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We’re going live at 8:45 EDT. Join @samsteindc with @joeperticone and A.B. Stoddard for a prime time preview.

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Republican National Convention: Day One | The Bulwark Live

Come watch the Republican National Convention with your favorite Bulwark reporters. The convention will be live-streamed here, with commentary from Sam Stein...
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I recorded a demo of the Roland VT-4, my vocal transformer of choice. roland.com/us/products/vt-4/ If You’re in the market for a box to make your voice do all kinds of silly things, you can hear what the effects sound like and get an overview of how it works. I am curious if anyone else has found a better thing with greater levels of customizability, that doesn’t sacrifice ease of use by making you navigate a menu or read a display.


Roland - VT-4 | Voice Transformer

VT-4: Voice Transformer - Find Your Voice
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I would also add that if all those people who benefited from Biden’s reforms could realize that and also vote in his favor, there would be no chance for reps. But, it seems as though many people who benefit from democratic reforms either don’t know it or simply don’t want to see it, and support the tall guy who promises everything and nothing at the same time. hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112…

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)

Good morning! Things that are still true: There are millions of Black registered voters, that want to vote for Biden, and plan to vote for him in November.
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Julian Sanchez

I really cannot get over the level of brazen gaslighting here. Trump already sought to seize power after losing one election. He has just picked a VP whose chief qualification is having loudly declared he’d have been complicit in that scheme. He is openly boasting about his desire to weaponise the Justice Department to pursue political foes. If that’s not an existential threat to democracy, I can’t imagine what would be.

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I donate a monthly amount to UNRWA and have been doing this since my government criminally withheld support of this crucial relief organisation.

It's never enough, but all bits help. Please consider a donation, thank you.

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Israel’s war on Gaza live: UNRWA headquarters in Gaza ‘flattened’

Israel’s latest ground campaign in Gaza City rages as UNRWA chief says HQ’s destruction violates international law.
Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

@modulux It feels frustratingly little, but it does make an impact. The Dutch state donated €19 million in 2023. If ~65,000 Dutch people would donate €25 a month, we'd already cover this completely.

I was hoping my party would organise a campaign along these lines, but instead we recently decided a blank anti-UN position at our recent congress. I'm sure the people in Palestine appreciate this principled position..

@modulux

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In case you wonder: "SkyTube Extra" will disappear from the #IzzyOnDroid repo with the next sync as it no longer meets the inclusion criteria (gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…). For details, please see github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube…

(the major culprit is the integrated self-updater with an update checker that cannot even be disabled. Such "updates" would bypass the extra checks established in the IzzyOnDroid repo – so if they're not opt-in with the implications made clear, they're a no-go)


Question on permissions · Issue #1256 · SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube

On the latest release, my scanner just reported: ! repo/free.rm.skytube.extra_48.apk declares sensitive permission(s): android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_S...
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Today, chatting on IRC, the topic of decorative fruit came up. I recently read that lemons, at least in Spain, were decorative originally, and only later people worked out they could be eaten or used for flavouring food.

Someone else pointed out a similar situation took place with pineapples in the UK and posted this fascinating article about it: bbc.com/news/uk-england-534328…

Pineapples were a status symbol, and were so expensive they would be exposed for show rather than eaten, until they rotted. There were pineapples for rent, and they required security and were at risk of theft.

What a world.


The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple

For a couple of centuries, the British were in an unlikely frenzy for the exotic fruit.
By Bethan Bell (BBC News)

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Good morning. If you are a citizen of these here United States, age 18 and up, today is an excellent day to register to vote if you have not already, and if you have already registered to vote, to check that your registration is still active and valid. If you don't where to start with either, vote.org has you covered. Please register and vote, every election is important and this one is even more so. Thank you!

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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As expected, judge Cannon dismisses the classified documents case against Trump, after the supreme court hinted how she could do so.

Right this moment, we are witnessing what the future dystopian United States looks like: One law for you, another for the Emperor.

May American voters be wise enough to spot the trap they are about to walk into, before it is too late.

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Wow, who would sit there and listen while it gets to a 100%? mindly.social/@Tamasg/11279067…

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2024-07-15 13:12:00


If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds (visit defrag98.com/, the site is very accessible surprisingly enough) pcgamer.com/hardware/if-you-mi…


If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds

No, it won't actually defrag your SSD.
Jody Macgregor (PC Gamer)
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Dennis Schubert

@narinarinari Every time we put anything in front of the user after any updates, y'all on social media go full rage mode, too. No matter how we handle this, there's always a large group of people yelling at us.

Bobby explained in his Reddit post why we decided to make this opt-out. If you disagree with that, that's your good right. I can't convince you otherwise, and if you want to act like this is a big conspiracy, so be it. Nothing we could say will change that.

@Nari
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Nari

If you don’t want users to be upset at your choices, maybe don’t make choices that harm them? What’s more, there’s a pattern here. Mozilla only continues to exist because Google, the world’s largest ad company, keeps it alive. Mozilla has also recently purchased an ad company, so is actively part of that toxic market. And you partnered with Meta of all untrustworthy, data hungry ad companies on this nega-feature. Gee, I wonder why people are upset.
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Ob groß, klein, prall oder schlaff: Die weibliche Brust ist ein Quell des Lebens und der Empörung. Woher kommt der sexualisierte Blick auf die weibliche Brust? Ganz klar ist sie eine höchst erregbare Körperstelle - doch das gilt grundsätzlich für alle Menschen.

