What are some questions I can ask someone to find out if they're in a domestic abuse situation?

Specifically, this is my ex, and my kid’s mom. She’s in a relationship that is now six months old and I’m starting to see red flags. She’s become a lot less visible and available than before, and her communication has gone down to almost nothing. From what little I’ve seen of them together, I’ve detected possible signs of codependency and over-attachment. Any time she contacts me or wants to see me, it’s clear that she’s doing it behind her partner's back, and there’s absolutely nothing going on between us to threaten a relationship.

I’m a domestic abuse survivor myself, and one of the things I know is that it’s not easy to be aware or or understand what you’re in when you’re actually in it. So obviously it’s not like I’d just say, hey, are you being abused? So hopefully someone with experience with this knows the right things to say or ask to find out what’s really going on. And my kid’s there with them too. I’m actually taking him on vacation next week (he’s five) and wouldn’t mind finding gentle ways to find out what he sees.

I’m going to get a chance to hang out with her in a couple of days and I’d like to be ready by then. I hope I’m wrong and she’s just being an asshole. Because that I can handle. Thanks all.


World Meteorological Organization says prepare for a strong El Niño

El Niño continues to intensify steadily and is expected to dominate global climate patterns in the August to October 2026 season, increasing the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across much of the world and driving significant shifts in rainfall patterns, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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China holds military drills near disputed shoal in the South China Sea


DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status


Chinese Researchers Create Neural Network for Modeling Human Concept Formation


“Unchecked corporate power” to blame for Repentigny derailment


San Jose Mercury News:

A Bay Area News Group analysis of campaign finance data found that 34 Silicon Valley executives and investors, along with 14 of their spouses, poured $194 million into state elections over the past 1 1/2 years.… Continue reading

The post “Silicon Valley Donors Pour $194 Million into California Politics. Now Comes the Wealth Tax Fight” appeared first on Election Law Blog.


Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305860/google-search-testing-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human

> > Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches.
>
> > Google will stop showing you search results, as you click through the pages, and say "Sign in to verify you're a human and see more results."
>
> Source: [Search Engine Roundtable](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-sign-in-verify-41808.html)


At least three killed in explosion near cafe in Russia's Moscow


Initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban qualifies for November’s general election ballot

There may be hope for Idaho yet.

Though the state Republican party, which has thoroughly controlled the state government since the mid 1990's, has already resolved to repeal the initiative if it passes in November.


![fry](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F747d61f3-9718-4fd9-a2d3-64b9378a2e83.png "emoji fry")


another bit of prompt catch-up.
this one got away from me a bit and i need to learn draping oooops. still had fun tho :)


it was produced in the US as a part of food subsidy programs, also for disaster relief etc.


Ang Bayan Ngayon | August 2, 2026 The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)...

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Someone created a mod for Fallout: New Vegas that adds Union Folk Songs to the in-game radio

Video of the songs being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFZ_9fZC5A


'So It Begins': Trump's Medicaid Work Requirements—as Designed—Wreak Havoc and Pain

![](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fmedia-library%2F60-hour-medicaid-vigil-ends-with-promise-we-won-t-get-over-this-betrayal-we-re-getting-organized.jpg%3Fid%3D67568519%26width%3D1200%26height%3D400%26coordinates%3D0%252C29%252C0%252C1638)

A growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers, policy experts, and advocacy organizations is calling on the Trump administration to immediately rescind a rule imposing more strict work reporting requirements on Medicaid recipients, a demand that came as Nebraska began kicking people off the healthcare program for not complying with the new mandates.

Under the expanded requirements, which were established by a 2025 Republican budget package that President Donald Trump signed into law, certain Medicaid recipients must document at least 80 hours per month of work or another qualifying activity to continue receiving assistance. In a statement late last week, Families USA executive director Anthony Wright [warned](https://familiesusa.org/press-releases/unwise-unworkable-and-unlawful-families-usa-urges-trump-administration-to-withdraw-medicaid-work-requirements-rule-as-comment-period-ends/) that "these new paperwork requirements will push patients off coverage—not because they aren’t working or not eligible, but because of bureaucratic burdens."

Wright noted that under [new rules](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dismantling-medicaid) stemming from the 2025 GOP budget law, even people with [terminal cancer and other serious illnesses](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-2677293170) aren't necessarily exempt from the work reporting requirements, which apply to people between the ages of 19 and 64 who don't have a disability and aren't pregnant, in [states that expanded Medicaid](https://kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-final-rules-exemptions-trump-cms/) under the Affordable Care Act.

"The requirement that a patient doesn’t just nee


China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap with US on Space Launch Capabilities


Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away


While he got the core idea right, he shouldn’t have compared apples to Apple’s.


[xkcd \#3280: Maze](https://xkcd.com/3280/)

Title text:

> As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

Transcript:

_Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com_

Source: https://xkcd.com/3280/

[explainxkcd for \#3280](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3280)


Cows are such lovely and creatures, and also if you approach them with ease and dont scare them - very friendly as well.

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Had to draw this for the PlayStation news - shaveyoureyebrows

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/shaveyoureyebrows/823940487039926272/had-to-draw-this-for-the-playstation-news


My job today: Battery and screen updates!

This makes me so happy. It's so fun to take these apart and clean them up!


Shell cashes in on subsidies by selling green projects

Shell is selling wind and solar farms built with government support to TotalEnergies and KKR, turning its back on green energy.


Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers,  Etc.

Battlezone, supertanks in outer space (1980)

Early 3D arcade game using vector graphics.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)),

> With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered to be the first true 3D arcade game that has a first-person perspective, the "first big 3D success" in the video game industry, and the first successful first-person shooter video game in particular.

It got ported to every other thing, and most of the screenshots I found are from the ports to raster computers. I _think_ this is a photo of the vector one,

![Battlezone](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/65/3c/44653c3708debb45b3b83b097bc8a5e7.jpg)

Guessing here but I think the colors came from simple colored filters over the monitor. So the red score area just had a red film over it etc, and the arcade HW couldn't do color.

Cabinet,

![Battlezone cabinet](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/07/7e/ec/077eeca3d2b5c6a4ddf0b23b7f5f92b3.jpg)


Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers


**All hail redundancy**


Social media algorithms shape the beliefs people form /// Even small changes to content curation algorithms can shape what people come to believe—for better or worse.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305963/social-media-algorithms-shape-the-beliefs-people-form-even-small-changes-to-content-cura

> [Research Paper](https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790602).
>
> - **Algorithms shape the beliefs people form**: Simple changes to content curation algorithms can affect beliefs, consensus, and belief accuracy.
> - **Personalized engagement-based ranking can be problematic**: Although users perceive these feeds positively, they tend to lead to less consensus and less accurate beliefs.
> - **Consensus is possible**: Bridging-based ranking can help promote consensus by surfacing content that receives approval across different groups.
> - **Belief accuracy can be improved**: Intelligence-based ranking can promote more accurate collective and individual judgments.
> - **Small algorithmic changes can have large effects**: Simple changes to how posts are sampled and ranked can substantially influence the beliefs people form.


Local newspaper presents paid political advertising in the same format as a regular news article

I get it, local papers are struggling to survive and ad revenue is down. And there is a note on the page to identify that it is "sponsored content." But at first glance it's visually indistinguishable from any other story or op-ed the paper publishes. This is misleading to casual readers.

For context, there is an ongoing multi-decade legal fight to get the government to remove four large dams on the Snake River in the northwest US. The paid content here is written by a consortium representing organizations which have financial incentives to keep the dams in place.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal)


[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.

Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.

![](https://media.piefed.social/posts/NR/wU/NRwUHR9Y38lBGFx.jpg)

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German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/50414115

> >A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
> >
> >The Zweibrucken Higher Regional Court overturned a €2,400 ($2,700) fine last week after it was imposed by a lower court over two Instagram posts published during the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
> >
> >One post contained a table comparing Israel’s conduct with the methods of the Nazi regime. It appeared beneath a divided image of the Israeli and Nazi flags, with part of a swastika visible.
> >
> >Another depicted Israeli soldiers firing into an enclosed area as blood flowed beneath its walls. A swastika appeared inside a Star of David. The woman accompanied the posts with the hashtags #FREEPALESTINE and #GAZAUNDERATTACK.
> >
> >The court ruled that the images expressed condemnation of Israel’s actions rather than support for Nazi ideology. It said freedom of expression protected the use of banned symbols when the context clearly conveyed criticism, parody or rejection of Nazism.


