“This is one of the most dangerous periods for free speech in American history,” a Georgia lawmaker said.

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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.

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US Bans Palestinian Leaders, Welcomes Founder of Syrian Al Qaeda | Useful Idiots Monday Mourning

This episode of "Useful Idiots" features Katie Halper and Aaron Maté dissecting the hypocrisy and contradictions in mainstream media coverage of political violence, free speech, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They critique the responses to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, discuss the implications of recognizing Palestinian statehood, and analyze Chuck Schumer's reluctance to endorse a Democratic candidate.

Key Points:

• Jimmy Kimmel's Suspension: The hosts discuss the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel for comments made after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They argue that the reaction, including calls for Kimmel's removal by the head of the FCC, represents a crackdown on free speech.
• Hypocrisy in Condemning Violence: The hosts point out the hypocrisy of figures like Governor Josh Shapiro, who condemns political violence against himself but supports violence against Palestinians in Gaza.
• Symbolic Recognition of Palestine: The discussion covers the symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood by countries like Canada and the UK. While acknowledging the potential positive aspect of recognizing Palestinian self-determination, the hosts emphasize that it is often a toothless gesture to avoid taking meaningful action to stop the genocide.
• Netanyahu's Opposition to a Two-State Solution: The hosts highlight Netanyahu's opposition to a two-state solution, even before October 7th, and his rhetoric framing recognition of a Palestinian state as "rewarding terrorism."
• Macron's Stance on Hamas and Palestine: The hosts critique Emanuel Macron's statements on recognizing a Palestinian state, pointing out that Hamas has been more accommodating on the two-state solution than Macron himself. They also criticize Macron's focus on dismantling Hamas while ignoring the violence of the Israeli occupation.
• Palestinian Authority and Elections: The discussion touches on the history of the Palestinian Authority and the 2006 elections where Hamas came to power. The hosts argue that the US and Israel undermined the results of the election and imposed a crippling siege on Gaza.
• Chuck Schumer's Endorsement Dilemma: The hosts analyze Chuck Schumer's reluctance to endorse Zoramani for New York City mayor, suggesting that it is due to Schumer's "Israel first" stance and his discomfort with Mani's views on Palestine.

Highlights:

• Trump's Reaction to Charlie Kirk's Death: The hosts highlight Trump's brief acknowledgment of Charlie Kirk's death followed by a focus on construction projects, illustrating his self-centeredness.
• Stephen Miller's "Forces of Wickedness and Evil": The hosts mock Stephen Miller's rhetoric about prevailing over the "forces of wickedness and evil," suggesting he is referring to undocumented immigrants.
• Hillary Clinton's View on Palestinian Elections: The hosts quote Hillary Clinton's statement that the US should not have allowed Palestinians to vote unless they were prepared to control the outcome, exposing the US's limited commitment to Palestinian democracy.
• Ratio of War Crimes: The hosts argue that if Hamas is considered a terrorist organization, Israel's actions constitute a much greater degree of terrorism, given the ratio of war crimes to non-war crime activity.
• Aaron's Psychological Reflection: Aaron reflects on his internalization of a colonial mindset, preferring "French French" over "French Canadian French" and the hosts celebrate the unplanned psychological reflection and decolonization.

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Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalists @aaronjmate and @kthalps

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Distinguished epidemiologist Prof Fiona Stanley said she was “deeply sad” and “ashamed” after the Fremantle hospital that bears her name abruptly cancelled a 2024 event featuring Palestinian Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza, and even thought about telling the institution to remove her name.

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China's internet regulator on Monday launched a sweeping two-month crackdown targeting "malicious" social media content, including pessimistic economic commentary and posts promoting "negative outlooks on life," as concerns mount over widespread youth disillusionment amid the country's economic struggles.

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced the nationwide campaign will target content deemed to incite "violent or hostile sentiment," including posts that spread claims like "hard work is useless" or "studying is useless". The initiative comes as China faces record youth unemployment of 18.9% in August 2025 and persistent economic headwinds.

We urge governments to reach an international agreement on red lines for AI — ensuring they are operational, with robust enforcement mechanisms — by the end of 2026.

• Denmark's Copenhagen Airport reopens after halting take-offs, landings for nearly four hours
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• Denmark and Norway will investigate whether incidents linked-Copenhagen police

Hi guys, I am thinking of selling my old server which until now I have been using as a mini home lab. But now that I have a dedi on hetzner, I don't really see the point of keeping it around. What do you guys use your home lab for and why do you prefer it over cloud hosting?

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For years, little was known about how Ice uses Palantir’s technology. The company has consistently described itself as a “data processor” and says it does not play an active role in any of its customers’ data collection efforts or what clients do with that information.

