA #politics #news of #Trump deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; apparently the deportees are being held incommunicado, and their names have not been released to their families.
on 02025-03-25#news “#Vaxart lays off 10% of staff after HHS unexpectedly demands halt to #COVID #vaccine trial” #politics #USA
on 02025-03-21“The 22 cases include Chicago resident Julio Noriega, 54, a U.S. citizen who, according to court documents, was arrested, handcuffed and spent most of the night at an ICE processing center in suburban Broadview. He was never questioned about his citizenship and was only released after agents looked at his ID.” #USA #politics #immigration #toread #news
on 02025-03-19This article is infuriating. #USA #politics #immigration #toread #news
on 02025-03-19#humor #video ridiculing #Trump #politics and predicting a “Chinese century”
on 02025-03-18#California Coastal Commission wins #politics lawsuit against #Musk for #SpaceX, but he can refile. ““The concern is legitimate when a local body injects politics in its decision-making,” [Trump-appointed district judge Stanley] Blumenfeld told SpaceX attorney Tyler Welti. “I get the concern. But where is the harm?”” #Trump #space #California
on 02025-03-18“She joined the majority on Thursday in rejecting the Defense Department’s application on behalf of Musk’s SpaceX to increase the number of satellite launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base from 36 to 50 per year.” #politics #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #space #California
on 02025-03-18Last October: “The suit pointed to comments made during last week’s public hearing by commissioners, who made note of Musk’s political involvement during this election. According to the suit, [#California Coastal] Commissioner Caryl Hart [wife of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart] noted SpaceX is led by someone who has “aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and made it clear what his point of view is.” Commissioner Gretchen Newsom added, “Right now Elon Musk is hopping around the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.”" #politics #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #space
on 02025-03-18#news #video saying #Israel is the only country to run its #F-35 #weaponry on domestic software, and (presumably because of #Trump’s freeze on aid to Ukraine) European #politics are concerned about this suddenly. Seems to mostly be a question of electronic countermeasures or countercountermeasures. #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-03-14#video by #Asmongold on #Elmu and his radical shift to hard right-wing #politics and the Tesla boycotts. #USA
on 02025-03-06#Fox #news #video about #PRC’s statement that it is ready for “any kind of war” with #USA on the basis of #Trump’s #tariffs. Trump announces the creation of a “office of shipbuilding” and promises to invade #Panama to get the canal back. #politics #China
on 02025-03-06#USA #Fox #news #video on #Trump revoking the legal #immigration status of 240k people who fled #Ukraine. #politics
on 02025-03-06#video on whether drug #cartels in #Mexico will use #drones or similar #weaponry against #USA Marines etc. (as they have been against rivals) who are apparently patrolling the border now; #Asmongold does a live “react to” stream to a pro-#Trump #politics YouTuber; he predicts an invasion of Mexico. Illegal #immigration is being blamed for US gangs in New York in homeless shelters.
on 02025-03-06#news abridged #video of #Trudeau in #Canada announcing tariffs against #USA #politics
on 02025-03-06#news #video on #Trump backing down on #USA tariffs on #Canada and #Mexico, but only on autos. Almost entirely a tiresome talking head lecture #politics
on 02025-03-06#video on #Ukraine attempts to recapture Kotlyne from the Russians. Mostly just maps #politics
on 02025-03-02#video #toread on #USA CIA flying Predator #drones over #Mexico to provide information on drug cartels to the Mexican authorities. #politics
on 02025-03-01#news: the #Economist discusses the possibilities of European self-defense. “There are approximately 230 Russian and Ukrainian brigades in #Ukraine, though most are under-strength. Many European countries would struggle to produce a single combat-capable brigade each. (...) Europe has impressive air forces, with a lot of modern jets. But those jets do not have a meaningful stockpile of munitions capable of destroying enemy air defences or striking distant targets on land or in the air[.] (...) “This”, pronounced Mr Merz on February 24th, “is really five minutes to midnight for Europe.”” #Trump #politics
on 02025-02-28#news: the #Economist describes #Trump’s #politics as “mafia-like” and predicts disaster
on 02025-02-28#news #video of #Zelenskyy and #Trump yelling at each other in front of the US media in the Oval Office today. #Ukraine #politics
on 02025-02-28#news #video that tomorrow the ATE is having a nationwide strike in #Argentina against #Milei. #politics
on 02025-02-27#CNN #news #video: “We [#USA] are on the path out of #NATO (...) we are aligned with what has always been NATO’s principal threat. (...) I would say 95%+ of NATO’s planning during the Cold War and since then has been concerned about a Russian attack. That is the fundamental motivating factor why the alliance was created and why it still exists today. And we have sided now in this vote with NATO’s principal adversary.” —John Bolton. #politics. The “and since then” and “why it still exists” are deliberate and very significant from my point of view; it’s a fatal counter to any argument that NATO isn’t really an anti-Russian alliance. #Ukraine
on 02025-02-26#news yes, Roger #Waters was planned to brief the UN Security Council. #politics
on 02025-02-20#news yes, Roger #Waters did address the UN Security Council about #Ukraine. But the speech reported on here is not the speech in the YouTube video linked above, but rather a speech given two years earlier. #politics
on 02025-02-20#video #news of Roger #Waters addressing the UN Security Council (!?) about #Ukraine, quoting Smedley Butler. #politics
on 02025-02-20#video #news on #USA #Trump #politics: “NATO is a deterrent organization. It kept the peace for four generations. I think that’s over. (...) Fortunately, both the French and the Brits have a nuclear capability. Otherwise, the nuclear assurance that the US grants to our allies in Europe would be gone also.” Gen. Barry McCaffrey, (Ret.), US Army
on 02025-02-20#USA #politics #news: half-hour #Vance speech in Munich criticizing European leaders, as reported by #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-02-15#video #news of #UK defense minister Healey listing #weaponry sent to #Ukraine last year: “10000 #drones” is the only thing worth mentioning. Hegseth says #Trump’s approach to the war is that the war must end. “We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. (...) The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. (...) As part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine.” Not sure what he thinks about Donetsk and Luhansk. #politics
on 02025-02-12#video of JD #Vance giving a speech at the AI Action Summit yesterday. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-12#video of Matt #Taibbi testifying before #USA Congress today about censorship and anti-journalism. #politics #news
on 02025-02-12#video claiming #China’s Xi has ordered the military to be able to invade #Taiwan by 02027. #politics
on 02025-02-12#Trump "brazenly defies laws" #USA #politics #news https://archive.ph/Ib2yr
on 02025-02-06#Elmu’s “presidency” is “just getting started” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-06“BRILLIANT” #HIV vaccine clinical trial in #South-Africa is among the programs halted by #Elmu’s shutdown of #USAID #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-06#politics #news: federal judge bars #Elmu from access to #USA Treasury disbursements data
on 02025-02-06#news on #USA FBI acting director Driscoll attempting to defend the FBI from #Trump. #politics
on 02025-02-05#Economist #news on #Trump’s tariff policy against the #EU and how they might respond #politics
on 02025-02-04#Elmu’s grandfather Joshua Haldeman wasn’t a Nazi but was a racist, anti-Semitic supporter of apartheid. #history #politics
on 02025-02-03#Elmu is actually a neo-Nazi now, endorsing #AfD in #Germany #politics. “Musk (...) was met with roars of applause from the more than 4,000 attendees gathered in the German city of Halle as he appeared on screen at a rally for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
“I think you really are the best hope for Germany,” Musk told them.
Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader, party chair and candidate for chancellor of Germany’s AfD, prepares for a live X interview with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in her office in the Jakob Kaiser House in Berlin, on Thursday.
Musk was introduced by party co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whom he endorsed and praised effusively during a more than hour-long conversation live-streamed earlier this month on X, the social media platform he owns.”
on 02025-02-03New Yorker #news article about #Trump’s history and new expansionist policy. #history #USA #politics
on 02025-01-29#Economist on Tulsi #Gabbard’s life history including the #Science-of-Identity Foundation. #USA #politics
on 02025-01-29#USA #politics #news in the WSJ about Tulsi #Gabbard and the #Science-of-Identity Foundation and its ties to the QI Group and its pyramid schemes. #crime
on 02025-01-29#video of #pmarca saying it’s “morning again” in #USA #politics due to #Trump, 74 minutes. I didn’t realize Al Gore sponsored the legislation that created NSFNET; I thought his advocacy started with the com-priv era.
He mentions the end of Chevron deference, which he argues means that executive agencies should abandon their quasi-legislative functions. He also questions the idea of “independent agencies” in the executive branch, like the FTC and NRC. The interviewer, the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson, argues that the CFPB's director not being fireable by the president is “unconstitutional on the face of it”, prefiguring the Slaughter verdict (I’m writing these notes in 02026).
Cites #Yarvin approvingly at 25'54" saying that we’re 80 years into FDR’s personal monarchy.
Also mentions #Elmu has been “living at” Mar-a-Lago.
Also mentions the #history of Nixon’s “Project Independence”, which I hadn’t heard of, to build 1000 #nuclear #energy power stations in the US, which turns out to be at best a very incomplete description of Project Independence.
Describes #Anduril’s original business plan as “We have to invest in this company, and his business plan is to hunt Mexicans at the southern border in 2016. And we’re just like, oh, God, we just basically have a heart attack.” So Andreessen Horowitz didn’t invest, and Trump didn’t want Anduril to do it, so they switched to military systems, which became accepted in Silicon Valley with the tragedy in #Ukraine.
Robinson claims that the US’s “only sustainable advantage over the Chinese is going to be technological innovation”, since they’re more numerous and richer, which doesn't make sense to me — how are they richer if they’re dumber, as he’s implying? Pmarca doesn’t disagree, citing the Pentagon’s new COO, Steve Feinberg, as someone who can make this happen.
At 56'40" he says the Ukrainian sea drones are built out of commercial jetskis.
At 60'40" pmarca makes the very reasonable points that productivity growth in the US has been low since about 01970, and that low growth creates zero-sum economics, which creates zero-sum politics, “where the only way for anybody to get anything is to take it away from somebody else.”
on 02025-01-29#Economist #news article from January 14th on #Milei and #politics in #Argentina. “A closer look at inflation numbers suggests that, despite smaller price rises, most Argentines are not yet better off than they were a year ago. (...) The economic gloom could hobble Mr Milei’s reform efforts. The country still maintains strict currency controls to prop up the wobbly peso. Mr Milei has vowed to ease these restrictions and let the currency float. But first he wants to negotiate a loan with the IMF, a condition of which will probably be a new set of reforms. For now, Mr Milei remains popular: nearly half of Argentines support him, according to a recent survey by AtlasIntel, a pollster, even though just one in five rates the economy as “good”.”
