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Why is Gen Z obsessed with blind boxes?
The blind-box market is worth billions of dollars per year, and the most successful players in this industry thrive on loyal fans, social media and some clever marketing tactics. ⌘ Read more

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Trump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone
Zolan Kanno-Youngs,  White House Correspondent  -  The New York Times

Stephan: Fascist, aspiring dictator Trump is a psychopath who lies compulsively. Every person who can think rationally knows this. What many don’t seem to know, and that media is not properly covering, is how truly bizarre his lies have become. This is an example of what I mean.

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Ashes tickets pre-sale sets new record but leaves some fans ‘frustrated’
Fans complain across social media about the issues faced in buying tickets, with one saying it has been “one of the most frustrating experiences” he has been through. ⌘ Read more

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Am Wochenende wurde mit Eisstielen, Stempeln und dem Lötkolben gebastelt.
Das Ergebnis sind Namensschilder für die Kräutertöpfe. Die unegale Optik finde ich sehr angenehm.

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Police investigate social media ‘stabbing list’ posted before town show
Police investigating an anonymous social media post containing a “stabbing list” say it is not connected to an alleged triple stabbing in Dubbo. ⌘ Read more

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Paraglider video out of China likely doctored with AI, experts say
The ABC was among hundreds of media outlets which reported on the incredible footage. Experts say the video was at least partially manipulated by artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more

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‘HERCULEAN TASK’ Emirates airline president reveals staggering cost to transform Qatari ‘sky Palace’ into Trump’s new Air Force One jet
Georgie English,  Foreign News Reporter  -  The U.S. Sun

_Stephan: The story of the corruption of Trump, represented by his grift to get the Qatar “flying palace” has passed from the attention of the corporate media, but that doesn’t mean this corrupt scheme has … ⌘ Read more

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Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Under the Trump Republican MAGAt coup the United States is not only not preparing for climate change the country is being taken backwards into greater carbon energy dependence. The complete lack of ethics in the Republican Congress, and the failure of the media to focus on this tr … ⌘ Read more

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QR codes, already posted about them in the last two posts, but I want to hear your hot takes: Should they only be black and white, are they even worth doing in 2025, incorporating them into things,..?
Also, finally getting full screen view for avatars in XMPP - a better integrated one, after 25 years. Y@ay!

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The album is released next sunday, but why wait?

You can already listen to the full new #kokori album - a split with Floating Ashes - either by streaming or download (with a pay as you want - including nothing - option). So… Enjoy!

And relember, if you want a physical edition on #CD, you can leave a comment down there and I’ll get you one for 10€, shipping included.

https://anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com/album/idiossincrasias-vol-1

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The Final Checkmate: Republicans Move to Destroy the Balance of Powers
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Corporate media and newspapers like The Washington Post and the The Los Angeles Times, both owned by MAGAt billionaires, as well as local television stations owned by MAGAts, and the social media rightwing disinformation network are not reporting what is happening in the United States accurately. They do not acknowledge that … ⌘ Read more

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How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy … Read MoreRead more

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How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy … Read MoreRead more

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I’m finding this very interesting… An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it’s evolved “brain” that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play.

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There’s a hidden provision in that big ugly bill that makes Trump king
Robert Reich,  Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As you can see, I am not the only person who tracks the trends shaping the United States, who sees what is going on with the Trump MAGAt coup. In this article he points out something almost no one else in corporate media is talking about even though it ends democra … ⌘ Read more

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President Trump’s approval rating: Here’s what latest opinion polls show
Kathryn Palmer,   Trending News Reporter  -  USA Today

_Stephan: The truth that corporate media doesn’t seem able or willing to touch is that the transformation of the United States into a fascist autocracy by Trump and his vellains is only happening because a small majority of Americans voted for it. Fascism never comes into power through violence; it is always voted into office by … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Is Only ‘About the Babies of Slaves.’ Historical Evidence Says Otherwise.
Damon Root ,  Senior Editor  -  reason

Stephan: Here is a fact-based exegetic essay on U.S. birthright citizenship. I have looking at MAGAt media to see how it was playing this issue, and the racism and ignorance on this subject is astonishing.