Now, a cache of internal Ice documents – including hundreds of pages of emails between Ice and Palantir, as well as training manuals, and reports on the use of Palantir products – offer some of the first real-world examples of how Ice has used Palantir in its investigations and during on-the-ground enforcement operations.

The documents, which were obtained by immigrant legal rights group Just Futures Law through a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by the Guardian, largely cover Palantir’s contract with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of Ice that is responsible for stopping the “illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology”.

Palantir recently won a $30m contract to build the government a new platform called ImmigrationOS that will service Ice branches beyond HSI, and aims to “streamline” the identification and deportation of immigrants. While the documents are largely limited to HSI’s operations, it’s easy to see how the tools could be of use to other branches of Ice.

One document showed that agents could use Falcon to search for people’s names, known locations, vehicles or passport information against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal databases like the Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) – a vast database that holds biometric and personal information on anyone who has been encountered or arrested, detained or deported by any DHS agency – on the go.

In addition to collecting and analyzing field interviews, the agents used Falcon for “blueforce tracking”, a military term for tracking someone’s GPS location. Training documents show Ice agents could also use Falcon to track a person’s location, including their “route and movement”, hour by hour using cell phone tower records.

For years, little was known about how Ice uses Palantir’s technology. The company has consistently described itself as a “data processor” and says it does not play an active role in any of its customers’ data collection efforts or what clients do with that information.

Now, a cache of internal Ice documents – including hundreds of pages of emails between Ice and Palantir, as well as training manuals, and reports on the use of Palantir products – offer some of the first real-world examples of how Ice has used Palantir in its investigations and during on-the-ground enforcement operations.

The documents, which were obtained by immigrant legal rights group Just Futures Law through a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by the Guardian, largely cover Palantir’s contract with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of Ice that is responsible for stopping the “illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology”.

Palantir recently won a $30m contract to build the government a new platform called ImmigrationOS that will service Ice branches beyond HSI, and aims to “streamline” the identification and deportation of immigrants. While the documents are largely limited to HSI’s operations, it’s easy to see how the tools could be of use to other branches of Ice.

One document showed that agents could use Falcon to search for people’s names, known locations, vehicles or passport information against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal databases like the Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) – a vast database that holds biometric and personal information on anyone who has been encountered or arrested, detained or deported by any DHS agency – on the go.

In addition to collecting and analyzing field interviews, the agents used Falcon for “blueforce tracking”, a military term for tracking someone’s GPS location. Training documents show Ice agents could also use Falcon to track a person’s location, including their “route and movement”, hour by hour using cell phone tower records.

Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley claims too many of us are too dependent on government. But where is the evidence, with government income support in Australia being more tightly targeted than in any other country?

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I had to read C.S Lewis's "Abolition of Man" for an ethics class and I tried just getting through it without getting annoyed, but I couldn't and wanted to share my thoughts

I'm not expecting anyone here to really like the work (it's idealistic nonsense), but I would like a second pair of eyes to go over it and see if there's something ive missed from my analysis.

1.Im really bugged by his use of one Dao definition while not acknowledging the other. Basically (to my knowledge) there are two conceptions of the Dao. One is the confucian Dao, which is somewhat close to how Lewis uses it, in that it's the traditional and "ideal" set of values ypu base your morals off of. The Daoist conception is that the true (unnamed) Tao is the way of the universe, and cannot be described but rather experienced. [This is the broad generalization. I know that this is not exhaustive, I just wanted to point out the difference since i was confused the first time I read it]

It would be like if a Chinese philosopher refered to the English conception of the "State of Nature," while only conceiving of the Hobbsian definition and not the Lockian one. It'd be somewhat insulting, no?

2. There is a rational conception for selflessness though. I'm not rationalist/liberal humanist or whatever, but there is a pretty simple logic.

I need society to survive

Society is good for me

I should work to preserve society

maybe this doesn't cover the selfless actions of going to war and such (although, whether that's a good thing really depends on the war), but its pretty basic to point out that soldiers do get many boons for going to war, and surviving. There hasn't been a single society where you're not promised benefits for this (whether they come to fruition is another thing). I don't even believe in the rationalist line of reasoning here, but it bugs me that he dismisses it without much thought.

3. There's kind of a chicken and egg problem with the "Tao" here. It is, apparently, so natural that basically every society on earth follows the same values with minor differences. However, conversely, the Tao must always be taught and never is instinctual or comes naturally to children who are not taught the "tao."