on 02025-01-29#Palmer-Luckey gearing up to go to war with #China in 02027 with his billion-dollar Arsenal-1 Ohio factory is disquieting. #politics #Anduril #weaponry #video
on 02025-01-28#USA #politics #Trump purporting to revoke birthright citizenship for children of legal temporary residents; ACLU and others are challenging the EO
on 02025-01-21Maybe the #Israel #Gaza ceasefire won’t happen after all: “‘Hamas has reneged on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last-minute concessions,’ the Prime Minister’s Office said.” #news #politics
on 02025-01-16#Gaza ceasefire with return of some hostages if #Israel’s security cabinet and government approve it today. #news #politics
on 02025-01-16#human-rights #USA #politics #Nevada court decision against giving (Stephen Lara’s) asset-forfeiture loot to the DEA
on 02025-01-15#history of Jeff #Bezos and Donald #Trump’s relationship from Business Insider. #USA #politics
on 02025-01-09#La-Nacion #news #video about a MoU being signed for a US$140 billion export deal for #LNG from Vaca Muerta in partnership with Shell which is apparently displacing Petronas as a candidate partner. Probably kind of stupid given what’s happening with solar, but gas certainly has a role to play in peakers before battery capacity is built up. They say it's “gas no tradicional” which I think means they’re cooking shale. They’re saying maybe they’d have an export terminal in place by 02027 or 02030, which seems far too late; the floating LNG terminal that we had when Macri was president might work. Pure talking-head filler. #Argentina #energy #politics
on 02024-12-23#news #video from Russian propaganda channel #Firstpost quotes the NYT quoting Vivek Ramaswamy promising “#Milei style cuts, on steroids” in #USA #politics under #Trump, but says “Milei-nomics” has “pushed 5 million people into poverty”
on 02024-12-23#news #video about #Milei feuding more publicly with #Villarruel, but the actual quote is very dog-whistly. Touts a new US$400 million Stellantis investment. #Argentina #politics
on 02024-12-22Jeremy Giles reports in #Foreign-Policy that #Bukele’s #homicide #statistics are fake because they stopped counting (at least) mass graves, police killings, and killings in prison as “homicide”: “Since the start of 2021, at least 171 unmarked graves have been discovered (68 in 2021, 43 in 2022, and 60 in 2023) and entirely left out of the nation’s homicide figures. (...) 1.6 percent of the Salvadoran population is now behind bars—more than twice the incarceration rate of Cuba and Rwanda and more than four times that of the United States.” Includes month-by-month homicide plots! #El-Salvador #politics #crime
on 02024-12-21#news #video #politics on the #USA withdrawing a bounty on the arrest of the new head of #Syria #toread
on 02024-12-20another #video of a #Milei speech, 80 minutes at some kind of dinner, I guess in Tucumán at a meeting of “Federalismo y Libertad”. He says, among other things, that the poverty rate has fallen from 54.8% in the first quarter 02024 to 38.9%, while indigence fell from 20.2% to 8.6%. Says the economy is expanding at a 10% annual rate, which sounds like he thought 16.5% was too high to be credible but still wants to use quarter-to-quarter GDP growth rates (he does say “17% anual” when talking about the 3Q figures). “El consumo viene creciendo a un ritmo del 20% anual; decían que no iba a haber inversiones” (I’m guilty on this point) “y las inversiones vienen volando al 50% anual.” Claims his administration is the best administration in the history of #Argentina, ew. Says that when he assumed power the “salario básico” was 300 dollars [per month] and now it’s 1100 dollars [per month], which I think is roughly correct, and unemployment is down to 6.9%. Also talks about covering 100% of the “canasta básica”, a potential free trade treaty with the #USA, etc. Described the Ministry of Women and the INADI as “organisms dedicated to persecution of those who don’t take Communion from the Left.” Refers to the Kirchnerists as “the cockroaches”, “las cucarachas”. “Las bases del capitalismo de libre empresa están en la cultura judío.” Opposes Israel to the “collectivist agenda”, apparently unaware of the kibbutzim. #politics
on 02024-12-20#news #video of #Milei this afternoon announcing his new #nuclear #energy plan for #Argentina, starting with the construction of an SMR, apparently unaware of the solar-energy revolution that’s taken place over the last year, along with the ridiculous fantasy of manufacturing SMRs for export. What an embarrassment. It’s useful to see what kind of patriotic rhetoric they use to sell this white elephant. The second speaker is Rafael Grossi, who was the Argentine ambassador to Austria before becoming the head (Director General) of the #IAEA. Rossi, hilariously, says nuclear energy “es una herramienta que la Argentina ha usado en los últimos 70 años con marcado éxito”, not daring to mention anything that suggests Huemul. He does eventually dare to mention nuclear weapons at 8'52”. Milei finally starts speaking at 10'16”. His list of technological revolutions: fire, the wheel, the loom, the steam locomotive, electric energy, and the internet; he says today artificial intelligence opens a new frontier in this Manifest Destiny that we share as a species, which will require more energy than conventional energy — but somehow completely forgets to mention solar and wind energy. #politics
on 02024-12-20#video #news #toread #interview with Luis Caputo published by the Ministry of the Economy #politics #Argentina
on 02024-12-18#news on polls on #Milei’s popularity, 52% approval. The #video is almost pure talking-head filler. #La-Nacion #politics #Argentina
on 02024-12-18#news #video from Radio Mitre #interview with Jaime Campo, the president of the Asociación Empresaria #Argentina, on his meeting with Luis Caputo, who says the priority is reducing the tax burden on the economy, while the cepo will last a while longer. The video is pure talking-head filler. #politics
on 02024-12-18#video of right-wing Fox #news using #Milei as an example for #USA #politics
on 02024-12-17#video #news: #Milei betting on #nuclear #energy. Doh! #politics
on 02024-12-17#news #video about how #Milei (or rather his political ally Jorge Macri) is instituting a US-like policy of sending the police to beat up homeless people and stealing their possessions. Currently there are supposedly 4400 homeless people in Buenos Aires (presumably this means the city), 10% more than last year and 2.5× as many as five years ago. #politics #human-rights #Argentina
on 02024-12-17#news #video on Argentine policeman #Nahuel-Gallo being imprisoned in #Venezuela when he tried to visit his wife and child, who live there with her family; in response, Patricia Bullrich (the minister of security of #Argentina) called Diosdado Cabello (the Venezuelan minister of the interior) “el lacayo de una dictadura criminal y cobarde. (...) La argentina no se somete a tiranos.” So it’s an international incident. #politics
on 02024-12-17#USA #politics #drones sighted leading to calls for a state of emergency #news
on 02024-12-13#USA #politics #drones sighted leading to calls for a state of emergency #news (discussion)
on 02024-12-13#video #humor of George #Carlin on the penultimate Ed Sullivan show in 01971 on Muhammad Ali and environmentalism. #politics #history #USA
on 02024-12-04#video #interview with #Jonestown survivor #Odell Rhodes. A comment says he died in Sacramento, CA, in 02014, at age 72. #USA #Guyana #history #politics #crime #cults
on 02024-12-04#video #toread #interview by global-warming denier Candace Owens with former #CIA agent and purported whistleblower Kevin Shipp. #USA #history #politics
on 02024-12-04If we include voluntary “returns” and Title 42 expulsions, #Biden deported 4.7 million people, most innocent (“In fiscal year 2023, just 32 percent of removal deportations were for illegal immigrants with a criminal record; in 2024 so far, just 1 in 5 removals were convicted criminals.”) #USA #immigration #politics
on 02024-11-28on #Vance, #Moldbug, and #Thiel. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-28#Sky #news propaganda #video opposing #solar #photovoltaic #energy. Shows the nameplate of a house-sized Mitsubishi Hitachi hydrogen-cooled steam turbine generator (310RK09-776-1) producing 3-phase 20kV at 50Hz and what looks like 17984 amps, saying it produces 570–580MW, though my calculation gives 360MW from those numbers. Shows a real-time power price of [AU?]$235, presumably per MWh, attributing the high price to a cold snap in Victoria. Says 1200 tonnes of cheap brown coal per hour produces 1140 megawatts electric, which works out to 3.4MJ/kg, which would be about 15% efficiency, which seems improbably low. “[In the past] you were seeing wholesale prices around (...) $20–40/MWh”, says a guy who’s been working in the field for only 30 years; that also seems improbably low. “10 Australian coal-fired power stations closed in the last decade. There are 15 still running, but most are slated to close in the next decade.” 62% of electric generation on #Australia’s main grid is from fossil fuels, the other 38% from renewables. At 7'51”, it profiles Belinda Jones, a pensioner who’s paying AU$1073.31 per month (US$697/month) because she’s paying AU$0.191/kWh for 3410kWh (AU$651, becoming AU$716.63 after GST) and AU$0.216 for 2700kWh (AU$582, AU$640.10 after GST), from which subsidies are deducted. That implies her house is averaging 8400 watts! Possibly in part because she’s using resistive space heaters instead of heat pumps, but more likely it’s not actually a one-month bill — yes, in fact, at 9'13” we see it’s for 92 days, but she’s still averaging 2800 watts around the clock. (The average comes out to 11.4¢/kWh, which is very cheap by retail standards.) Also, we see at 9'22” that the previous bill was only AU$457.45. A different power bill shown at 45'04” shows someone paying $415 with time-of-day billing — also for 92 days. “Energy scarcity emerges everywhere #wind and solar become the dominant form of electrical generation.” Shows the #LNG export gas terminal at Gladston, the Petra Nova #carbon-capture pilot plant in Houston, and a US$21B #nuclear power plant in Georgia, the second to be built in the #USA in the last 30 years. #Microsoft has signed a deal to reopen #Three-Mile-Island. #politics Viper-7 reports paying 27.56-67.44c/kWh: Peak time (4:00pm to 7:59pm): 67.44c per kWh; Shoulder time (7:00am to 3:59pm, 8:00pm to 9:59pm): 29.65c per kWh; else 27.56c per kWh, including GST.
on 02024-11-27#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27#video of right-wing video game streamer #Asmongold commenting on (and kind of endorsing) #Trump’s mass #deportation plan #USA #politics
on 02024-11-26#news on the #EU imposing 35.3% punitive import #tariffs on electric vehicle (EV) imports from #China earlier this year on top of the 10% standard import duty (and I suppose VAT). China ended its joint-venture rule in 02022, maybe due to #Tesla, while the EU is maybe enacting it as a way to, in effect, drop the tariffs. This #video (by #EV-Insight) is pure irrelevant stock-footage filler. #politics #EVs
on 02024-11-26#news #video on #China seabed #espionage surveillance devices described as “underwater lighthouses”, following a similar discovery in 02019 by 11 Chinese fishermen in Jiangsu, and another discovery of 9 such devices in 02018 by 18 fishermen in Jiangsu, and China’s recovery of an underwater drone in 02015; reporting by Russia propaganda outlet WION. #politics
on 02024-11-24#news #video saying Rand Paul will chair the Homeland Security committee next year and will not support the use of the military in #Trump’s planned deportations. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-24#news #video #interview with new prime minister of #Malaysia about China, Israel, Ukraine, etc. #politics
on 02024-11-24right-wing #USA propaganda #news #video saying South Korea is thinking about getting involved in the #Ukraine war #politics
on 02024-11-24#news #video from CNN criticizing Biden’s #USA #politics policy change on #Ukraine
on 02024-11-24#video of #Bernie-Sanders #interview with #Lex-Fridman #USA #politics #history
on 02024-11-22#video of #Milei #interview with #Lex-Fridman #Argentina #politics
on 02024-11-22#Karaganov “has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov. (...) has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998, and served on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences since 1983.” I guess that means he’s been a major architect of Russian foreign policy since literally Andropov. #politics #Russia #Ukraine
on 02024-11-22#TRT #news says Erdogan calls for “restraint”, seeming “very, very concerned” and saying NATO “needs to prepare”, and “opposes #Ukraine’s use of US long-range missiles”, which #Turkey calls a “mistake”. Also an interview with Sergey #Karaganov, advisor to Putin. He also says that under [circumstances I didn’t understand] the #USA and Western Europe would “get a nuclear response”. Former Turkish diplomat Gulru Gezer says she’s getting “chills on my spine” from the US and Russian rhetoric from the other panelists. Karaganov: “The problem is two-pronged. One is to win the victory in Ukraine over the West, not over Ukraine. [The] West has to be defeated. Second, the third world war could be avoided.” He accidentally called Putin “president Yeltsin” at one point. #video #politics
on 02024-11-22#MSNBC #news #video on #Oreshnik developments with Michael Froman, the chairman of the Council for Foreign Relations and former USTR, who says #Ukraine will demand NATO membership as a condition of surrender, which seems like it would be unaccetpable to Russia. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-22“NATO to meet [Tuesday] after new Russian missile strike” (#news today, but about the Dnipro #Oreshnik missile strike yesterday) #Ukraine #politics #video
on 02024-11-22“Ucrania pide a EEUU misiles Tomahawk que puedan alcanzar a Moscú” #Ukraine #politics #news #video 2500km range, #nuclear capable
on 02024-11-22“ATTACK ON THE US: Russia reportedly threatens US defense base in Poland” #Ukraine #politics #news #video #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-22“Vladimir Putin warns West as Russia hits #Ukraine with new missile” #news #politics #video of almost purely talking-head filler #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-22“In February [02015], four #supercomputing institutions in #China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports.” #Tianhe-2 #export-controls #history #USA #politics
on 02024-11-22"Tianhe-2" (天河-2) was the top supercomputer on the TOP500 list in 02013 to 02015, its expansion handicapped by #USA #export-controls in 02015 under Obama. #China #politics #history #supercomputing
on 02024-11-22#China #USA #Wandering-Balloon #politics reporting: “The balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal southeast route from Idaho to the Carolinas, had moved off the coast by midday Saturday and was shot down within moments of its arrival over the Atlantic Ocean. (...) Pentagon officials advised then against shooting down the balloon, whose belly structure was roughly the size of three buses. (...) Pentagon officials said the spy balloon, which was remotely maneuverable to some degree by the Chinese but still dependent on the jet stream for travel, began its controlled drift into American territory on Jan. 28, when it entered Alaskan airspace near the Aleutian Islands. (...) the most recent balloon, equipped with solar panels to power propulsion and cameras and surveillance technology, exited American territory on Monday and spent the day over Canada’s Northwest Territories. But it was back over the United States on Tuesday after entering through northern Idaho.”
