After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag.
One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va., according to photographs and interviews with neighbors.
The upside-down flag was aloft on Jan. 17, 2021, the images showed. President Donald J. Trump’s supporters, including some brandishing the same symbol, had rioted at the Capitol a little over a week before. Mr. Biden’s inauguration was three days away. Alarmed neighbors snapped photographs, some of which were recently obtained by The New York Times. Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews.
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....
The package can be blocked by Congress if a majority in both chambers object.
Now we get to find out how many of our excitingly new progressives know who their representatives are. Or even if they have representatives. If they do, can they work out the seekrit next steps? Only time will tell.
I have been feeling neglectful of some of the more exotic owl species lately. All the GHO and Barred babies have been dominating my feeds recently, so I've been overflowing with that content....
Far-right anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is close to forming a four-way coalition, six months after coming in first in the Netherlands national elections....
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals....
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" for users — and he has examples of just what kind of "stuff" he means....
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
I’d go back and introduce enough backdoors to make them utterly incapable of staying in business. Steal all the documents. Then steal things. Then talk my way into being fired. Then start popping off the backdoors one at a time. Post all the documents for free. Something something shorting the stock.
I just noticed this when I saw a strange "Achievement Unlocked" notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.
I thought you guys may like to know a bit about this. Most stories about the current state of nature are quite depressing, but this one is quite the opposite!...
President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before letting the public know. In a conversation bristling with tension on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister against a major assault on the Gaza city of Rafah — and suggested that continued U.S. support would depend on how Israel...
His anger at Mr. Netanyahu boiled over during a private Dec. 23 call that ended when the president hung up on the prime minister. “I’m done,” Mr. Biden said, slamming down the phone.
What’s striking is how they’re trying to use standard diplomatic channels and Netanyahu keeps flipping them off.
Remember that time the GOP invited Bibi to speak to congress on the eve of the long-and-tough fight to get Iran to not go nuclear? And he showed up with a big bomb poster and ranted about how stupid Obama was? Of course, The Demented Rapist trashed it first thing (you’re welcome Bibi - trump’s your guy).
In response to American pressure, the Israelis put together an extensive proposal to move a million people out of Rafah to spare them the conflict. But it would require hundreds of thousands of tents and massive quantities of food and water. Whether it was possible to implement was less than certain.
With no agreement, the president was forced to decide whether to allow a pending shipment of bombs that could be used in the attack. This time he said no. His advisers notified the Israelis, but did not tell the public or Congress, which had just passed $15 billion in new military aid for Israel. The idea was to make the point privately to Mr. Netanyahu without a public blowup. But the Israelis leaked the news, at which point Mr. Biden went public on CNN with his vow not to provide any weapons that could be used in a major Rafah operation.
Yeah, just leak it. Screw diplomacy, right Bibi? Gotta pander out there!
Well that’s the danger - the conservatives here went full mask-off racist poor-haters which wasn’t as much of a surprise as their unbelievable lack of belief in anything.
No ideology, values, or any other mechanism holds them - not even science, which they pretend to believe in, when it suits them. The so-called ‘adults’ in the party have succumbed utterly to the cult. There are no rational leaders, only figureheads and capos.
It’s shameful and beyond pathetic, and I’d like to think Canada would never fall to such insanity, but the mechanism by which it was carried out (facebook, twitter, Qanon, convoys, right-wing news) are all the same. More power to you progressive Canadians. Hopefully you can weather it.
While I agree, you still have to reckon with those individuals who claim to be conservative, vote accordingly and are then deprived of rights or services by obvious function of that vote and continue to be conservative, denying that it happened or pretending that it didn't.
At that point it's not an ideology or a value. It's a brand. A cult. They just are. That's what many of them are in the US these days. If there was a straight-forward motion to ensconce one of their so-called values into law, and a 'conservative leader' called for it to be downvoted, it would be. That's because they don't really have ideals.
Have no idea what it is about, other than being decentralised. Some basic search results suggests that its a sham, scam and riddled with crypto ideas. Or is it apart of something noteworthy? Geuinly curious what the general consensus is of the Web3.
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
If you sign up for a service using real information that can be traced to you (as in this case: home address, personal email) and then do illegal* things with the account, don’t.
The * here is that what the alleged protester allegedly did or said is irrelevant. And the article is pretty clickbaity, unless the author was unaware of how online accounts work.
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. ( www.nytimes.com )
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows ( about.winamp.com )
NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code ( mastodon.sdf.org )
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel ( www.bbc.com )
Tiny Tufts! A Marsh Owl, plus 2 other African owls in comments! ( lemmy.world )
I have been feeling neglectful of some of the more exotic owl species lately. All the GHO and Barred babies have been dominating my feeds recently, so I've been overflowing with that content....
In what subtle (or significant) ways has your hometown changed since your childhood?
Wilders on verge of forming EU's latest hard-right government ( www.euronews.com )
Far-right anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is close to forming a four-way coalition, six months after coming in first in the Netherlands national elections....
One Busy Pappa! ( lemmy.world )
From World Bird Sanctuary...
It's a Cat-mergency! ( lemmy.world )
US Secretary of State Blinken performs ‘Rockin in the Free World’ on guitar in Kyiv bar ( ca.news.yahoo.com )
"Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It ( ca.news.yahoo.com )
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news ( english.elpais.com )
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away ( arstechnica.com )
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar ( www.theguardian.com )
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals....
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use" ( futurism.com )
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" for users — and he has examples of just what kind of "stuff" he means....
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
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This aggression will not stand, man. ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Steve Buscemi punched while walking street in New York....
Owl about a snuggle? ( lemmy.world )
Photos by Carol Riddell...
Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more ( www.tomshardware.com )
There's apparently a Reddit activity streak achievement system now. ( lemmy.world )
I just noticed this when I saw a strange "Achievement Unlocked" notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.
Playing Peekabo ( media.kbin.social )
Return of the Eurasian Eagle Owl to the Netherlands and Germany. ( lemmy.world )
I thought you guys may like to know a bit about this. Most stories about the current state of nature are quite depressing, but this one is quite the opposite!...
This is the weirdest look she has given me yet. ( lemmy.world )
The Long, Tortured Road to Biden’s Clash With Netanyahu Over Gaza War ( www.nytimes.com )
President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before letting the public know. In a conversation bristling with tension on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister against a major assault on the Gaza city of Rafah — and suggested that continued U.S. support would depend on how Israel...
Scientists have figured out way to make algae-based plastic that completely decomposes ( abcnews.go.com )
Tiniest Barred Baby ( lemmy.world )
From The Raptor Center...
Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet. ( lemmy.world )
Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions ( www.cnbc.com )
What is the General Consensus of Web3?
Have no idea what it is about, other than being decentralised. Some basic search results suggests that its a sham, scam and riddled with crypto ideas. Or is it apart of something noteworthy? Geuinly curious what the general consensus is of the Web3.
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families ( www.theguardian.com )
A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children...
A difference of opinion as to the dispensation of certain canned goods ( lemmy.world )
An older pic but one of my favorites
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
Germany to buy 3 HIMARS launchers for Ukraine ( www.pravda.com.ua )