Living in the U.S. is a little like being in a dissociative state. There's such a disconnect. Near me, new businesses and housing are going up like gangbusters, even though we know thousands have lost their jobs. Then I find out that my government has kidnapped the leader of another nation.

Everything feels brittle and shattered. And when everything breaks into jagged pieces, you're much more likely to cut yourself, even while cleaning it up.

#US #Politics

Canadians, I hope you are contacting your MPs and the PM’s office to call for actions against US. Folk in other countries, whatever your equivalents are. It is ridiculous that sanctions haven’t already been called against the rogue US nation.

Citizens, we should stop buying all US products. Hold off on your Apple purchases for a year. Buy used if you need to. We have to shun that country.

Trump has claimed at the press conference now under way in Florida that the United States is going to run Venezuela for the time being -- although it’s unclear how that would be done.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.
He has given no details.
He just called Maduro a dictator and a drug kingpin

Trump said his secretary of state, #Marco #Rubio, has talked with the Venezuelan vice president, #Delcy #Rodriguez, today and mentions that she agreed to work with the US.

The US president said 👉 she has already been sworn in as president.

A few hours ago there were reports that she was in Russia,
so the situation remains unclear at this moment and the press conference question and answer session with Trump is now bouncing around various semi-related topics.

As fragments of fact, as opposed to pure rhetoric and vague statements, come through we’ll piece them together.

“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,”
Trump just said, of Rodriguez.

theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Mis panas venezolan@s, en este momento el objetivo principal del enemigo es romper el tejido social del país para allanar el camino a la intervención militar, que ya tuvo sus primeras incursiones. Precisamente por eso, para quienes no formen parte activa de ningún plan de resistencia, lo más sensato y responsable es:

1. Mantener la calma. Si no vives cerca de un objetivo militar o estratégico, lo recomendable es permanecer en casa y evitar desplazamientos innecesarios.

1/?

#Venezuela

I don't want to appear negative or anything, but if I was the Prime Minister of Canada or Denmark, I would start worrying right now.

For... Reasons.

You know.

TL;DR: “By 9:23 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2025, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already earned what the average Canadian worker made in an entire year, according to a new report.”

#NeoLiberalParadise #IncomeInequality #Oligarchy #Labour #ClassWar #CDNPoli
ctvnews.ca/canada/article/top-…

Here’s how long it took Canada’s top CEOs to earn what the average Canadian worker makes all year

^{Lynn Chaya (CTVNews)}

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Un consejo que nadie me pidió, pero creo que es oportuno en este momento.

Recuerden que los gringos son expertos en las noticias falsas, asique si trae algo al fediverso, revise las fuentes porque esto se va a poner oscuro.

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The President starting a war to avoid the press cycle from getting caught molesting a little girl is already the plot of a movie.

Pretty good one, too. Mark Knopfler did the soundtrack, it's great.

for over 500 years, imperial forces have humiliated, kidnapped, and murdered our local leaders to crush resistance and enable the systematic looting of our lands. gold, silver, pearls, coffee, bananas; today, oil: the main fuel of the insatiable monster they created, capitalism

despite massacres, betrayals, and setbacks, we have resisted and we will continue to resist for another 500 years if necessary. for the forest, for biodiversity, for collective life, and for our right to joy

#Venezuela

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if you need it, please take care of your mental health, which may be in the form of adding more mute words and blocking news accounts or all the way to a social media sabbatical

you don't owe it to anyone to follow the news and it's not your fault what bad people do

God I hope they make a new Team America about this event

Just think of the Trump and Vance puppets

"Billionaires raised fortunes against him. The president threatened to strip his citizenship. Mainstream synagogues slandered him as the spawn of Osama bin Laden and Chairman Mao. But today, Zohran Mamdani became the first socialist mayor of New York City.

For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.

In some cases, the link is direct. Bruce Vladeck, a member of one of Mamdani’s transition committees, is a well-respected expert on Medicare, but for the sake of this article, his credentials matter less than his surname.

Vladeck is the grandson of Baruch Charney Vladeck, a Marxist troublemaker from the Pale of Settlement, a tract of land in the Russian empire where Jews were permitted to live at a time of rampant antisemitic oppression. Baruch showed up in New York after the failed Russian revolution of 1905 with a Cossack’s saber scars all over his face. He later became a socialist alderman and member of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s housing administration. Vladeck was not actually his birth name. It was rather a nom de guerre, adopted when he joined the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist, secular and defiantly anti-Zionist movement whose slogan, “here where we live is our country,” would make an apt tagline for Mamdani’s New York."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USA #NewYork #NYC #Mamdani #AntiZionism

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

^{Molly Crabapple (The Guardian)}

Man the EU message on the Venezuelan oil raid is as disappointing as I have come to expect.

Just another side of the same coin.

When you think that things like turning off #Bluetooth as a precaution are overkill, security researchers drop a bomb like this. (long, but interesting read)

insinuator.net/2025/12/bluetoo…

#CVE #security #cyberSecurity

The reason Grok so easily can generate nudes of children is because it is trained on that type of content. It is not using "imagination".

Too few are saying this part aloud. Any face generated using image-gens can be from a situation of abuse.

I had to make a decision. If curl estimates time left to transfer a file is 4398046511103 seconds. How do we display that in - 7 bytes?

I decided that if the time exceeds 99,999 years we show it as ">99999y" even though a 63bit epoch *can* hold up to 292 billion years.

7 bytes because I need the entire curl progress meter to fit within 79 bytes.

What's a better thing to do on a Saturday? 😁

github.com/curl/curl/pull/2017…

progress: narrower time display, multiple fixes by bagder · Pull Request #20173 · curl/curl

Each time field is now 7 characters wide, so that the total width never exceeds 79 columns so that it works correctly also in Windows terminals. The title lines are adjusted accordingly. This is ac...

^GitHub