on 02024-11-22BBC reporting at the time on the #China #USA #Wandering-Balloon #politics, apparently the most comprehensive coverage
on 02024-11-22more on the #China #Wandering-Balloon: “Regarding the unintended entry of a Chinese unmanned airship into US airspace due to force majeure, the Chinese side has verified it and communicated it to the US side. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course.” #USA #UFOs #politics #history
on 02024-11-22“Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks on the Unintended Entry of a Chinese Unmanned Airship into US Airspace Due to Force Majeure” prior to the #Wandering-Balloon #politics #USA #UFOs #history
on 02024-11-22“Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy on Sunday over the “U.S. attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force.”” in February 02023. The #USA government said it was a spy balloon at 18000m altitude, while #China said it was a civilian meteorological research balloon (a sort of weather balloon) blown off-course. #politics #Wandering-Balloon #UFOs
on 02024-11-22An article from 02014 about the #deep-state concept by Mike Lofgren, criticizing the military-industrial-intelligence complex. He explains the term: “The term “Deep State” was coined in Turkey and is said to be a system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary and organized crime. In British author John le Carré’s latest novel, A Delicate Truth, a character describes the Deep State as “… the ever-expanding circle of non-governmental insiders from banking, industry and commerce who were cleared for highly classified information denied to large swathes of Whitehall and Westminster.” I use the term to mean a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.” #politics #USA
on 02024-11-22> “Deep state” is a calque of the Turkish word derin devlet (lit. ‘deep state’). The modern concept of a #deep-state is associated with #Turkey, a presumed secret network of military officers and their civilian allies trying to preserve the secular order based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 1923. #politics
on 02024-11-22The New Yorker’s #Deep-State “letter” from 02012, now without the subtitle describing Erdogan as a “moderate”; apparently the phrase “deep state” is a translation of the Turkish derin devlet. #Turkey #politics #history
on 02024-11-22the #Deep-State term was popularized in this “letter” in the New Yorker on March 12, 02012, by Dexter Filkins, entitled “THE DEEP STATE: The Prime Minister [Erdogan] is revered as a moderate, but how far will he go to stay in power?” #Turkey #politics #history
on 02024-11-22#news #video about #Putin saying the ballistic missile that hit #Ukraine wasn’t an #ICBM but a medium-range missile. #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21#news #video about #Ukraine getting hit by an #ICBM #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21#news Russia launches first #ICBM used in war in history, but it launched it at Dnipro, #Ukraine (from Astrakhan) and without #nuclear weapons. #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21in 02009 Peter #Thiel wrote that women getting the vote (female suffrage, fought for by suffragists sometimes called “suffragettes”) was bad for democracy on Cato Unbound: “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron,” later adding, “It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better.” #politics
on 02024-11-20“Russia says #Ukraine attacked it using U.S. long-range missiles, signals it’s ready for #nuclear response” #news #politics
on 02024-11-20incoming border czar Tom Homan plans “shock and awe” assault on immigrants on day 1 of #Trump regime, using the military but, thanks to the Posse Comitatus act, not for arrests. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02024-11-20When #Trump tried to invoke the Insurrection Act to suppress the George Floyd protests. #USA #politics #history
on 02024-11-19#Argentina #politics #news #video: #Milei is like a child, according to the head of Rapa Nui, Diego Fenoglio. Only Brazil, South Africa, Colombia, and Mexico have worse income inequality. Deutsche Welle reporting.
on 02024-11-19two-hour #news #video of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee interrogating #FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#news #video excerpted from a House Oversight Committee Congressional hearing about how #FEMA workers doing hurricane relief were advised to “avoid homes advertising Trump” in a list of safety measures, along with “not one goes anywhere alone”, “practice de-escalation and preventative measures”, and “communicate and follow the rules”. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#news #video State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller tonight about #ATACMS missile strikes on Russia: “No, I’m not gonna confirm it. I am not gonna confirm that report. #Ukraine, of course, is free to speak to what they have or have not done, but I’m not gonna confirm at this point any US policy change.” #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#news #video about #UFOs (euphemized as "UAPs", unidentified anomalous phenomena) interfering with air safety. “The question that we really have to figure out is, is it China or is it not human? (...) Would you say that’s fair? / Dr. Gallaudet: Uh, yes, Congressman, (...)” #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#video saying in January #Argentina eliminates a 7.5% import tariff (on I guess everything). #Milei #politics
on 02024-11-12More about #Canada #politics #history on the #Freedom-Convoy: “In pursuing this novel form of politically motivated financial censorship, Prime Minister Trudeau was following in the footsteps of Russian President Vladmir Putin, who in 2019 ordered his government to freeze bank accounts linked to opposition politician Alexei Navalny.” #human-rights
on 02024-11-06truckers’ protest (#Freedom-Convoy) #Canada #politics #history: “In freezing the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters, Finance Canada bureaucrats said they did not intend to hurt protesters’ families’ ability to buy groceries or pay child support, though they admitted that may have ultimately happened, the Emergencies Act inquiry heard Thursday. (...) Two weeks ago, some Freedom Convoy organizers testified their spouses were cut off from their money and couldn’t make vehicle payments or purchase groceries and medication because joint bank accounts were frozen.” #human-rights
on 02024-11-06A two-year retrospective on the truckers’ protest ("Freedom Convoy") and the #history of #politics in #Canada #human-rights
on 02024-11-06#video on #Godot forking to "Redot" due to divisive culture-war #politics
on 02024-11-05#video on #Godot #politics, apparently there was some kind of mass banning of people who criticized their “Wokot” initiative. Juan Linietsky took his Twitter account private after saying “There are lots of people with very different views working together happily, the way it should normally be.” The Godot Foundation Board got involved and condemned the moderator (of an unofficial Godot-related Discord server) “xananax” who was calling their political opponents “cockroaches”.
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics just a talking head, nothing of interest
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics Just some dumbfuck talking to a camera; didn’t watch.
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics. Just talking heads. Recommending stocking up on water, getting a generator, stocking up on propane, stocking up on groceries, etc. Seems like mostly generic prepping advice.
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics and potential civil unrest if there is debate over who really won the election. Just talking-head filler of some dumbfuck talking to a camera.
on 02024-11-05#video #toread by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics. Recommending, before the election: get cash out of the bank, make sure your gas tanks are full, develop a family communications plan, stock up on groceries, do urban errands early, stock up on ammunition, try shutting off your main breaker for a few days to test how you’d handle a power outage, get to know your neighbors, charge up all your devices. Just video of some jackass named #MagicPrepper talking to a camera on a shooting range.
on 02024-11-05The #Linux kernel mailing list thread removing Russian maintainers due to #USA #politics and the #Ukraine invasion. Will Russia and China fork Linux? #LKML
on 02024-10-25#Huawei got some #TSMC chips through a middleman despite #USA export controls. #China #politics #history
on 02024-10-24#Modi is acting as a Hindu religious authority and the BJP proclaimed him “King of the Gods”, though himself he only claims to be nothing but an instrument of Lord Ram. #India #politics
on 02024-10-24#Milei endorses blockchains and cryptocurrencies. #Argentina #politics #video
on 02024-10-18#Forbes #news #politics #video #toread about fears about #USA inflation? “Trump Pressed on Fears about U.S. Currency”!?
on 02024-10-16“The U.S. is gravely concerned about #China’s ambitions in Taiwan, with the U.S. Commerce Secretary proclaiming that a Chinese seizure of TSMC would devastate the American economy. This has progressed to the point that #TSMC’s #Taiwan fabs are equipped with remote self-destruct functions in case of any hostile invasion.” #politics
on 02024-09-27#video by economist Yi Wen at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University on how #China needed the #USA export control trade war to develop its domestic chip industry, because the alternative would have been to erect trade barriers in blatant violation of #WTO policies and get kicked out of the WTO. Mostly talking head footage with stock footage. #history #politics
on 02024-09-18#video #toread about #Ukraine invading Belgorod as well as Kursk, from a pro-Ukraine propaganda channel #politics
on 02024-09-16#video #politics #news from #Argentina of #Milei speaking (at Congress?) for 40 minutes last night about the budget he’s proposing and bragging about how great his presidency has been. He claims homicides in Rosario are down 75%. Halfway through his supporters in the galleries start singing football songs.
on 02024-09-16#China #graphite export ban details. “Some types of graphite deemed highly sensitive will be subject to so-called “dual-use item” export controls from Dec. 1, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Friday. Dual-use refers to applications that include the military. (...) China is a major source of the raw material, and also accounts for about 60% of natural graphite production capacity and 90% for the synthetic variety. (...) The commerce ministry said its measures are a normal adjustment that don’t target any specific country or region, and that exports which comply with relevant regulations will be permitted. China exports graphite to countries including the US, South Korea and Japan.” #politics
on 02024-09-11#China #graphite export ban only covers natural graphite. #politics
on 02024-09-11#video from four weeks ago on #China’s #graphite exports to #USA, which are necessary for #EVs and supposedly not available elsewhere; in December China imposed an export ban. #politics
on 02024-09-11apparently Blinken landed in Kyiv, #Ukraine, about 5:37 AM GMT-3, which is about 4 hours ago. #politics
on 02024-09-11#video today on Russians retaking Snagost (in Kursk Oblast) and other villages from #Ukraine three days ago, mostly sourced from Russian warbloggers. Footage of captured Ukrainian soldiers. It’s believed that Blinken will visit Kyiv and authorize Ukraine to use ATACMS within Russia — today? Also Russia took Vodiane, in the south of Ukraine, and Hrodivka/Grodovka, and have entered Ukrainsk from three directions. #politics
on 02024-09-11#video on Flannery LLC aka #California-Forever trying to set up #charter-cities in Solano County, California — and suing farmers who refused to sell their land on the basis that the farmers were engaging in an illegal price-fixing conspiracy. They own like a quarter of the county now but probably won’t get the political support they need to build their planned charter city. #politics
on 02024-09-10#video of Scott Ritter #interview predicting imminent surrender of #Ukraine, as of two days ago, and its nonexistence this winter. Says Russia just recaptured the original 02014 line of demarcation in the Donbas, and almost the entire Cabinet resigned yesterday. Again Ritter says “de-Nazification”, which makes it especially interesting that he says that Russia is “seeking to destroy the rules-based international order, and it’s going to do that through the strengthening of the #BRICS forum,” which apparently Türkiye has just entered, and “Iran and Saudi Arabia are already in, so is UAE”. (Türkiye did indeed just enter, and Iran and Saudi Arabia are in.) But also he seems to be saying that Russia and China are trying to get India to join BRICS, which makes no sense. Ritter predicts that NATO will collapse when Türkiye pulls out. #politics
on 02024-09-10#video of Scott Ritter #interview predicting imminent surrender of #Ukraine, that Europe is “disintegrating before our eyes” because of an immigration crisis (?), the EU and NATO will collapse, etc. Seems like pro-Putin propaganda? Uncritically uses the propaganda words “Banderist” (Banderovets) and “de-Nazification”. And something about how countries like Germany wanted to “derisk” by removing their supply chains from #China, but Volkswagen was losing money everywhere else. And apparently the #USA is now in an arms race with China? #politics
on 02024-09-10#video with Yanis #Varoufakis about #USA #politics, #China, #WeChat, and how the US in #history didn’t go bankrupt when it had a trade deficit because of Bretton Woods (?). His book is "Techno Feudalism". Cites the US and EU confiscating US$450 billion in overseas Russian holdings due to the #Ukraine war as a pivotal moment that forced people everywhere to look for alternatives.
