Week 45
"@GeofCox@climatejustice.social
In the latest YouGov poll the Green Party is top on 25% in the 18-49 age group - Labour is second on 21%, then Reform on 19% and the Tories on just 11%."
"How THORIUM Reactors Could Solve Our Future Energy Demand"
That's a great line.. The rich do that bcz they are fighting for their class power, to further its absolute dominance over society, that leads them to aim for the other side's destruction.
Mamdani: "Billionaires are willing to spend more money than I would ever tax them trying to defeat our campaign"
#Billionaires #Monopoly
TAC: "America’s Magical Thinking on Ukraine and North Korea.. U.S. planners need to accept that Kiev is losing its war and Pyongyang won’t relinquish its nukes. "
TAC: "Trump Endorses Cuomo for NYC Mayor"
"@web_goddess@aus.social
.. Wow. Twenty-four years ago I was posting about this cool site I’d found called the Wayback Machine.. that had archived 10 billion web pages. A couple weeks ago in 2025, they hit a trillion pages... I need to send them a donation. They are doing amazing work, and their archive has become absolutely essential to the survival of the Open Web."
It makes sense for sharks to hang around fishermen boats.. Fishermen attract the fish with bait, hook it and pull it, shark can just wait and jump it at that stage and have a feast. One Oz fisherman reeled in a huge nannygai but by the time they pulled it on the boat, half of the fish was gone - eaten by shark.
"@wingsylver@hachyderm.io
I did a successful install of [free and open source] Linux Mint Cinnamon on a laptop at one of the repair cafes near me today.
I enjoyed talking to the customer about Linux, and it was interesting to hear that they had already heard and read about some of its many upsides. They saw this as an opportunity to learn more about their machine, and I hope they do just that.
Windows 10 support has ended now, but it's not too late to find a repair cafe or installation event near you."
"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
If you're wondering why I've spent years challenging the narrative that all ransomware and extortion originates from Russia...
It just doesn't. The UK and the US, in particular, have home grown problems.
Dismantle the ransomware economy. Orgs secretly paying ransoms should never have been normalised."
NYT: "In Israel, an Unfamiliar Word Is Heard: Peace.. A new kind of Mideast peace process is underway, as a determined Trump administration and its allies in the Muslim world seek to broaden a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas."
"@PabloMartini@climatejustice.social
The EU continues to move from US tech to open-source-based digital sovereignty approaches, with Austria's Ministry of Economy successfully shifting from Microsoft 365 to NextCloud.
Woohoooo!"
Ally Maynard: "I don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
Daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
College costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
Everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services."
Travel tubers ran into a tech-libertard cult while investigating the famous Malaysian ghost town Forest City. They are the followers of one of those Thiel affiliated "visionaries", the author of Network State.
The name sounded familiar, turns out I shared something on it back in 2021 from a Bloomberg article (below). The cult must have seen the empty city and thought "aha! this is our chance to colonize it, and create a fake country wout government"
"@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
Speaking to my dad this morning, a Microsoft Office user and Excel wizard for 25+ years.
'What the fuck is this copilot thing they’ve shoehorned into everything. it pops up everywhere and it’s absolutely fucking useless. how do i turn it off?'"
#AI
#ΛCDM #RiggedfromTheStart
Yahoo Finance: "Ray Dalio sounds alarm over looming ‘civil war’ in US — and our power to ‘hurt each other’ has never been greater.. This isn’t the first time Dalio has sounded the alarm about America’s internal fractures... he wrote: 'From studying 50-plus civil wars and revolutions, it became clear that the single most reliable leading indicator of civil war or revolution is bankrupt government finances combined with big wealth gaps'
And the U.S. is edging dangerously close to that description.
The national debt has climbed to $37.92 trillion, with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 125%, up from 100% a decade ago. Dalio has warned that when debt rises relative to income, it’s like 'plaque in the arteries' — eventually choking off spending.
Meanwhile, wealth inequality has ballooned. The wealthiest 1% of Americans now hold 31% of the nation’s net worth — up from 22.8% in 1989. By contrast, the bottom 50% watched their share shrink from 3.5% to just 2.5% over the same period, Federal Reserve data shows"
Statista: "In Three Years of War, Almost 7 Million Ukrainians Have Fled"
Maybe I should make it map to a new name.. "True Word"? "Thought Waves"? I'll leave it undefined, unknown - much like the fate of humanity.
Site URL change. now the name of the site is simply TW.
The Guardian: "US military to reduce number of troops in Romania as start of European drawdown"
I bet the rise of the gerontocracy coincides with the rise of the uniparty. Both sides agree on the main economic system, but they need a modicum of "battle of ideas" between two things, at least the illusion of it, so both parties amp up culture war and superfluous divisions, that increases polarization, then boom: Gerontocracy.
Vox: "[T]he median age in the US Senate is over 65 years old. In fact, American politicians have aged so much that the United States has been dubbed a gerontocracy — a system of government where power is concentrated among the elderly..
There are two main reasons why House elections are so uncompetitive: polarization and gerrymandering. As Americans became more polarized, they became more loyal to their political parties. That meant that fewer and fewer Americans split their tickets — voting for, say, a Democratic presidential candidate while also voting for a Republican candidate for the House or Senate — making congressional districts safer during a general election. And more importantly, partisan gerrymandering, where lawmakers draw up congressional districts to benefit one party, has made competitive elections all the more rare."
The Register: "International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb.. The ICC will switch from Microsoft's productivity wares to openDesk, an open source office and collaboration suite provided by the Center for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior."
Arnold doesn't seem to be fighting against Prop 50 all that much... Probably because he knows he will lose, he is being kinda stealth about it
ABC7: "New polls show Californians overwhelmingly support Prop 50 ahead of Election Day"
#EU
"@Tutanota@mastodon.social
🚨BREAKING: We've stopped #ChatControl.. !
Until a new Council Presidency tries again...
But for now, we can enjoy our success. Thanks everyone for fighting for #privacy along with us! ❤️ 👏'
#HeliumCooled #NuclearPower
John Scalzi: "I have personally found a good way to spot-check “AI” is to ask it questions about me and see what it gets wrong, and so, in a similar fashion, I popped over to Grokipedia to see what its article about me says, and how accurate it might be.
And how accurate is it? As accurate as anything made with an LLM, which is to say: meh, not especially, because fundamentally LLMs aren’t built for accuracy, they’re built for statistical probability, and these really are two separate things. Grok can find out things about me on the Internet, and put those things into Grokipedia, but it doesn’t appear to have the ability to discriminate between what is truth and what’s not. If it shows up enough on the Internet, Grok’s happy to print the not truth."
Charles K.. That is a good move.
Reuters: "King Charles strips brother Andrew of titles and his mansion"
TR purchase of Eurofighters is an indirect admission the indigeneous fighter aircraft Kaan is not ready for prime time.
"Why are most Chinese still poor" #LeiRealTalk
#China #Globalization #Firstpost
The Lever: "How A Pharma Giant Is Looting The Pentagon.. The drug intermediary overseeing the military’s TRICARE pharmacy program is limiting access to care and overcharging taxpayers hundreds of dollars on average per prescription."
Politico: "[T]he Biggest Federal Worker Union Broke With Democrats on the Shutdown"