President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin.

The individuals listed in a proclamation, which Martin posted on X late Sunday, include high-profile figures like former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and the president’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, among dozens of others.

“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,” read the document, which gives the date of November 7 in its text and the president appears to have signed.

Eager to boost downloads of Copilot, Microsoft has recruited popular influencers to push a message that its AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT.

Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two of its most senior figures after a campaign against the broadcaster that reached fever pitch over criticism that its flagship documentary programme in 2024 used a misleading edit of a Trump speech.

Lawyers for the US president said that the BBC must retract the Panorama documentary by Friday or face a lawsuit for “no less” than $1bn (£760m), according to US media outlets who cited the letter. The BBC has confirmed it had received a letter and said it will respond in due course.

The resignations of the BBC director general, Tim Davie, and its News CEO, Deborah Turness, came after the rightwing Telegraph newspaper published a leaked internal report by a former BBC standards adviser alleging failings in the broadcaster’s coverage. The report criticised BBC coverage on transgender issues, Gaza and an edit of a Trump speech from January 6 during the Capitol Hill insurrection.

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Let me explain what I mean:

radical acceptance: ever think about how your coworkers are morons, your elderly parents have declined beyond recognition and actively work against you and seem to live to ruin every single one of your days, your boss is an insufferable, exploitative ass, your uncle has lung cancer but keeps smoking a pack a day, your teenager daughter is doing drugs because is trendy, just like you did when you were her age? You cannot change how any of those actors in your life behave, people are free to do whatever they want, even to do stupid crap like that. Trying to change any of those actors is futile and guarantees your mental health decreases overtime and they resent you for caring about them. The better but not ideal solution? Radical acceptance. They are what they are, don’t try to change them, accept them how they are. Let them fail.

This was suggested to me while talking about relatives with dementia and other mental illnesses, but I don’t know if I’m stretching the definition too much.

Spineless conformist: if there are things I cannot control nor change, like climate change, lack of a public healthcare system in America, fptp, maga… why even try? I’d be both radical accepting reality while being a spineless conformist.

Where’s do you draw the line?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9721381

Your thoughts?

Ugh, I wish I could make a list of my sensory stims or the stimuli that gets me going, but it's so hyper-specific and doesn't seem to be able to be done on a whim.

Certain sounds are heard and then never heard again.

It is what it is.

Do you all have stims that you can do on a whim or listen to on repeat?

The inventor of the World Wide Web still believes in the internet as a force for good.

between March 1984 and August 1985, an unknown criminal — or maybe a whole group — extorted and terrorized some of Japan’s biggest snack manufacturers. Before long, a simple trip to the candy aisle had become a national act of courage — because one bite could’ve been your last.

The “Glico-Morinaga Case” is one of the strangest, most fascinating, and most unsettling stories to come out of 1980s Japan — a wild mix of kidnapping, ransom demands, mysterious letters, food poisoning and mass panic. And at the center of it all: One shadowy figure, or maybe several, who remain unknown even today, more than 4 decades later!

This… is the story of The Monster with 21 Faces — 1980s Japan’s biggest mystery.

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Thailand on Monday suspended peace talks with Cambodia after two Thai soldiers were injured by a land mine in the disputed border area, casting doubt on a two-week-old pledge by the countries to resolve their longstanding differences at the behest Trump.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters on Monday that talks with Cambodia could not proceed and that Thailand was still “dealing with an adversary.”

“Everything must stop,” Mr. Anutin said. The hostilities that Thailand thought had disappeared, he added, “had not gone anywhere” and talks had to be halted “until there is further clarity.”

With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets websites identify you even when cookies are blocked or you’re in private browsing. These protections build on Mozilla’s long-term goal of building a healthier, transparent and privacy-preserving web ecosystem.

I recently joined Pixelfed and, considering there's no algorithm, hashtags are the only way to be discovered.

I hate hashtag optimizing, but I also don't want to upload my image to someone else's random server before posting it to pixelfed, just to generate hashtags. Where should I look to find something I can host myself, or even something that runs natively on Android/Linux, that'll generate hashtags/keywords for an image?

I have a Pixel 8.... a PC with Linux Mint. How do I learn to "self host". Mainly for photo storage backup. Where do I start? I know nothing, absolutely nothing

About 1 in every 8 U.S. teenagers and young adults turns to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for mental health advice, a new study says.

AI bots offer a cheap and immediate ear for younger people's concerns, worries and woes, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open. However, it's not clear that these programs are up to the challenge, researchers warned.

"There are few standardized benchmarks for evaluating mental health advice offered by AI chatbots, and there is limited transparency about the datasets that are used to train these large language models," investigator Jonathan Cantor said in a news release. He's a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The new study follows on a report that OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to delusions and suicide, according to The Associated Press.

China suspended for one year port fees levied on U.S.-linked vessels, its transport ministry said on Monday, after Washington announced a similar pause on punitive actions against China's shipping and shipbuilding sectors.

The reciprocated pauses were in line with agreements reached by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping during a summit in South Korea last month.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38565024

Dutch cycling website outspoken about having to close because of AI-related content theft

Ok so idk if this is the most appropriate place to post this, but are the extreme views and statement we see on these platforms really just “bots” and “internet noise” are these genuinely the worst parts of humanity?

For context/elaborating on it, I kinda drifted off from lemmy to reddit due to lack of content here and holee fuck, its just horrifying, the amount of pro genocidal statements and cheers for extremism genuinely makes me feel at extreme unease, but it also makes me ask a question. I come from a conservative southasian society and whenever you bring up topics like treatment of minorities, lgbtq+ rights, feminism etc, people normally dont comment on this stuff or make a “harmless joke” out of it, but seeing reddit pages of the same grp of ppl it makes me genuinely feel that these guys hold on to genuinely insane beliefs, and are just afraid to present it to anyone in person..

https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-doubles-down-on-bds-support-wont-say-israel-has-right-to-exist-as-jewish-state/