on 02024-09-10#video #toread about #China and #EVs in #USA #politics
on 02024-09-10#video about “overcapacity” on #China and how Huachipato is shutting down, etc. #politics #toread
on 02024-09-10#video from November on #Huawei’s new #HiSilicon Mate60 #cellphones and #China/#USA #politics. “If those US [export] controls had been successful, then a smartphone as powerful as this should not be possible without importing key components” because they used 7nm photolithography.
on 02024-09-10#Ukraine #drones hit Moscow, or a city near Moscow, killing one person and injuring three. Also so-called “Dragon” drones dumping thermite on a forest. #politics
on 02024-09-10#news #video on an Iranian-made Russian drone that was shot down (?) in NATO member Lithuania on Saturday after launching from Belarus targeted at #Ukraine. #drones #politics
on 02024-09-10#USA #China #politics: “The most important chokepoints in the context of this discussion are AI chip designs, electronic design automation software, semiconductor #manufacturing equipment, and equipment components. The Biden administration’s latest actions simultaneously exploit U.S. dominance across all four of these chokepoints. In doing so, these actions demonstrate an unprecedented degree of U.S. government intervention to not only preserve chokepoint control but also begin a new U.S. policy of actively strangling large segments of the Chinese technology industry—strangling with an intent to kill. (...) By invoking the foreign direct product rule, the United States is prohibiting any semiconductor manufacturing company worldwide from providing services to any Chinese chip design company that is seeking to make high-end chips for AI or supercomputing. (...) To state it bluntly, these recent actions are designed to put the roughly 28 Chinese chip design and supercomputing firms on the parties of concern lists out of business. (...) the Biden administration is going beyond the traditional U.S. policy of seeking to keep the United States’ two semiconductor technology nodes ahead of China and is now trying to actively degrade China’s technological maturity below its current level. (...) It is as though the United States is saying to China “AI technology is the future. We and our allies are going there. You can’t come.””
on 02024-09-07CNN News #video saying #Ukraine blew up an oil refinery near Moscow with #drones last weekend (shown in cellphone video), Russia having shot down 160 of the drones of the attack wave. Another cellphone video shows some kind of industrial facility on fire in Konakovo in Tver, reportedly an energy facility, about 500–600 km away from the line of battle. Ukraine hadn’t done this before because its long-range missiles had been supplied by Western allies who forbade it. Also discusses #Durov’s arrest in #France and Russia’s concerns about Telegram opsec — the Russian military has been “instructed to stop using Telegram”. #weaponry #politics
on 02024-09-07#video from two weeks ago on Western tank #weaponry in #Ukraine, such as the Kampfpanzer Leopard 1 with its 70mm RHA and rifled 105mm gun; the US$6 million, 70-tonne Leopard 2 with its smoothbore 120mm gun and composite armor, and at least 130 deployed to Ukraine, at least 32 damaged or lost so far (8 of these being repaired); the Stridsvagn 122+, a Leopard 2, with 10 deployed and 7 lost; Britain’s 70-tonne Challenger 2, with its 120mm rifled gun, 14 deployed and one lost so far, the first Challenger 2 lost to enemy fire anywhere in the world (the comments say a second one has just been lost in the Kursk offensive); and the 66.8-tonne turbine-powered M1 Abrams, with its 120mm smoothbore gun, 31 deployed, 10 lost. Ukraine has lost 857 tanks so far: 585 destroyed, 72 damaged, 66 abandoned, 134 captured. Their T-64 tanks were more useful for minefields because they had mine rolles, unlike the Western tanks. They say the Polish PT-91 Twardy, an upgraded T-72, has been the most useful. But somehow the video also says that the Western tanks are intimidating, advanced, and scare Russian soldiers with just the sound of their engines, even though it sounds like it’s the T-64s and T-72s that have been most useful. “#Drones are actually the reason many military experts believe tanks have been made obsolete in modern warfare, at least until the technology and tactics catch up,” and Russian drones took out at least five of the 10 Abrams tanks Ukraine has lost, prompting to remove them from the front lines. #politics
on 02024-09-05#video #toread from five days ago saying the #Ukraine front in Donbas is collapsing #politics
on 02024-09-05#video in Spanish about whether #Milei’s plan is working from #Bloomberg. #politics #Argentina
on 02024-09-05#video about whether #Milei’s plan is working from #Bloomberg. Basically the reporting is extremely positive, I think unrealistically so. #politics #Argentina
on 02024-09-04#video #toread about someone who fled the #USA for #Argentina #politics
on 02024-09-02#video of the police beating up #Argentina retirees who were protesting. Commentaries by Guillermo #Moreno. #politics
on 02024-08-28Anti-US propaganda #video from the Hindustani Times on how #Houthi rebels in Hodeidah attacked Greek oil tanker MV Sounion in the Red Sea on August 23, which continues leaking oil, which is on fire. Amazingly, no deaths are mentioned. Video sourced to “Ansarullah Media Centre”. #politics
on 02024-08-28#video from two weeks ago on swarm #weaponry #drones likely to be deployed en masse in #Ukraine. Mostly talking about optical navigation by waypoints for terminal guidance to defeat GPS jamming, though, rather than swarming; emphasis is on attacking tanks, Russian reconaissance drones, and in one case a helicopter. Says Ukraine “may well be ahead” of Russia, weakly contradicting other recent reporting. #politics
on 02024-08-28#video #toread on Belarus possibly invading #Ukraine #politics
on 02024-08-28#video on new Trump anti-Harris ad. #USA #politics #toread #todelete
on 02024-08-28#video on #Israel #politics news (anti-Israel propaganda) #toread
on 02024-08-28#video on today’s #Hizbullah attack on #Israel from Lebanon and Syria. The script is full of very strange euphemisms, like Viagra spam. Pro-Israel propaganda. #politics
on 02024-08-27#video on #Ukraine invading Belgorod, just a #NIT voiceover on stock footage. Video is trash. #politics
on 02024-08-27#Durov arrest “represents a dramatic escalation in the online #censorship wars.” #politics #civil-rights #France
on 02024-08-27#Facebook #USA #censorship #politics of Hunter Biden’s laptop and #covid
on 02024-08-27#video on #Ukraine #drones #weaponry being caught up with by Russia. Says the Russians have five times as many drones on the front lines, though the number of Ukrainian companies licensed to sell the government drones has risen from 7 “last year” (02022) to 70 “this” year (02023). #politics
on 02024-08-27Danny O’Brien on #Durov getting arrested. #France #politics #security
on 02024-08-25#Telegram CEO Pavel #Durov just got arrested in #France for not imposing enough #censorship. #politics #security
on 02024-08-25Qcells, First Solar, Meyer Burger and REC Silicon (the American Alliance for #Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee) have filed allegations that increased solar imports from Vietnam and Thailand are “injuring the US solar industry” asking for retroactive tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02024-08-21“In the two years since mysterious explosions hit the Nord Stream gas pipelines, both #Ukraine and Russia have denied any involvement in the attacks. German authorities on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian suspect over the 2022 sabotage.” They rented a sailing yacht called the Andromeda. #politics
on 02024-08-14#video saying there’s an arrest warrant out in Germany for Vladimir Z., citizen of #Ukraine but based in Poland, for bombing the Nord Stream pipeline with a yacht hired in Rostock (?). #politics
on 02024-08-14#Ukraine made a bomb with some hydrogen and a ground drone in Vovchansk. It was super effective. #politics
on 02024-08-14Financial Times coverage of #Ukraine’s drone strike last night on Russian airfields #politics
on 02024-08-14#Ukraine attacked four Russian airbases with long-range drones last night, in Kursk, Voronezh, and Nizhniy Novgorod #politics
on 02024-08-14a #video from today about #Putin and #nuclear-war of some dumb fuck talking to a camera (former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges Jamie Shea). He doesn’t think Russia is likely to use tactical nukes because, for example, “their relationship with China would suffer enormously”. #politics
on 02024-08-14another #video from today about #Ukraine advancing into Russia #toread #politics
on 02024-08-14#video from today about #Ukraine advancing into Russia #toread #politics
on 02024-08-14#video from two days ago about #Ukraine invading Russia #politics
on 02024-08-13#video compilation from the #Ukraine war from #Armapedia, in Spanish, mostly around Chasiv Yar from late last year. A group of journalists being ferried around the front. #politics
on 02024-08-13SNCF wanted to build a high-speed rail system in #California but gave up and built it in #Morocco instead because of #USA #politics.
on 02024-08-06#video #toread about radio-controlled machine-gun #weaponry in #Ukraine. Specifically, a remote-controlled machine-gun nest in a fortification in a bridge embankment — a machine-gun nest with no gunner, which withstood Russian attacks for 40 days, during which it was able to halt Russian advances anywhere within its line of sight. Battery-powered I guess. This was in Avdiivka. #politics
on 02024-08-03Keith #Henson posts on John Walker’s right-wing #politics site #Scanalyst, about #energy
on 02024-07-28Giorgia #Meloni with a face of disgust at Viktor #Orban #politics
on 02024-07-28John Walker endorses Viktor #Orban’s railing against Soros. #Hungary #politics
on 02024-07-28Grimes sues #elmu to see her kids. #politics
on 02024-07-28Hmm, anti-democracy Mencius #Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) has a Substack, “Gray Mirror”. #USA #politics
on 02024-07-28#Scanalyst gives the far-right point of view on the #Trump assassination attempt. Gross. #USA #politics
on 02024-07-28#Trump receives US$4 million in donations in #Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and USDC; also mentions the conference. “In recent months, Trump has positioned himself as the pro-crypto candidate for president, a reversal from his previous stance during his time in the White House.” #politics #USA
on 02024-07-28the “#Bitcoin 2024” conference listed both #Trump and RFK Jr. as speakers, as well as Russell Brand (the actor, not the programmer), Snowden (!), and Vivek Ramaswamy #politics
on 02024-07-28Top ten most controversial #Wikileaks publications: Guantánamo Files (2011), Iraq War Logs (2010), Collateral Murder Video (2010), 3. Afghan War Diary (2010), 4. Vault 7 (2017) (CIA computer #security stuff), 5. Diplomatic Cables** (2010), 6. Syria Files (2012), 7. Global Intelligence Files** (2012) (Stratfor), 8. TPP, TTIP & TISA (2013), 9. NSA World Leaders Target (2016), 10. Hillary Clinton Emails leak (2016). #history #politics #USA
on 02024-07-28#USA NSA helped to track down certain #Bitcoin users, in an 02013 project called Oakstar, to interdict funding for terrorism (02018 news item). Also #Trump forbade US citizens to buy #Venezuela’s #Petro #CBDC. #history #politics
on 02024-07-28#Scanalyst on how #Trump gave a speech at The #Bitcoin Conference and is apparently backing Bitcoin now, and there’s a letter to the DNC asking them to “pivot away from the anti-bitcoin policies of Elizabeth Warren” #politics
on 02024-07-28"Scanalyst", John Walker’s right-wing #politics and #space analysis site
on 02024-07-28#video about #Argentina setting up a new military base in Ushuaia together with #USA, possibly inspired by #Antarctica oil #energy; #Milei went to Antarctica as soon as he assumed the presidency to repudiate #Chile’s conflicting territorial claims, in the “territory of peace and science” in the treaty signed by all three countries. The Russian discovery might be twice Saudi Arabia’s oil. Reporting by Mega Investiga or Mega Noticias of Chile. #politics
on 02024-07-24discussion on #USA #politics with respect to model #rockets. NFPA 1127 4.17.1: “No person shall ignite and launch a high power rocket horizontally, at a target, or so that the rocket’s flight path during the ascent phase is intended to go into clouds, directly over the heads of spectators, or beyond the boundaries of the launch site, or so that the rocket’s recovery is likely to occur in spectator areas or outside the boundaries of the launch site.”