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Russia Has Started Losing the War in Ukraine
Michael Kimmage,  Director of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center   -  Foreign Policy

_Stephan: Media in the United States has not been covering the Ukraine war in its geopolitical consequence anywhere deeply enough. Partly this is because Trump has for years been completely in the pocket of Putin, and has tried to skew media in Russia’s favor. However, it is becoming hard for Trump to sustain it because Putin so blatantly disreg … ⌘ Read more

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I sent you my QR code, please respond!

*for context: long ago, there were some complaints, about some of my sitting drawings, where the legs are apart, not using dithering/more shading and one of my favourite artists, made a video, exploring the use of QR codes, in art
P.S.: the code just redirects to my websites

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In-reply-to » Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with and doing some deep learning and researching into neutral networks and evolutionary adaptation of them. The thing is I haven't gotten very far. I've been able to build two different approaches so far with limited results. The frustrating part is that these things are so "random" it isn't even funny. Like I can't even get a basic ANN + GA to evolve a network that solves the XOR pattern every time with high levels of accuracy. 😞

This is one of my attempts:

$ go build ./cmd/xor/... && ./xor
Generation  95 | Fitness: 0.999964 | Nodes: 9   | Conns: 19
Target reached!

Best network performance:
  [0 0] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.000) ✅
  [0 1] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.990) ✅
  [1 0] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.716) ✅
  [1 1] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.045) ✅
Overall accuracy: 100.0%
Wrote best.dot – render with `dot -Tpng best.dot -o best.png`

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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The United States is becoming a fascist pseudo-democracy so quickly that I don’t think many Americans understand or realize what is happening. We have never experienced anything like this. Harvard, according to aspiring dictator Trump, can no longer enroll foreign students. The media is covering this, but what they aren … ⌘ Read more

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E que tal este hino anti-pirataria de 2010s, cantado pelo Magalhães (sim, o computador) numa versão do Chamem a Polícia? Juro que é ainda melhor do que a descrição dá a entender, ouve!

(se o áudio não der depois de carregar no play, experimenta clicar em “descarregar ficheiro” ali em baixo à direita)

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Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Here is yet another report about Trump’s attempt to use your tax dollars to “disappear” people into a global network of concentration camps. I think this is a very big deal that is not getting anywhere near the media attention it should. I question whether a large percentage of Americans who get their news from MAGAt Media even know this is … ⌘ Read more

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NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
Patrick Pester ,  Trending News Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: I chose this for two reasons. First, I saw a misinformation report in a conspiracy group social media saying it showed climate change wasn’t real. Second, because it shows that climate change is more complicated than is generally understood. We are going … ⌘ Read more

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Trump just uttered the most despicable lie pushed by GOP in decades
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw story | Commentary

Stephan: Although Trump is a terrible multi-bankrupt businessman, as I have pointed out repeatedly, he has real skill with lying and manipulating media to focus on fake or irrelevant stories to avoid attention on the real stories. Thom Hartmann explains what I mean very well.

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Xi Jinping’s defiance against Donald Trump paid off for China: Report
News Staff,    -  Hindustan Times (India)

_Stephan: In my view, the Chinese have played Donald Trump like a flute in the trade war crisis he created. I don’t know why corporate media hardly mentions that Trump has gone bankrupt six times; he couldn’t even make a success of a gambling casino. He is a terrible businessman. What he does understand is how to manipulate American media with big … ⌘ Read more

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I’m thinking of bringing back filters (this time not as a feature flag, just baked in): New filters: Hide Feed, Hide Bots, Hide News, Media Only, No Replies, Local Only — toggle to trim noise & surface the Twts you care about.

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The founders fought tyrants, the morbidly rich, religious elites. Remind you of anyone?
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Commentary | Raw Story

Stephan: Thom Hartmann describes something I have known, but never before seen covered in the daily media. As Hartmann explains, what is happening in the United States today is exactly what the Founders did not want the country they were creating to ever become.

