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It is Going to Be More Complicated to Remain a Constitutional Federal Republic Than Many Seem to Realize
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Last Friday ASO Communications and Research Collaborative published a polling memo of data collected by Data for Progress just days before – 18-21 April. It showed that just as the country approaches Donald Trump’s 100th day in office 52% of likely voters acros … ⌘ Read more

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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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U.S. Press Freedom Plummets to All-Time Low
Tom Sanders ,  Staff Writer  -  The Daily Beast

_Stephan: The U.S. freedom of the press was ranked 57th in Reporters Without Borders‘ (RSF) annual press freedom index, putting it on par with countries such as Gambia and Uruguay. Fascists don’t want the people they rule to be factually educated or well-informed. That’s why colleges and … ⌘ Read more

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How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding
Susan Dominus,  Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times Magazine

_Stephan: As this article describes, scientists have been trying to determine what creates personal happiness for a century, and it is a very complicated research task. But the one constant I see in almost all these studies, and I have been doing and following this research for over 50 years, although it is rarely mentioned as … ⌘ Read more

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Coupures de courant : une mise en garde pour tout le continent
Un billet de Henry Bonner Les récentes coupures de courant sur le continent contiennent une mise en garde sur les conséquences de l’instabilité des réseaux électriques. D’après les données à disposition sur les coupures en Espagne et au Portugal, l’impact des renouvelables sur la gestion de courant fait partie des causes. Reuters rapporte ainsi que […] ⌘ Read more

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10 Critical Bottlenecks in Modern Civilization Posing a Major Risk
We like to think modern civilization is robust, backed by endless redundancy. But under the surface, there are critical choke points—places, systems, or single providers where failure would ripple through the entire world. These are the brittle backbones of global stability, and most people have no idea how many eggs we’ve put in very few […]

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Top Stories: Epic Games Victory Over Apple, iPhone 17 Rumors, and More
There’s a major shakeup for the App Store in the U.S. this week, with Epic Games winning a major victory that is forcing Apple to make immediate changes in how it works with developers seeking to offer alternative methods for purchasing in-app content and subscriptions.

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This week also saw fresh rumors about the iPhone 17 lineup, while Dan and Hartl … ⌘ Read more

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**Stop treating AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research** [Comments](https://lobste.rs/s/kfadjc/stop_treating_agi_as_north_star_goal_ai) ⌘ [Read more](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689)

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In-reply-to » @kat That's what I was going for at first, I already have my compose file to go up -d, but then I took a look at a couple of #Snac instances at the last second and they looked pretty dope! Now I'm stuck in my own head 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Mainly the bsd.cafe ones. I like how the minimalist single column profiles look. Image embeds are full width and reading through threads feels nice (as in it doesn’t feel like pealing layers upon layers of a fresh onion).

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How to Enable Automatic Dark / Light Mode on iPhone & iPad
If you’re an iPhone or iPad user, you might appreciate a feature that automatically switches your devices appearance from Light Mode to Dark Mode, and vice versa, automatically. Furthermore, you can set the automatic enabling of Dark and Light mode to follow sunset and sunrise, or a custom schedule, whichever you prefer. As you probably … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/02/how-to-enable-automatic-dark-light … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Flexible data placement
At
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a
combined storage and filesystem session on data placement, which concerns
how the data on a storage device is actually written. In a discussion
that hearkened back to previous summits, the idea is to give hints to enterprise-class
SSDs to help them make better choices on where the data should go; hinting
was most recently [discussed at the summit in 2023](https://lwn.net/Articles/932900/ … ⌘ Read more

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iPhone 17: What’s New With the Cameras
We’ve still got months to go before the new iPhone 17 models come out, but a combination of dummy models and leaks have given us some insight into what we can expect in terms of camera changes.

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Apple is adding new camera features, and changing the design of the camera bump for some models. You might be skeptical of dummy m … ⌘ 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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