on 02024-07-11the Z-Library operators have escaped. #piracy #politics #copyright #libgen
on 02024-07-08#video about a FAB-3000 bombing in Kharkiv, #Ukraine. Seems like the FAB-3000’s error is on the order of ten meters. It’s 3 tonnes (payload 1.4 tonnes TNT) and they tout a 25 “mile” range. Says the Su-34 can accommodate one FAB-3000 or three FAB-1500s. Cites the pro-Russian Telegram channel Fighterbomber. The UMPK (Universal Modular Planning Kit) is a bolt-on guided glider which supposedly gives it a 50 “mile” range as a so-called “glide bomb”. #weaponry #politics
on 02024-07-07#video on Voronezh ammunition #weaponry depot blowing up near #Ukraine #politics
on 02024-07-07#video on US #weaponry failing to hit in #Ukraine (JDAMs and SDBs) #toread #politics
on 02024-07-07#video from Terra from today of #Ukraine fighting. #toread #politics
on 02024-07-07#DarkFootage #video of US #weaponry in #Ukraine, specifically a NaviStar M1224 MaxxPro. The video sounds like a NaviStar Defense ad. Mostly it consists of a single 5-second piece of drone footage repeated over and over again. #politics
on 02024-07-07#video of #Ukraine fighting from six days ago; supposedly the Russians lost 1110 troops, 115 vehicles, and 66 artillery pieces that day. Currently 500k Russians are there, almost as many as have died there so far, and another 200k to 300k are about to be sent. #politics
on 02024-07-07#video of a T90M being defeated by a pair of Bradley IFVs before getting blown up by a drone, along with some reflections on the nature of battlefield power. Not a very credible source. #weaponry #Ukraine #politics
on 02024-07-07#video of voiceovers over repeating stock footage from anti-Russia propaganda channel "Military Show" about #Ukraine, not worth finishing watching #politics
on 02024-07-07#Hossenfelder #video on #politics in #Germany resulting in infrastructural decay and trains not running on time
on 02024-07-06#video from #Ukraine from three days ago, killing Russian troops with #flying #weaponry. Another “Terra” fundraiser video. This time they’re flying the drones from inside some kind of wooden structure rather than a basement, where they have a butane canister camping stove set up. I think they’re in a trench. Drones with arms made of carbon-fiber tubes again. They’re attacking a similar command-and-control center on the Russian side, in a house with its windows barricaded with sandbags. The first drone, a quadcopter, blows most of the roof off; the second one, a hexcopter, carries a heavier charge, a thermobaric warhead which looks like it weighs close to 5 kg and has tailfins for dropping from a plane. It sets fire to the building. The next drone seems to be carrying an RPG without a fragmentation belt, which they use to attack an IFV (so maybe the armor-piercing HEAT is indeed in play here). They claim the explosion killed all the passengers. The next drone, attacking a squad of three infantrymen on foot, failed to explode on impact, but did explode shortly afterwards, probably killing all three of them with shrapnel. The next drone attacks a lone infantryman, who futilely tries to shoot it down with a rifle. Then they kill another infantryman who was walking slowly because he was wounded. Then they launch another large hexcopter carrying a 3-kg charge to attack a trench; the infantry hear it and flee into the dugout, to no avail. Then there’s another hexcopter with the repurposed thermobaric bomb, which explodes in a trench. They’re apparently driving around Ukraine on the highways in an unarmored van with the door open. #politics
on 02024-07-02Jon Stewart show about #USA presidential debate; he makes it look like Biden came off as suffering from disabling levels of senile dementia. #politics
on 02024-06-28#video on #Bolivia coup attempt which apparently failed. #politics
on 02024-06-26#Bolivia coup attempt today may succeed #politics
on 02024-06-26#bootstrapping H₂SO₄, which is apparently illegal in the #EU, but starting from the dilute stuff. #materials #video #politics #tutorial
on 02024-06-26argument by Caitlin Johnstone that what #Assange was accused of was #rape, but that the allegation was not credible. #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26Jemima Khan from 02013 on how #Assange alienated his allies #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26rebutting #Assange #rape allegations from Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26a #video about anti-drone #weaponry being supplied to #Ukraine, the Australian "Slinger" system by “Electro Optic Systems”, which turns out to be a truck-mounted single-barrel machine gun with automatic targeting via image processing, using “the tracking (...) the stabilization algorithms we’ve used to develop for deep space tracking”. Ten were to be delivered by the end of 02023. #Pricing “less than under one million US dollars”. #Australia #politics
on 02024-06-25#video #toread of #Milei interview by Radio Mitre today; he says things are “starting to work” #Argentina #politics
on 02024-06-24#news of Putin visit to #Vietnam; #USA embassy: “no country should give Putin a platform to promote his war of aggression and otherwise allow him to normalize his atrocities.” #politics
on 02024-06-20#video #news of #USA claiming Putin shouldn’t be “allowed to travel freely” to #Vietnam #politics
on 02024-06-20#EU withdraws #Chat-Control #censorship proposal. #human-rights #politics
on 02024-06-20#Mifepristone remains available all over the #USA thanks to a unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting some people suing the FDA, I think for lack of standing. #politics #abortion
on 02024-06-16“Crystalline Silicon #Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, From the People’s Republic of #China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2020” #USA #solar #politics #tariffs #subsidies
on 02024-06-16#USA #politics on #illegal-immigrants: spouses of US citizens will have three years to apply for permanent residency
on 02024-06-16#Signal will leave the #EU if the #Chat-Control #censorship regime does go into effect. #politics #human-rights
on 02024-06-16#EU #Chat-Control #censorship regime to go into effect on Wednesday. #politics #human-rights
on 02024-06-16potential new #USA #tariffs on #EVs and #solar #photovoltaic panels from #China #toread #energy #politics
on 02024-06-16“Maxeon expands Mexico factory making tariff-free solar panels for US market” #solar #photovoltaic #energy #USA #politics news
on 02024-06-16“Washington fears that Chinese cars may be able to come over the southern border with zero tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” #USA #China #politics #USMCA
on 02024-06-16English-language description of the “Ley Bases” situation. #Argentina #politics
on 02024-06-15#USA spies also think #Russia's nuclear submarine Kazan visiting Havana isn’t carrying nuclear weapons #politics #Cuba
on 02024-06-15#Russia’s nuclear submarine Kazan visiting Havana isn’t carrying nuclear weapons #politics #USA #Cuba
on 02024-06-15#video #politics the “Ley Bases” passed in the Senate of #Argentina tonight, with the vice president Victoria Villarruel casting the tie-breaking vote with some political rhetoric at about 23:15. #Milei issued a communiqué describing the protestors burning a car and throwing stones outside the building as “terrorists attacking Congress” and describing the legislation as “el primer paso hacia la recuperación de nuestra grandeza”, “the first step towards the recovery of our greatness”. Apparently it has to go back to the lower house to reconcile the differences between the versions the two houses voted on. The video is somewhat repetitive and wastes time on a talking head.
on 02024-06-12#video #politics; tonight the senate is voting on #Milei’s “Ley Bases” proposal to utterly overhaul the law of #Argentina (and delegate an awful lot of power to him), while protestors outside are slinging rocks and burning a car
on 02024-06-12#Milei, speaking at a Cato forum yesterday here in #Argentina (“The Rebirth of Liberty in Argentina and Beyond”), says the state is a criminal and violent organization, quoting Rothbard and Hayek. Apparently the DNU is still “en pie”. #politics
on 02024-06-12#Taiwan #politics #gun-control #history: indigenous hunter Tama Talum Suqluman was pardoned by Tsai Ing-Wen in 02021 after being convicted for using a factory-made gun to hunt instead of a homemade one, and the Council of Grand Justices overturned that legal prohibition.
on 02024-04-29#VICE homemade guns of #Taiwan #video includes Tsai Ing-Wen’s 02016 apology to the indigenous Taiwanese peoples and Tama Talum Suqluman’s prosecution. Indigenous hunters have an exception to the general #gun-control prohibition in Taiwan, as long as they make the guns themselves. Much footage of colorful Taiwanese clothing. “It was in the 80s that the government told us to hand in the guns for safekeeping, and we never got them back.” They’re using nail-gun powder cartridges to drive ball bearings. Covers Tsai’s pardon of Talum. #mechanical #politics #history
on 02024-04-06#EU #politics on #free-software and product liability
on 02024-02-02#Apple vs. #EU #politics: Apple now requires “notarization” for all iOS apps
on 02024-01-25the Atlantic article about Alexander Barvinok’s resignation from the American Mathematical Society over #USA #politics and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives
on 02024-01-13David Gross’s essay on how tax avoidance in #USA #politics can promote #effective-altruism has been downvoted to -15 by the Yudkowskyans.
on 02023-12-04the new vice president of #Argentina is a child of the military #politics
on 02023-11-22Craig Murray seeks protection in #Switzerland for political prosecution as a terrorist. #UK #politics
on 02023-11-01#neural-networks executive order press release #USA #politics
on 02023-10-30#USA #politics: Republican Senator Marco Rubio, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, Representative Mike Gallagher, (chairman of the House select committee on China) and Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee line up in favor of export controls against #RISC-V
on 02023-10-08“#Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy: Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit. It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types. (...) We decided to not proceed with the proposal for a hybrid client-server approach to CSAM detection for iCloud Photos from a few years ago. We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” #USA #politics #censorship #privacy #security
on 02023-09-02In the #USA in 02020, San Diego Gas & Electric fired one of their workers because someone photographed him cracking his knuckles out the window of his truck and said it was a white supremacism sign. #politics
on 02023-08-27#Bangladesh imprisoned Anisa Siddika, the 58-year-old mother of online political dissident Tanzilur Rahman who lives in the US. #Pakistan has imprisoned hundreds of people on the same basis. #politics
on 02023-08-27Mike summarizes the #politics opposition to #Google #WEI from #Mozilla and #Brave
on 02023-08-09#Right-to-Repair lacks awareness rather than popularity? #politics
on 02023-08-09opposition to #Google #WEI #politics
on 02023-08-09Stallman’s arguments against using #Discord. #free-software #politics
on 02023-03-10“On 11 May 2022 the #EU Commission made a second legislative proposal, which is to force all providers of email, messaging and chat services to comprehensively search all private messages in the absence of any suspicion.” #privacy #politics
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics: apparently now software development in the US is always characterized as research and development and must be amortized over 5 years?
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics: “Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts”
on 02023-03-09#RAND's summary of the #Extending-Russia report and the controversy over it. #Russia #USA #politics
on 02023-03-09The controversial #RAND research report "Extending Russia" from 02019 to the #USA Army, in which proposes ways to weaken #Russia in international #politics.
