The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump's name to its sign in Washington.

Donald Trump’s name is being attached to a new class of U.S. battleships that will have nuclear capabilities.

Making the announcement at an event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Navy Secretary John Phelan referred to the warships as “Trump-class battleships" and said a forthcoming vessel dubbed the USS Defiant will be “the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.”

Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.

I was just diagnosed with ADHD this summer so I'm still figuring out what helps with areas I struggle in. One of them has always been active listening. I did okay in school as long as I had a notebook--better if I had written lecture notes--but I was never great at languages and the times where I had tests with only a listening section to rely on were consistently my worst ever in school.

I've picked up Japanese study again in earnest last year, and now, of course, I'm looking at this through a different lens. At this point, my listening comprehension is a full proficiency tier (or more) behind my reading. I tried some structured listening for a couple of months but mostly just ended up frustrated. One thing I'm noticing is if there's slow-paced talk, or if there's a single word I don't know, I'll completely lose focus. With reading, my brain automatically "plays" the passage at 1.5x speed or whatever it needs to stay focused, whereas that's a lot harder with listening (when it's an option at all).

I've seen a couple of strategies in articles I dug up recently, such as having a fidget toy at your desk while listening, or counting specific words while listening. If there are any language learners out there, has anything worked for you on this? Or perhaps something to help you with active listening as an adult in general?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.ml/post/40686362

A police officer at a protest for the Palestine Action hunger strikers strangled a doctor until she passed out by dragging her by the back of her hoodie, the doctor has told Novara Media.

Dr Olivia Brandon was among several medical professionals who gathered with other supporters outside HMP Bronzefield on Wednesday 17 December to demand the prison allow in an ambulance to treat a hunger striker suffering from severe chest pains.

The alleged attack came after police arrested two protesters, including psychiatric doctor Dr Ayo Moiett, who protesters say was targeted both because he is black and because he played a pivotal role in forcing the prison to eventually let the ambulance come.

cross-posted from : https://sh.itjust.works/post/52039645

cross-posted from : https://sh.itjust.works/post/52035483

VPNs are often sold as a “privacy silver bullet,” but that framing causes more confusion.

A VPN does not make you anonymous.

It does not stop cookies, logins, browser fingerprinting, or payment-based identification.

What a VPN actually does is much narrower and more technical:

1. It encrypts your internet traffic in transit
2. It prevents your ISP or local network from seeing which destinations you connect to
3. It makes websites see the VPN server’s IP instead of your real one
4. That’s privacy at the network level, not identity hiding.

I wrote a detailed blogpost. Check it out.

China and Russia have expressed support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, while Donald Trump continues to ramp up his pressure campaign on the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

The case over the Alien Enemies Act first brought into focus critiques about the Trump administration's lack of due process in its immigration policy.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward challenged the deportation of the Venezuelans, saying the Alien Enemies Act was invoked illegally and that the men should have been given the opportunity to argue against their removal.

Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned as part of a government strategy to improve animal welfare in England.

Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will be published.

The practice is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand. Animal welfare charities say that stunning lobsters with an electric gun or chilling them in cold air or ice before boiling them is more humane.

The Definitive Marxist Thinker Tier List. Anyone who disagrees is a revisionist. [/s]

Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at Turning Point USA (TPUSA), where she took part in a question-and-answer session with the widowed wife of Charlie Kirk and the new CEO of the political organisation, Erika Kirk, since his husband's passing.

Following her appearance and confirmation that she is a MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporter, a past comment made by Charlie Kirk about the rapper during one of his debates with a student has resurfaced online, sparking renewed backlash and debate

The most dramatic decrease came in U.S. spirits exports to Canada, which fell 85% in the April-through-June quarter

Been playing Santa for kids a lot this week

I've so far seen this exact problem in 4 different apps; Obsidian, Trillium, SilverBullet, and TiddlyWiki.

All of these let you write in some sort of lightweight markup (markdown for most, but TiddlyWiki has its own markup language). All of these also let you add frontmatter or metadata to your notes, and have barrels and barrels of features for querying, parsing, cataloging, and tabulating this frontmatter.

However, markdown is itself structured data. It has headings and tables and lists. That's structure. Why not have similar facilities for querying the markdown itself?

I got into this on the TiddlyWiki forums. A lot of users encouraged me to put everything into metadata fields, practically leaving nothing in the body of notes. Then why have bodies? Why not just have a vault full of YAML files?

Why can't I, for example, get a list of all notes where a certain heading exists, or extract data from a table in a note, or count the number of words in a note, or in a section of a note?

Zurich serves as a hub for US tech company Palantir’s business relations.

The fact remains, however, that Zurich is partly responsible for the growth strategy of Palantir, a company whose software is increasingly being used as a deadly weapon of war against civilians – and which clearly has no problem with this.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55517538

Serious answers only pls don't waste my time