Shouldn't we urgently define metrics that will allow future people to track the impact of LLMs on human cognitive abilities over time?


I found this meme and thought it was very true


Stomach stone hypothesis sheds light on the evolution of dinosaur digestive systems

An international research team led by Assistant Professor Ryuji Takasaki of the Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science at Okayama University of Science has published a paper proposing a new hypothesis on the evolutionary history of dinosaur digestive systems by focusing on gastroliths—stones found within dinosaur abdominal cavities. By examining the degree of wear on these gastroliths, the team sheds light on dinosaur digestion strategies. The findings are published in the journal Paleobiology.

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There are some exceptions at times (like pickles), but for the most part, I hate the texture of crunchy vegetables. Particularly onions, broccoli, and cauliflower, but pretty much any veggie, is worse uncooked or undercooked imo. I hate most raw vegetables by themselves or in salads, but undercooked ones may be even worse because I was promised and expecting something cooked. Crunchy peppers or onions ruin a pizza as one example. Under-done carrots and potatoes in a curry, which I had yesterday, is another perfect example.

This may not be a universally unpopular opinion but I definitely feel like I've had a lot of people seem surprised by me not liking raw veggies.


Dozens protest Meta data centre planned for county north of Edmonton


Op-ed: The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone.


There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader


Steam Deal: Save 90 % on RoboCop: Rogue City (3,99€)


TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Remember when stroganoff memes were a thing on Lemmy?

DS9 s5e23 "Blaze of Glory"


How do you go no contact with someone in the U.S. if they have your full name, DOB, and SSN?

I (23M) grew up in an extremely abusive household. My older brother learned to imitate the violence and lack of remorse my father modeled, while I hid in my room for most of my childhood and slowly deprogrammed until I learned to trust safe people and assert my needs and boundaries. Now that I know what safe people are like, I also know what they absolutely fucking aren't.

I think most people would consider my brother a psychopath. He beat his girlfriend's cat to death, brandished a knife at my father in a screaming fit of rage for insulting him, strangled a bird and displayed its corpse hanging in a tree, fantasizes about mass murdering "liberals," said without hesitation that he would kill me in a "civil war," spoke extensively about his desire to break women down and control them, drives recklessly and amasses unpaid speeding tickets, and, most importantly to this discussion, insists that he will have to "take care of me" and "force me to live with him" after my father dies, because I will supposedly be too incompetent to take care of myself. He also has an extremely fragile ego, and any perceived slight or defiance can trigger a violent rage that he admits causes him to lose control of himself (hence the cat's fate for "misbehaving").

Suffice it to say, I don't want to be kidnapped. None of the money or outside communication I have will do much good if he takes away my access to them. What can I realistically do if he makes me live in the middle of nowhere with no phone, no money, and no transportation? It may be a fate worse than death.

I've been in therapy for half a year and reached the point where I am no longer stuck in a perpetual freeze response and can assert my needs and boundaries. This caused subconscious shifts in my behavior that my narcissistic parents have reacted with hostility towards, calling me "crazy" or "aggressive" for asking to be treated with respect and standing my ground. My mother finally snapped and said she wouldn't do anything fo


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Fashion brand backs off of “Harry Potter” collab after strong online backlash


Sony Pictures chairman confirms the "Sony's Spider-Man Universe" films (Morbius, Kraven, etc.) are no longer in development

> **The “Venom” trilogy was huge, but other spinoffs like “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web” were misfires. Why didn’t those work?**
>
> Ultimately, the audience wasn’t satisfied enough with them. Whether that’s a fair assessment of those movies, who knows. That’s howling into the wind. The audience is the boss, and they didn’t respond. It’s as simple as that.
>
> **Are there plans to keep developing Sony’s universe of Marvel characters?**
>
> Right now, we don’t know. We never looked at it as the “Sony-Marvel Universe.” We looked at if there were worthwhile movies to make with other characters. At the moment, there are none in active development.


Elderly man beaten for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain bleed

>A 75-year-old man has been hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage after he was assaulted last week for taking down a banner that called for the release of Yigal Amir, the far-right activist who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the hospitalized man’s family and lawyers said.
>
>Amir, an extremist Jew who opposed the 1993 Oslo Accords under which Israel was transferring West Bank territory to Palestinian control, assassinated Rabin.
>
>Amir claimed religious legitimacy for the murder. He has said he was prompted by the 1992 election results that brought the Labor leader to power, and that he was encouraged to do so by the massacre of 29 Palestinians by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein in Hebron in 1994.
>
>The mass peace rally at which Rabin was shot was called to highlight opposition to violence and to showcase public support for Rabin’s efforts to negotiate with the Palestinians


Paying the Warlords: The Cynical Economics of EU Border Control in Libya

>As the European Union seeks to further fortify its external borders, its Home Affairs Council met in Luxembourg on June 8 to finalize a common policy on establishing controversial “return hubs” in third countries under an overhauled Return Regulation framework.
>
>Outraged local residents blockaded the entrances to the UNHCR headquarters and IOM offices with mounds of sand, protesting what they view as a deliberate attempt to turn their country into a permanent containment zone for Europe’s rejected migrants.
>
>The timing is far from coincidental: to make these return centers operational, European policymakers rely heavily on a fractured North Africa to absorb the human pressure.
>
>To understand the rage that brought trucks of sand to the gates of UN agencies in Al-Sarraj and Janzour, west of Tripoli, one must look at how ordinary Libyans perceive the mechanics of European policy on the ground.
>
>For over a decade, successive deals between Brussels, individual EU member states, and various Libyan factions have effectively turned the country into a northern buffer zone. Through millions of euros in funding for the Libyan Coast Guard and interdiction programs, the EU has successfully forced tens of thousands of intercepted migrants back onto Libyan shores, where they remain trapped in a legal and operational limbo


How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking


Marketed as a computer/printer combo. But the bad part of it all was that the Adam's power supply generated electromagnetic pulses that could erase its own data tapes. Yeah, that was the Adam experience. So I can see how maybe that would turn off buyers.

Despite causing more data loss than user productivity, it demonstrated Coleco's ambitious leap from toys to technology.

I bet that is a great keyboard though. Nice satisfying solid clicks.


The People Still Keeping the PSP Alive: PSPunk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50224643

> So recently, I spent a fair time chatting with the creator of PSPunk, a website I'm sure many here might have visited. But that chatting (which ended up being an interview) pivoted instead to something a bit different from what I usually end up doing with articles.
>
> Rather than just talking about the website itself, we ended up discussing the people who keep older gaming communities alive. We covered how PSPunk started as a simple custom firmware guide, why preserving guides and community knowledge is just as important as preserving games themselves, the modern PSP homebrew scene, and why the handheld still has such an active community more than 20 years after launch. You might recognize me from a few PSP articles I've done these last months, I just...think they're neat:
>
> It was also interesting hearing from someone who doesn't consider themselves a developer or a major figure in the scene, just "a helpful user who creates guides." I think that humility says a lot about projects like this, because every community needs people documenting, organizing and preserving information just as much as it needs people writing the software.


Privacy is political. Instead of shying away from that reality, it's time to embrace it.


Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily


Great alternative to other non-native vines like wisteria or honeysuckle. Hoping to get some passionfruits as well this fall!

Edit: as a commenter pointed out that is in fact a carpenter bee not a bumblebee.


AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T


Is Kentucky About to Give Billions in Tax Breaks to Data Centers?


San Diego survived the strike against VoiceStream GSM

District 13 is alive and well, and so am I! We survived an attack by the Capitol, and we remain fully operational.

More seriously: this morning, 2026 August 3, the gang of criminals who exercise corporate control over T-Mobile USA and along with it, over the great legacy GSM network that was once called VoiceStream, executed a devastating strike against this network. Over the course of several hours this morning, beginning around 6 AM EDT and ending just before 7 AM PDT, those miscreants shut down GSM/2G services over most of the country. Confirmed losses along the Pacific coast of USA (the only part of the country that I am familiar with) include Washington state and much closer to me, Southern Los Angeles - as well many other losses in other parts of the country that I know nothing about.

