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Women no longer go out to work, fearing rape by Wagner mercenaries: how Russia is colonising Africa in c/world@quokk.au
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago

Why do you want to correct the record? It was about politics anyway, whether this guy admits it or not. Cambridge Analytica was a thing.

Women no longer go out to work, fearing rape by Wagner mercenaries: how Russia is colonising Africa in c/world@quokk.au
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I'm glad you said, "so called" leftists/tankies. This is from 2015 and they talk about mixing up the ideologies on purpose.

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,...

https://archive.is/PoUMo

Trump writes ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ after Russia launches deadliest strikes on Kyiv since last summer in c/world@quokk.au
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago

I'm glad that Trump is looking like he's going against Putin, but it's not really correct. He's blaming Zelensky because he won't give up his territory.

As part of its mission to seal a peace deal to end the three-year war, the US administration has proposed recognizing Russian control of Crimea, officials familiar with the details have told CNN.

Such a move would reverse a decade of US policy and could upset the widely held post-World War II consensus that international borders should not be changed by force.

Zelensky has repeatedly said Ukraine would not accept that, saying it would go against the country’s constitution. On Wednesday, Trump said Zelensky’s position was “very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia.”

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US drug firm Merck says existing Trump tariffs will cost it $200m this year (www.theguardian.com)
 

Amazon and Meta each donated $1 million. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended Trump’s inauguration and received prominent seats in the Capitol Rotunda, where Trump was sworn in after bad weather scuttled the traditionally outdoor event. Apple CEO Tim Cook gave $1 million, as well.

Computing companies Micron, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Microsoft also made six-figure donations, as did health care companies such as Hims, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Pfizer and Amgen. Live Nation donated $500,000, and two online gambling companies DraftKings and FanDuel each gave just under that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/major-corporate-interests-megadonors-gave-239-million-fund-trumps-inau-rcna202074

Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

That makes your warranty expire faster. It's not in the users favor.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I saw an ad for Amazon telehealth a couple of weeks ago. I'm not digging the times we're in. I also hope we don't look back on this time with nostalgia.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched an AI-fueled "Catch and Revoke" effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. This program relies on the AI to scrape people’s social media to revoke visa applications of people who have been protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As of early April 2025, at least 600 people have apparently had their visas revoked because of this AI monitoring, a massive incursion into people’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest.

The speed with which social media monitoring is growing is staggering. As of March 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been working with web-scraping contractor ShadowDragon to pull data from over 200 different sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.

‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown in c/world@lemmy.world
Tesla diner and drive-in theater in Hollywood nears opening in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's reportedly going to be two levels - an approximately 3,8000-square-foot enclosed lower level and a 5,500-square-foot outdoor seating and enclosed food prep area.

Tesla diner and drive-in theater in Hollywood nears opening in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's a movie theater and restaurant, of course they expect people to try and go there.

Tesla diner and drive-in theater in Hollywood nears opening in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It already looks like the GTA bad part of town. I don't think he gets that no one likes him anymore. This might have worked a couple of years ago when it was probably originally designed. I feel bad for the desingers/architects a little bit. He'll probably take credit anyway, lol.

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Tesla diner and drive-in theater in Hollywood nears opening (www.foxla.com)
 

This video inspired my posting here, it is really dystopian looking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr107NgoKaE

Tesla whistleblower wins latest legal battle in fight against Musk in c/world@quokk.au
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Ms Balan claimed she was worried the carpets were curling underneath some pedals in Tesla models, creating a safety hazard.

She said managers rebuffed her concerns, became hostile, and she lost her job.

She then won a wrongful dismissal case - but this turned out to be the start of a long journey through the courts.

Ms Balan was publicly accused by Tesla of using its resources for a "secret project" - accusations which amount to embezzlement, a crime under US law.

She has consistently denied the accusation, and decided to bring a defamation case against the firm in 2019.

China calls bluff on 245% US tariff: 'Meaningless' in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Because hurting the 1% is the only way this guy is going to be brought back to being an ineffective dictator. If the rich suffer, he will suffer.

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Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs (gizmodo.com)
 

The information revealed in the slides isn’t necessarily the most earth-shattering disclosures. As reported by The Verge, one slide showed data, seemingly from Apple, that shows the frequency of use of several different apps that have messaging features—including Apple’s Messages, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Snapchat—that suggested Messages dominated iOS when it comes to communications, not Meta’s offerings. Another slide, per The Verge, was titled “Snapchat in 2020: Competitors Are Succeeding and Not Just Meta Apps” and said apps other than Meta’s own are “thriving.”

But the fact that information made its way to public consumption was a pretty big “oops” on Meta’s part. The information was visible because of how the company redacted the documents, which it turned out was pretty easy to remove…which, of course, people did. That did not inspire confidence among the legal representation for companies, including Apple, Google, and Snapchat, that Meta was doing all it could to keep proprietary information protected. (Why they would want that information redacted is a different matter.)

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I'm not sure the moose even wants to be there, I think he's glaring at them. (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Yeah man, use your words. (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Man tackled by parishioners, handcuffed at Kansas church after Jesus-like prayer -“He has long hair and a beard.” (www.miamiherald.com)
 

“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”

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Today I learned (sh.itjust.works)
 
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And it can't be opened or unknown powers will destroy them. (sh.itjust.works)
 
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A Putin aide rejects Trump's 30-day Ukraine ceasefire proposal (www.npr.org)
 

Ushakov reiterated Russia's demands: Ukraine must recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea and four southeastern regions, withdraw troops from lands claimed by Russia and pledge never to join NATO. He said he "hopes [the United States] knows our position and wants to believe that they will take it into account as we work together going forward."

Moscow also seeks limits on Ukraine's military, protections for Russian speakers and elections to replace Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Which of the 5 Stages of "Rudy Giuliani" is Elon in? (sh.itjust.works)
 

1) The Self Fawning Exhibitionist Phase

Does overconfident, stupid, shit and no one tells you. Also, you will never be the same if you watch that video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spn0MJZr-QQ

2) The Fart on live TV Phase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP-iVIbUXbY

3) The Hair Dye Phase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbBSUrAwfRM

4) The Disbarrment Phase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0I0ZzlIH5U

5) The Trump Dismisses You Phase

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-bills/index.html

But the former president, who is notoriously strict about dipping into his own coffers, didn’t seem very interested. After Costello made his pitch, Trump verbally agreed to help with some of Giuliani’s legal bills without committing to any specific amount or timeline.

Trump also agreed to stop by two fundraisers for Giuliani, a separate source said.

Another source told CNN that Trump only agreed to cover a small fee from a data vendor hosting Giuliani’s records. And months later, Trump’s Save America PAC paid $340,000 to that vendor, Trustpoint, federal campaign filings show. CNN has now confirmed the payment was intended to settle Giuliani’s outstanding bill with the company.

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt (arstechnica.com)
 

Building on an anti-spam cybersecurity tactic known as tarpitting, he created Nepenthes, malicious software named after a carnivorous plant that will "eat just about anything that finds its way inside."

Aaron clearly warns users that Nepenthes is aggressive malware. It's not to be deployed by site owners uncomfortable with trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, he tells users. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models. That's likely an appealing bonus feature for any site owners who, like Aaron, are fed up with paying for AI scraping and just want to watch AI burn.

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