Obviously human society survived long enough for people like Plato and Confucious to write about it, so it's not like they originated the "tao." So where did it come from? If it's natural than it must come from somewhere originally and ergo doesn't have to be taught. If it's not, then it's unexplained how it appeared. Of course you should teach children these things [to use an analogy, you wouldn't wait for teens to figure out the method of calculating a derivative instead of just teaching them how to], but it comes into question why his criticism of these English books matter. If these values are so natural, they have to originate from somewhere within the human mind without being taught, no? [Of course, class society and Hegemony explains this, but I've given up hope that British people can understand any of that]

4.The entire third chapter kinda kills the book for me. It feels like reading Orwell again. It has this banal Kantian view of government and coercive state power and just really pathetic. "Uh oh, better follow these traditional values or these scary conditioners are going to get you." Why these conditioners are here, and why people put up with them, is never answered really. They just are. It's never questioned if these traditional values are moral either. Was every genocide committed by the Roman's, british, etc. all caused by supposed "moral innovators?"

5.He has a wierd obsession with contraceptives. He claims that "the conditioners" will essentially control what humanity will be through eugenics via contraceptives. This would be wierd normally, but this was written in 1947. The nazis didn't use condoms and birth control to do eugenics...they killed people. And even when eugenical regimes aren't committing genocide with guns and gas chambers, they still sterilize undesirables and disabled people, and forbid intermarriage between them. Eugenics isn't some thing where nebulous people in control try to make humanity better because muh authorarianism. Eugenics is something spawned out of 18th century "scientific" racism. It's not just controlling who gets to sire children by giving people IUDS, it's murder, deportation, castration and sterilization.

Edit: Forgot to add this point. It's a really odd idea that conditioners just control "humanity." Eugenics isn't just something where a bunch if technocrats want to make humanity better or whatever. Most (if not all eugenicists) believe that their group is inherently superior. So the point is that these eugencists want there to only be their group of people (usually, white germanic capitalist/aristocrats). The problem is not some nebulous wishy washy idealism about "oh what about the power we hold over future generations." The problem is the erasure of entire groups of people, ethnic, disabled, etc.

If I create a new torrent, does CGNAT (carrier-grade network address translation) prevent me from being an initial seeder of that torrent? I've made test torrents before and noticed that none of them seemed to be downloadable. Seeding the test torrents on a VPS of mine with a public IP has surprisingly worked before.

I can download and upload in my torrent client just fine, so I know my ISP isn't (intentionally) blocking and firewalling torrents.

“I told Director Kash Patel that the FBI has names of 20 men to whom Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls,” Massie wrote on X. “This basic fact seemed to surprise him. Why?

“Is the FBI withholding those names to protect the President’s rich and powerful friends?” Massie continued, before demanding that the administration “release the Epstein files.”

Massie has been fighting for the release of more documents related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophilic sex trafficker with connections to the rich and powerful, including President Donald Trump.

“I believe that Trump is trying to protect rich and powerful people who are his friends, and that is why this material is not getting released,” Massie told CNN last week.

Even Patel ferociously argued for the total release of the Epstein files—before he formally entered the Trump administration. Months before Patel’s name was floated to run the bureau, Patel had told podcaster Benny Johnson that he believed the documents were being shielded from public view because of “who’s on that list.” During his confirmation hearing, the 45-year-old swore there would be “no stone left unturned” in the quest to make the Epstein files completely transparent.

But it all came to a head during a heated House Oversight Hearing Wednesday, when members of the lower chamber forced the bureau chief to confront the incongruencies between his prior stances and his recent lagging actions.

“This spring, you ordered hundreds of agents to pore over all of the Epstein files, but not to look for more clues about the money network, or the network of human traffickers,” said Representative Jamie Raskin. “You pulled these agents from their regular counterterrorism or drug trafficking duties to work around the clock—some of them sleeping at their desks—to conduct a frantic search to make sure Donald Trump’s name and image were flagged and redacted wherever they appeared.”

Raskin then highlighted a July memo from the bureau, in which Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi determined “no further disclosure” regarding the Epstein files and the FBI’s investigation “would be necessary or appropriate.”

Trump is openly directing the Justice Department to go after his political adversaries, adding to a sense of unease inside the department about job security and ethical obligations.

Even in an era of nonstop social media posts, Trump's weekend update stopped many government attorneys in their tracks. The president said he wanted to see justice served.

"We can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility," he wrote.

What Trump said couldn't wait are criminal investigations of his most prominent critics: former FBI Director Jim Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff.

Earlier on Monday, ABC announced Kimmel’s return, after a backlash in the creative community and among others who said that The Walt Disney Co. was capitulating to the Trump administration

Earlier on Monday, ABC announced Kimmel’s return, after a backlash in the creative community and among others who said that The Walt Disney Co. was capitulating to the Trump administration