However, in my home county of San Diego, California, VoiceStream (or T-Mobile if you like) GSM/2G service is still up as I make this post! This morning I was watching YouTube livestreams by some members of Discord+Reddit vintage mobile phone community, and I saw it in real time as the gentleman in WA state and the other gentleman in South LA lost their service. As they ended their livestreams upon loss of all GSM signals in their respective areas, I kept watching the signal at my home in the town of Ramona, and saw that it was still up just fine. I then got dressed, got into my car and hit the road: I set out to visit every spot in my home county where in the recent months I've been getting good TMO 2G signal, and check as many of those spots as I can.

I am pleased to report that I have now driven over almost all of my usual roaming range, and in every spot where I have had good signal over the past several months, it is still there! I am making this post from the Panera Bread location in Mira Mesa, next to the Regal Edwards cinema, and I get super-strong signal here. I get similarly good signals in select spots in Oceanside, Escondido and best of all, my home town of Ramona!


Initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban qualifies for November’s general election ballot

There may be hope for Idaho yet.

Though the state Republican party, which has thoroughly controlled the state government since the mid 1990's, has already resolved to repeal the initiative if it passes in November.


Drone Crashes Near Putin’s Secretive Black Sea Palace, Killing Four on Beach

*knock* *knock*

> Supernova telegram channel [claimed](https://t.me/supernova_plus/57320) the intended target was a private recreation facility associated with NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a Russian defense enterprise based in Reutov outside Moscow.

> According to the channel, the drone came down approximately 300 meters (984 feet) short of the facility, where it claimed missile designers were staying. It also alleged that a Russian mobile fire group had been deployed on the nearby beach.


“Unchecked corporate power” to blame for Repentigny derailment


What are some questions I can ask someone to find out if they're in a domestic abuse situation?

Specifically, this is my ex, and my kid’s mom. She’s in a relationship that is now six months old and I’m starting to see red flags. She’s become a lot less visible and available than before, and her communication has gone down to almost nothing. From what little I’ve seen of them together, I’ve detected possible signs of codependency and over-attachment. Any time she contacts me or wants to see me, it’s clear that she’s doing it behind her partner's back, and there’s absolutely nothing going on between us to threaten a relationship.

I’m a domestic abuse survivor myself, and one of the things I know is that it’s not easy to be aware or or understand what you’re in when you’re actually in it. So obviously it’s not like I’d just say, hey, are you being abused? So hopefully someone with experience with this knows the right things to say or ask to find out what’s really going on. And my kid’s there with them too. I’m actually taking him on vacation next week (he’s five) and wouldn’t mind finding gentle ways to find out what he sees.

I’m going to get a chance to hang out with her in a couple of days and I’d like to be ready by then. I hope I’m wrong and she’s just being an asshole. Because that I can handle. Thanks all.


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At least three killed in explosion near cafe in Russia's Moscow


World Meteorological Organization says prepare for a strong El Niño

El Niño continues to intensify steadily and is expected to dominate global climate patterns in the August to October 2026 season, increasing the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across much of the world and driving significant shifts in rainfall patterns, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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China holds military drills near disputed shoal in the South China Sea


DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status


Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305860/google-search-testing-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human

> > Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches.
>
> > Google will stop showing you search results, as you click through the pages, and say "Sign in to verify you're a human and see more results."
>
> Source: [Search Engine Roundtable](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-sign-in-verify-41808.html)


The Franklin eBookMan was made from 1999 until 2002, has standard PDA functions and can play and record sounds. It has a black on green touchscreen, contains 8 or 16 MB of RAM, and uses its own proprietary operating system. Its handwriting recognition system accepts nearly natural handwriting.

Although research and development on the eBookMan ceased in 2002, new eBookMans continued to be available from Ectaco. As of April 30, 2011, all support and downloads for eBookMan were discontinued.

There is an active user base. Some users have written programs for the eBookMan. Many games were developed and a free version of the Mobipocket reader was developed for the eBookMan to take the place of the underpowered Franklin reader which came with the device.

**From a 2001 review:**

*Bottom line:* Though lacking in features, the EBM-911 is great as a basic handheld with e-book- and audiobook-reading abilities.

**Entertaining and PDA-like**
At first glance, it’s easy to mistake the eBookman for a Palm OS PDA that sports an ample backlit 200-by-240-pixel LCD screen. While its proprietary OS is not very sophisticated, the eBookman lets you synchronize with Outlook via Intellisync synchronization software.

And while the eBookman has all the contact management synchronization functions you’d expect from your Palm PDA, all of this takes a backseat to the eBookman’s true calling: entertainment.

The large, accommodating screen makes the eBookman an ideal book reader, and if you’re afraid of squinting, it’s also simple to change font sizes.

Our test unit, the $199 EBM-911 with 16MB of internal RAM, provided enough elbowroom for novels, news, and the like. And if you don’t need that much space, the $129 EBM-900 offers 8MB of storage.

Franklin promises that more titles and a Microsoft Reader converter will be available sometime later this year. One notable absence from the eBookman is the lack of any AvantGo- or Vindigo-like applications. These handy apps load fresh material fro


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it was produced in the US as a part of food subsidy programs, also for disaster relief etc.


another bit of prompt catch-up.
this one got away from me a bit and i need to learn draping oooops. still had fun tho :)


Evidence of Israel And US Engineering The Ceuta Crisis | Own Jones


i dont want be this kind of animal anymore


Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.

> A hedge fund worth $45 billion at its height sold nearly its entire stock portfolio to Citadel Securities last week. As recently as a month ago, the fund was up 439 percent on the year, according to an investor letter from its founder, 24-year-old former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner. But its portfolio, aggressively invested in companies tied to the artificial intelligence industry, dropped 67 percent in July.
>
> Hilariously, the fund was called Situational Awareness.
>
> Last week, the tech-heavy Nasdaq saw its second correction of the year, named for a drop of at least 10 percent from its peak. SpaceX has lost the equivalent of the entire value of Tesla since its post-IPO high in June, and it’s still dropping. For whatever reason—the rise of cheaper and more flexible Chinese AI models, the recognition that U.S. AI companies simply aren’t generating enough revenue to justify skyrocketing capital expenditures, the general economic drag from Trump’s tariffs and wars, or the increasingly operatic financial maneuvers to keep the wheels moving—the shine is way off the AI rose for investors.
>
> The problem is that the industry is bound so tightly with the stock market that a change in feeling from AI investors could be all it takes to generate a market-wide crash, as we’re seeing to some degree. In other words, if AI is propping up the economy, who is propping up AI?
>
> The answer, extrapolating from a fascinating new paper about private credit and the life insurance industry, could be the U.S. taxpayer.
>
> Private credit is private equity’s $3 trillion financing arm. They make largely unregulated, relatively high-risk, relatively complex and opaque loans, mostly to their own portfolio companies. Private credit is entangled, maybe more than the rest of Wall Street, in AI mania. For example, in the mid-2010s private equity bought up hundreds of software-as-a-service providers, and its private credit affiliates made thousands of loans to them, only to se


Someone created a mod for Fallout: New Vegas that adds Union Folk Songs to the in-game radio

Video of the songs being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFZ_9fZC5A


China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap with US on Space Launch Capabilities


Romania blasts rocks to reroute cooling Danube water to nuclear reactor


She Defied Neo-Nazi Violence; Now Her U.S. Passport Has Been Revoked

The Needle has concluded that the State Department is likely asserting the power to deem U.S. citizens who they determine to be ideologically "far-left", and who seem to be especially active in transgender advocacy, as "national security" risks, and consequently revoking their passports.


‘Movies Aren’t Dead After All’: Sony Pictures Boss Tom Rothman on Historic ‘Spider-Man’ Box Office and Losing Tarantino’s Cliff Booth Sequel to Netflix


Black Flag Resynced Update 1.0.6 Lets You Hide the Blowpipe - FullCleared


The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real


At creative reuse centers, old art supplies get a new life at a fraction of the cost


Mehr Infos zum Heft: https://www.kultboy.com/magazin/13345/


Unser Tierheim hat am Samstag Sommerfest

Herzliche Einladung🤗

Es gibt auch Steaks & Bratwürstchen 😻 und eine Packung Grillkäse

Jedes Tier verdient ein Zuhause!


DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz

Italien soll mehr Gratisstrände bekommen


Lesbian Mud Wrestling Breaks Out at Lollapalooza 2026


Elderly man beaten for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain bleed

A 75-year-old man has been hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage after he was assaulted last week for taking down a banner that called for the release of Yigal Amir, the far-right activist who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the hospitalized man’s family and lawyers said.

Amir, an extremist Jew who opposed the 1993 Oslo Accords under which Israel was transferring West Bank territory to Palestinian control, assassinated Rabin.

Amir claimed religious legitimacy for the murder. He has said he was prompted by the 1992 election results that brought the Labor leader to power, and that he was encouraged to do so by the massacre of 29 Palestinians by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein in Hebron in 1994.

The mass peace rally at which Rabin was shot was called to highlight opposition to violence and to showcase public support for Rabin’s efforts to negotiate with the Palestinians.


A photographer caught the exact moment a falcon looked like it was scheming something.

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Korean stock market crash threatening to upset tech boom


Op-ed: The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone.


CONCACAF president, Indigenous language researcher among 12 appointed to Order of B.C.

> "Each Order of British Columbia recipient has made an outstanding contribution to our province and to the world beyond," Premier David Eby said in a news release Monday morning. "Their hard work and their innovation exemplify the extraordinary leadership found in our province. They inspire us, and we congratulate them on this special honour."


YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use


Today's green(purple) bean harvest. {And a question on preserving}

First year growing beans, and they've been doing really good. I've blanched them for about 2 minutes, followed by an ice bath. Dried  and then put in bags to freeze. First batch I don't think I fully dried before freezing and had a lot of ice crystals in the bag. Second batch was much more dry after blanching, but still had a bunch of ice crystals. Wondering if thats normal, or will reduce how long they stay good?


Remember when the US DHS account on X showed it was registered in Israel? That was weird.


Zelenskyy calls on diplomats to counter Russian influence ahead of elections in partner countries


The Great Bubble Barrier: bubble curtains are intercepting 86 percent of river plastic


SJW 2025 Annual Update: Finances, Growth, and What Comes Next

To the members of SJW, our friends across the Fediverse, and the curious passersby, this update is for you.

Now that we are well into 2026, I wanted to look back at how 2025 unfolded and share some insight into SJW’s finances, infrastructure, traffic trends, and priorities for the year ahead.

# 2025 Finances

One of the biggest changes in 2025 was the introduction of member-supported funding.

In January of 2025, I opened donations to help cover the cost of operating SJW. The goal was to begin moving away from a model funded entirely by me and toward a community-supported model that can remain financially sustainable over the long term.

Throughout 2025, we received $3,239.41 in net donations and spent $1,396.14 on operational expenses.

During the year, we also experienced a few hardware failures, most notably a failed power supply and hard drive. Thanks to the redundancy built into our servers, neither failure resulted in a service disruption.

I was able to repurpose a compatible power supply from a decommissioned server at no cost. I also personally covered the replacement hard drive before prices went through the roof. While donation funds could have covered these expenses, I wanted to preserve as much of the balance as possible for a larger hardware upgrade.

_All amounts below are in Canadian dollars._

|Category|Amount|Additional information|
|---|---|---|
|Net donations received|$3,239.41|January through December 2025|
|S3-compatible storage|$69.62|Paid through July 2026|
|Email service|$70.60|Paid through July 2026|
|Colocation|$1,200.00|2025 infrastructure hosting|
|Domain name|$55.92|Domain registration|
|**Total expenses**|**$1,396.14**||
|**Remaining balance**|**$1,843.27**|Reserved for operations and future infrastructure|

This year, I hope we can raise enough to help purchase newer hardware. Unfortunately, as many of you are probably aware, the rapid growth of AI infrastructure has significantly increased the price and demand for many server compo


Note: this is fake, but still funny.


They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.


Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.


cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/70567049


“there’s not much misogyny on Lemmy” - kinda comments I got on a post expressing concern about Ariana Grande’s health


Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/48595579
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62340497

> 🤔 Interesting
>
> cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/1784290/interesting


Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm


what internship are you doing?


LGBTQ+ people are finding their spiritual home with the Satanic Temple


Merry Mitchmas Eve to all those that celebrate

I suspect we'll be hearing about how Mitch "suddenly passed" some time in the next 24 hours.


SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year


Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification


Had to draw this for the PlayStation news - shaveyoureyebrows

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/shaveyoureyebrows/823940487039926272/had-to-draw-this-for-the-playstation-news


watching one of my favorite singers wither away right before our eyes is heartbreaking


What's a fun piece of free software I should learn to use this week?

I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.

I've already learned:

* Equations and pivot tables in Excel

* Vector graphics in Inkscape

* Music mixing in rekordbox

* Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN

* LAMP stack web hosting

* Streaming & video capture with OBS

* Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync

Things I'm open to:

* FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software

* A high or low learning curve

* Tools for niche fields that I'd otherwise have no reason to learn


they say the greeks invented the art of ...


Sheryl Crow and Russel Crowe walk into a bar


Walmart self-checkout mistake destroys Olympic athlete's career


Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming


Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year

> A particularly surprising discovery is that CXMT is constructing its cleanrooms—where the actual silicon is produced—in just around 12 months, whereas the rest of the DRAM manufacturing industry typically takes 21-24 months, nearly a full year longer.

> Finally, the report notes that the Chinese government is encouraging CXMT to transfer its DRAM technology IP to other Chinese DRAM manufacturers such as JHICC, Swaysure, and YTMC's subsidiary XMC. This initiative aims to alleviate memory shortages domestically before CAMT-designed DRAM enters other markets, such as the EU and possibly even the U.S.


Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America


Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office


Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands


Lesbian Mud Wrestling Breaks Out at Lollapalooza 2026


GOP South Carolina voters blame Biden for grocery prices, Emerson poll finds

A nation of idiots.


No Google, Adding Biometrics is the Opposite of Security and Privacy


German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

>A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
>
>The Zweibrucken Higher Regional Court overturned a €2,400 ($2,700) fine last week after it was imposed by a lower court over two Instagram posts published during the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
>
>One post contained a table comparing Israel’s conduct with the methods of the Nazi regime. It appeared beneath a divided image of the Israeli and Nazi flags, with part of a swastika visible.
>
>Another depicted Israeli soldiers firing into an enclosed area as blood flowed beneath its walls. A swastika appeared inside a Star of David. The woman accompanied the posts with the hashtags #FREEPALESTINE and #GAZAUNDERATTACK.
>
>The court ruled that the images expressed condemnation of Israel’s actions rather than support for Nazi ideology. It said freedom of expression protected the use of banned symbols when the context clearly conveyed criticism, parody or rejection of Nazism.


Monday motivation...what are you going to get sorted this week?


Blanche formally rescinds Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization fund’ ahead of nomination hearing

***Todd Blanche issues formal order terminating measure widely derided as a ‘slush fund’, in move that could clear path for his nomination as attorney general***

Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order late on Sunday terminating Donald Trump’s $1.8bn “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.

While Blanche has repeatedly said publicly that the fund was dead, the justice department had resisted formally confirming that in writing. That had drawn concern from lawmakers that it could be revived in some form, especially after Trump expressed continued support for the idea.

A spokesperson for Texas Senator John Cornyn, one of the senators holding up Blanche’s nomination, confirmed the agreement. The other GOP senator, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, did not have immediate comment.


I think Vezetö on the door must translate to "boss". The translator is calling it "conductor", but the base word seems to mean "lead"

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As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips\@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme\@piefed.social posted last year: https\://piefed.social/post/1258520

**Also, check out some Jucika fan art!
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos


it was produced in the US as a part of food subsidy programs, also for disaster relief etc.


Comparing Israel to Nazi regime is not a criminal offense, German court rules


Today is Earthworm Jim’s birthday 🎉
He’s 32 now.


Red state food pantries buckling as thousands lose food stamps under new GOP-led rules


Xbox May Walk Away From Steam, As It Reportedly Prepares PC Strategy Shift Amid 2026 Reset


Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans

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Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.


We really lost something when handhelds stopped being pocketable. (a rant)

Switch (and to a greater extent Switch 2) is brilliant hardware, don't get me wrong. I like it. It's well built, great screen, suspend works great, docking is awesome, etc.

But I don't like that it killed (or at least marked the end of) the old handheld gaming paradigm. Some of this is undoubtedly nostalgia, but I think there's things that were objectively better about the old way.