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#Wissenschaft #Gesellschaft #Doku

Befreite Brüste

Viele städtische Bäder in Deutschland erlauben auch in dieser Saison, dass Brüste von Frauen genauso sichtbar sein dürfen wie nackte Männeroberkörper. Das sorgt für blankes Entsetzen.
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fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres

WTF

I can't even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night... because of this single project.

#oss


GitHub - fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors - fail2ban/fail2ban
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If you care about women's rights, protecting Medicare and Social Security, or safeguarding democracy on the whole, you should be concerned about Project 2025. Last week, writer Jay Kuo broke down this radical agenda for a second Trump term in a piece of essential reading from The Big Picture. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…

Heritage Foundation's Radical Project 2025 Broken Down By Issue

We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.
The Big Picture

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Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users!

Exciting news! I’ve reached out to Apple Accessibility, and they’re on board to collaborate with us. They’ve asked me to put together a team so we can work directly with their team and engineers.

Are you passionate about improving accessibility features for blind and low vision users? Do you use VoiceOver, Zoom, or other low vision features on your devices? We need your help!

We’re looking for individuals who are interested in providing feedback and testing new features from our point of view. Your input will be invaluable in making technology more accessible for everyone.

If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below:

forms.microsoft.com/r/eRQAsmMb…

Let’s make a difference together!
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Best,
Matthew Whitaker

#Accessibility #BlindUsers #LowVision #VoiceOver #Zoom #AppleAccessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion #AccessibilityMatters #blind #lowvision

#Accessibility #blind #zoom #inclusion #voiceover #lowvision #AccessibilityMatters #techforall #blindusers #appleaccessibility
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Today would be a good day for Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas's conflicts of interest, so that when Cannon's ruling today (that special counsel are unconstitutional) finally makes it to SCOTUS and they don't recuse themselves, their personal interest in the outcome is so blatant that even the most naive citizen will see their corruption for what it is.

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Here's the thing: Trump *is* an authoritarian who wants to destroy democracy. This isn’t a smear, it’s a fact. That Trump got shot doesn’t change the necessity of him being defeated at the ballot box, nor does it absolve him of his past misdeeds.

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Multiple things are true about Trump's shooting

Political violence is wrong. And Trump is the candidate of political violence.
Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)

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NEW — Two outer-space franchises collide at San Diego Comic Con as #StarTrek and #DoctorWho showrunners join forces for a special panel and gallery experience to bring fandom together

More details: tinyurl.com/sdcc-trekwho

STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO Showrunners Join Forces for SDCC's "Intergalactic Friendship Day" Panel • TrekCore.com

Two outer-space franchises collide at San Diego Comic Con as STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO showrunners join forces for a special panel to bring fandom together
TrekCore Staff (TrekCore)
#startrek #doctorwho

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Apple Watch Lost in the Sea Found 18 Months Later, Still Works — 'Find My' feature helps diver recover lost Apple Watch nearly two years later appleinsider.com/articles/24/0…

'Find My' feature helps diver recover lost Apple Watch nearly two years later

A YouTuber who lost his Apple Watch while swimming and diving in the summer of 2022 has had it returned to him, thanks to the Find My feature.
Charles Martin (AppleInsider)

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"How in particular should *we* respond—those of us who did and do see Trump as an urgent threat to our liberal order and consider defeating him to be America’s most urgent political priority?"

Today's Morning Shots from @wkristol52 and @eggerdc: thebulwark.com/p/bullets-cant-…


Bullets Can’t Save Liberalism

Plus: Why Democrats can’t back down from the election fight.
William Kristol (The Bulwark)
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Your smartphone is a spy in your pocket. Choose freedom with Purism's Liberty Phone - made in USA, no data harvesting. #Purism #PureOS #PrivacyMatters
puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-gi…

Your Phone is Giving Away More Than You Ever Bargained For – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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#purism #pureos #privacymatters
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AlexTECPlayz

"Liberty Phone", 2014-ish specs in a $2000 phone, what the fuck. The processor costs $73 per piece. Can someone that (un)fortunately bought this thing confirm it's actually using Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6, or is it a marketing lie?

Additionally, this article from Madaidan's Insecurities blog still stands:

madaidans-insecurities.github.…

Linux Phones | Madaidan's Insecurities

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#Journalists and EU citizens - Want to know how you can help stop chat control?

First things first, stop calling it Upload Moderation and call it Chat Control! Many of you still call #ChatControl Upload Moderation but that doesn't do this #privacy invading law justice!

Want to learn more on Germany's role in stopping Chat Control? Check out Tuta's latest article here: tuta.com/blog/germany-stop-cha…

Do the right thing and say it how it is!

How Germany was key to stop chat control - and how the name helped with that.

Once again public pressure led to politicians stopping their push for mass surveillance - but the fight continues!
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