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Trump AG’s latest vow is straight from dictator’s playbook — and it’s a threat to us all
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The assault on media, and the weaponization of misinformation is a high priority goal of the aspiring Trump dictatorship, and that is straight out of Hitler’s playbook. Thom Hartmann describes what the Trump coup is trying to do under the guidance of Pam Bondi, perhaps the most unscrupulous, unethical A … ⌘ Read more

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HydraLink Offers Open USB-to-Automotive Ethernet Interface for Testing and Diagnostics
HydraLink is now available on CrowdSupply as a compact and open-source USB-to-Automotive Ethernet adapter intended for engineers, researchers, and others working with in-vehicle networks. It supports both 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 over single-pair Ethernet, enabling direct access to automotive Ethernet without the need for media converters or additional lab equipment. Hy … ⌘ Read more

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‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, PhD,  Historian and Contrbuting Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Republican fascist coup does not like facts. Therefore, they don’t like universities, they don’t like museums, they don’t like public education, they don’t like science, they don’t like a fact-based media, and they actively weaponize and spread misinformation. Here is the lates … ⌘ Read more

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A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them
Andrew Freedman,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation on social media, plus America’s gun obsession, plus the rise of fascism in the MAGAt world, is creating a serious distortion of the U.S. culture. Here is an example of what I mean. The only thing that is going to change this is you an … ⌘ Read more

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Nobody want to be a shitty programmer. The question is: Do you do anything not to not be one?
Reading blogs or social media and watching YouTube videos is fun. After them, your code may be a little better, of course. But you need a lot. You need to study! Read good books and study the code of other programmers, for example. Maybe work with a new language, architectures and paradigms. You need break the routine.

If you know Object-oriented programming, you learn functional programming.
If you know Model-View-Controller, you learn Model-View-ViewModel.
If you don’t know anything about architectures, you learn Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, etc.
If you know Python, you learn Ruby or Go.
If you know Clojure or Lisp… you don’t need to learn anything else. You are already a good programmer. Just kidding. You can learn Elixir or Scala.

Be a good programmer my friend.

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In-reply-to » @kat I've almost fixed this btw 🤗 Just testing it thoroughly and polihsing the code. In case you're curious, I do this style of development called "Observability Driven Development" (ODD) whereby I make observations of the system via metrics and internal observations and adjust the system's overall behavior to the desired outcome 😅

I’m not even being facetious here either. I’d llove to see you “unit tests” this:

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Pam Bondi fires ‘warning shot’ at free press with ‘most chilling’ guidelines yet: report
Krystina Alarcon Carroll,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is all straight out of the Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin/Orban playbook. and completely predictable. You get your uber-rich supporters to buy your seat in office, then you get them to buy major media, as has happened with the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Fox Propaganda, then … ⌘ Read more

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Confession:

I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.

The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).

I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.

Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.

On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️

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White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump
Alex Isenstadt,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: This article is yet another move straight out of the fascist coup playbook. Get the billionaires to buy big media, both print and electronic. Try to scare and suppress the rest of the media. Create chaos amongst journalists. Start the coup’s own media. Weaponize and distribute misinformation. Everything Trump is doing is straight out of the Hitler playbook, a … ⌘ Read more

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DOGE has made a big impact on Washington. But government spending is up.
Sophia Cai and Irie Sentner,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I think it should be obvious by now, to anyone paying attention, that the whole point of DOGE was not saving taxpayer dollars; it twas about creating chaos, confusing and misdirecting the media, and dismantling the Constitutional Federal Republic of the United States (what America’s governmental form should really be called). All … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
Michael Tomasky,    -  The New Republic

Stephan: Psychopath Trump may be the most corrupt man in the United States. He is a convicted sex offender, multiple felon, multiple bankrupt, and multiple convicted fraudster. And yet the media never presents that list, nor as this article describes, do you often see anything about his current ongoing corruption.