Around the time of 3DS launching smartphone gaming was taking off, and for a moment it looked promising which really hindered sales of handheld consoles. There were tons of innovative, fun experiences available at low prices. This pushed companies away from handhelds. It's a lot tougher sell when people have smartphones now.

But then smartphone gaming turned into a barren hellscape of ads and fremium mtx ridden slop. I don't know about you, but despite owning high end smartphones I have literally no games on my phone. Not to say that no good smartphone games exist... But they have such a huge uphill battle - nobody buys mobile games because they assume they're trash, and they don't have the necessary advertising budget to fight the big names in mobile gaming. So the selection is small and hard to find.

Then there's the ports like Minecraft and Fortnite/etc, which are also loaded with mtx nowadays. But smartphones seem like the absolute last choice platform for these titles. Nothing I hate more than playing a game designed for a controller on a touchscreen.

So say I go to pick a friend up from the airport and I have 20 minutes to wait because their flight was a bit late. What to do? I could play a game on my Switch. Totally a feasible option. Except, I almost certainly didn't bring it. Why would I? It's a fairly large device. And with the big exposed screen and analog sticks I'd have to case it up too. I'm not grabbing that thing "just in case". So I grab my phone and doomscrool. Not because I want to, but because... What else am I gonna do?

But let's say I had a 3DS.... Pocketable (


It's been a while! Let us know what you're currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.

I haven't been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there's a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn't be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn't configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.

[Meta] I'm not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I'm not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn't be much of the discussion, but it's an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.


Kaine says US boat strikes likely killed people 'not involved in narcotrafficking': 'Murder victims' - ABC News


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50913906

> Financial Times drops the bars


Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news


Wildberries Bingo Card Update - 03.08.26


Sony Not Budging On Ending PlayStation Discs In The Face Of Fan Protests: ‘We’re Going To Cautiously Move This Forward’


Starting Sunday in EU, AI chatbots, receptionists, media must reveal they are not human


The World’s Loneliest House The Solitary Cabin of Elliðaey Island


What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of reverse engineering an always-online game


‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature


Russian Online Retail Prices Spike Amid Logistics Crisis After Wildberries Strikes


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Canadian economy set for best quarterly growth in more than three years

Canada's economy grew by a greater-than-expected 0.3% in May and looks set to turn in its best annualized quarterly performance for more than three years, official data indicated on Friday.

...

[The growth] indicates annualized second-quarter growth of 3.4%, significantly higher than the Bank of Canada's July 15 forecast of 2.5%, and the highest annualized quarterly increase since the 4.3% seen in the first three months of 2023.

The central bank left its benchmark overnight rate unchanged at 2.25% on July 15 and said growth would strengthen in the second half of the year as inflation pressures eased and firms continued to adapt to U.S. tariffs.

"The economy appears to have found ways to navigate the current cloud of uncertainty relating to trade with the United States," said Royce Mendes, managing director and head of macro strategy at Desjardins.

...


YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use


How do you go no contact with someone in the U.S. if they have your full name, DOB, and SSN?

I (23M) grew up in an extremely abusive household. My older brother learned to imitate the violence and lack of remorse my father modeled, while I hid in my room for most of my childhood and slowly deprogrammed until I learned to trust safe people and assert my needs and boundaries. Now that I know what safe people are like, I also know what they absolutely fucking aren't.

I think most people would consider my brother a psychopath. He beat his girlfriend's cat to death, brandished a knife at my father in a screaming fit of rage for insulting him, strangled a bird and displayed its corpse hanging in a tree, fantasizes about mass murdering "liberals," said without hesitation that he would kill me in a "civil war," spoke extensively about his desire to break women down and control them, drives recklessly and amasses unpaid speeding tickets, and, most importantly to this discussion, insists that he will have to "take care of me" and "force me to live with him" after my father dies, because I will supposedly be too incompetent to take care of myself. He also has an extremely fragile ego, and any perceived slight or defiance can trigger a violent rage that he admits causes him to lose control of himself (hence the cat's fate for "misbehaving").

Suffice it to say, I don't want to be kidnapped. None of the money or outside communication I have will do much good if he takes away my access to them. What can I realistically do if he makes me live in the middle of nowhere with no phone, no money, and no transportation? It may be a fate worse than death.

I've been in therapy for half a year and reached the point where I am no longer stuck in a perpetual freeze response and can assert my needs and boundaries. This caused subconscious shifts in my behavior that my narcissistic parents have reacted with hostility towards, calling me "crazy" or "aggressive" for asking to be treated with respect and standing my ground. My mother finally snapped and said she wouldn't do anything fo


NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte.


OP can’t figure out why Celeste crashes with no error log

[Discord thread](https://discord.com/channels/403698615446536203/1433332846197604372/1433332846197604372)


**All hail redundancy**


poetry (?) content with white drawing because of reasons.


‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show medical procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
Homeland security officials under the Trump administration have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, a Guardian investigation has found.
In 2025 and 2026, officials had definitely performed the procedures on at least three detained immigrants and like...


People be like "I can fix her!" but she perfect already...


Learning to mask as you grow up leads to other problems?

Found this article posted to another community, and thought to cross post it here.

The gist of the article is that girls suffer in silence because they don't match the profile of boys with ADHD, but i found myself relating to it very much, even though I'm not a girl, and my parents did know pretty early.

Key Paragraph:

> And like many other issues regarding mental health, hiding only makes it worse. The effort to perform as neurotypical is more common among girls and begins in early adolescence. A girl will study how other kids behave and copy it, suppressing the urge to move and turning a fear of mistakes into perfectionism that, from the outside, reads as being a strong student. The research on the cost is consistent: higher camouflaging tracks with greater anxiety, depression, and lower quality of life. By June, the reserves are gone, and the mask that is held through every class period tends to shatter the moment she feels safe, usually at home.

So i spent my childhood trying to fit in but also be myself. My parents were pretty sure i had ADD (inattentive) by first grade, because I was a boy, and i didn't really pay attention in normal ways and never really understood why i should do what everybody else was doing in school, or even notice that it was time to do that.

But as I grew up and especially in high school, i tried my best to work super hard and try to be smart and get good grades (one of my biggest innovations was to do my homework on the bus every day before i got home from school and got distracted) but also i got in the habit of guilt tripping myself to get work done, "stop being lazy, etc.,"

This worked until it didn't and i burn out pretty hard and got pneumonia as my body physically collapsed under the pressure of junior year. I'd say that set the tone for my life since then -- try to do a good job, lose energy and fail.

My life recently has been about trying to relearn how to be productive and still be true to myself while also dealing wit


In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"

So the Messiah in Star Wars is supposed "to bring balance to The Force," but I never understood what it meant.

Star Wars is extremely dualistic--there is a good side and an evil side, a light side and a dark side, the Jedi and the Sith. Every plotline is based around a manichean struggle where only one side can win by annihilating the other.

The "good side", the Jedi, are explicitly looking a savior to provide "balance" while at the same time imposing all sorts of restrictions on which force powers are allowed and which aren't. For an order whose messiah is based on Taoist equilibrium, they are positively Christian in their obsession with purity.

I think there is an implicit subtextual critique of the Jedi Order in the prequels that they incompetent, as you might expect from the leaders of a theocracy, but that's about as far as it goes.

I think the closest we get to ANY real discussion of balance is Luke's vision on Degobah, where he must see himself as potentially Darth Vader, which can be interpreted as an attempt towards wholeness OR as a warning to not stray into evil.

Can anyone square this circle?