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse, profiling HN user Sasha Zbrozek. #Housing-Accountability-Act
on 02023-03-09Hersh claims the #USA destroyed the #Nord-Stream pipeline. #politics
on 02023-02-08R. J. Rummel's #ebook on how democracy reduces genocide, famines, and warfare. #politics
on 02023-02-08the Russian rouble is slightly up against the US dollar over the last two years despite enormous volatility last year around the invasion of #Ukraine. #forex #politics #Russia
on 02023-02-08#PDF on #borates #toxicology from 02021: “All borates covered in this RMOA have a harmonised classification as toxic to reproduction for both developmental and fertility effects, i.e. Repr. 1B (H360FD) according to Annex VI of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP). Due to Repr. 1B classification, Entry 30 of Annex XVII to REACH applies to borates covered in this RMOA. ... placing on the market or use of substances as such, as constituents of other substances or in mixtures at concentrations of more than 0.3% (w/w) for supply to the general public will be prohibited (with the exemption of medical devices such as contact lens fluids which, hence, need to be assessed under the Medical Device Regulation)” #EU #politics
on 02023-02-08#borates #toxicology: LD₅₀ 2660 mg/kg, “a review of 784 human poisonings with boric acid (10–88 g) reported no fatalities, with 88% of cases being asymptomatic. ... Although it does not appear to be carcinogenic, studies in dogs have reported testicular atrophy after exposure to 32 mg/kg bw/day for 90 days. This level, were it applicable to humans at like dose, would equate to a cumulative dose of 202g over 90 days for a 70 kg adult, not far lower than the above LD₅₀. ... Following the registration and review completed as part of REACH, the classification of Boric Acid CAS 10043-35-3 / 11113-50-1 is listed from 1 December 2010 is H360FD (May damage fertility. May damage the unborn child.)” This is nonsense. #EU #politics
on 02023-02-08#Huawei to be fully cut off from #USA chipmakers by #China #sanctions #politics
on 02023-02-01#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse: the "Housing Accountability Act" (HAA), passed in 01990, enables the Housing and Community Development (HCD) (??) to suspend cities' zoning laws if they don't meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), which for the most part they don't, so tomorrow (Feb. 2) many cities get their laws thus suspended, called the "builder’s remedy". This has just happened in Santa Monica: “Santa Monica met 50% of their dramatically increased 2023 - 2031 housing requirements, including a 50% increase in the amount of low income housing approved over the previous 8 years — without a cent of public subsidy — in just one week. This also consists of several high-rise buildings taller than anything allowed in Santa Monica’s zoning code or city housing.” In the #SFBA only SF, Emeryville, Redwood City, Alameda City, and maybe Oakland will retain their zoning laws.
on 02023-02-01worth linking to whenever someone proposes to legislate an impossible outcome: “With more American military casualties in 2007 than any year since the war began, a bipartisan group of House representatives introduced a bill Monday that calls for nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq to be brought back to life.” #USA #politics #humor #satire
on 02023-01-04one of #Techdirt's longish series disagreeing with #Twitter, in this case about #Hunter Biden's laptop. #USA #politics
on 02022-12-30“[the WCH CH32V003 is] quite timely as we were forced by HQ last Friday to revise all product line designs to comply with 100% Chinese domestic semiconductors & passive components by latest Q4 end. All western sourced/accounts and parts are now forbidden, apart from those sourced by HQ’s registered jurisdiction.
Worth adding to the list, we’ve also signed accounts with GigaDevice and Expressif Shanghai in the MCU and connectivity range. (...) We’re in France BTW.” #hardware #politics #China #sanctions #RISC-V
on 02022-11-01discussion of “alternate reality games” in #USA #politics
on 02022-10-12“Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark”, “This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark.” #economics #politics
on 02022-10-12circumventing the internet #censorship that has been imposed to stop #Mahsa-Amini protests in #Iran. #politics
on 02022-09-29Aaronsw’s review of William Domhoff’s study of power in #USA #politics
on 02022-08-23William Domhoff’s study of power in #USA #politics taking New Haven, CT as a case study
on 02022-08-23Measure G: “Vote for #Bolinas to be a socially acknowledged nature-loving town because to like to drink the water out of the lakes to like to eat the blueberries to like the bears is not hatred to hotels and motor boats. Dakar. Temporary and way to save life, skunks and foxes (airplanes to go over the ocean) and to make it beautiful.” It passed. #USA #politics
on 02022-05-26good overview of research on the effects of #gun-control on crime and suicide. #politics
on 02022-05-26“#Gitee, #China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public” #censorship #politics #human-rights
on 02022-05-21Noah Smith on "New Industrialism" and #artificial-scarcity in #USA due to #politics
on 02022-05-21#Ukraine people don’t like #Chomsky’s #politics
on 02022-05-21#Orlov’s account of #USA being routed from #Afghanistan and Pashtunwali. #politics
on 02021-12-23#AaronSw “broke the law because he believed that scholarly knowledge was a common good. This nonacademic gave his life for an academic cause” #history #USA #politics
on 02021-12-17“Belgium’s national #patent legislation defines research exemptions that allow sufficient room for research activities exempted from patent infringement that are vital for promoting innovation. Currently, #Belgium has one of the broadest research exemptions in Europe. Article XI.34 (1) (b) of the Code of Economic #Law provides that “the rights conferred by a patent do not extend to acts that are performed on and/or with subject matter of the patented invention for scientific purposes.”” However, this is being narrowed to “acts for experimental purposes that relate to the subject matter of the patented invention”. 02019-08-28. #politics
on 02021-12-14“This thesis examines the role played by America and its native inhabitants in John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government.” #USA #history #politics #democracy #liberalism 419 pp. #PDF
on 02021-12-14influence of the Iroquois on Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. #USA #history #politics #democracy
on 02021-12-14"Ibn Khaldun": the first theorist in #history who tried to explain the #politics of the rise and fall of empires, with the theory of "asabiyah"
on 02021-12-05#USA #politics #Trump’s "Truth Social", a GPL-violating Mastodon instance, defaced by pranksters
on 02021-11-11Noha Aboueldahab writes in Foreign Policy that Biden should take measures including prosecuting the #Guantánamo Bay #torture perpetrators and paying reparations to the victims. #USA #politics
on 02021-11-02Faré criticizes ESR in the 01990s. #politics
on 02021-06-05#censorship in #Argentina in 02011 of economic consultancies that measured #inflation. #politics
on 02021-06-05Huemer’s "In Praise of Passivity" #paper, Studia Humana 1,2 (2012): 12-28. #epistemology #philosophy #politics #passivism
Abstract: “Political actors, including voters, activists, and leaders, are often ignorant of basic facts relevant to policy choices. Even experts have little understanding of the working of society and little ability to predict future outcomes. Only the most simple and uncontroversial political claims can be counted on. This is partly because political knowledge is very difficult to attain, and partly because individuals are not sufficiently motivated to attain it. As a result, the best advice for political actors is very often to simply stop trying to solve social problems, since interventions not based on precise understanding are likely to do more harm than good.”
on 02021-06-05Faré's "Passivism" #paper. Interestingly, he uses the term “#propertarian,” approvingly, then moves on to a rather radical proposal for what sounds like worldwide insurrection by property owners. #politics #epistemology #philosophy
on 02021-06-05notes on #Russia and #USA #politics and #war doctrines, and “A2/AD”.
on 02021-06-04criticism of #YouTube #censorship of protest videos about US #politics and in particular the legitimacy of the 02020 election
on 02020-12-13#ebook of “Freedom through Disobedience” by C.R. Das #politics
on 02020-11-11reputedly a Proud Boy at the Portland protest today: taser shield with gloves (coarse black knit --- anti-cut kevlar?), pepper spray, what looks like a bullet-resistant vest, waterproof bodycam, crash helmet, earplugs, swim goggles, water bottle, clip-on knife sticking out of pocket to make sure it's not a "concealed weapon", water bottle in back nylon holster, what looks like a leather hip holster for an additional weapon, and a blue-line face mask. #USA #politics
on 02020-09-27#politics Ezra Klein talks about why the #USA can’t build.
on 02020-05-24#politics story about how the government of #Taiwan got a photo op with some US state legislators who passed resolutions in Taiwan’s favor; depressing to think it might have raised false hopes among Taiwan’s voters
on 02020-05-24ump-has-been-a-racist-all-his-life-and-he-isnt-going-to-change-after-charlottesville/ #Trump #USA #racism #politics
on 02017-11-25“Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?” No. #paper #economics #politics
on 02017-11-25Apparently this is a new #neoreactionary blog; here it’s talking about #Damore mostly (which it refers to as "Googlegate"), and of course has all the usual evil people cackling over how awesome Damore is. #USA #politics
on 02017-11-25Binyamin Netanyahu’s son Yair Netanyahu: “I’m a Jew, I’m an Israeli, the neo nazis scums [sic] in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out. However the thugs of Antifa and [Black Lives Matter] who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life.” #USA #Israel #politics
on 02017-11-25The US conservative press sympathizes with the neo-Nazis but ridicules them as “knuckleheads” #USA #politics
on 02017-11-25fake #AltRight conference canceled. #USA #politics
on 02017-10-01#USA #politics claims that the Wikileaks documents published from the DNC were in fact leaked, claims raised in The Nation
on 02017-09-13#USA Department of Homeland Security has designated some #antifa groups as terrorists. #politics
on 02017-09-10The #Suniva #photovoltaic tariff hearing. #USA #energy #politics
on 02017-09-10On Joey Gibson and #antifa #politics in #USA
on 02017-09-10Mother Jones’s 2010 article on Oath Keepers. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-27#Neo-Nazis and genetic testing. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-22Social equilibrium, antisocial behavior, stateless enforcement, that kind of thing: “Is there a sort of law of conservation of coercion in well-functioning societies?” A #book-review of #politics book “Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For?” by Kuznicki advocating “agnarchy”.
on 02017-08-22Debate on #feminism and #Damore on Scott Aaronson’s blog. #USA #politics #Google
on 02017-08-22#Cambridge University Press #China Quarterly submits to #censorship by China. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22Against the logical fallacy of judging arguments by how bad it would be if people listened to them. “…activists…[act as if] they don’t think truth matters.” #politics
on 02017-08-22“What #Antifa and #Juggalos have in common in this strange new world” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22#Juggalos march for #human-rights. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-22#USA #politics #Juggalos #neo-Nazis. Warning, super heavy page, using like a quarter gig of RAM.
on 02017-08-22#Israel Communications Minister Ayoub Kara says “Trump is the best [#USA] leader Israel has ever had,” says it’s comparatively less important to condemn #neo-Nazis. He’s not Jewish. #politics
on 02017-08-22What it was like to cofound Model View Culture with #Shanley Kane. #activism #politics
on 02017-08-09#Putin in #Russia favors #Bitcoin and especially #Ethereum, perhaps thanks to the #USA Magnitsky Act imposing sanctions on Russian citizens. #politics
on 02017-08-06Nafeez Ahmed says #Iraq #Mosul victory is “prelude to Iraqi state-failure”. #politics
on 02017-08-06#ZCash, #Ethereum, (and #Bitcoin?) in #Venezuela. #politics
on 02017-08-06#History of #Fethullah-Gulen and #politics and the #Turkish-coup. #Turkey
on 02017-08-06#USA #politics has turned against universities
on 02017-08-06#Russia #politics allows carrying #guns in public for self-defense again, as of 2014-11
on 02017-08-06Rooftop #solar feed-in tariff is under pressure in #USA. #energy #politics
on 02017-08-06Paper abstract: “Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks”: “the presence of moral-emotional language in political messages substantially increases their diffusion within (and less so between) ideological group boundaries” #politics
on 02017-08-06Freddie de Boer argues that leftist #censorship of mainstream #politics on #USA university campuses is real
on 02017-08-06Freddie de Boer says conservatives are good at predicting what will happen, just not whether it will be good or not. #politics
on 02017-08-06#Russia bans proxies, VPNs, Tor, and chats that don’t use phone numbers. #censorship #human-rights #politics
on 02017-07-30#Lauri-Love threatens #suicide; discussion of the #politics charges against him and against Gary McKinnon, and the history of LulzSec
on 02017-07-29#Apple #censorship of VPN apps due to #China policy against freedom of speech. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-07-29“#Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed emergency regulations allowing the state’s Tax Department to grant more #marijuana distribution licenses” #USA #politics
on 02017-07-11#politics of #Trump against civil servants via Cernovich; the CFP raises eyebrows
on 02017-07-11#USA B-1B flight buzzes North #Korea, accompanied by jets from #Japan and South Korea, in response to recent ICBM launch. #politics
on 02017-07-11Arrest warrants in #Turkey issued for 105 “tech experts”, shortly after a mass arrest at a civil society #security training. #politics
on 02017-07-11Dyke March in Chicago ejected Laurel Grauer, Eleanor Shoshany Anderson, and a third woman for flying Star-of-David flags. Editorial: “[T]hough intersectionality cloaks itself in the garb of humanism, it takes a Manichaean view of life in which there can only be oppressors and oppressed. To be a Jewish dyke, let alone one who deigns to support Israel, is a categorical impossibility, oppressor and oppressed in the same person.” Anderson: “I was thrown out of Dyke March for being Jewish.” #USA #politics
on 02017-07-01#USA Republicans officially ask Oath Keepers and Three Percenters “far-right militia groups” to protect their #politics events in one of the deepest blue counties
on 02017-07-01MODIS (36-band, infrared, 250m resolution) data is available, but old #datasets are being “decommissioned”: “The Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) plans to decommission the following Terra and Aqua MODIS product collections on June 30, 2017. Starting on July 1, 2017, users interested in accessing and acquiring Collection-5 (C5) decommissioned land products may do so from the Land Processes DAAC. Users will have no recourse to access the C5.1 MODIS atmosphere collections starting August 1, 2017, and are advised to use the C6 collection. Users will have no recourse to access the C5 MODIS L1 products starting January 1, 2018, and are advised to use the C6 MODIS L1 collection.” Not sure if this has to do with #Trump #politics trying to cover up #climate-change. Also they have a self-signed TLS certificate. #space #remote-sensing
on 02017-06-14post on the #backfire effect and #USA #politics, among other things. A lot of it is about the “#Trump supporters are illogical because they disagree with us” meme.
