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'50 years of giving the money to the wealthy people resulted in the poor people getting no money,' is not a terribly surprising result. 🤡

"50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says"

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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
Aimee Picchi (CBS News)
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The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

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#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol


Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#wikipedia #uspol #elonmusk #uspolitics

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Social Democracy, an alternate history game set in the Weimar Republic. You control the SPD and fascism is on the rise.

In my playthrough, I tried to ally with the far left and built a strong leftist paramilitary force, leading to civil war against Hitler.

This game is fucking hard.

red-autumn.itch.io/social-demo…


Social Democracy: An Alternate History by Autumn Chen

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
itch.io

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Sigo insistiendo: Deberían prohibir todo tipo de estufas en la calle.
El que tenga frío que venga abrigado de casa. Ya bastante calentamos el planeta como para desperdiciar energía calentando a unos caprichosos.

Las estufas de gas se resisten a desaparecer de las terrazas de Barcelona

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Las estufas de gas se resisten a desaparecer de las terrazas de Barcelona

Muchas estufas de gas se resisten a abandonar las terrazas de Barcelona. La prohibición municipal de estos dispositivos en vigor desde el primer día del año no se nota mucho en un buen puñado de céntricas calles y plazas.
Luis Benvenuty (La Vanguardia)
in reply to Justin Macleod

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Tamas G

the difference is still in RVC vs multi-modal real-time speech and lyrics generation. For simple voice output with multiple sentences it's lesss of an issue as they can either use a pre-created file to RVC and transform the voice into another, or direct TTS without the burden of actually needing to generate the final noise atmosphere and mechanics, which falls more squarely in the territory of general transformer models.
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🚨 Gmail’s AI Security Risk 🚨

A @Forbes article reveals a Gmail vulnerability @Google has CONFIRMED but WON’T FIX.

Security researchers find that Gemini AI which is integrated into Gmail and other Workspace tools, is susceptible to indirect prompt injection attacks.

So why did Google issue a “Won’t Fix (Intended Behavior)” ticket?

🔗Read more forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2…

#googlegemini

Forbes: Gmail Security Threat Confirmed - Google Won't Fit It, Here's Why.

Gmail Security Threat Confirmed—Google Won’t Fix It, Here’s Why

As Gmail AI security vulnerabilities come to the surface, why won’t Google fix the problem? Here’s what Google has to say.
Davey Winder (Forbes)
#googlegemini @Forbes

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Das sollte man in Bezug auf die Nutzung von kommerziellem #SocialMedia und #Kommunikation nicht unbeachtet lassen, vielleicht auch besonders in #digitaleKirche:

#Meta unterstützt #Trump Amtseinführung finanziell mit großer Summe:
bbc.com/news/articles/c8j9e1x9…
#Instagram #Facebook #WhatsApp #FediKirche


Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund

It appears to be the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a closer relationship with the incoming president.
Liv McMahon (BBC News)
#facebook #whatsapp #Trump #Instagram #socialmedia #meta #kommunikation #digitalekirche #fedikirche
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barcaxavi

@tardis @pcdevil I totally agree that there are not too much to choose from, and I really believe in everyone's right to choose what they want to (based on their focus and needs).
But there are some cool projects for smartphones that are worth the look (@GrapheneOS , @calyxinstitute , @LineageOS), and also some great alternative software to use in replacement of the apps and services of the big players.
@👾 Attila Gonda @LineageOS @GrapheneOS @The Calyx Institute @Winter blue tardis

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USA uvalily sankce na advokáta, jehož firmy sponzorovaly Zemana
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USA uvalily sankce na advokáta, jehož firmy sponzorovaly Zemana

Za více než polovinou darů pro Stranu práv občanů – Zemanovce byl provázaný systém firem, které z velké části ovládal švýcarský advokát Fabio Delco. Spojené státy nyní Delca zařadily na sankční seznam kvůli praní ruských peněz.
Lukáš Valášek (Seznam Zprávy)

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🎉 VHSky.cz v médiích! 🎉
Cnews o nás napsalo článek: Český projekt VHSky bude konkurovat YouTube. Diváci se při sledování videa stávají peery. cnews.cz/clanky/cesky-projekt-…

Jen chci zdůraznit, že VHSky.cz nevznikly jako konkurence YouTube – naším cílem není nahradit tuto platformu, ale vytvořit bezpečné, nezávislé a komunitní prostředí pro sdílení originálního obsahu.
#vhsky


Český projekt VHSky bude konkurovat YouTube. Diváci se při sledování videa stávají peery

Platforma postavená na otevřeném softwaru PeerTube by neměla být plná reklam, jako je tomu u YouTube. Diváci se při sledování videa stávají peery a sdílejí jej s ostatními diváky, podobně jako u torrentu.
Radomír Kejduš (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
#vhsky
in reply to Kevin Beaumont

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Nicole Parsons

If Elon Musk can unlock your Tesla, provide location data to authorities, and recordings of people inside the car,...what else can he (or a hacker) do with your vehicle?

Crash it?
Disable the steering or brakes?
Release conversations to competitors?
Photograph your kids?
Prevent it from starting in an emergency?
Force you to upgrade needlessly?
Make it very expensive to maintain or operate?

Enshittification means paying, but not owning, and certainly doesn't mean control.

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"Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)

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My whole life I have seen advertisements for desk jobs that required people to have driver's licenses, use of a vehicle, and insurance, even when there was no driving involved in the job at all.

Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is a huge victory for people who use transit and cycling for their mobility.
gov.ca.gov/2024/12/28/new-in-2…


New in 2025: Protecting more workers | Governor of California

State of California
marissasaldivar (Governor of California)

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For anyone who ants to try the new Toby Doom Launcher, you can download it from stormux.org/downloads/toby_doo…

Just unzip it and place all the files in the top level Toby Doom folder. The zip file contains the source code, the compiled .exe launcher, and some examples for custom games in the TobyCustom folder. There's also a _internal folder that contains all the stuff the .exe launcher needs.

Hopefully it works well for you. For #nvda users, you will need to press alt+down arrow to expand the combo boxes. I plan to eventually look into this and see if they can be expanded by default, but for now it's time for a break so I can actually play Doom instead of coding for it. 🤘

#nvda

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#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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Cudowne. Dziennikarz odszedł, nie odcięto mu dostępu, kradł newsy kolegów ze szkiców artykułów i publikował jako swoje. Koledzy zauważyli i podłożyli fejka, ten łyknął. Pamiętajcie, odbierajcie dostępy odchodzącym pracownikom...

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Jose Peseiro w Radomiaku! Interio, gratulujemy newsa. Jak go zdobyliście?

Ekstraklasa - Z pewną nutką żalu, z pewnym niesmakiem, ale jednak zmuszeni jesteśmy to zrobić - zareagować. Nasz były redakcyjny kolega Jan Mazurek postawił nas w
Szymon Janczyk (weszlo.com)
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Ever seen the HTML produced by an MS Word export? Blood fountains from your eyes. I once cleaned up such a HTML, and the size of the resulting clean HTML was less than 20% of the original. They even used CSS classes, but then explicitly repeated their definitions every.single.time (like "<p class="foo"><font size…><font family…><b><i>blabber</i></b></font></font></p>", with "foo" of course having font size, family, italics, bold already).

But right, worse examples are no excuses…

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