[Opinion] 'Ethnic Unity Law': China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

cross-posted from:  https://mander.xyz/post/56159234

> *Op-ed by Reza Hasmath, Professor in Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada.*
>
> On July 1, China brought into force its Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, converting a decade of Xi Jinping’s doctrine of “forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation” into binding law.
>
> Most attention has gone to its domestic machinery: entrenching Mandarin over minority languages, unified state textbooks and “inter-embedded” neighbourhoods engineered to dilute concentrations of Uyghurs and Tibetans among the Han majority. In other words, this is an assimilationist project that’s already far advanced.
>
> The provision that matters most to the world outside China is buried near the end. Article 63 declares that organizations and individuals outside Chinese territory who “undermine ethnic unity” or “create ethnic division” shall be pursued for legal liability.
>
> The Chinese government is therefore asserting, in statute, that its authority follows its critics across oceans into other countries, including Canada, home to some of the world’s largest Chinese, Uyghur and Tibetan diaspora communities. The danger is not that the law reaches across borders. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets and how it’s enforced.
>
> ...
>
> The intimidation inherent in the new law already violates many domestic harassment and foreign interference laws in jurisdictions around the world. Prosecutors, here, should use them against the agents carrying out the coercion, not the exiles who are its victims.
>
> Governments should shut the unlicensed “police stations,” and press Interpol to reject politically motivated notices aimed at diaspora activists.
>
> Governments can also build dedicated channels for those targeted: a clear law enforcement contact, protective guidance for Chinese and minority diaspora communities and training for officers who could mistake transnational repression for an ordinary


How Zürich fixed the commuter train problem and rescued itself from car dependency


And I'd went to heaven when I was down there. (RIP Vincent Pastore)


One person's nightmare is another person's dream ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


Skynet likely never achieved self awareness or super-intelligence, so Terminator is actually just a cautionary tale of AI in an idiocracy.

What's more likely in the techno-fascist idiocracy of the 21st Century?

We somehow manage to turn statistical models into super-intelligence... or the incompetent, criminally-corrupt, sociopathic leadership at the top of capitalism train an AI to defend the rich from the working class — by training it to be the most efficient killing machine possible — integrate it into fully autonomous killing machines, and it (accurately) determines the most efficient way to kill 99% of humanity is to start a nuclear war?


Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away


Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers

He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.


He finally apologized yesterday.


Apologize, Fauci! - Trilogy, Part 3 - Finale


Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say

Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN.

The president is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

The other source, a senior administration official, said Trump was “blindsided” by Pirro’s court filing: “The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that.”


While he got the core idea right, he shouldn’t have compared apples to Apple’s.


[xkcd \#3280: Maze](https://xkcd.com/3280/)

Title text:

> As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

Transcript:

_Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com_

Source: https://xkcd.com/3280/

[explainxkcd for \#3280](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3280)


Cows are such lovely and creatures, and also if you approach them with ease and dont scare them - very friendly as well.

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Had to draw this for the PlayStation news - shaveyoureyebrows

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/shaveyoureyebrows/823940487039926272/had-to-draw-this-for-the-playstation-news


More than 1,000 Georgia Democrats convene to strategize for November election

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/11925645

> From WABE Politics News:
>
>
> More than 1,000 Georgia Democrats gathered in Savannah Saturday for a pep rally and strategy session, brandishing their determination to put a Democrat, Keisha Lance Bottoms, into the governor’s seat […]
>
>
>
> #Atlanta #WABE #AtlantaPolitics #AtlantaNews #theATLBot


My job today: Battery and screen updates!

This makes me so happy. It's so fun to take these apart and clean them up!


Shell cashes in on subsidies by selling green projects

Shell is selling wind and solar farms built with government support to TotalEnergies and KKR, turning its back on green energy.


Red state food pantries buckling as thousands lose food stamps under new GOP-led rules


Battlezone, supertanks in outer space (1980)

Early 3D arcade game using vector graphics.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)),

> With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered to be the first true 3D arcade game that has a first-person perspective, the "first big 3D success" in the video game industry, and the first successful first-person shooter video game in particular.

It got ported to every other thing, and most of the screenshots I found are from the ports to raster computers. I _think_ this is a photo of the vector one,

![Battlezone](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/65/3c/44653c3708debb45b3b83b097bc8a5e7.jpg)

Guessing here but I think the colors came from simple colored filters over the monitor. So the red score area just had a red film over it etc, and the arcade HW couldn't do color.

Cabinet,

![Battlezone cabinet](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/07/7e/ec/077eeca3d2b5c6a4ddf0b23b7f5f92b3.jpg)


Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers


**All hail redundancy**


Michigan finds hair salon owner violated the law by directing trans people to pet groomers


One of the first tweets by Germany's CDU’s new general secretary: “there is no genocide in Gaza”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73350952

> > Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.
>
> > Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern
>
> > Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben
>
> >> For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.
>
> >> We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.
>
> >> We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.


Local newspaper presents paid political advertising in the same format as a regular news article

I get it, local papers are struggling to survive and ad revenue is down. And there is a note on the page to identify that it is "sponsored content." But at first glance it's visually indistinguishable from any other story or op-ed the paper publishes. This is misleading to casual readers.

For context, there is an ongoing multi-decade legal fight to get the government to remove four large dams on the Snake River in the northwest US. The paid content here is written by a consortium representing organizations which have financial incentives to keep the dams in place.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River#Proposed_dam_removal)


[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.

Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.

![](https://media.piefed.social/posts/NR/wU/NRwUHR9Y38lBGFx.jpg)

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German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/50414115

> >A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
> >
> >The Zweibrucken Higher Regional Court overturned a €2,400 ($2,700) fine last week after it was imposed by a lower court over two Instagram posts published during the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
> >
> >One post contained a table comparing Israel’s conduct with the methods of the Nazi regime. It appeared beneath a divided image of the Israeli and Nazi flags, with part of a swastika visible.
> >
> >Another depicted Israeli soldiers firing into an enclosed area as blood flowed beneath its walls. A swastika appeared inside a Star of David. The woman accompanied the posts with the hashtags #FREEPALESTINE and #GAZAUNDERATTACK.
> >
> >The court ruled that the images expressed condemnation of Israel’s actions rather than support for Nazi ideology. It said freedom of expression protected the use of banned symbols when the context clearly conveyed criticism, parody or rejection of Nazism.


Shouldn't we urgently define metrics that will allow future people to track the impact of LLMs on human cognitive abilities over time?


House Dem Calls for Removal of Postmaster General for Turning USPS Into 'Instrument of Voter Suppression'

![](https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/chicago-illinois-united-states.jpg?id=67568700&width=1200&height=400&coordinates=0%2C651%2C0%2C980)

A Democratic congressman is calling for Postmaster General David Steiner to be removed from office for allowing the US Postal Service to turn into what he called "a partisan instrument of voter suppression" for President Donald Trump.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.), a senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent a [letter](https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-judge-blocks-trump-attack-on-mail-voting) to Steiner and members of the USPS board of governors on Monday criticizing the postmaster general for refusing to clarify if he intends to follow an [executive order](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mail-voting-order) signed by Trump in March ordering the Postal Service to halt the delivery of mail-in ballots in states that do not turn over lists of voters to be checked against a federal citizenship list.

A federal judge has [blocked](https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-judge-blocks-trump-attack-on-mail-voting) the administration from implementing the order's provisions that create federal citizenship lists and allow USPS to condition ballot delivery on states submitting voter information, ruling that Trump had usurped powers belonging to the states and Congress.

Last week, the administration and a group of 12 Republican states filed emergency applications asking the US [Supreme Court](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/supreme-court) to allow the order to take effect prior to November’s midterms.

Krishnamoorthi said that this filing contains "a troubling contradiction." It argues that Trump had merely issued “general policy guidance” to agencies rather than concrete directives, and that it's therefore premature for courts to rule on its constitutionality.

"USPS's apparent implementation efforts over the past four months tell a different story," Krishnamoorthi wrote.

He pointed out t


I found this meme and thought it was very true


Stomach stone hypothesis sheds light on the evolution of dinosaur digestive systems

An international research team led by Assistant Professor Ryuji Takasaki of the Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science at Okayama University of Science has published a paper proposing a new hypothesis on the evolutionary history of dinosaur digestive systems by focusing on gastroliths—stones found within dinosaur abdominal cavities. By examining the degree of wear on these gastroliths, the team sheds light on dinosaur digestion strategies. The findings are published in the journal Paleobiology.

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Greece Orders Evacuations As Major Wildfires Approach Athens

![The current climate emergency has activated emergency protocols nationwide. Photo: EFE.](https://ikona.telesurenglish.net/content/uploads/2026/08/dtlud.webp)

#### Greece’s firefighters battled uncontrolled wildfires threatening western suburban communities near Athens, forcing immediate emergency evacuation protocols due to extreme winds of over 100 kilometers per hour.

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Uncontrolled wildfires continue to ravage multiple regions across Greece, **threatening to penetrate the peripheral metropolitan areas of the capital city**.

Meteorological [authorities a](https://www.emy.gr/en)nd rescue services warned that **high-intensity wind gusts are feeding the flames**, severely complicating containment efforts in the Hellenic territory and on the island of Cephalonia.