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La France Dacialand
Magie des médias trop occupés à commenter les politiques américaines et la mort du pape, la récente étude de l’INSEE portant sur la pauvreté en France n’a eu qu’une modeste couverture : pour la presse, cette pauvreté qui touche trois Français sur vingt n’est qu’un simple élément de décor qui ne sort que lors des campagnes […] ⌘ Read more

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Teens, Social Media and Mental Health
Michelle Faverio , Monica Anderson and Eugenie Park,  Research Staff  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Are you old enough to remember a time when there was no internet or social media, and what your life was like. More social activity. More physical activity. More hanging out physically with friends. Drive-in movies and dances.  Today’s teens are fatter, less socially comfortable, woefully misinformed, and influenced by the weaponization of misinform … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Anyone watching/watched Black Mirror Season 7? 😵‍💫😵 I've been watching the first episode and a couple of minutes into the third act then I was like ... Oh boy, I need a break! They're just so Fu__ing good, I'll give them that!

P.S: the couple first Seasons and Her (The movie) are the main reasons I find it a bit difficult to go back to mainstream social media or even care about smartphones 😆

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A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌

  • asynchronous evolution
  • drift into failure

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In-reply-to » @andros One thing I really liked about the hacker news rss feeds is the link to the comments. Reckon you can add that to the feed? 🤔

Here’s an example of what you end up with (I don’t follow the feed, but it’s in my pod’s cache)

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Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
Anna Silman,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Most of the Trump Republican anti-democracy coup is straight out of Hitler’s playbook. The one thing that stands out for me, however, is the growing weakness and gender fear of a large percentage of American men. They are frightened by and resentful of gender equality. … ⌘ Read more

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Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears
James Risen,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Despot Trump’s racism was inherited from his father, and has been a life-long attribute of his character, and is a defining aspect of MAGAt world. Black MAGAts don’t seem to get this, but then there were Black slave owners in pre-Civil War America. We don’t talk enough about this White supremacy racism in the Republican Party, and media doesn’t cover it properly, if at all.  But … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » 💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

  • Sharing small posts
  • Sharing links
  • Sharing media
  • Having long conversations
  • Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  • RSVPing to virtual or physical events

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**(#6kkpdda) This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

  • Sharing small posts

  • Sharing links

  • Sharing media

  • Having long conversat …**
    This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

  • Sharing small posts

  • Sharing links

  • Sharing media

  • Having long conversations

  • Voting on topics, opinions or decisions

  • RSVPing to virtual or physical events ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt 😂 And surprisingly it's rather accurate:

Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

  • 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
  • 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
  • 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic@twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
  • 2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media support added
  • 2024+ – Yarn.social becomes the reference Twtxt platform, with active federated pods

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**(#2dh7m3q) Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

  • 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microbloggin …**
    Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

  • 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging

  • 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche

  • 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic @twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI

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I do not agree with every decision the Internet Archive makes, but I consider it a very important tool, for Internet archival and preservation - to the point, it even influenced what licence I chose, for my media and websites.

Sadly they’re now facing another threat, in the form of litigious music labels, that they’re now trying to convince to stop, by collecting signatures here.

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Apple Sports App Now Lets You Share Game Cards via iMessage and Social Media
Just in time for the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs this weekend, the Apple Sports app has received a new Game Card Sharing feature.

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With this feature, Apple Sports users can generate and share game cards for all supported leagues, whether the matchup is upcoming, live, … ⌘ Read more

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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
Robbie Gramer and Nahal Toosi,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a man who throughout his career has made it clear that he is utterly lacking in honorable ethics, in service to Dictator Trump, is now doing something straight out of the Hitler playbook. This is exactly what Hitler did, although few in the media seem to know this. It is just another … ⌘ Read more

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‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele
Colby Hall,  Founding Editor  -  Mediate

_Stephan: I am surprised the media isn’t saying out loud what is actually going on. American dictator Donald Trump has made a deal with dictator Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to run a concentration camp for which he will pay him $6,000 per person of your tax doll … ⌘ Read more

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The manosphere and networked misogyny
Zhen Troy Chen, PhD, FHEA , Dr. Calogero Giametta, PhD , Dr. Jacob Johanssen, PhD & Dr. Irida Ntalla, PhD,    -  Nature

_Stephan: One of the many negative effects of social media is the rise of the manosphere. I had no idea until I began to research this the weaponization of misinformation how many American men, particularly young men, are weak, psychologically disturbed, insecure about their manhood, and threatened by women. In the United States ri … ⌘ Read more

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