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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
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ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.ProPublica
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The Beatles If They Were a 1940s Female Vocal Harmony Group - PART 2 | The Beetle Sisters
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00:14 All You Need is Love03:18 Here Comes The Sun05:37 Twist and Shout08:25 Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds12:04 A Day in the Life14:50 Across The Universe17:...YouTube
There was SO much technology at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference and I'll be going live tonight (March 14th) at 8PM EST to share some of what I thought was the coolest stuff there!
Though I did not attend CSUN, I did my best to follow the news online! Come join me as I share what I saw and heard. Also, let me know what you know! 😊Major...YouTube
Skip intro/replay link: 0:47. This is a music video of the song "Mathematical Pi" by Ken Ferrier and Antoni Chan. You can find out more and download it here:...YouTube
Peter David, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099, the TV show Space Cases, and characters Strong Guy, Professor Hulk, Random, Cyber, Sin Eater, The Pantheon, Maestro, Madman, Linda Danvers, Talos The Untamed and writer of TV shows, comic books, video games…Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool News)
My brother-in-law is Peter David, writer of stuff. (Seriously, that's what it says on his business card.) He's written #comics (he's best known for his 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk), movie and TV novelizations (some of his #StarTrek novels are very popular in Trek fandom), television episodes (such as #Babylon5) and movies, original novels...all kinds of, well, stuff.
I bring this up because he's been dealing with severe health issues for three years and counting and is starting to make progress in recovery just in time for Medicaid to yank his coverage. As you may know, in America, medical expenses without some kind of insurance coverage are prohibitive.
A friend has set up a GoFundMe to help pay for these medical expenses. If you can spare a few bucks, please donate. Thank you.
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Hi, friends. I'm restarting a fundraiser for Peter David and his family. Peter's health issues continue… Graham Murphy needs your support for Help Peter Davidgofundme.com
Learning Blind Tech Episode 23 ChatGPT, Leasey and Braille Sense 6
This episode will cover some basics on creating an API key through openai and using ChatGPT with Leasey and the Braille Sense 6.
wow, Adwaita 1.7.0 has a new adaptive preview, so you can see how your apps will look on phones. Now that's some #LinuxMobile goodness :D
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sometimes i make stuff just to cheer myself up... if it cheers anybody else up 👍
(❤️ to Bruce Cockburn for this amazing song)
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Called it. Wrote this back in Sept. 2024, about a clever Windows Powershell phishing scam that was targeting developers at the time. It uses a fake CAPTCHA that asks visitors to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. Everyone said, bah, devs will never fall for this. Maybe, I said, but your average user would for sure.
Judging from the number of recent media reports, it appears this one is pretty widespread at the moment.
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/th…
Many GitHub users this week received a novel phishing email warning of critical security holes in their code. Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that…krebsonsecurity.com
The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.
"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.
mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.
Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.
In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.
The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.
So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.
For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.
We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.
What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."
- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford
'Brutal' or 'iconic'? How a giant puddle in a Tim Hortons lot became Hamilton legend 'Lake Timmicaca'
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Makes for good photo opportunity.
Pre-Save 'Roomful of People': https://rosiedarling.ffm.to/roomfulofpeople-epStream "Smoke & Mirrors": https://rosiedarling.ffm.to/smokeandmirrorsI have this ...YouTube
Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.
I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:
1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
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Google will replace Google Assistant on Android phones with Gemini later this year, the company announced on Friday.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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An engineer applies scientific principles to design, build, and test machines, systems, or structures to meet specific needs. They follow the steps of theSandra May (NASA)
Researchers have discovered a new highly sophisticated malware campaign named Strela Stealer that targets Outlook credentials.Vlad Turiceanu (WindowsReport)
Hi dear #OpenStreetMap -community! I made a #tagging #proposal to tag grab rails (aka grab bars, handrails, support brackets) in #wheelchair #accessible toilets and I'm searching feedback.
I'd appreciate your feedback: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pr…
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@lianna It thr data isn't there, no one will bother to build an app for it either ;)
I'm the main dev of mapcomplete.org which has quite a few filters, so that is a start already
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
There is a version where the website is packages as app: app.mapcomplete.org . Does that work for you?
(Will be on F-Droid soon™)
So remember how a few days ago I shared this official Starlink document that just casually mentions that they found a piece of a Starlink satellite on a farm in Saskatchewan? starlink.com/public-files/Star…
I had really convinced myself it must be some kind of chatgpt gobbledygook. But... a reliable source confirmed that this really happened.
SpaceX dropped potentially lethal debris from TWO DIFFERENT SPACECRAFT onto Saskatchewan within 6 months. And as far as I can tell, they just waltzed in and picked up the second piece without anyone official knowing about it. This is a very big problem for a lot of obvious legal reasons.
It mostly terrifies me because there are 7,000 Starlinks, and if each one leaves behind debris after demise, that's... a lot.
Just released my new app, rtl_icecast.
"A command-line application that uses RTL-SDR to receive FM radio signals and stream them to an Icecast server in MP3 format.
The main target usage for this app is to stream your local HAM FM repeater audio to your public shoutcast/icecast server with just a RTL-SDR USB-receiver and for example Raspberry Pi. It can be used to stream broadcast FM too, of course."
#rtlsdr #icecast #rtl_sdr #rtl-sdr
RTL-SDR Icecast streamer. Contribute to j0uni/rtl_icecast development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Tesla Takedown showroom protest.
London 11 a.m. Saturday 15th March.
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We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn’t be higher.actionnetwork.org
Tesla Takedown showroom protest.
Stockport, U.K. 11 a.m. Saturday 15th March.
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla…
We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn’t be higher.actionnetwork.org
It's not just America. There are 2 Tesla showroom protests planned for tomorrow in the U.K. with more planned soon for the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.
Use the link below and click on the map for details.
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The #TeslaTakedown movement is growing! Join us for an event in our community—or find one of more than 100 events every week across the country. And if there's not one near you, it's easy to sign up to host your own. Let's fight for our country!actionnetwork.org
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
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Sign our petition ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…
#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech
U.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.therecord.media
✨Are you still using Google Assistant instead of Gemini on your Android phone?
If so, you should know that Google will stop offering it later this year, so you'll have to switch. Gemini is also coming to cars, wearables, and other devices.
Details👇
🔗 androidauthority.com/google-ki…
Google has finally revealed its plans for the end of Google Assistant: Android phones will have to move to Gemini before the end of the year.Stephen Schenck (Android Authority)
"Joly said her counterparts in the G7 arrived in Canada for the summit with the impression that Trump's talk of Canada becoming the 51st state was something to be "taken in a humorous way," but she quickly set them straight.
"I said to them this is not a joke. Canadians are anxious. Canadians are proud people and you are here in a sovereign country and so therefore we don't expect this to be even discussed, or clearly not laughed at," she said. "
Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the […]\nblog.archive.org
“Prompt to Power: Embark on Your AI Journey” By: Shawn Keen Email: danielkeen9104@gmail.com Tagline “Prompting is like asking for directions when you’re lost!” Introduction Ever feel like everyone’s talking about AI, but it still sounds like so…WSB (World Services for the Blind)
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