***RELATED:*** [***France Places 36 Departments at High Wildfire Risk as Heat Wave Intensifies***](https://telesurenglish.net/france-places-36-departments-at-high-wildfire-risk-as-heat-wave-intensifies/)

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, confirmed that the nation faces extreme weather conditions characterized by **wind gusts exceeding 100 kilometers per hour**. This atmospheric situation has caused the rapid propagation of fire fronts in the regions of Attica, Boeotia, and Phocis, substantially increasing structural and material damage in the affected towns.

The Minister of Civil Protection, Evangelos Tournas, explained that severe air turbulence prevents firefighting aircraft from performing safe water loading and discharging maneuvers. Due to the relentless advance of the flames toward the western suburbs of the capital, local authorities ordered the **preventive emergency evacuation of Porto Germeno and surrounding residential areas to prevent human casualties**.

> Today’s images from the wildfire show three horses running for their lives to escape the flames in the Kandili area of Megara, Western Attica, Greece. [pic.twitter.com/7inRCAg14A](https://t.co/7inRCAg14A)
>
> — Weath


There are some exceptions at times (like pickles), but for the most part, I hate the texture of crunchy vegetables. Particularly onions, broccoli, and cauliflower, but pretty much any veggie, is worse uncooked or undercooked imo. I hate most raw vegetables by themselves or in salads, but undercooked ones may be even worse because I was promised and expecting something cooked. Crunchy peppers or onions ruin a pizza as one example. Under-done carrots and potatoes in a curry, which I had yesterday, is another perfect example.

This may not be a universally unpopular opinion but I definitely feel like I've had a lot of people seem surprised by me not liking raw veggies.


Dozens protest Meta data centre planned for county north of Edmonton


Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules

From WABE Politics News:

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar […]

#Atlanta #WABE #AtlantaPolitics #AtlantaNews #theATLBot


UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

 Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data  —  iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data


Op-ed: The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone.


It started as a joke about a hungry nurgling. But Tyranid rippers fit better.


There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader


Remember when stroganoff memes were a thing on Lemmy?

DS9 s5e23 "Blaze of Glory"


Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool.

We have actual adults in positions of immense power bickering over a clearly made-up story about pool vandals, a story that led to an innocent American having his life turned upside down.


Steam Deal: Save 90 % on RoboCop: Rogue City (3,99€)


Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/doc


Fashion brand backs off of “Harry Potter” collab after strong online backlash


Sony Pictures chairman confirms the "Sony's Spider-Man Universe" films (Morbius, Kraven, etc.) are no longer in development

> **The “Venom” trilogy was huge, but other spinoffs like “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web” were misfires. Why didn’t those work?**
>
> Ultimately, the audience wasn’t satisfied enough with them. Whether that’s a fair assessment of those movies, who knows. That’s howling into the wind. The audience is the boss, and they didn’t respond. It’s as simple as that.
>
> **Are there plans to keep developing Sony’s universe of Marvel characters?**
>
> Right now, we don’t know. We never looked at it as the “Sony-Marvel Universe.” We looked at if there were worthwhile movies to make with other characters. At the moment, there are none in active development.


Homicides in Mexico Fell 16.6% in 2025, the Biggest Drop in the Last 12 Years

*This article by Denisse Torres Hernández originally appeared in the [August 3, 2026 edition of SinEmbargo](https://www.sinembargo.mx/4848383/los-homicidios-bajaron-16-6-en-2025-inegi-es-la-mayor-caida-en-los-ultimos-12-anos/), a Mexican independent digital news outlet.*

Mexico City, August 3 (SinEmbargo).— **Mexico** closed 2025 with **27,989 deaths** from presumed **homicide**, a reduction of **16.6 percent** from the previous year, the largest decrease registered in the last 12 years; despite this, **firearms** continued to be the most-used method for committing this crime, according to the **National Institute of Statistics and Geography** (**INEGI**).

The **preliminary figures** published this Monday show that during **2025** there were **5,561 fewer presumed homicides** than in **2024**, when **33,550 deaths** were counted.

The decrease was also reflected in the national rate, which went from 25.8 to 21.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Registered Deaths Statistics (EDR) produced by the agency.

Although the preliminary figures point to a reduction in the number of victims, the use of firearms continued to predominate in this type of crime.

> Durante 2025, se registraron 27,989 defunciones por presunto homicidio en México. Los principales medios que se usaron para provocar la muerte fueron:
> ![▪](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/25aa.png)70.8% disparo con arma de fuego
> ![▪](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/25aa.png)9.4% armas u objetos punzocortantes
>
> Para el mismo periodo se obtuvo, de manera preliminar,… [pic.twitter.com/0fFV05jcLm](https://t.co/0fFV05jcLm)
>
> — INEGI INFORMA (@INEGI\_INFORMA) [August 3, 2026](https://x.com/INEGI_INFORMA/status/2084248415320564100)

INEGI also reported in its statement that 70.8 percent of the deaths from presumed homicide were caused by shootings, while sharp weapons or objects represented 9.4 percent of the total cases registered during the year.

The differen


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Elderly man beaten for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain bleed

>A 75-year-old man has been hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage after he was assaulted last week for taking down a banner that called for the release of Yigal Amir, the far-right activist who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the hospitalized man’s family and lawyers said.
>
>Amir, an extremist Jew who opposed the 1993 Oslo Accords under which Israel was transferring West Bank territory to Palestinian control, assassinated Rabin.
>
>Amir claimed religious legitimacy for the murder. He has said he was prompted by the 1992 election results that brought the Labor leader to power, and that he was encouraged to do so by the massacre of 29 Palestinians by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein in Hebron in 1994.
>
>The mass peace rally at which Rabin was shot was called to highlight opposition to violence and to showcase public support for Rabin’s efforts to negotiate with the Palestinians


Paying the Warlords: The Cynical Economics of EU Border Control in Libya

>As the European Union seeks to further fortify its external borders, its Home Affairs Council met in Luxembourg on June 8 to finalize a common policy on establishing controversial “return hubs” in third countries under an overhauled Return Regulation framework.
>
>Outraged local residents blockaded the entrances to the UNHCR headquarters and IOM offices with mounds of sand, protesting what they view as a deliberate attempt to turn their country into a permanent containment zone for Europe’s rejected migrants.
>
>The timing is far from coincidental: to make these return centers operational, European policymakers rely heavily on a fractured North Africa to absorb the human pressure.
>
>To understand the rage that brought trucks of sand to the gates of UN agencies in Al-Sarraj and Janzour, west of Tripoli, one must look at how ordinary Libyans perceive the mechanics of European policy on the ground.
>
>For over a decade, successive deals between Brussels, individual EU member states, and various Libyan factions have effectively turned the country into a northern buffer zone. Through millions of euros in funding for the Libyan Coast Guard and interdiction programs, the EU has successfully forced tens of thousands of intercepted migrants back onto Libyan shores, where they remain trapped in a legal and operational limbo


How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking


San Jose Mercury News:

A Bay Area News Group analysis of campaign finance data found that 34 Silicon Valley executives and investors, along with 14 of their spouses, poured $194 million into state elections over the past 1 1/2 years.… Continue reading

The post “Silicon Valley Donors Pour $194 Million into California Politics. Now Comes the Wealth Tax Fight” appeared first on Election Law Blog.


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Marketed as a computer/printer combo. But the bad part of it all was that the Adam's power supply generated electromagnetic pulses that could erase its own data tapes. Yeah, that was the Adam experience. So I can see how maybe that would turn off buyers.

Despite causing more data loss than user productivity, it demonstrated Coleco's ambitious leap from toys to technology.

I bet that is a great keyboard though. Nice satisfying solid clicks.


The People Still Keeping the PSP Alive: PSPunk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50224643

> So recently, I spent a fair time chatting with the creator of PSPunk, a website I'm sure many here might have visited. But that chatting (which ended up being an interview) pivoted instead to something a bit different from what I usually end up doing with articles.
>
> Rather than just talking about the website itself, we ended up discussing the people who keep older gaming communities alive. We covered how PSPunk started as a simple custom firmware guide, why preserving guides and community knowledge is just as important as preserving games themselves, the modern PSP homebrew scene, and why the handheld still has such an active community more than 20 years after launch. You might recognize me from a few PSP articles I've done these last months, I just...think they're neat:
>
> It was also interesting hearing from someone who doesn't consider themselves a developer or a major figure in the scene, just "a helpful user who creates guides." I think that humility says a lot about projects like this, because every community needs people documenting, organizing and preserving information just as much as it needs people writing the software.