on 02017-06-14#backfire #cognitive-bias researchers couldn’t reproduce the effect. #politics
on 02017-06-14#PDF #paper on the “#backfire effect” #cognitive-bias and when you might actually see it. #politics
on 02017-06-14#Trump can fire special counsel Robert Mueller. #USA #politics
on 02017-06-14Dennis #Rodman is visiting North #Korea, but not as an official emissary of #Trump. #USA #politics
on 02017-06-14#politics betting markets on #Trump
on 02017-05-29annotated #video segments from the #USA attack on Kurdish protestors by #Turkey during #Erdoǧan’s visit. #human-rights #politics
on 02017-05-26#solar #photovoltaic #energy #politics "Suniva" tries to impose punitive tariffs on silicon photovoltaic cells of US$0.40/W for four years.
on 02017-05-24#USA FAA can’t require registration of #drones. #politics
on 02017-05-19why boycotts outperform bombs. #politics #nonviolence #history
on 02017-05-19#Argentina #feminism #politics: “Boobs are not a crime”, by the judge who dismissed the topless Necochea case
on 02017-05-19#Trump attack on #Yemen in February. #politics
on 02017-05-19In February there was a controversy in #Argentina about some women who were arrested for going topless on a beach in Necochea. The judge dismissed the case. #politics #feminism
on 02017-05-19#Trump investigation over Comey firing has surprise resignation: House Oversight Committee chairman resigns, not from the committee, but from Congress. #USA #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump in the #USA is like Hugo #Chávez Frias in #Venezuela. #politics #history
on 02017-05-19#Trump is not in favor with the CFR, who consider Bannon to be the “puppet master”. #USA #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump #USA #politics #history
on 02017-05-19#FBI, #USA #politics, and #Trump
on 02017-05-19Did #Trump win because of Cambridge Analytica and microtargeting? #politics #USA #history
on 02017-05-19freedom of speech, Nazis, #human-rights, and #USA #politics. “The humanity that will be deciding whom to punch and whom to prosecute is the same humanity that produced the Nazis in the first place, and has a well-established record of making really terrible decisions.”
on 02017-05-19#Bulgaria #politics #free-software “whatever custom software the government procures will be visible and accessible to everyone.”
on 02017-05-19Desiree Fairooz convicted of laughing at Jeff Sessions; could face a year in prison. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-05-0361-year-old Desiree Fairooz (@desireefairooz), Code Pink activist, arrested and prosecuted for laughing at Jeff Sessions’s confirmation. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-05-02more on #Trump attack on #Syria. #USA #politics #WWIII
on 02017-04-07#PDF: employment falls in Santa Clara County, California, #USA #politics #economics
on 02017-04-02future #genocide against the Third World by white supremacists. #politics
on 02017-03-30Sam Altman and Alan Kay are in favor of #net-neutrality. #USA #politics
on 02017-03-30256 unreported “airstrikes” from #USA armed #drones and attack helicopters in #Afghanistan. #politics #violence
on 02017-03-15Kiran is not happy about #Aadhaar. #India #politics #privacy
on 02017-03-11Spies and their intrigues against #Trump. #deep-state #USA #politics
on 02017-03-11#Trump #USA #politics: ‘Judiciary has taken far too much power’ #immigration
on 02017-03-11#Argentina #politics put our government’s email directly into #Microsoft’s hands
on 02017-03-11Sensationalized #Trump #USA #politics #history article about #Cambridge-Analytica #fake-news microtargeting: “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine.” Not true yet, but will be in a few years.
on 02017-03-11chaosmage is opposed to #UBI because it should make the state less beholden to its citizenry. #politics
on 02017-03-11Argentine Juan Garcia Mosqueda, “founder of the New York design gallery Chamber” and “a legal US resident for the last 10 years”, has been prohibited entry to #USA. #politics #human-rights #immigration
on 02017-03-07#politics #USA #epistemology #journalism
on 02017-02-23discussion thread about #human-rights at border crossings as US-born NASA scientist Sidd Bikkannavar was compelled to unlock his NASA phone by #USA CBP. #politics
on 02017-02-23“the power of a massive populist movement that has now upended the two most stable democracies in the world” #USA #England #politics #Trump #Brexit
on 02017-01-30Analysis of #USA #Trump #politics
on 02017-01-30#Trump #Muslim-ban #politics #human-rights #USA
on 02017-01-30US CBP agents obey #Trump and defy #USA courts to enforce the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30federal judge sends #USA marshals to prevent #Trump from enforcing the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30Eliot Cohen’s wishful thinking about #USA #politics and #Trump.
on 02017-01-30“#Trump’s temporary immigration ban set a mental anchor in your brain that is frankly shocking. It will make his eventual permanent immigration plan (”extreme vetting”) look tame by comparison.” Also mentions ISIS bomb drones. #USA #politics #human-rights #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30#Trump #USA #politics #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30Friday night in Seattle a guy with an anti-Nazi tattoo got shot by someone who thought he was a Nazi. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23Melania Trump’s speech in July included a Rickroll. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23More #USA federal government workforce statistics, disagreeing with the OPM’s numbers. #politics #data
on 02017-01-23Total #USA federal government workforce statistics. #history #politics #data
on 02017-01-23Mentions Rachel Dolezal. #feminism #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23#Trump proclaims his inauguration day the “National Day of Patriotic Devotion” in #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23#Obama commutes #Manning’s sentence; release in May. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-17#Trump will remove the Army general heading the D.C. National Guard in his first minute in office. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-16#Sweden’s citizens largely support its espionage at the behest of the NSA. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-01-14Kamala Harris and Ken Paxton brought an unconstitutional #prostitution lawsuit against Backpage in order to get her elected to the US Senate. #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02017-01-05#China #politics are getting more repressive
on 02016-11-22IBM wants to escape tax. #Trump #politics
on 02016-11-22Glenn Greenwald comments on #USA #politics right after the #Trump election (and how it relates to Brexit)
on 02016-11-21Martin #Shkreli “leaks” exclusive Wu-Tang Clan album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ which he bought for US$2M, to bribe #USA for #Trump winning. #politics
on 02016-11-21Al Jazeera editorial by #USA law professor Khaled A. Beydoun against #Trump. #politics
on 02016-11-21#Facebook #advertising targeting controversially helps #racism to manipulate #USA #politics and discriminate in housing ads.
on 02016-11-21#USA sent a bunch of troops to Northern Europe in late 2016 to defend against #Russia. #WWIII #politics
on 02016-11-21The previously secret #911 report pages fingering Bush friend #Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan were released in 2016. #USA #history #politics
on 02016-11-21George Lakey on Wagingnonviolence is kind of in favor of #Britain’s #Brexit #politics. He wrote a book about Scandinavian #economics and #Norway’s decision not to enter the #EU.
on 02016-11-21Greg Gopman, the world-famous asshole who wanted to kick the homeless out of San Francisco so he wouldn’t have to look at them, tried to rehabilitate his image by employing them. #politics
on 02016-11-21#Trump advisor Steve Bannon wants to “destroy the state” for Tea Party goals. #politics
on 02016-11-21Ian Welsh on facing reality in the face of #Trump #politics
on 02016-11-20Washington Post profile of #Trump protegé Seth Bannon #politics
on 02016-11-20#Trump announces some transition team appointments, and Ken Blackwell cites the old Mussolini apologetic to defend Trump’s pick: “‘Bannon is going to be keeper of the image of Trump as a fighter against the status quo, and Reince is going to utilize his personal connections with the speaker and others, to make the trains run on time,’ said Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state official and a member of the Trump transition team.” Also Bannon, who headed his campaign, is the publisher of Breitbart. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-13Hannah Arendt’s acclaimed #ebook about the rise of totalitarianism #politics #history
on 02016-11-11#Thiel formally on #Trump “Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee”. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11#Thiel to be “informally” #Trump advisor on technology. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11New York Times from 1930-09-27 about #Hitler’s pathetic appearance before the Supreme Court of #Germany in Leipzig. #politics #history
on 02016-11-11How to survive in #Trump’s autocracy, based on experience with Putin. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11The Portland (Oregon) police attacking freedom of association yesterday: “Those not wanting to be associated w/anarchists should leave the area immediately. Peaceful protesters encouraged to go to Pioneer Square.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11Gingrich wants #Trump to set up a new McCarthy-style committee. Literally, by name, in quotes. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11ongoing #Trump #racism incident list. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11Donald Trump’s first post-election tweet attacks freedom of the press and freedom of assembly: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11Duterte in the #Philippines, in #China: “I announce my separation from the United States, ... both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost. ... I will not go to America anymore. We will just be insulted there,... so time to say goodbye my friend.” #USA still occupies Mindanao though. #politics
on 02016-10-19#Russia is sending its aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean. #politics #war
on 02016-10-19#Russia wants to send election monitors to make sure #USA elections are fair; the proposal is harshly rejected. #politics
on 02016-10-19#Russia broadcaster Russia Today (RT) has all its #banking accounts in the #UK closed, effective December 12. #politics
on 02016-10-17Lou Dobbs published 74-year-old Jessica Leeds’s home address and phone number, taken from public records, after the NYTimes published her accusation that #Trump had sexually assaulted her. #politics
on 02016-10-14#Trump lied when he claimed he didn’t know anything about Temple Taggart McDowell, who he forced a kiss on in 1997. #politics
on 02016-10-14The Committee to Protect Journalists says #Trump is a threat to freedom of speech. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02016-10-14#Trump will be prosecuted for raping a 13-year-old girl in like 1994; Cheney Mason is the prosecuting attorney, while the victim is anonymous. #politics
on 02016-10-14“#Turkey’s President Tells Iraqi Leader to ‘Know His Place’” Erdogan refuses to withdraw troops at Bashiqa, #Iraq, near Mosul, where they are to fight #Daesh; also he personally insulted Haider al-Abadi. #politics
on 02016-10-14I’ve never heard of CIA spy Evan McMullin before, but apparently he could be the next president of the #USA, but only if he doesn’t win too many votes and turn more states against #Trump. #politics
on 02016-10-14#USA Department of Homeland Security announced that #Russia broke computer #security to feed #politics emails to #WikiLeaks
on 02016-10-11Plato’s Republic #philosophy #politics #classics
on 02016-10-11“Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen #USA beauty pageant said Donald #Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.” One was Mariah Billado. Others (Jessica Granata, Allison Bowman, Crystal Hughes) say he couldn’t have been there (or they would have seen him, I guess.) #politics
on 02016-10-11CBS News’ Emily Schulthers thinks the relevant aspect of #Trump’s tape bragging about sexual assault was that it contained “lewd remarks”, not that it was admitting to sexual assault. Also, in 1992 he made lascivious remarks about a 10-year-old girl in an “Entertainment Tonight” Christmas feature, and in 2001 he would walk into the dressing rooms of beauty pageants where contestants including Tasha Dixon were “half naked”, as he bragged on the Howard Stern show in 2005. #politics
on 02016-10-11Jessica Leeds, who sat next to #Trump in first class on a plane 36 years ago, when she was 38, says he grabbed her breasts without her consent and tried to put her hand up her skirt; Rachel Crooks, who was 22, says he kissed her against her will when they met in Manhattan, when she was a receptionist at a company in his building, making her cry; Temple Taggart, former Miss Utah, said he kissed her more than once when she was 21. Trump denied everything and began yelling at the reporter over the phone #politics
on 02016-10-11Mindy McGillivray says #Trump sexually assaulted her in Mar-a-Lago, Florida 13 years ago, grabbing her ass #politics
on 02016-10-11Journalist Natasha Stoynoff, who had been interviewing celebrities for 20 years and once sparred with Mike Tyson, writes about how #Trump pushed her against a wall and french-kissed her by surprise in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in 2005, then told her they were “going to have an affair”, then tried to surprise her at her massage-therapy appointment, but didn’t quite get to raping her. He denies it #politics
on 02016-10-11#politics Glenn Beck endorses Clinton; he’s been opposed to #Trump for a while. Posted on his Facebook page but reported on Trump organ Breitbart. “If the consequence of standing against Trump and for principles is indeed the election of Hillary Clinton, so be it. At least it is a moral, ethical choice.”
on 02016-10-11#Trump thinks Hillary Clinton used “chemical” to expunge her email. #USA #politics
on 02016-10-11#audio of #weev advocating #white-supremacist warfare with #drones on 2015-09-25 #weaponry #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02016-10-11#weev says (I’m guessing that) he isn’t attacking the USA yet because of “lack of adequate additive manufacturing technologies to guarantee sustainable victory,” i.e. #3D-printing #drones. Google cache gives the now-deleted context, “Even if I had the drone army now, it wouldn’t be the time” #white-supremacist #politics
on 02016-10-11on the #Daesh killing by #drones of two peshmerga last week #politics
on 02016-10-11#Putin at #Valdai in #Sochi on #drones in 2014: “Today, many types of high-precision #weaponry are already close to mass-destruction weapons in terms of their capabilities, and in the event of full renunciation of nuclear weapons or radical reduction of nuclear potential, nations that are leaders in creating and producing high-precision systems will have a clear military advantage.” #politics #precision
on 02016-10-11#USA #Israel over settlements doesn’t stem foreign aid. #politics
on 02016-10-07#Trump #racism #politics will question the legitimacy of the #USA presidential election if he loses)
on 02016-10-07“Theresa May At #CPC16: ‘we will never again let left-wing human rights lawyers harangue... our armed forces’” (video link) #fascism #politics
on 02016-10-07Obama writes about #USA in the Economist, largely about hate groups like the #AltRight and about #economics and #politics #toread
on 02016-10-06#USA #AltRight groups like Identity Europa, the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance, the Council of Conservative Citizens, and Youth for Western Civilization, trying to create “safe spaces” for #fascism #politics
on 02016-10-06Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey, under the name /u/NimbleRichMan, funding a shitposter army to construct anti-Hillary memes through super PAC Nimble America. #politics
on 02016-09-24The etymology of "shitgibbon" #Trump #politics #Scotland
on 02016-08-03original #Israel #desalination story. Edo Bar-Zeev and colleagues solved #biofouling problems by prefiltering with “porous lava stone”, which turns out to be tuff, not lava at all. #Water shortage seeded the #Syria conflict. #politics
on 02016-08-01internet #censorship #human-rights #politics #Wikileaks. Also Jaron Lanier being a jackass again.
on 02016-08-01supposedly #Trump had positions on other issues in the #politics of the Republican platform besides just Ukraine. Like Israel-Palestine.
on 02016-08-01The accusations that #Russia is supporting #Trump by cracking Democrats’ email. #politics
on 02016-08-01politicians call #Trump’s call for #Russia to crack Clinton’s email “treason” #politics
on 02016-08-01Kennan’s Long Telegram, outlining the Cold War to come, 1946-02-22. #history #politics #toread
on 02016-08-01telegram #pdf from Nikolai Novikov, #Soviet ambassador to the US, 1946-09-27; the Soviet equivalent of Kennan’s Long Telegram, outlining the Cold War to come. Only the English translation is present here. #history #politics
on 02016-08-01Analysis of #Trump’s RNC nomination acceptance speech, claiming it was brilliant. #politics
on 02016-07-24Three months after detection, crackers (presumably from #Russia) retain their access to the US State Department’s unclassified email systems. #security #politics
on 02016-07-24Apparently #Turkey has a "secret pact" with #Daesh, and Turkish intelligence agencies defend Daesh agents against Turkish police? #politics
on 02016-07-24#Trump, as a “thin-skinned authoritarian”, would destroy democracy. #politics
on 02016-07-24US border patrol detained a US journalist and tried to confiscate her electronic equipment because she had visited conflict zones. #journalism #politics #censorship
on 02016-07-24“When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize” #pdf of Haidt and Graham’s 2007 #paper on #ethics and morality, arguing that the moral domain as understood by #anthropology includes not just “harm/care” and “fairness/reciprocity” but also “ingroup/loyalty”, “authority/respect”, and “purity/sanctity” considerations. “What makes you so certain that you see the moral world as it really is?” #politics
on 02016-07-24#Trump #politics are largely funded by Russians, perhaps #Putin
on 02016-07-24why #Trump #politics is bad, an extensive list of links
on 02016-07-244500 to 21000 juveniles in #prostitution in the #USA. #politics
on 02016-07-24babysitting isn’t expensable. #feminism #politics
on 02016-07-22Gawker attacks #WikiLeaks for publishing DNC contributors’ credit card numbers en masse as part of Hillary Leaks. #journalism #politics
on 02016-07-22one of our legislators breastfeeding her daughter in the legislature, after a woman in San Isidro was arrested for doing so in public. #politics #feminism
on 02016-07-19KYAnonymous, without whom the #Steubenville #rape case would have been lost, is indicted under #CFAA. His name is Deric Lostutter. “I pretty much wanted to be a hacker for the government.” #censorship #politics
on 02016-07-11Washington Post on Joe Walsh’s death threat to Obama #racism #politics
on 02016-07-11#politics #police #drones #extrajudicial-execution #Micah-X-Johnson
on 02016-07-11#Twitter #racism #censorship: former Congressman Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom) says he didn’t delete his Tweet, “3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded.
This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming for you.” until Twitter suspended his account and wouldn’t reopen it unless he deleted it. #politics
on 02016-07-11The New York Post headlined the #Micah-X-Johnson murders as “civil war”. #politics
on 02016-07-11#Facebook #censorship of a #politics account that posts about #racism
on 02016-07-11In 1990, Donald #Trump had one of his employees (a cousin) greet him with “Heil Hitler” and kept My New Order, a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, in a cabinet by his bed. #politics #fascism
on 02016-07-07#Argentina proposes to imprison anyone who finds #security vulnerabilities in the proposed electronic voting system for one to six years. #politics
on 02016-07-05Viki Donda (and 37 other representatives) proposed a bill to legalize #abortion in #Argentina, under the name “Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo”. #politics #aborto-legal
on 02016-06-30Mauricio #Macri is giving the military of #Argentina more autonomy from civilian oversight; #human-rights organizations protest. #politics
on 02016-06-01supposedly the new #oil #taxes in #Russia represent the beginning of the end of Russia as a great power. Forgive me if I’m not that convinced. #politics
on 02016-04-20apparently lobbying in #politics was illegal during most of US #history.
on 02016-04-18an overview of the last year’s worth of #deep-learning breakthroughs and some advocacy of a universal #basic-income guarantee. #economics #politics
on 02016-03-19Kofi Annan opposes #drug prohibition #politics
on 02016-03-18Michael Hayden opposes FBI director Comey’s position? #toread #politics #human-rights #crypto
on 02016-02-25Christian Grothoff shares his conclusions about NSA’s “SKYNET” program for targeting people for assassination. #politics
on 02016-02-16White supremacist Amy Stephen explains how she became a white supremacist over the last few months. #AltRight #fascism #politics
on 02016-02-15The Anti-Defamation League describes the “#AltRight” as “the new white supremacy”, by which I suppose they mean “the new white supremacism”. #racism #politics
on 02016-02-12the story of how griefers tried to exploit the Partido de la Red as it was founded. #politics #Argentina
on 02016-01-17Michael Glennon’s new book, “National Security and Double Government”, on the US’s Deep State. #politics
on 02016-01-02UN Security Council resolution 2254 on #Syria, less than a month after #Russia declared a no-fly zone for US planes there. #politics
on 02015-12-30Peggy Noonan said of Ronald Reagan: “The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain,” in her memoir, “What I saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era.” #history #politics
on 02015-12-27#video about #Sesame-Credit social engineering gamification system in #China #politics
on 02015-12-23end of exchange-rate controls in #Argentina #politics #economics
on 02015-12-16“Facebook issued a statement which suggested it’s giving Trump an exemption because he’s running for office. However, his supporters aren’t likely to be as lucky.
Fast Company created a dummy Facebook account in which the fake user quoted Donald Trump’s call for a ban on all Muslims and stated agreement with it. The magazine then reported its own post as being in violation of the hate speech policies, and sure enough, Facebook ended up deleting the post in question. It suggests that even though users can’t get Trump’s own hate speech posts removed, they may be able to eliminate the most egregious posts being made by his followers.” #racism #politics
on 02015-12-16“Given [Macri’s] ideology, there is serious risk of a downward spiral of austerity and recession” #Argentina #politics
on 02015-11-29#politics #Russia announces a no-fly zone in #Syria for US and Turkish planes, enforced with SAMs.
on 02015-11-29#philosophy on the social construction of reality and the #politics of abandoning the project of empirical knowledge.
on 02015-11-29on the value of tolerance in #politics and #social-justice
on 02015-11-26workers’ #human-rights are not being protected, and “Libertarians” don’t care. Perfect rebuttal of Libertarian dogmas: “Libertarians claim that freedom is their core value and that it’s maximized when the state refrains from interfering in the private choices of individuals. They also believe, however—as every sensible person should—that individual freedom can be curtailed by private action. In fact, the idea that private action can diminish individual freedom is central to their justification for the state, which is that some state coercion is required to stop people from dominating, enslaving, and generally harming others. We all do better on the metric of freedom, libertarians agree, if the state makes and enforces “traffic rules” for private persons.” #politics #philosophy #ethics
on 02015-11-19former operators of #drones think the program is a bad idea. #weaponry #politics #USA
on 02015-11-19why people go to fight for #Daesh in #politics
on 02015-11-18what #Daesh really wants in #politics
on 02015-11-18“Police civil asset forfeitures exceed all burglaries in 2014”, in the US, I suppose. This might mean that most #crime in the US is committed by the #police. #politics
on 02015-11-18#marijuana seizures at the US-#Mexico border dropped by a third from 2011 to 2014. #legalization #politics
on 02015-08-13The core #politics of the #Iceland #Pirate-Party: critical thinking and well-informed policy, civil rights, a right to #privacy, transparency and responsibility, freedom of information and expression, direct #democracy and the right to self-determination.
on 02015-08-10This pretty polemical guy says that the “honor” ethic which makes revenge not only permissible but actually obligatory causes enormous death and misery, and simultaneously opposes it to “rationalism” apparently. #politics
on 02015-08-10Apparently in #Vietnam there was a story that after reoccupying a town the NLF had cut off the arms of all the children the Americans had vaccinated, and it was immortalized in Apocalypse Now, but it didn’t happen, even though #Zizek believed it. Instead it came from Heart of Darkness, where the Belgians actually did do it in #Congo. #politics
on 02015-08-10The original 1941 #politics #paper predicting the birth of “the garrison state” as power trends away from businessmen and toward soldiers. Terribly amusing in retrospect.
on 02015-08-10“#Germany has never paid its debts” (#Piketty) #politics #Greece
on 02015-08-05Talmudic commentary using RapGenius on Congressional testimony about encryption #hypertext #politics
on 02015-08-05Hacking Team #humanrights abuses #politics
on 02015-08-05End of the #petrodollar. #Saudi wanted to crush #Putin? #politics #energy #forex Lots of graphs and data tables on #oil prices
on 02015-08-05