She Defied Neo-Nazi Violence; Now Her U.S. Passport Has Been Revoked

Crossposted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/64515451
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The Needle has concluded that the State Department is likely asserting the power to deem U.S. citizens who they determine to be ideologically "far-left", and who seem to be especially active in transgender advocacy, as "national security" risks, and consequently revoking their passports.


Privacy is political. Instead of shying away from that reality, it's time to embrace it.


[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1veld4b/am_i_the_only_one/)

honestly, I was ready to be a hater. anthropic has been moving deviously for months and I was super disappointed with sonnet 5. i definitely found myself believing that fable is as SOTA as these models get but the catastrophic release also left a sour taste in my mouth.
however
- i’ve been using opus 5 as my daily driver alongside 5.6 sol ($200 max plans for claude && codex) and - i have to say - i cannot for the life of me figure out what people are complaining about. frankly, the romanticizations of previous opus versions just makes me think that people are connecting with models in the wrong way (which is a whole other can of worms and my armchair psychologist license was revoked). all of them had their quirks, all of them botched work plenty but opus 5 has been making light work of extremely complex monorepos, bogged down with stale context and tech debt, doing really impressive higher level orchestration work and has frankly done very little that would make me think this was a downgrade in any capacity (not to mention the increased usage limits have made opus limits feel damn near infinite [even on fast mode!])
now - i know its not a step function improvement. i know it’s not fable. but i dont know what the hell yall are seeing that would leave me feeling so confused reading all of these haterade posts.
the engagement on the posts feel too high to be astroturfing from openai but i wouldnt put it past the labs to orchestrate the appearance of a collective opinion. i didnt mean to put on my tinfoil hat for this post but it just strikes me as strange.
am i the only one ?
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AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T


Is Kentucky About to Give Billions in Tax Breaks to Data Centers?


I rebuilt MSN Messenger in the browser, real-time chat, nudges, sounds and winks actually work, built with Claude

[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vehzus/i_rebuilt_msn_messenger_in_the_browser_realtime/)

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Nobody outside Anthropic can tell you whether cache reads count against your Pro limit

[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vejlfo/nobody_outside_anthropic_can_tell_you_whether/)

Two threads went up here within a day of each other asking versions of the same question. One asked whether cache reads count against your usage limit. The other asked why the API bills per token when the same work on a subscription doesn't. Both got confident answers. Most of them were guesses.
So I read the docs, then went through my own session files.
TLDR: the API side is documented down to the multiplier, the subscription side isn't documented at all, and people keep answering questions about the second using facts from the first.
What's documented
Prompt caching has published multipliers against the base input price of whatever model you're on.
5 minute cache write: 1.25x
1 hour cache write: 2x
cache read: 0.1x
On the rate limits page, for most models, cache reads don't count toward your input-tokens-per-minute limit.
input_tokens counts toward ITPM cache_creation_input_tokens counts toward ITPM cache_read_input_tokens does NOT count (most models)
Haiku 3.5 is the documented exception and does count them, though it's retired now except on Bedrock and Google Cloud.
Same page, easy to miss:
input_tokens
only counts what comes
after
your last cache breakpoint. Your actual input is
cache_read_input_tokens + cache_creation_input_tokens + input_tokens
So if you've been reading
input_tokens
out of your own logs as your context size, you're off by a lot. Numbers below.
Rate limits aren't usage limits
Rate limits are an API thing. Per organization, per minute, assigned by usage tier, there to manage capacity.
Your Pro or Max limit is a different mechanism. Per account, rolling five hour window plus weekly caps, governs what you get for the fee.
"Cache hits aren't deducted against your rate limit" is a true sentence about the API not the Pro limit, which is what most of the replies got wrong.
What isn't documented
Everything I can find that Anthro


[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1venb17/fable_opus_5_are_great_together/)

Originally posted by u/laht1 on r/ClaudeCode


Franse topchef gearresteerd om huiselijk geweld

De Franse topchef Jean Imbert is gearresteerd op verdenking van huiselijk geweld. Dat meldt het Franse BFM TV. De chef wordt door drie ex-partners van huiselijk geweld beschuldigd.


Great alternative to other non-native vines like wisteria or honeysuckle. Hoping to get some passionfruits as well this fall!

Edit: as a commenter pointed out that is in fact a carpenter bee not a bumblebee.


[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1veoaw4/opus_5_is_blatantly_lying/)

Originally posted by u/sorinmx on r/ClaudeCode


Initiative to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban qualifies for November’s general election ballot

There may be hope for Idaho yet.

Though the state Republican party, which has thoroughly controlled the state government since the mid 1990's, has already resolved to repeal the initiative if it passes in November.


San Diego survived the strike against VoiceStream GSM

District 13 is alive and well, and so am I! We survived an attack by the Capitol, and we remain fully operational.

More seriously: this morning, 2026 August 3, the gang of criminals who exercise corporate control over T-Mobile USA and along with it, over the great legacy GSM network that was once called VoiceStream, executed a devastating strike against this network. Over the course of several hours this morning, beginning around 6 AM EDT and ending just before 7 AM PDT, those miscreants shut down GSM/2G services over most of the country. Confirmed losses along the Pacific coast of USA (the only part of the country that I am familiar with) include Washington state and much closer to me, Southern Los Angeles - as well many other losses in other parts of the country that I know nothing about.

However, in my home county of San Diego, California, VoiceStream (or T-Mobile if you like) GSM/2G service is still up as I make this post! This morning I was watching YouTube livestreams by some members of Discord+Reddit vintage mobile phone community, and I saw it in real time as the gentleman in WA state and the other gentleman in South LA lost their service. As they ended their livestreams upon loss of all GSM signals in their respective areas, I kept watching the signal at my home in the town of Ramona, and saw that it was still up just fine. I then got dressed, got into my car and hit the road: I set out to visit every spot in my home county where in the recent months I've been getting good TMO 2G signal, and check as many of those spots as I can.

I am pleased to report that I have now driven over almost all of my usual roaming range, and in every spot where I have had good signal over the past several months, it is still there! I am making this post from the Panera Bread location in Mira Mesa, next to the Regal Edwards cinema, and I get super-strong signal here. I get similarly good signals in select spots in Oceanside, Escondido and best of all, my home town of Ramona!


Stop the deportation machine and Trump’s attack on Haitians!

![](https://i.snap.as/sowJ5JjB.png)

The Trump administration has made the cruel choice to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. This puts nearly 350,000 people in the crosshairs of the mass deportation machine. Given ICE’s track record, we need to take them at their word and take this as a serious threat.

It’s a campaign of intimidation, and the administration is playing with people’s lives. The decision is pulling the rug out from under families who have been living in the US for years—they have children, livelihoods, and community ties—they’re not going anywhere, nor should they. In Ohio, families are already getting letters telling them to “deport yourself, or else” and being degraded and treated like criminals. The real criminals are in the White House. They want to use panic and harassment to drive people out of their homes.

The Trump administration also wants our movement to stay silent about it. We call on everyone who can see this is wrong to drag these attacks into the light. We need protests and we need to be in the streets. It’s time to stand up and say no to Trump’s deportation machine.

Stop the mass deportation of Haitians!

Legalization not deportation!

[#ImmigrantRights](https://fightbacknews.org/tag:ImmigrantRights) [#ICE](https://fightbacknews.org/tag:ICE) [#TPS](https://fightbacknews.org/tag:TPS) [#Haitians](https://fightbacknews.org/tag:Haitians) [#OH](https://fightbacknews.org/tag:OH)

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Drone Crashes Near Putin’s Secretive Black Sea Palace, Killing Four on Beach

*knock* *knock*

> Supernova telegram channel [claimed](https://t.me/supernova_plus/57320) the intended target was a private recreation facility associated with NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a Russian defense enterprise based in Reutov outside Moscow.

> According to the channel, the drone came down approximately 300 meters (984 feet) short of the facility, where it claimed missile designers were staying. It also alleged that a Russian mobile fire group had been deployed on the nearby beach.


“Unchecked corporate power” to blame for Repentigny derailment